Or, for the cost of a few Mars Landers, we could have fed hungry people, housed children, looked for a cure for diseases that effect real people in the real world.
When I tried to install RH 6 + 5.2 on my Digital Ultra 2000 Laptop, RH installer froze consistantly when probing for the mouse. Lizard made Caldera an easier install than some Windows installations. IP information, Monitor information, and the rest of the time I'm playing Tetris. It certainly made life easier.
Now that RHAT has to be RHAT, the name of the game is keeping and increasing that shareholder happiness.
1.) Buying SCO, if the analysts like it, may give an uptick.
2.) The enevitable layoffs that would hit accounting/administration/marketing provide an uptick (From the "Stock in the dulldrums? Announce a layoff!" school of increasing stock price)
3.) Maybe the chance to be profitable without increasing the price of the distribution another $30 provides another uptick.
4.) A west coast presence (SCO has a pretty nice campus).
If you get a chance, I suggest you see this movie.
I've never laughed so hard in a movie theatre.
Like Python, it's not for everyone. Out of the 20 people there, my wife, myself, and two other people were laughing our heads off. The rest of the audience jut didn't get it.
For the obscure Python line, check the sig. It hasn't changed for months.
>> I even used to read (and enjoy) Three Point's Linux News, the online publication Dave ran before he started Linux Today. >>
Whoopie, I'm so lazy I've still got it bookmarked. I guess that means I'm cool, too.
>> As far as Jack Bryar, his opinions are his own. I don't always agree with him (or with other Andover columnists, either). The great thing about writing for Andover is that the people who run it give all columnists complete editorial freedom, including the freedom to screw up now and then. >>
Hooray!! My post didn't question whether or not you wrote for a totalitarian regime, it only questioned your motives in publishing it.
>> Perhaps you'd like Andover better if its owners forced all their writers to spout a Microsoft-style corporate party line? >>
Huh? I'm not sure where you read all this in my post that questioned why you posted the above, please let me know why this is a logical defense.
>> We live and work 400 miles apart. >>
Wow! Geography means so much these days.
>> We both use Linux. We both read and like Slashdot. >>
Oh Yeah, well I use an abacus as a CPU and smoke signals as my network protocol. So there!
I like traffic lights, but only when they're green.
CALLING THE RELEVANCY POLICE, CALLING THE RELEVANCY POLICE, PICK UP SUSPECT AT THE ABOVE POST - CAUTION CAN BE INCOHERENT AT TIMES!
I don't care if you use Linux or not, if Andover has a giant love in with Microsoft, or what characteristics make up your persona. What I'm questioning (and has yet to be answered) is the/your motive in posting the article to the Linux community. I simply don't believe that it was to inform the Linux community of a graven stupidity attack that seized an editor of that publication. Simply stating "Hey, I'm cool, I code and use Linux" doesn't defend my accusation. Let me state it simply: Why did you post the article to Linuxtoday?
Doesn't Robin Miller, the guy who submitted the article to LinuxToday work for Andover? This wouldn't be just a tactic to increase readership numbers would it?
Hmmmm.... How can we increase this months readhership? I know, write a stupid FUD article about Linux and then post it from an @home account to the Linux community. Then just sit back and wait for the/. effect. Sounds good to me!!
Uptime for our Phoenix firewall servicing a T-1 on an aging p-100 = non-stop until hardware failure. Boy, you hate to contradict the father of UNIX, but real-life experience is just that, real-life.
The only way I can morally justify the M$ anti-trust trial is if indeed they did engage in _blatant_ non competitive practices. I don't believe that browser intergration, even if to block Netscape warrants the kind of penalizations that are being talked about. Heck, if they put MS Golf, Bob, Office, and Proxy Server in Windows 98, I'd still have to use it at work.
The point is that OS functionality is a grey area. 5 years ago, PPP wasn't included with most OSes, Win/Mac or UNIX. Morning Star Technologies made the Morning Star PPP software, should they have gone about litigating with Sun, SGI and Apple because of the inlcuded PPP software with the respective OS?
How about this; if M$ came out with IE5 for Linux, could they sue the KDE group because browser code is distributed?
However, _if_ M$ did something blatant, like, oh, I don't know, make Windows 3.1 intentionally give fake error messages when installed upon a competing DOS, that act in itself is enough (IMHO) to call out the Trust-Buster Storm Troopers and AT-ATs and send them up to Redmond.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, is there?....
I've never thought anything he's ever written seemed interesting enough to actually read.
Him joining
Or, for the cost of a few Mars Landers, we could have fed hungry people, housed children, looked for a cure for diseases that effect real people in the real world.
Of course, if you come from the Frank Zappa school of probability then the odds of anything happening are 50/50, either it happens or it doesn't.
So if I buy a lottery ticket, either I win or I don't, 50/50.
