Obviously, this move was motivated by the Google Talk threat of open instant messaging network(s).
And also obviously, AOL think they can throw sand into the eyes of the OSS community and hide the fine print. This half-hearted "opening up" reminds me of the "open-source" move of Real with their Helix player not opening up their codec.
I can only say just another short-sighted greedy company to be washed away sooner or later. And again, THANK YOU GOOGLE!
Did anyone get any real educational value out of them?
The school labs did nothing for me but the local computer club (the John von Neumann Society ) got me hooked. This in spite the fact that I knew the school teacher's name from computer magazins well before I enrolled at the school.
I still have a fond memory of all those C64, Sinclair Spectrum and other Zilog Z80-based home computers...
it would be better to spend that $100 on the developing world on more teachers, education for teachers, roof for schools, etc.
As to your point, the availability of technology plants seeds for the future. If you spend all the development aid money on school roofs, those nations will never have a chance to stop the digital divide widening.
This is a topic I discussed many times. The technology will make the use of resources more efficient by e.g. ameliorating information flow and lowering its costs. Economy is basically just another term for self-organisation, or better: networking of people. Think about the Roman Empire and how much the invested in the reliable flow of information.
Having rebuilt a multitude of x86 hardware and fought several times with the oddities of the PC legacy, the choice between LILO and GRUB is a no-brainer to me.
Every now and then, after changing/reordering hard drives (from on-board to off-board etc.), changing the controller etc. LILO might stuck somewhere like LI or 0101010101 or... and you need to get into a running Linux system to fix the boot loader "settings". If the hardware is unsupported by the live CD you have at your fingertips (e.g. MegaRAID) you are royally screwed up.
With GRUB, as long as the stage 2 gets loaded, you can always change the settings manually from within a minimalistic command line. If you do not know which drive gets which number from the BIOS (0x80, 0x81,...), you can just try around like root(hd0,0)... root(hd1,0)... etc. until you find your partition.
The only reason I kept LILO on some headless servers co-located at some distant places was the lilo -R... functionality with which one can select an image to boot into just once. If this fails and you remotely reset the server, it boots back into a known good state. Very handy to try dangerous changes to a remote server.
Now that GRUB also provides this option with grub-reboot and GRUB can also be set up with a nice graphical splash screen, there is no reason why I would ever want to install LILO.
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Obviously, this move was motivated by the Google Talk threat of open instant messaging network(s). And also obviously, AOL think they can throw sand into the eyes of the OSS community and hide the fine print. This half-hearted "opening up" reminds me of the "open-source" move of Real with their Helix player not opening up their codec. I can only say just another short-sighted greedy company to be washed away sooner or later. And again, THANK YOU GOOGLE!
The school labs did nothing for me but the local computer club (the John von Neumann Society ) got me hooked. This in spite the fact that I knew the school teacher's name from computer magazins well before I enrolled at the school.
I still have a fond memory of all those C64, Sinclair Spectrum and other Zilog Z80-based home computers...
it would be better to spend that $100 on the developing world on more teachers, education for teachers, roof for schools, etc.
As to your point, the availability of technology plants seeds for the future. If you spend all the development aid money on school roofs, those nations will never have a chance to stop the digital divide widening.
This is a topic I discussed many times. The technology will make the use of resources more efficient by e.g. ameliorating information flow and lowering its costs. Economy is basically just another term for self-organisation, or better: networking of people. Think about the Roman Empire and how much the invested in the reliable flow of information.
Mark
Having rebuilt a multitude of x86 hardware and fought several times with the oddities of the PC legacy, the choice between LILO and GRUB is a no-brainer to me.
... and you need to get into a running Linux system to fix the boot loader "settings". If the hardware is unsupported by the live CD you have at your fingertips (e.g. MegaRAID) you are royally screwed up.
...), you can just try around like root(hd0,0) ... root(hd1,0) ... etc. until you find your partition.
... functionality with which one can select an image to boot into just once. If this fails and you remotely reset the server, it boots back into a known good state. Very handy to try dangerous changes to a remote server.
Every now and then, after changing/reordering hard drives (from on-board to off-board etc.), changing the controller etc. LILO might stuck somewhere like LI or 0101010101 or
With GRUB, as long as the stage 2 gets loaded, you can always change the settings manually from within a minimalistic command line. If you do not know which drive gets which number from the BIOS (0x80, 0x81,
The only reason I kept LILO on some headless servers co-located at some distant places was the lilo -R
Now that GRUB also provides this option with grub-reboot and GRUB can also be set up with a nice graphical splash screen, there is no reason why I would ever want to install LILO.
Mark