"i am the boss."...and this is why you _must_ post anonymously...because you regard a "...self aware individual conciousness," whether human or cybernetic as a Tool, rather than a person......and if the _people_ who work for/with you found out, they wouldn't work for/with you anymore? As we all know, the hardest capital to obtain today (and what makes a successful company truly successful) is human capital. I got news for you buddy: _THEY ALREADY KNOW!!!!!!_ You are the ideal example of the "anonymous _coward_!"...and if you wanna survive much past tomorrow, ya better get on the "good foot" and change your attitude!
For computers only...but then _anyone_ can still find the DeCSS sites...found this in Lemuria.org...
Link to RealMagic (a supplier to the retail and OEM channels):
http://www.realmagic.com/faq_hwplus.htm#I need to switch between two region
(12. I need to switch between two region codes since my DVD collection includes movies from these two regions.
You can run Setup from the second diskette (application) and select "Change Region Code". you will be allowed to change five times after which you'll need to send the board for commissioning for another five times (this process can be repeated five times). However, we suggest that you get two boards and set the first to your first region and the second to the second region. You can swap the boards in the system depending on the region code of the movie. Even though it might not look very practical but on the long run it proves to be more economic and less shipping hassles (you can compare it with having two Consumer DVD players for two different regions). NOTE : This regulations are not set by Sigma Designs but this is the Content Scrambling System governing the distribution of the movies. Sigma Designs apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
A list of the distributors on a universal basis is shown on the web site. These distributors can commission the board as well as any OEM resellers ( such as Panasonic, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, Hi-Val,...) which are packaging the board with the DVD-ROM drives.)
Unfortunately, this is for Win95/98 only, but with DeCSS/LiVid, who needs Real Magic..._OR_ Sony (member of the MPAA and CCA) for that matter?
This just goes to show that the REAL reason for region coding is to enrich the distributors (MPAA members!). They sell the same movies in different regions and release them to video/DVD at times that suit them to artificially inflate their box office profits. Different movies are priced differently in different regions not out of consideration for content but for profit reasons...They get us into the theatres when _they_ want us there, and then ask for inflated profits when we want to buy their movies on disc/video. _AND_ they're able to do this internationally! When we point out their lousy tech, they _SUE_ us!!!
For a grander, more optimistic, view of the future, with a hint of the 'cosmic' and a longer term destiny than either Joy (what an ironic name, after this bit o'drivel) or (>shudder) Kazcinsky, try Freeman Dyson's "_The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet : Tools of Scientific Revolutions,_" (available at - gotta be PC and respect the boycott - http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp ?theisbn=0195129423).
From the Fatbrain(TM) summary of the book:
"...Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies-solar energy, genetic engineering, and worldwide communication-together have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world's wealth.
Dyson begins by rejecting the idea that scientific revolutions are primarily concept driven. He shows rather that new tools are more often the sparks that ignite scientific discovery. Such tool-driven revolutions have profound social consequences-the invention of the telescope turning the Medieval worldview upside down, the widespread use of household appliances in the 1950s replacing servants, to cite just two examples. In looking ahead, Dyson suggests that solar energy, genetics, and the Internet will have similarly transformative effects, with the potential to produce a more just and equitable society. Solar power could bring electricity to even the poorest, most remote areas of third-world nations, allowing everyone access to the vast stores of information on the Internet and effectively ending the cultural isolation of the poorest countries. Similarly, breakthroughs in genetics may well enable us to give our children healthier lives and grow more efficient crops, thus restoring the economic and human vitality of village cultures devalued and dislocated by the global market...."
_MUCH_ more satisfying and enlightened! Quite frankly, I'm bored by all the doomsayers and black-wearing geek wannabes with their woe-is-me attitudes and their cup-o-latte lack of understanding of what the world is and how it works. _GROW UP PEOPLE!!!_ Since the only irrevocable laws of the Universe are Entropy (Simply stated: "Shit happens, and lot of this shit is bad."), and its corollary, Change/Chaos, preparation for the inevitable end is the _only_ sure survival trait. Life is hard and unfair, but markedly less so than it was in our parents' time.