The chance that I walk out of my office and get eaten by a hippopatumus is 50/50. Either it happens or it doesn't.
When I tried to install RH 6 + 5.2 on my Digital Ultra 2000 Laptop, RH installer froze consistantly when probing for the mouse. Lizard made Caldera an easier install than some Windows installations. IP information, Monitor information, and the rest of the time I'm playing Tetris. It certainly made life easier.
Now that RHAT has to be RHAT, the name of the game is keeping and increasing that shareholder happiness.
1.) Buying SCO, if the analysts like it, may give an uptick.
2.) The enevitable layoffs that would hit accounting/administration/marketing provide an uptick (From the "Stock in the dulldrums? Announce a layoff!" school of increasing stock price)
3.) Maybe the chance to be profitable without increasing the price of the distribution another $30 provides another uptick.
4.) A west coast presence (SCO has a pretty nice campus).
If you get a chance, I suggest you see this movie.
I've never laughed so hard in a movie theatre.
Like Python, it's not for everyone. Out of the 20 people there, my wife, myself, and two other people were laughing our heads off. The rest of the audience jut didn't get it.
For the obscure Python line, check the sig. It hasn't changed for months.
Actually, Bob Goodlatte, R-VA, authored a very good encryption bill.
If it could ever get through unadulterated, America would be a pretty happy place for encryption.
I told my representative to support it, did you??
Dudette,
I hate those helicopters, they ruin my network connection!
Have fun Robin, email Kurt and tell him not to get so worked up -it's just a bit of fun to waste time and make money.
Alex
>>
I even used to read (and enjoy) Three Point's Linux News, the online publication Dave ran before he started Linux Today.
>>
Whoopie, I'm so lazy I've still got it bookmarked. I guess that means I'm cool, too.
>>
As far as Jack Bryar, his opinions are his own. I don't always agree with him (or with other Andover columnists, either). The great thing about writing for Andover is that the people who run it give all columnists complete editorial freedom, including the freedom to screw up now and then.
>>
Hooray!! My post didn't question whether or not you wrote for a totalitarian regime, it only questioned your motives in publishing it.
>>
Perhaps you'd like Andover better if its owners forced all their writers to spout a Microsoft-style corporate party line?
>>
Huh? I'm not sure where you read all this in my post that questioned why you posted the above, please let me know why this is a logical defense.
>>
We live and work 400 miles apart.
>>
Wow! Geography means so much these days.
>>
We both use Linux. We both read and like Slashdot.
>>
Oh Yeah, well I use an abacus as a CPU and smoke signals as my network protocol. So there!
I like traffic lights, but only when they're green.
CALLING THE RELEVANCY POLICE, CALLING THE RELEVANCY POLICE, PICK UP SUSPECT AT THE ABOVE POST - CAUTION CAN BE INCOHERENT AT TIMES!
Big Fricken' whoop. See the "Defense of" thread above and tell me this isn't just a ploy to tame the /. effect for the purposes of viewership.
I don't care if you use Linux or not, if Andover has a giant love in with Microsoft, or what characteristics make up your persona. What I'm questioning (and has yet to be answered) is the/your motive in posting the article to the Linux community. I simply don't believe that it was to inform the Linux community of a graven stupidity attack that seized an editor of that publication. Simply stating "Hey, I'm cool, I code and use Linux" doesn't defend my accusation. Let me state it simply: Why did you post the article to Linuxtoday?
Doesn't Robin Miller, the guy who submitted the article to LinuxToday work for Andover? This wouldn't be just a tactic to increase readership numbers would it?
/. effect. Sounds good to me!!
Hmmmm.... How can we increase this months readhership? I know, write a stupid FUD article about Linux and then post it from an @home account to the Linux community. Then just sit back and wait for the
Uptime for our Phoenix firewall servicing a T-1 on an aging p-100 = non-stop until hardware failure. Boy, you hate to contradict the father of UNIX, but real-life experience is just that, real-life.
The only way I can morally justify the M$ anti-trust trial is if indeed they did engage in _blatant_ non competitive practices. I don't believe that browser intergration, even if to block Netscape warrants the kind of penalizations that are being talked about. Heck, if they put MS Golf, Bob, Office, and Proxy Server in Windows 98, I'd still have to use it at work.
The point is that OS functionality is a grey area. 5 years ago, PPP wasn't included with most OSes, Win/Mac or UNIX. Morning Star Technologies made the Morning Star PPP software, should they have gone about litigating with Sun, SGI and Apple because of the inlcuded PPP software with the respective OS?
How about this; if M$ came out with IE5 for Linux, could they sue the KDE group because browser code is distributed?
However, _if_ M$ did something blatant, like, oh, I don't know, make Windows 3.1 intentionally give fake error messages when installed upon a competing DOS, that act in itself is enough (IMHO) to call out the Trust-Buster Storm Troopers and AT-ATs and send them up to Redmond.