Don't forget OS/390 - Mainframes are still very much in the picture for very large volumes of data. With a mainframe, you get enough I/O to actually make it feasible to access all that data...
I used to have a really stupid laptop with an 800x600 screen. It also offered 640x480, but it did it by only showing the smaller number of pixels in the middle of the screen.
In other words, images were exactly the same size, but there was a 160x120 black border around the display. What on earth was the point of that?
I came to the same conclusion recently. I was contemplating doing a linux from scratch install, but laziness (and better weather outside) sidetracked me. In the end I installed Mandrake 8.2, which has virtually everything I need ready to go (I believe it comes with three varieties of kitchen sink).
Only downside is that sometimes the home cooked stuff doesn't play well with the ready made distro stuff, and it's all to easy to drift into only running stuff that comes with the distro.
The reason that macro viruses have almost exclusively affected Windows users is that they aren't educated enough to realize that they're being scammed. A user could easily fire up pine, save a.pl to disk, and sudo it if that's what the mail told them to do. The thing is, most people using pine that could sudo something are knowledgeable enough to *not* do it.
Not exactly. That would be like saving the attachement and running it. Modern macro viruses in Outlook require no user intervention (on poorly - i.e. default - configurations). This is the equivalent of Pine running the.pl as root in the background without asking the user.
OK, I'm a bit late replying to this one, but here's another UK perspective.
1. Employers of graduate trainees often expect you to leave after a year to 18 months. They want to replace you with another cheap trainee.
2. Standard UK practice is 1 months notice. As long as you give that before leaving, there should be no hard feelings.
3. My experience of medium to large firms is that turnover of new staff within a year of starting runs about 50%. Maybe the job just won't suit you, maybe the environment.
4. Having said that, a year minimum for your first job helps to show future employers that you're not a complete flake.
5. DO NOT TELL THEM. Seriously no need unless you plan to leave in much less than a year.
6. Short term travelling might be possible without leaving. I used all 4 weeks of my leave, plus a week carried forward from the previous year, to have a 5 week paid vacation. I'd been at the company 3 years at that point, though.
Same here, open plan seems to be the standard in larger companies, small offices elsewhere. I'm in an open plan office, and as a result I get to hear everyone booking their holidays and discussing that nasty little rash with their friends.
We are about to start experimenting with hotdesking and the like. That will be a nightmare - every time we have an office move, we spend days negotiating preferences (near window, no light, near heat etc.).
Donate the code to RMS or the FSF. Release under the GPL. Coordinate with them first. Anonymously, of course.
Doesn't the FSF require you to provide something in writing before they will accept assignments of copyright. IIRC, there's also something about getting your employer to OK it if necessary.
Basically if you buy a stolen item, and have no reason to believe it is stolen, it is yours to keep
In the UK, you don't get to keep it. That's why you want to be very careful when buying used cars - there is even a service you can call which will check to see if the car is stolen, or has outstanding credit (if the seller still owes on a car loan, the lender owns the car - if you buy it, it can still be repossessed by the lender).
The best you can hope for is that you can persuade the police that not to charge you with handling stolen goods.
...it does not provide any operating system facilities...
But you can download the older OS/360 and play with the state of 1970s art! Or install Linux on it (see how many levels of Linux on Hercules on Linux on Hercules... you can get to!
I heard that someone had this running on Linux on a Psion series 5.
There was a big piece in the Radio Times when they started it, about how it was Channel 5's big break for legitimacy.
The new controller of C5 wants to be the only main channel putting out decent shows on a Saturday night - hence CSI followed by Law and Order.
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Anti gun control lobbyists have been saying for years that guns don't kill people - people kill people.
Computers don't copy content - people copy content.
Gun control lobbyists could point this out as precedent for tighter gun controls. Anyone want to write to their pro-gun representatives (or the NRA) and warn them of this? (I'm English - I have no vested interest until it's our turn to get screwed).
Free Agent is (was? haven't used it for a couple of years) a great Windows news client. Until Pan was usable under Linux, I used Free Agent with Wine in my Windows to Linux transition period.
I remember a BBC2 documentary last year sometime. They interviewed Chuck, and what came across was how much enthusiasm he still had for the work that he'd done, how much he'd enjoyed his work, and also how, even in his late 80s, he still had that enthusiasm and no loss of mental faculties.
He had a good, long life, he loved his work and brought joy to millions. You can't ask for more than that from life.
I find it easier to talk people through command line stuff than GUI stuff. Far easier to say "Type this... OK, what does the screen say now?" than "click on that. Has a dialog box appeared? OK what does it say? Click OK. Now what does the screen look like?"
Talking people through GUI use when you can't see their screen is much harder than talking them through CLI commands. Especially if you can't remember the exact layout of every dialog that they might encounter.
Well they've been in the EU a while without that happening _ the Netherlands were one of the founder members of the original EEC.
More likely that the more liberal European attitudes of Holland, Germany, Denmark etc will have to be adopted in Britain - easily the most puritanical EU country.
I don't think it's supposed to reduce the cost of a $400,000 machine, but allow that $400,000 machine to replace 50 $8000 machines.
As for cost of ownership, does the lack of a mainframe OS mean the loss of abilities like being able to back up the entire machine (all the virtual Linux servers) at once? The big win of Linux on mainframe is central management of dozens of virtual servers, plus the fact that each server is completely independent.
I was under the impression that the mainframe OS still played a role in managing the virtual machines. A Linux only mainframe would seem to imply a single system.