What really disappoints me is that Joy has had personal experience with this: He was appointed to bring Sun into the embedded systems/media distribution area of coming change. He led a team of "small mammals" who wound up threatening the biggest corporate dinosaur that ever was (Microsoft) just as the global environment was changing (the Net and distributed/ubiquitous communications and information processing). Is it inevitable that when we succeed as geeks, that we retreat to a moutaintop, there to contemplate our navels, and bring down 'holy writ' about the coming Apocalypse? Bill Joy agreeing with the UnaBomber? PLEEEZE! I went through this when I was in my 20's and argued with my Mom (and made her cry -to my present dismay- that her generation would be the first to leave their descendants less rather than more. Boy, was _THAT_ an arrogant and stupid statement. However, it arose from the prevailing intellectual and political thought of that time. I guess this comes from the same place, thirty years later. Bill, we hardly knew ye'!
I can give thanks that Linus and Alan and the kernel.org guys and gals, the folks at the Genome project and all the other 'pushers' of technology, while they may be pessimists individually, as groups, they are much more Andy Hardy 'Hey, gang! Lets put on a show!' collectively.
This old geezer won't surrender to the doom-'n-gloomers. I look forward to the march of progress and the realization that while we contain the seeds of our own destruction, we also contain the seeds of our salvation. I am in the Dylan Thomas camp, not that of Ozymandias. Anyone else with me?
By the way, for more optimism, and a hint of a more optimistic, albeit loooong term and very strange one, try http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Omega/dyson.txt .
While 'Gattaca' takes one view (the 'new' will be the next generation), Bruce Sterling wrote a corollary: "_Holy Fire_," (http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.as p?theisbn=055357549X)...essentially, his proposition is that the technology will have great costs initially, that the only folks that can take advantage of this technology therefore are the Rich and folks over 40 who have made their nut; so, relax, if it comes and you have the money, it'll be you, not your grandkids who can take advantage of it.
For a happier take, though, try The Happy Mutant Handbook, also by Sterling (as editor, with others).
Some thoughts from a group of thinkers (although mostly mechanistic): http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/
Finally, Freeman Dyson (different definition of 'life,' -try 'cosmic'- but optimistic, nonetheless at http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Omega/dyson.txt; and Dyson's book "_The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet : Tools of Scientific Revolutions_," (http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.as p?theisbn=0195129423).
Personally, while I share Dyson's optimism, long-term, I believe, with Sterling, that the short-term beneficiaries of any 'bio-revolutions' will be the old and the rich, with the acompanying resentment and political and social fallout that will bring.
Remember, no ethnic group will be the true majority in the future, divisions will be based more on age and wealth (both real and 'derived (Social Security, Medicare)').
The thing that seems to be forgotten, in Mr. Joy's article, but that you hint at in your post, is the balance that the Universe(s?) came into being/was created with (pick your own philosophical seed reality)...entropy.
Dinosaurs emerge/are created, have their 250-odd million years in the Sun and...comes an 'Event,'...no more dinosaurs...line continues to develop birds (and saurian survivors/retrogrades)
Humans next arise as the superior life form on this little blue ball...through arrogance, perpetrate a Malthusian Event (overpop, lack of clean H2O, nuclear Armegeddon, Global Warming), or 'Nature' (manifested by Ebola/virii, or some other predator on the Human species), or another 'Event;'...line continues to develop...??? maybe cybernetic/human amalgam and pre-cybernetic human survivors/retrogrades...
Point is, chaos (or Chaos/God) moves to change and keeps the game of Life going...stop moving/evolving and die, or continue to advance/move and live...THAT is the ultimate answer to Mr. Joy's troubling thesis. We have, as Humans, by our very awareness, both the seeds of our own destruction and our ultimate salvation/redemption wihin us. Only by moving forward and communicating/caring for and with each other do we survive. Otherwise, Nature will relegate us to the ashheap of history, along with the dinosaurs, to be remembered only as fossils in the geologic record.
I think it ironic that this came from Bill Joy, the ultimate in corporate 'virii' who began a project to take Sun into the embedded systems field, and found himself leading a team of 'small mammals' to become a threat to the biggest, baddest corporate dinosaur there ever has been (Microsoft), just as the global environment was changing (the Net and distributed, ubiquitous communications media).
Finally, I think that Kaczinsky's screed, while interesting, left out the most vital aspect of the game we call Life...that virii always exist and are demanded by the entropy/chaos variables in the equation of Life...(even in the Matrix movie: witness the 'agents' that existed apart, yet within the AI corpus, illustrated by the scenes in the sub)...when our arrogance overcomes us, they will either get our attention and we will overcome the threat or we will continue in our arrogance and exist in the future only as fossils...but past experience says that SOMETHING of us will survive...
