I try not to think of Stallman when I think of FOSS, because I like to think about freedom instead of socialism, and while not exclusive, the human implementations of either almost always work against the other.
If Stallman were trying to sell me a particular model car, I'd walk off the lot, shake it off, and buy the same model from a different dealer.
If Stallman is the messenger, the message is dead.
The scientific consensus says it's happening, all the research say were doing it, all the predictions of the 70's are happening at an excellerted rate.
Revisionista! Sonny boy, I was an adult in the 70's. You know what the predictions were then? They were saying we were going into an Ice Age. Yep, strange, but very, very true.
The same folks that are pushing man-made global warming are the ones that were pushing man-made ice age.
And, I do love how they change terms during the colder months, they call it climate change and not global warming.
Like Al Gore commenting on man-made global warming when the best and latest science is indicating that man has little impact when compared to nature herself.
But, it's all the cows. If man weren't here we wouldn't have all the cows.
BS, the favorite line flies in the face of other eco-nuts that say the world would have more animals, and more diversity if man weren't around. Remember, the plains were black with heards of buffalo. Whales were in super abundance, and they produce huge amounts of methane. Wildlife farts and breathes.
"KYOTO!" they yell. Signing onto Kyoto does nothing, complying with Kyoto would affect the climate by a percentage of a degree. Yet, cause harm to the burgeoning economies of the worlds most poorest countries.
The Earth is in a warming phase, and still much cooler than the last warming cycle. Hell, we are coming out of a mini-ice-age (geologically recent).
But Al Gore says...Al Gore is a politician that has found a bully pulpit and a willingly naive audience that will march off a cliff if he says it will save a tree. Let's focus on what is important and what we can change:
Poverty
Disease
Hunger
Social Injustice
Raising the living standard in ONE poor country will improve the world's wealth, allow them to live cleaner, and improve the cleanliness of the planet in turn.
Let's not squander the good will of the voters and free citizens of the world by tiring them out on something that they cannot affect.
But then, if you reverse those bans, some bleeding-heart-won't-someone-think-of-the-children -type will claim that your civil liberty of having someone make decisions for you is being violated. Wait...are we starting to make up civil liberties to satisfy all the little special interest groups?
And the fact that Jobs had nothing to do with the falsification of the board meeting minutes? Or the backdating itself? Yeah - real scumbag. The people responsible for this crap left (or were asked to leave) the company a long time ago - but hey - it's an Apple bad news story. Get your hits in - especially if you can do it off-topic on a Friday night!
Yeah, like Mr. Control Freak couldn't have possibly pulled those strings? You give him a complete walk? Bullshit, the man makes out millions and he didn't at least think that something was a might hinky? And Ken Lay didn't know what they were doing down and accounting.
I'd say that all the evidence of Steve Jobs' corporate cover up and the lack of reportage about it on geek sites. Apple: Another Enron? Well, maybe not, but at least another scum-bag at the top of a corporation.
By living such clean and germ free lives, washing our hands continually, we are opening ourselves up to one Hell of a super-bug eventually. We keep Fracking around with nature, it's going to bite us in our collective asses soon enough.
I would rather be sick a few times a year, rather than vaccinate myself against all ills. Did we learn nothing from the over prescription of anti-biotics.
People in Mexico drink the water, do they get sick? Not like we do. Sure, we may not live until 120, but I bet you the entire American public will get laid low by the next super bug because we are losing our natural defenses.
Have you some experience with Linux or other not M$ OS ? I mean what you think about not M$ OS ?
Back during the bad old.com days, I worked for a company called eCharge. We were running Solaris. It was fun to work with, fairly easy.
I started with computers in the mid-70's (age reveal) and have tried all of the one-offs,CP/M, DR-DOS was fun, OS/2 was a blast (IBM has a serious history of killing their own product), worked with NEXT at Lam Research, and have toyed with Linux flavors over the years (every day, non-geek users aren't going there yet).
