Circa soon: Reuters: College students fed up with Rep. Jean McGrath (R., AZ) cited constrictive legislation as the main reason for leaving the University of Arizona for private universities University of Phoenix and Grand Canyon University. One student was quoted as saying, "I might come back in a couple of years when that b*tch is out of office."
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I'm glad 5 works better with Oracle. We have our Netware 5 tree only for test purposes, but have not moved production traffic to that tree. With Oracle 8 on 4.11, we have spontaneous reboots and fairly frequent page fault abends.:(
Border Manager may be better than I have heard, but I don't know anyone who has run it and been impressed. Novell's site frequently returns weird errors and fails to load pages. Maybe that is just due to a really high number of hits but I kinda doubt it. Remember that recent/. article that listed the popular web servers? Border Manager wasn't even listed. Again probably due mostly to bad marketing. I would expect Apache to continue as the predominant web server, and Novell to fall even further behind unless I see an add *somewhere* and *soon*.
Umm - I'm a Netware admin. If the GUI to which you refer is NWADMN, yes it began with Netware 4. I was refering to the tools a Netware admin uses everyday: rconsole, monitor, filer, servman, etc.
Netware has *so* much in common with *nix that beginning with Netware 5, the "ConsoleOne" utility is actually the fvswm window manager and is started by typing 'startx'.:)
Granted - however, Kevin didn't perform a "high-level economic crime"; he copied the source for several highly-secret products from major corporations. It must have been incredibly fun. Ballsey - stupid, but ballsey.
We are talking about someone who was ridden on a rail by the FBI and the justice system. He was guilty, but did nowhere near the damage he was charged with and convicted for.
is that it doesn't market its product well enough. NDS is a well-tuned and extremely scalable file and print sharing product with much better stability and security than NT -- for LANs. Netware is awful as a database server and its web server is crap. As a company, Novell's real problem is twofold:
(1) Novell can't seem to market its product well enough - consequently people have used NT and are used to it. The completely GUI interface for NT appear friendlier than the text menus in Netware, even though Netware is really easy to use, especially for those with *nix experience.
(2) Microsoft is much better positioned for eCommerce with IIS. The biggest market today and tomorrow is the web, which M$ has recognized and has therefore developed a widely accepted web server.
M$ can throw around all the FUD they want - it won't make Active Directory perform any better. When AD performs as well as NDS, Novell is finished.
Fortunately for us, Linux will replace them both.:-p
How long have you been using a computer? What is the last time you were unable to use one because you couldn't (were on a camping trip, etc.)? How long did that last? How did you like it?
I daresay everyone who reads/. uses a computer a majority of their day. We get so used to it we really miss having access to all the tools we are used to using, especially the Internet. I get almost all my news from the web and feel cut off from society if I can't logon somewhere pretty frequently. How do you think Mitnick is going to feel in this day of such widespread computer usage. It may not exactly be cruel and unusual punishment, but it is pretty damn close.
Don't even try to say white collar crime is more damaging to society than violent crime. Would you rather have someone steal your car or rape your daughter? The view changes when you are the victim.
And/. should interview convicted felons - if the felon was KM and that convict was as unfairly prosecuted as he was. Actually, I don't think criminal conviction should even enter into the discussion of whether someone should be interviewed for/. since the only real criteria should be whether that person may have something to say that is interesting to/. readers.
This case is about the past as well as the future. Saying Microsoft may not have a monopoly if [whatever] is not the point. M$ has had a monopoly and has a monopoly and that is what counts now. [Cited for over use of italics]
This and other online forums are filled with opinionated and informed (sometimes) readers who have little desire to censor themselves or see others censored. If you can't take the heat...
I read/. comments because it is interesting to read the aggressively stated and often inflamitory statements of other/.ers. The last thing I want to read is some milk-toast writer who timidly states what he is completely sure he has read someone else say before. I want fringe opinion - people who know everything about a specific subject and step all over those who don't.
How many of us know tons about supercolliders? A few. Microprocessor architecture? More. C? Plenty. I want to hear the unvarnished insight and opinions right from the proverbial horse, and I don't want the writer to hesitate for a second before putting down what he thinks. I will decide if I think those statements do more harm than good.
Posting on/. is like swimming with sharks, but safer. And I wouldn't want it any other way. Flame on.
Plaintiffs contend that the relevant product market in this case is limited to "operating systems for Intel-compatible personal computers." (Pls. Conclusions at 4.) This purported market is too narrow to constitute a relevant product market for analysis in this case as a legal matter because it excludes many of the most serious competitive threats faced by Microsoft's operating systems.
What a crock! M$ is and has been the predominant OS provider in the PC market. Period. Now they want to say that PC's are too narrow a market to consider a monopoly on the industry because Macs and handheld devices can browse the web.