It's called Evolution...it continues...read about it and learn to deal with it.
It's amazing how illiterate you Redmondite Anonymous Cowards (operative word: _COWARD!_) are: the plural of nazi is Nazis, and, since it's a political movement/party, it's _CAPITALIZED,_ you jerk!
As to your question; i.e.: "...clue..." a.) What are your qualifications to critique my _OPINION_ (that's often what a SIG file is). b.) Where is your sense of humor, or did Billy take it away from baby-snookums, along with your soul, when you were Borged? c.) I have a _VERY_ good idea of what W2K is: besides the bit o' doggerel that is my SIG file, I believe that it is the next great threat to corporate IT, corporate IT budgets, and will accomplish all of the horrors that Y2k was supposed to (for those misinformed or stupid enough to deploy it). d.) Want a bit more respect, you sniveling little sissy? _SIGN YOUR NAME TO YOUR POSTINGS!!!!!!_ Otherwise, SHUT UP, you cretinous ball of MS slime!!!!
RE: "It would be interesting to see Apache running on a S/390..."
I believe the folks in Raliegh have done this (as well as some of IBM's more adventurous customers/clients): tho it's called WebSphere, it's just Apache 1.3.6.x/JServ 1.x w/ a Comanche-style GUI manager (running as an applet), connection pooling, and EJB support. Only runs on IBM O/S on their "Big Iron" hardware (A/S, R/S, O/S, etc.). This is true sweetness, however, as it means that the pool of support and development will be increased greatly. One more step towards World Domination!
Here's another view, from The Register: http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/1,1151, 7663,00.html
and don't forget the way the Valley Boyz have dissed the VEEP (as seen in Wired http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.12/)
All in all Wooden Al has been good to us techies (to the limits of his incomplete knowledge.) He's certainly a LOT smarter than 'Dubbaya'!
===========SIG: ========================== W2K (M$ Windoze 2000): A service pack for a 32 bit patch of a 16 bit fix for an 8 bit operating system stolen by a 2 bit company that cannot put up with 1 bit of competition.
Interested? See more here: http://www.enteract.com/~mcannon/
The point is, now that the/. Effect is known to happen when articles such as this go up, Rob and the staff should inform the submitters that the article is going up and when, so that THEY can arrange for the mirror.
For well run sites, the/. effect simply does not exist. For others, not so well run, its existence proves their cluelessness.
In answer to YOUR comment, oh, Toasty, Kenly One: mirroring a.com is the responsibility of the owners, especially when they post copyright info on the site.
/. is a test for SysAdmin skills. These guys failed.
1. It offers another flanker to "the Boyz in Redmond." With enough (including Be, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple, etc.) targets showing up on their radar screen, with the trial closing, with the issues that they will have with Y2K, and with the rather obvious problems they are having with W2K; World Domination (for whomever) moves forward. The more platforms/technologies to take aim at, the more clueless the FUD-throwers will prove themselves. Maybe it will even cause the corporate version of a nervous breakdown/meltdown or some other implosion-type event (we can hope, can't we?) Commercial support hastens this process. Doubt it? Re-read some of the defenses contained in the Halloween documents, and some of MS's biggest worries listed there.
2. Theo's code devtree is not THAT different from Linus' and Alan's. It concentrates (differently) on issues having to do with security and the stability/performance of the network. We all learn much from the *BSD hackers (and they from us). Also, the exercise of "ports" to the various platforms (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, etc.), besides being intellectually challenging, gives us practice in what WILL lead to eventual World Domination (and the hoped-for demise of the Evil Empire) in the shorter term: ports of OSS apps (under whatever license-flavor) to more commercial Unices, such as HP, Sun, and IBM. Effective (and clueful) commercial support can only improve this process, and continue the merging of the devtrees for app developers. It also affords more jobs for us (hey, we all gotta eat).
3. Finally, anything that encourages knowledge sharing; helps to educate developers and users alike; AND encourages the corporate types to "experiment" is a VERY good thing. Commercial support hastens this result, since no CIO in his or her right mind wants to "own" the source code (for personal, as well as business reasons); ESPECIALLY without commercial support. We are still a long way away from a time when source is the rule, rather than the exception (if ever)in the corps...but we can hope those days come soon. Credible commercial support helps move us in this direction.
