The old genteel WASP establishment in America is dead. Now the zio-jews have the gold and the Christian Zionists (not really Protestants) are their useful idiots.
Keyboards are so cheap nowadays that hospitals could easily change them every 24-72 hours....and somehow get away with billing it to patients' health insurance.
I've always felt that one _major_ factor in Debian's ridiculously long release cycles was supporting lesser-used architectures. Glad someone up the food chain feels the same way.
Next it'll be that AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN messenger are killing IRC.
I wouldn't mind seeing Jabber take a chunk out proprietary messaging services, though. Pity that fewer geeks use it, but the network effect of the commercial IM services attracts masses of mainstreamers everybody wants/needs to communicate with.
Between the decline of Kazaa (possible logging of downloads. RIAA lawsuits) and AOL terminating Usenet access, I can't help but think that Usenet might make a comeback among geeks now that it's off the mainstream radar.
Sucks about Individual.net, but network services ain't free to provide. I'm quite happy with a Supernews account at $5.95 a month.
They were MCI before that, they were MCI WorldCom from 1997 to 2000, and after the fraud scandal, they became MCI again.
However, it's worth noting that in Internet connectivity terms, the great backbone that the pre-merger MCI built had to be spun off to Cable & Wireless for it to get federal clearance to merge with Worldcom, which had recently gobbled up UUNET.
The general consensus in the ISP biz was that post-merger Worldcom QoS was not as good as old MCI or old UUNET.
Probably because corporate contributors to OSS prefer the GPL: they can get their name in the lights for "giving back to the community" without worrying about a competitor jacking their code and running with it had they released it under a BSD license.
That's my theory anyway. It's challenging enough already to get individuals and businesses to contribute to software they don't own.
But what about the rest of us that don't want to suck at the government's teat?
Sadly, too many techies care not a whit about limited government and free enterprise, even if it means feathering their own nests at taxpayer expense while contributing to a leviathan, ever-expanding welfare-warfare state.
Look at how many geeks suddenly unemployed (or soon to be) in the wake of the dotcom meltdown jumped at the chance for government employment in the post-9/11 hysteria to work for federal agencies (or ambulance-chasing contractors) chipping away at the Bill of Rights while parasiting off of the taxpayers.
As a side bonus, since Gentoo's an expert's distro and has a reputation as such, you'll likely gain some job security after sysadmin'ing it for a few years - a trick from the crusty old mainframe crowd that is worth learning...
...which is a factor any competant boss will weigh when blessing an OS for use. What's best for IT ain't necessarily what's best for the company.
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The old genteel WASP establishment in America is dead. Now the zio-jews have the gold and the Christian Zionists (not really Protestants) are their useful idiots.
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Keyboards are so cheap nowadays that hospitals could easily change them every 24-72 hours....and somehow get away with billing it to patients' health insurance.
Dude, convincing government employees that they're parasites feeding off of the taxpaying public is next to impossible.
I've always felt that one _major_ factor in Debian's ridiculously long release cycles was supporting lesser-used architectures. Glad someone up the food chain feels the same way.
GNOME devs (for better or worse) are colunteer and don't have paying customers.
same logic applies for getting people off of Yahoo IM
Fiorina's background was what....a degree in medieval history or some such tripe? That really sounds applicable to running HP, eh?
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I wouldn't mind seeing Jabber take a chunk out proprietary messaging services, though. Pity that fewer geeks use it, but the network effect of the commercial IM services attracts masses of mainstreamers everybody wants/needs to communicate with.
Sucks about Individual.net, but network services ain't free to provide. I'm quite happy with a Supernews account at $5.95 a month.
Digex was also a kickass backbone before being absorbed by Worldcom.
However, it's worth noting that in Internet connectivity terms, the great backbone that the pre-merger MCI built had to be spun off to Cable & Wireless for it to get federal clearance to merge with Worldcom, which had recently gobbled up UUNET.
The general consensus in the ISP biz was that post-merger Worldcom QoS was not as good as old MCI or old UUNET.
Uh, so who's the customer of unpaid volunteer OSS coders?
The potential downside to BSD licensed software: embrace, extend, extinguish.
Probably because corporate contributors to OSS prefer the GPL: they can get their name in the lights for "giving back to the community" without worrying about a competitor jacking their code and running with it had they released it under a BSD license.
That's my theory anyway. It's challenging enough already to get individuals and businesses to contribute to software they don't own.
Sadly, too many techies care not a whit about limited government and free enterprise, even if it means feathering their own nests at taxpayer expense while contributing to a leviathan, ever-expanding welfare-warfare state.
Look at how many geeks suddenly unemployed (or soon to be) in the wake of the dotcom meltdown jumped at the chance for government employment in the post-9/11 hysteria to work for federal agencies (or ambulance-chasing contractors) chipping away at the Bill of Rights while parasiting off of the taxpayers.