I have developed in Pascal, C, C++, BASIC, VB, C#, Java, JavaScript. I do what clients want. I'm no idealogue, or counter-culture evangelist. My clients want.NET, Windows OS, and their MS Office apps.
Any company still running NT 4.0 deserves to go out of business. If they are public entities, they should be investigated. Any company running NT 4.0 should fire their IT staff.
Any company still running Windows 98 deserves to go out of business. If they are public entities, they should be investigated. Any company running Windows 98 should fire their IT staff.
Any IA guy with 98 on his network should either quit, commit suicide, and change careers. He should never mention it to any other IA guy.
Seriously, now, do YOU really know any companies serious about their business that are still running Windows 98? And you do nothing about it? That's like seeing a bleeding man at the side of the road and passing him by. Hell, they'd be better off with Linspire 1.0, at a minimum.
I'm not upgrading, and I'm a huge MS user. As a matter of full disclosure, I'm a.NET programmer, SharePoint developer, I prefer MS over almost any other offering except virtualization platforms, accounting software, and media creation. I live in Washington, and regulary attend MS events in Seattle and Redmond. Now, onto the Vista:
It's slow and a resource hog, and none of their different "levels" fits well enough for me. I don't want the low end, but the level of Vista that has what I want and need has a bunch of crap I don't, and costs too much, and the next level down, has hardly of the stuff I want.
I bought a fairly beefy laptop last year, so I can run virtual servers for development when I'm on the road. It's not within the minimum guidelines for Vista. I've tried to run it on my desktop and laptop, no go.
Software I rely upon will not work with Vista. Sure, Visual Studio 2003 is a no go. I also develop in 2005, and I can build.NET 1.1 from that, but...haven't gotten it to work on Vista.
Vista will be an also ran for MS OS's. It will be like MS-DOS 4.0 (back then, I tried it, and retrograded to 3.2 very quickly). Hell, MS isn't pushing it hard like they were with XP.
What has worked in the past for MS should work for the next version, the OS should:
work with 4 year-old equipment, processors, memory, etc.
be compatable with SW from the same time frame
come in 2, maybe 3 levels of implementation (excluding servers)
Home - Price point under $70
Professional - Price point under $120
Extra (maybe - Price point under $150
Upgradeable from one level to the next without a complete reinstall
Beyond basic OS, all extras, funky new desktops, including browser, media player, text pads, etc. are optional installs.
And, allow me to virtualize it, dammit!
Oh, and give it a name that doesn't blow, or suck.
So, I'm sticking with my XP for now, I will wait for the next OS, the one that MS creates after learning what a disaster Vista is.
And, you'd be the first one to cry to the f*&king heavens as soon as the Government let YOUR secrets out in the open. Or when a government, controlled by a political party other than your chosen favorite, screwed up in a major way when Intelligence is released into the wild.
Find a government on the planet that does as you desire, I'll show you mythology. Only those seeking the downfall of a political system, or governing body require that body to release all its secrets. When that body is your government, then you meet the definition of "Traitor".
Whether controlled by Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians (mythological political party), The Raving Loons of Parump, the government must keep secrets and protect select information from release until such a time that its release is no longer a harm to the citizens and country.
Not a single product on the list that I was interested in, anyway. Maybe thats why it takes so long, or why they never show up. Interest has waned, or the need is filled by someone who can deliver.
...Japans Self Defense Forces (JSDF) have stated that they have successfully tagged Godzilla with an RFID, but are having trouble tagging Mothra. Happy Depato owner, Suzuki Tadao, stated, "This is extra glorious day. You don't know the trouble it is to rebuild this store everytime that F*&^ing lizard comes to town. Now with RFID, he will not get in door."
The JSDF is also considering whether or not to require Team Ultraman to wear RFIDs. Col. Niiyama Michio said, "Sure, that F*&^ing lizard comes to town, and I'm not sure who causes more destruction, him or those F*&^ing super heroes."