1. It offers another flanker to "the Boyz in Redmond." With enough (including Be, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple, etc.) targets showing up on their radar screen, with the trial closing, with the issues that they will have with Y2K, and with the rather obvious problems they are having with W2K; World Domination (for whomever) moves forward. The more platforms/technologies to take aim at, the more cluelless the FUD-throwers will prove themselves. Maybe it will even cause the corporate version of a nervous breakdown/meltdown or some other implosion-type event (we can hope, can't we?) Commercial support hastens this process. Doubt it? Re-read some of the defenses contained in the Halloween documents, and some of MS's biggest worries listed there.
2. Theo's code devtree is not THAT different from Linus' and Alan's. It concentrates (differently) on issues having to do with security and the stability/performance of the network. We all learn much from the *BSD hackers (and they from us). Also, the exercise of "ports" to the various platforms (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, etc.), besides being intellectually challenging, gives us practice in what WILL lead to eventual World Domination (and the hoped-for demise of the Evil Empire) in the shorter term: ports of OSS apps (under whatever license-flavor) to more commercial Unices, such as HP, Sun, and IBM. Effective (and clueful) commercial support can only improve this process, and continue the merging of the devtrees for app developers. It also affords more jobs for us (hey, we all gotta eat).
3. Finally, anything that encourages knowledge sharing; helps to educate developers and users alike; AND encourages the corporate types to "experiment" is a VERY good thing. Commercial support hastens this result, since no CIO in his or her right mind wants to "own" the source code (for personal, as well as business reasons); ESPECIALLY without commercial support. We are still a long way away from a time when source is the rule, rather than the exception (if ever)in the corps...but we can hope those days come soon. Credible commercial support helps move us in this direction.
Slashdot Mirror
"i am the boss." ...and this is why you _must_ post anonymously...because you regard a "...self aware individual conciousness," whether human or cybernetic as a Tool, rather than a person... ...and if the _people_ who work for/with you found out, they wouldn't work for/with you anymore? As we all know, the hardest capital to obtain today (and what makes a successful company truly successful) is human capital. I got news for you buddy: _THEY ALREADY KNOW!!!!!!_ You are the ideal example of the "anonymous _coward_!" ...and if you wanna survive much past tomorrow, ya better get on the "good foot" and change your attitude!
For computers only...but then _anyone_ can still find the DeCSS sites...found this in Lemuria.org...
...) which are packaging the board with the DVD-ROM drives.)
Link to RealMagic (a supplier to the retail and OEM channels):
http://www.realmagic.com/faq_hwplus.htm#I need to switch between two region
(12. I need to switch between two region codes since my DVD collection includes movies from these two regions.
You can run Setup from the second diskette (application) and select "Change Region Code". you will be allowed to change five times after which you'll need to send the board for commissioning for another five times (this process can be repeated five times). However, we suggest that you get two boards and set the first to your first region and the second to the second region. You can swap the boards in the system depending on the region code of the movie. Even though it might not look very practical but on the long run it proves to be more economic and less shipping hassles (you can compare it with having two Consumer DVD players for two different regions). NOTE : This regulations are not set by Sigma Designs but this is the Content Scrambling System governing the distribution of the movies. Sigma Designs apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
A list of the distributors on a universal basis is shown on the web site. These distributors can commission the board as well as any OEM resellers ( such as Panasonic, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, Hi-Val,
Unfortunately, this is for Win95/98 only, but with DeCSS/LiVid, who needs Real Magic..._OR_ Sony (member of the MPAA and CCA) for that matter?
This just goes to show that the REAL reason for region coding is to enrich the distributors (MPAA members!). They sell the same movies in different regions and release them to video/DVD at times that suit them to artificially inflate their box office profits. Different movies are priced differently in different regions not out of consideration for content but for profit reasons...They get us into the theatres when _they_ want us there, and then ask for inflated profits when we want to buy their movies on disc/video. _AND_ they're able to do this internationally! When we point out their lousy tech, they _SUE_ us!!!
Long Live DeCSS!!!!!!!!!!!
www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/
Japanese mirror at: http://genome.rtc.riken.go.jp/hgmis/
and, yes I _did_ do a search on the posts...didn't find/see it!!!