I probably won't buy a full VA rig for the same reason I haven't bought an SGI workstation: big $$ and no real need for screaming graphics to justify the cost. Yes, this is very likely only a proprietary platform... for now. I read this as a sign of things to come for all Linux users: Developers will soon be able to leverage OpenGL as the enabling foundation for 3D acceleration on all flavors of UNIX including Linux. This technology further enables both hardware and software developers to enjoy the creative freedom of utilizing a single graphics API across all computing systems.
Sounds encouraging - I hope the eventual outcome is an open model on which OS developers can build.
This technology will enable Linux systems to process rich graphics as fast, or faster, than their Microsoft® Windows®-based counterparts. The solution leverages SGI's extensive 3D graphics and OpenGL expertise, VA Linux Systems' 2D graphics and multi-monitor work and NVIDIA's proven 3D graphics hardware and software architectures. The resulting NVIDIA-based desktops will be the first to provide hardware 3D transform and lighting, hardware 2D and video acceleration, video overlay, multi-monitor capability and full native OpenGL conformance under Linux.
This is awesome! SGI's performance standards backed by VA's $$ on NVidia's hardware! I just can't wait for an accelerated GeForce driver for Linux.
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Nice of them. Definitely worth the "40-60 Mb" download.
All we can hope is that sanity prevails. Who in their right mind would want to distribute DVD's via the web? Why would I spend several hundred dollars on a DVD burner (which is a fairly new technology) and about $16 each on the media when I can go to Blockbuster and get The Matrix for $20?
Arguments that have no basis in fact make me angry at those who waste the Court's time and, therefore, my tax dollars.
I think you answered your own question. Since you were one of the "very few" people who could maintain a working system, the administration will probably not accept Linux until it can count on a level of support that keeps their systems running. If Redhat offers sufficient support, this could be a great way for Linux to gain a foothold in colleges.
I have an nvidia (tnt) also and it works great... in 98. I really want acceleration in Linux, and have been waiting for XFree86 2.4, hoping I could get decent performance from a GeForce card so I could upgrade. Now, however, I think maybe my next card really ought to be a G400. I have been envying the Matrox Linux compatibility for some time, and they are really starting to look like the card of choice.
Here is a (poorly rendered) table of network classes:
Class Maximum Maximum bits in----- Class Number Networks Hosts NetID HostID A 1-127 127 16,777,214 7 24 B 129-191 16,383 65,534 14 16 C 192-223 2,097,151 254 21 8
If (when?) LinuxOne has its IPO, it should separate the cautious investor who takes the time to research his/her purchase from the devil-may-care daytrader who is ready to buy stock with Linux in the name. Caveat emptor
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For years when only techies who could use a shell account and access the Internet at a reasonable cost (~$15 per month) AOL was charging up the yinyang for per minute usage. Many people just didn't know enough to get an ISP account, but they knew the Internet was valuable, so they paid and paid and paid.
I had a friend (an attorney with two children) who was a damn smart person, but knew diddly about technology and the Internet. He was paying $50-$70 per month so his kids could research school work on the Internet and he still had to regulate their usage of the net due to the cost. He had no idea he could get unlimited access for about $20 per month until I gave him a list of ISP's in his area.
Now there is nothing wrong with capitalism, and preying on the ignorance of the public is no crime, but AOL abused the privilege IMHO.
Besides that, AOL has in the past made it extremely difficult to cancel service after you sign up for a "free" trial. They would have impossible hold times (over an hour) on the number you had to call to cancel your service. No online cancellation possible. Then the charge would appear on the credit card you had to give since you never could get through to cancel. Stuff like that...
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We at LinuxOne, Inc. are committed to making your installation and use of Linux as easy, reliable, and advantageous as possible. We will provide:
the easiest Linux operating system [LinuxOne Lite -- order the easiest Linux OS to install which runs under Windows] and software to install for both workstations and servers;
the best collection of device drivers anywhere: table, fully functional, and fully supported; the most useful and complete set of application software;
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Border Manager may be better than I have heard, but I don't know anyone who has run it and been impressed. Novell's site frequently returns weird errors and fails to load pages. Maybe that is just due to a really high number of hits but I kinda doubt it. Remember that recent /. article that listed the popular web servers? Border Manager wasn't even listed. Again probably due mostly to bad marketing. I would expect Apache to continue as the predominant web server, and Novell to fall even further behind unless I see an add *somewhere* and *soon*.
Netware has *so* much in common with *nix that beginning with Netware 5, the "ConsoleOne" utility is actually the fvswm window manager and is started by typing 'startx'. :)
We are talking about someone who was ridden on a rail by the FBI and the justice system. He was guilty, but did nowhere near the damage he was charged with and convicted for.