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UK residents of the town of Scunthorpe sometimes have trouble with over zealous filtering, too.
Don't forget OS/390 - Mainframes are still very much in the picture for very large volumes of data. With a mainframe, you get enough I/O to actually make it feasible to access all that data...
In other words, images were exactly the same size, but there was a 160x120 black border around the display. What on earth was the point of that?
Won't somebody please think of the children!
Only downside is that sometimes the home cooked stuff doesn't play well with the ready made distro stuff, and it's all to easy to drift into only running stuff that comes with the distro.
Not exactly. That would be like saving the attachement and running it. Modern macro viruses in Outlook require no user intervention (on poorly - i.e. default - configurations). This is the equivalent of Pine running the .pl as root in the background without asking the user.
Remember everything on Windows runs as root!
OK, I'm a bit late replying to this one, but here's another UK perspective.
1. Employers of graduate trainees often expect you to leave after a year to 18 months. They want to replace you with another cheap trainee.
2. Standard UK practice is 1 months notice. As long as you give that before leaving, there should be no hard feelings.
3. My experience of medium to large firms is that turnover of new staff within a year of starting runs about 50%. Maybe the job just won't suit you, maybe the environment.
4. Having said that, a year minimum for your first job helps to show future employers that you're not a complete flake.
5. DO NOT TELL THEM. Seriously no need unless you plan to leave in much less than a year.
6. Short term travelling might be possible without leaving. I used all 4 weeks of my leave, plus a week carried forward from the previous year, to have a 5 week paid vacation. I'd been at the company 3 years at that point, though.
Same here, open plan seems to be the standard in larger companies, small offices elsewhere. I'm in an open plan office, and as a result I get to hear everyone booking their holidays and discussing that nasty little rash with their friends.
We are about to start experimenting with hotdesking and the like. That will be a nightmare - every time we have an office move, we spend days negotiating preferences (near window, no light, near heat etc.).
Doesn't the FSF require you to provide something in writing before they will accept assignments of copyright. IIRC, there's also something about getting your employer to OK it if necessary.
In the UK, you don't get to keep it. That's why you want to be very careful when buying used cars - there is even a service you can call which will check to see if the car is stolen, or has outstanding credit (if the seller still owes on a car loan, the lender owns the car - if you buy it, it can still be repossessed by the lender).
The best you can hope for is that you can persuade the police that not to charge you with handling stolen goods.
And NT 4.0 - there's a registry setting, IIRC.
How high do you want it? Top of the range PalmOS PDAs are pretty powerful, and with the Sony Clie you can get a decent 320x320 colour screen.
The processor isn't that fast, but the OS is designed for it, so the PDA stays pretty responsive.
But you can download the older OS/360 and play with the state of 1970s art! Or install Linux on it (see how many levels of Linux on Hercules on Linux on Hercules... you can get to!
I heard that someone had this running on Linux on a Psion series 5.
Like online gaming.. and slashdot.
Many changes to the mod system are rejected because of the possibility for abuse (see the FAQ). Not to say it's perfect as it is, of course.
There was a big piece in the Radio Times when they started it, about how it was Channel 5's big break for legitimacy.
The new controller of C5 wants to be the only main channel putting out decent shows on a Saturday night - hence CSI followed by Law and Order.
Anti gun control lobbyists have been saying for years that guns don't kill people - people kill people.
Computers don't copy content - people copy content.
Gun control lobbyists could point this out as precedent for tighter gun controls. Anyone want to write to their pro-gun representatives (or the NRA) and warn them of this? (I'm English - I have no vested interest until it's our turn to get screwed).
Free Agent is (was? haven't used it for a couple of years) a great Windows news client. Until Pan was usable under Linux, I used Free Agent with Wine in my Windows to Linux transition period.
I remember a BBC2 documentary last year sometime. They interviewed Chuck, and what came across was how much enthusiasm he still had for the work that he'd done, how much he'd enjoyed his work, and also how, even in his late 80s, he still had that enthusiasm and no loss of mental faculties.
He had a good, long life, he loved his work and brought joy to millions. You can't ask for more than that from life.
I find it easier to talk people through command line stuff than GUI stuff. Far easier to say "Type this... OK, what does the screen say now?" than "click on that. Has a dialog box appeared? OK what does it say? Click OK. Now what does the screen look like?"
Talking people through GUI use when you can't see their screen is much harder than talking them through CLI commands. Especially if you can't remember the exact layout of every dialog that they might encounter.
And that is exactly what I hate about programming in the Windows environment.
Everything is so over complicated - what's so wrong with ~/ ?
... and when people ask you where you live, you can say "E6".
Steven Wright?
With or without the bees in their mouths?
Well they've been in the EU a while without that happening _ the Netherlands were one of the founder members of the original EEC.
More likely that the more liberal European attitudes of Holland, Germany, Denmark etc will have to be adopted in Britain - easily the most puritanical EU country.
Thanks - I missed that critical point. The yahoo page does refer to them as Linux only.
I don't think it's supposed to reduce the cost of a $400,000 machine, but allow that $400,000 machine to replace 50 $8000 machines.
As for cost of ownership, does the lack of a mainframe OS mean the loss of abilities like being able to back up the entire machine (all the virtual Linux servers) at once? The big win of Linux on mainframe is central management of dozens of virtual servers, plus the fact that each server is completely independent.
I was under the impression that the mainframe OS still played a role in managing the virtual machines. A Linux only mainframe would seem to imply a single system.