For a grander, more optimistic, view of the future, with a hint of the 'cosmic' and a longer term destiny than either Joy (what an ironic name, after this bit o'drivel) or (>shudder) Kazcinsky, try Freeman Dyson's "_The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet : Tools of Scientific Revolutions,_" (available at - gotta be PC and respect the boycott - http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp ?theisbn=0195129423).
From the Fatbrain(TM) summary of the book:
"...Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies-solar energy, genetic engineering, and worldwide communication-together have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world's wealth.
Dyson begins by rejecting the idea that scientific revolutions are primarily concept driven. He shows rather that new tools are more often the sparks that ignite scientific discovery. Such tool-driven revolutions have profound social consequences-the invention of the telescope turning the Medieval worldview upside down, the widespread use of household appliances in the 1950s replacing servants, to cite just two examples. In looking ahead, Dyson suggests that solar energy, genetics, and the Internet will have similarly transformative effects, with the potential to produce a more just and equitable society. Solar power could bring electricity to even the poorest, most remote areas of third-world nations, allowing everyone access to the vast stores of information on the Internet and effectively ending the cultural isolation of the poorest countries. Similarly, breakthroughs in genetics may well enable us to give our children healthier lives and grow more efficient crops, thus restoring the economic and human vitality of village cultures devalued and dislocated by the global market...."
_MUCH_ more satisfying and enlightened! Quite frankly, I'm bored by all the doomsayers and black-wearing geek wannabes with their woe-is-me attitudes and their cup-o-latte lack of understanding of what the world is and how it works. _GROW UP PEOPLE!!!_ Since the only irrevocable laws of the Universe are Entropy (Simply stated: "Shit happens, and lot of this shit is bad."), and its corollary, Change/Chaos, preparation for the inevitable end is the _only_ sure survival trait. Life is hard and unfair, but markedly less so than it was in our parents' time.
What really disappoints me is that Joy has had personal experience with this: He was appointed to bring Sun into the embedded systems/media distribution area of coming change. He led a team of "small mammals" who wound up threatening the biggest corporate dinosaur that ever was (Microsoft) just as the global environment was changing (the Net and distributed/ubiquitous communications and information processing). Is it inevitable that when we succeed as geeks, that we retreat to a moutaintop, there to contemplate our navels, and bring down 'holy writ' about the coming Apocalypse? Bill Joy agreeing with the UnaBomber? PLEEEZE! I went through this when I was in my 20's and argued with my Mom (and made her cry -to my present dismay- that her generation would be the first to leave their descendants less rather than more. Boy, was _THAT_ an arrogant and stupid statement. However, it arose from the prevailing intellectual and political thought of that time. I guess this comes from the same place, thirty years later. Bill, we hardly knew ye'!
I can give thanks that Linus and Alan and the kernel.org guys and gals, the folks at the Genome project and all the other 'pushers' of technology, while they may be pessimists individually, as groups, they are much more Andy Hardy 'Hey, gang! Lets put on a show!' collectively.
This old geezer won't surrender to the doom-'n-gloomers. I look forward to the march of progress and the realization that while we contain the seeds of our own destruction, we also contain the seeds of our salvation. I am in the Dylan Thomas camp, not that of Ozymandias. Anyone else with me?
By the way, for more optimism, and a hint of a more optimistic, albeit loooong term and very strange one, try http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Omega/dyson.txt .
While 'Gattaca' takes one view (the 'new' will be the next generation), Bruce Sterling wrote a corollary: "_Holy Fire_," (http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.as p?theisbn=055357549X)...essentially, his proposition is that the technology will have great costs initially, that the only folks that can take advantage of this technology therefore are the Rich and folks over 40 who have made their nut; so, relax, if it comes and you have the money, it'll be you, not your grandkids who can take advantage of it.
s p?theisbn=0195129423).
For a happier take, though, try The Happy Mutant Handbook, also by Sterling (as editor, with others).
Some thoughts from a group of thinkers (although mostly mechanistic): http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/
Finally, Freeman Dyson (different definition of 'life,' -try 'cosmic'- but optimistic, nonetheless at http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Omega/dyson.txt; and Dyson's book "_The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet : Tools of Scientific Revolutions_," (http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.a
Personally, while I share Dyson's optimism, long-term, I believe, with Sterling, that the short-term beneficiaries of any 'bio-revolutions' will be the old and the rich, with the acompanying resentment and political and social fallout that will bring.