Japan News Agency note to news editors: Shin Nihon Dictionary - Godzilla translates to "that F*&^ing lizard".
Back in the day, before the "IBM PC", almost every company was coming out with their own computer.
Sharp had the MZ80K that had its own monitor and build in tape deck, and contrary to what others were doing at the time, instead of loading BASIC, it ran Pascal.
Now, anyone have any info on the Acorn, and the BBC computer?
I was stationed in the UK in the early 80's, at RAF Upper Heyford when the BBC ran a test. They broadcast, on TV, a short 1 minute blast of binary. I recorded it onto cassette (it had been pre-announced for the week that they would do it) and then I loaded it into my Sinclair, and viola, it ran.
I think the BBC was the first to run a regular computer show. If a tape of that specific episode could obtained, no museum exhibit would be complete without it running on loop.
Does anyone remember the plethora of magazines that had tons of code listings? How many people learned to code from those?
That was my first in the 70's. Great fun and very open. Build your own cards. Wire wrap. Learn to solder. Great fun, great fun.
Also, the Sincliar ZX80, Sinclair ZX81/Timex 1000, Kaypro II, Osbourne.
When I strapped a 32K, banked switched ram pack to my ZX81, a buddy told me that I was crazy to have wasted my money, that I'd never use the 16k in one bank. The Sinclair had a the nasty habit of recording the entire memory used or not, when you saved to tape. So, the more memory you installed the longer the load.
I also owned a few pirated computers:
Anyone remember the Orange? It was an Apple, made in Taiwan from the specs Apple provided a factory when they wanted to go into mass production.
I had a Genie, which was a knock off of the TRS-80 Model I, but you could get it in kit form. RS didn't much care until Genie started selling assembled units, if I remember correctly.
And, my first "IBM PC Compatible was a Heath-kit.
That was all when hacking meant building your own stuff, or getting into the hardware and making your own changes. Of course the lead solder didn't affect my mind...too much.
Early rumors had him working with Amazon in the effort, but this should clear things up.
Google, Amazon, Opera, Mozilla, all are good ideas but as they expand their reach, they turn to crap. Google is going to Hell, Amazon is there, Opera likes the road, and Moz? They seem to be eyeing it.
Whatever happened to, "Do what you do best. Forget the rest"?
O.K., one more time, and this is a message from the inside: Just the rendering is changed. When I get an HTML email on my.mil account, I see raw mark-up. It just does not render as html. It's the same as if you open a web page and view the source. It's signed, and unchanged. It is un-rendered.
If I get more specific, the DHS will visit you and use their little flashy things and make you forget. And, yes, we have those little...shit, what was I saying?
Slashdot Mirror
Stallman is brilliant, and driven.
Stallman is an evangelical nut job.
I try not to think of Stallman when I think of FOSS, because I like to think about freedom instead of socialism, and while not exclusive, the human implementations of either almost always work against the other.
If Stallman were trying to sell me a particular model car, I'd walk off the lot, shake it off, and buy the same model from a different dealer.
If Stallman is the messenger, the message is dead.
Revisionista! Sonny boy, I was an adult in the 70's. You know what the predictions were then? They were saying we were going into an Ice Age. Yep, strange, but very, very true.
The same folks that are pushing man-made global warming are the ones that were pushing man-made ice age.
And, I do love how they change terms during the colder months, they call it climate change and not global warming.
Like Al Gore commenting on man-made global warming when the best and latest science is indicating that man has little impact when compared to nature herself.
But, it's all the cows. If man weren't here we wouldn't have all the cows.
BS, the favorite line flies in the face of other eco-nuts that say the world would have more animals, and more diversity if man weren't around. Remember, the plains were black with heards of buffalo. Whales were in super abundance, and they produce huge amounts of methane. Wildlife farts and breathes.