(1) Novell can't seem to market its product well enough - consequently people have used NT and are used to it. The completely GUI interface for NT appear friendlier than the text menus in Netware, even though Netware is really easy to use, especially for those with *nix experience.
(2) Microsoft is much better positioned for eCommerce with IIS. The biggest market today and tomorrow is the web, which M$ has recognized and has therefore developed a widely accepted web server.
M$ can throw around all the FUD they want - it won't make Active Directory perform any better. When AD performs as well as NDS, Novell is finished.
Fortunately for us, Linux will replace them both. :-p
It's gonna be a bitch to debug his code ;)
I daresay everyone who reads /. uses a computer a majority of their day. We get so used to it we really miss having access to all the tools we are used to using, especially the Internet. I get almost all my news from the web and feel cut off from society if I can't logon somewhere pretty frequently. How do you think Mitnick is going to feel in this day of such widespread computer usage. It may not exactly be cruel and unusual punishment, but it is pretty damn close.
And /. should interview convicted felons - if the felon was KM and that convict was as unfairly prosecuted as he was. Actually, I don't think criminal conviction should even enter into the discussion of whether someone should be interviewed for /. since the only real criteria should be whether that person may have something to say that is interesting to /. readers.
This case is about the past as well as the future. Saying Microsoft may not have a monopoly if [whatever] is not the point. M$ has had a monopoly and has a monopoly and that is what counts now. [Cited for over use of italics]
I read /. comments because it is interesting to read the aggressively stated and often inflamitory statements of other /.ers. The last thing I want to read is some milk-toast writer who timidly states what he is completely sure he has read someone else say before. I want fringe opinion - people who know everything about a specific subject and step all over those who don't.
How many of us know tons about supercolliders? A few. Microprocessor architecture? More. C? Plenty. I want to hear the unvarnished insight and opinions right from the proverbial horse, and I don't want the writer to hesitate for a second before putting down what he thinks. I will decide if I think those statements do more harm than good.
Posting on /. is like swimming with sharks, but safer. And I wouldn't want it any other way. Flame on.
What a crock! M$ is and has been the predominant OS provider in the PC market. Period. Now they want to say that PC's are too narrow a market to consider a monopoly on the industry because Macs and handheld devices can browse the web.
Lotsa luck with that argument.
Sounds encouraging - I hope the eventual outcome is an open model on which OS developers can build.
This is awesome! SGI's performance standards backed by VA's $$ on NVidia's hardware! I just can't wait for an accelerated GeForce driver for Linux.
Nice of them. Definitely worth the "40-60 Mb" download.
This beats the hell out of the little dog that runs around gathering news and stock updates. Can't wait to see the skins ;)
Arguments that have no basis in fact make me angry at those who waste the Court's time and, therefore, my tax dollars.
Let's rip 'em a new one!
I think you answered your own question. Since you were one of the "very few" people who could maintain a working system, the administration will probably not accept Linux until it can count on a level of support that keeps their systems running. If Redhat offers sufficient support, this could be a great way for Linux to gain a foothold in colleges.
Yeah, but Redhat isn't trying to make the schools run exclusively Linux like the deal M$ forces upon the universities to which it gives its OS.
I have an nvidia (tnt) also and it works great ... in 98. I really want acceleration in Linux, and have been waiting for XFree86 2.4, hoping I could get decent performance from a GeForce card so I could upgrade. Now, however, I think maybe my next card really ought to be a G400. I have been envying the Matrox Linux compatibility for some time, and they are really starting to look like the card of choice.
Here is a (poorly rendered) table of network classes:
Class Maximum Maximum bits in-----
Class Number Networks Hosts NetID HostID
A 1-127 127 16,777,214 7 24
B 129-191 16,383 65,534 14 16
C 192-223 2,097,151 254 21 8
If (when?) LinuxOne has its IPO, it should separate the cautious investor who takes the time to research his/her purchase from the devil-may-care daytrader who is ready to buy stock with Linux in the name. Caveat emptor
I had a friend (an attorney with two children) who was a damn smart person, but knew diddly about technology and the Internet. He was paying $50-$70 per month so his kids could research school work on the Internet and he still had to regulate their usage of the net due to the cost. He had no idea he could get unlimited access for about $20 per month until I gave him a list of ISP's in his area.
Now there is nothing wrong with capitalism, and preying on the ignorance of the public is no crime, but AOL abused the privilege IMHO.
Besides that, AOL has in the past made it extremely difficult to cancel service after you sign up for a "free" trial. They would have impossible hold times (over an hour) on the number you had to call to cancel your service. No online cancellation possible. Then the charge would appear on the credit card you had to give since you never could get through to cancel. Stuff like that...