Remember, no ethnic group will be the true majority in the future, divisions will be based more on age and wealth (both real and 'derived (Social Security, Medicare)').
The thing that seems to be forgotten, in Mr. Joy's article, but that you hint at in your post, is the balance that the Universe(s?) came into being/was created with (pick your own philosophical seed reality)...entropy.
Dinosaurs emerge/are created, have their 250-odd million years in the Sun and...comes an 'Event,'...no more dinosaurs...line continues to develop birds (and saurian survivors/retrogrades)
Humans next arise as the superior life form on this little blue ball...through arrogance, perpetrate a Malthusian Event (overpop, lack of clean H2O, nuclear Armegeddon, Global Warming), or 'Nature' (manifested by Ebola/virii, or some other predator on the Human species), or another 'Event;'...line continues to develop...??? maybe cybernetic/human amalgam and pre-cybernetic human survivors/retrogrades...
Point is, chaos (or Chaos/God) moves to change and keeps the game of Life going...stop moving/evolving and die, or continue to advance/move and live...THAT is the ultimate answer to Mr. Joy's troubling thesis. We have, as Humans, by our very awareness, both the seeds of our own destruction and our ultimate salvation/redemption wihin us. Only by moving forward and communicating/caring for and with each other do we survive. Otherwise, Nature will relegate us to the ashheap of history, along with the dinosaurs, to be remembered only as fossils in the geologic record.
I think it ironic that this came from Bill Joy, the ultimate in corporate 'virii' who began a project to take Sun into the embedded systems field, and found himself leading a team of 'small mammals' to become a threat to the biggest, baddest corporate dinosaur there ever has been (Microsoft), just as the global environment was changing (the Net and distributed, ubiquitous communications media).
Finally, I think that Kaczinsky's screed, while interesting, left out the most vital aspect of the game we call Life...that virii always exist and are demanded by the entropy/chaos variables in the equation of Life...(even in the Matrix movie: witness the 'agents' that existed apart, yet within the AI corpus, illustrated by the scenes in the sub)...when our arrogance overcomes us, they will either get our attention and we will overcome the threat or we will continue in our arrogance and exist in the future only as fossils...but past experience says that SOMETHING of us will survive...
It's called Evolution...it continues...read about it and learn to deal with it.
Exactly as your boss thinks of you, hmmmmm?
It's amazing how illiterate you Redmondite Anonymous Cowards (operative word: _COWARD!_) are: the plural of nazi is Nazis, and, since it's a political movement/party, it's _CAPITALIZED,_ you jerk!
As to your question; i.e.: "...clue..."
a.) What are your qualifications to critique my _OPINION_ (that's often what a SIG file is).
b.) Where is your sense of humor, or did Billy take it away from baby-snookums, along with your soul, when you were Borged?
c.) I have a _VERY_ good idea of what W2K is: besides the bit o' doggerel that is my SIG file, I believe that it is the next great threat to corporate IT, corporate IT budgets, and will accomplish all of the horrors that Y2k was supposed to (for those misinformed or stupid enough to deploy it).
d.) Want a bit more respect, you sniveling little sissy? _SIGN YOUR NAME TO YOUR POSTINGS!!!!!!_ Otherwise, SHUT UP, you cretinous ball of MS slime!!!!
When was it not? 16-bit legacy code tied to the kernel=16-bit OS!
the new 7.x release of Mandrake w/ Cooker (beta), DrakX, linuxconf and Econf as defaults?
RE: "It would be interesting to see Apache running on a S/390..."
I believe the folks in Raliegh have done this (as well as some of IBM's more adventurous customers/clients): tho it's called WebSphere, it's just Apache 1.3.6.x/JServ 1.x w/ a Comanche-style GUI manager (running as an applet), connection pooling, and EJB support. Only runs on IBM O/S on their "Big Iron" hardware (A/S, R/S, O/S, etc.). This is true sweetness, however, as it means that the pool of support and development will be increased greatly. One more step towards World Domination!
All props to Alan and the rest of the crew!
How about Freshmeat at http://www.freshmeat.net?
Here's another view, from The Register: http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/1,1151, 7663,00.html
and don't forget the way the Valley Boyz have dissed the VEEP (as seen in Wired http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.12/)
All in all Wooden Al has been good to us techies (to the limits of his incomplete knowledge.) He's certainly a LOT smarter than 'Dubbaya'!
===========SIG: ==========================
W2K (M$ Windoze 2000): A service pack for a 32 bit patch of a 16 bit fix for an 8 bit operating system stolen by a 2 bit company that cannot put up with 1 bit of competition.
Interested? See more here: http://www.enteract.com/~mcannon/
The point is, now that the /. Effect is known to happen when articles such as this go up, Rob and the staff should inform the submitters that the article is going up and when, so that THEY can arrange for the mirror.
/. effect simply does not exist. For others, not so well run, its existence proves their cluelessness.
.com is the responsibility of the owners, especially when they post copyright info on the site.
For well run sites, the
In answer to YOUR comment, oh, Toasty, Kenly One: mirroring a
/. is a test for SysAdmin skills. These guys failed.
1. It offers another flanker to "the Boyz in Redmond." With enough (including Be, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple, etc.) targets showing up on their radar screen, with the trial closing, with the issues that they will have with Y2K, and with the rather obvious problems they are having with W2K; World Domination (for whomever) moves forward. The more platforms/technologies to take aim at, the more clueless the FUD-throwers will prove themselves. Maybe it will even cause the corporate version of a nervous breakdown/meltdown or some other implosion-type event (we can hope, can't we?) Commercial support hastens this process. Doubt it? Re-read some of the defenses contained in the Halloween documents, and some of MS's biggest worries listed there.
2. Theo's code devtree is not THAT different from Linus' and Alan's. It concentrates (differently) on issues having to do with security and the stability/performance of the network. We all learn much from the *BSD hackers (and they from us). Also, the exercise of "ports" to the various platforms (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, etc.), besides being intellectually challenging, gives us practice in what WILL lead to eventual World Domination (and the hoped-for demise of the Evil Empire) in the shorter term: ports of OSS apps (under whatever license-flavor) to more commercial Unices, such as HP, Sun, and IBM. Effective (and clueful) commercial support can only improve this process, and continue the merging of the devtrees for app developers. It also affords more jobs for us (hey, we all gotta eat).
3. Finally, anything that encourages knowledge sharing; helps to educate developers and users alike; AND encourages the corporate types to "experiment" is a VERY good thing. Commercial support hastens this result, since no CIO in his or her right mind wants to "own" the source code (for personal, as well as business reasons); ESPECIALLY without commercial support. We are still a long way away from a time when source is the rule, rather than the exception (if ever)in the corps...but we can hope those days come soon. Credible commercial support helps move us in this direction.
1. It offers another flanker to "the Boyz in Redmond." With enough (including Be, FreeBSD, Linux, Apple, etc.) targets showing up on their radar screen, with the trial closing, with the issues that they will have with Y2K, and with the rather obvious problems they are having with W2K; World Domination (for whomever) moves forward. The more platforms/technologies to take aim at, the more cluelless the FUD-throwers will prove themselves. Maybe it will even cause the corporate version of a nervous breakdown/meltdown or some other implosion-type event (we can hope, can't we?) Commercial support hastens this process. Doubt it? Re-read some of the defenses contained in the Halloween documents, and some of MS's biggest worries listed there.
2. Theo's code devtree is not THAT different from Linus' and Alan's. It concentrates (differently) on issues having to do with security and the stability/performance of the network. We all learn much from the *BSD hackers (and they from us). Also, the exercise of "ports" to the various platforms (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, etc.), besides being intellectually challenging, gives us practice in what WILL lead to eventual World Domination (and the hoped-for demise of the Evil Empire) in the shorter term: ports of OSS apps (under whatever license-flavor) to more commercial Unices, such as HP, Sun, and IBM. Effective (and clueful) commercial support can only improve this process, and continue the merging of the devtrees for app developers. It also affords more jobs for us (hey, we all gotta eat).
3. Finally, anything that encourages knowledge sharing; helps to educate developers and users alike; AND encourages the corporate types to "experiment" is a VERY good thing. Commercial support hastens this result, since no CIO in his or her right mind wants to "own" the source code (for personal, as well as business reasons); ESPECIALLY without commercial support. We are still a long way away from a time when source is the rule, rather than the exception (if ever)in the corps...but we can hope those days come soon. Credible commercial support helps move us in this direction.
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