"KYOTO!" they yell. Signing onto Kyoto does nothing, complying with Kyoto would affect the climate by a percentage of a degree. Yet, cause harm to the burgeoning economies of the worlds most poorest countries.
The Earth is in a warming phase, and still much cooler than the last warming cycle. Hell, we are coming out of a mini-ice-age (geologically recent).
But Al Gore says...Al Gore is a politician that has found a bully pulpit and a willingly naive audience that will march off a cliff if he says it will save a tree. Let's focus on what is important and what we can change:
Raising the living standard in ONE poor country will improve the world's wealth, allow them to live cleaner, and improve the cleanliness of the planet in turn.
Let's not squander the good will of the voters and free citizens of the world by tiring them out on something that they cannot affect.
But then, if you reverse those bans, some bleeding-heart-won't-someone-think-of-the-children -type will claim that your civil liberty of having someone make decisions for you is being violated. Wait...are we starting to make up civil liberties to satisfy all the little special interest groups?
Activist companies and organizations are a pain. U2U announced this year that it would not do business with any company in Israel. Pain in the ass.
How about a company or org that does what its business is, and leave the activism behind.
Oh, and boycott U2U.
In keeping with the resource hogging of Vista, Windows Automotive's System requirements:
Yeah, like Mr. Control Freak couldn't have possibly pulled those strings? You give him a complete walk? Bullshit, the man makes out millions and he didn't at least think that something was a might hinky? And Ken Lay didn't know what they were doing down and accounting.
I'd say that all the evidence of Steve Jobs' corporate cover up and the lack of reportage about it on geek sites. Apple: Another Enron? Well, maybe not, but at least another scum-bag at the top of a corporation.
By living such clean and germ free lives, washing our hands continually, we are opening ourselves up to one Hell of a super-bug eventually. We keep Fracking around with nature, it's going to bite us in our collective asses soon enough.
I would rather be sick a few times a year, rather than vaccinate myself against all ills. Did we learn nothing from the over prescription of anti-biotics.
People in Mexico drink the water, do they get sick? Not like we do. Sure, we may not live until 120, but I bet you the entire American public will get laid low by the next super bug because we are losing our natural defenses.
Back during the bad old .com days, I worked for a company called eCharge. We were running Solaris. It was fun to work with, fairly easy.
I started with computers in the mid-70's (age reveal) and have tried all of the one-offs,CP/M, DR-DOS was fun, OS/2 was a blast (IBM has a serious history of killing their own product), worked with NEXT at Lam Research, and have toyed with Linux flavors over the years (every day, non-geek users aren't going there yet).
I have developed in Pascal, C, C++, BASIC, VB, C#, Java, JavaScript. I do what clients want. I'm no idealogue, or counter-culture evangelist. My clients want .NET, Windows OS, and their MS Office apps.
Any company still running NT 4.0 deserves to go out of business. If they are public entities, they should be investigated. Any company running NT 4.0 should fire their IT staff.
Any IA guy with NT 4.0 on his...
Wait, I've said this before.
Are you the same guy that said other companies are still running Windows 98?
Any company still running Windows 98 deserves to go out of business. If they are public entities, they should be investigated. Any company running Windows 98 should fire their IT staff.
Any IA guy with 98 on his network should either quit, commit suicide, and change careers. He should never mention it to any other IA guy.
Seriously, now, do YOU really know any companies serious about their business that are still running Windows 98? And you do nothing about it? That's like seeing a bleeding man at the side of the road and passing him by. Hell, they'd be better off with Linspire 1.0, at a minimum.
I'm not upgrading, and I'm a huge MS user. As a matter of full disclosure, I'm a .NET programmer, SharePoint developer, I prefer MS over almost any other offering except virtualization platforms, accounting software, and media creation. I live in Washington, and regulary attend MS events in Seattle and Redmond. Now, onto the Vista:
It's slow and a resource hog, and none of their different "levels" fits well enough for me. I don't want the low end, but the level of Vista that has what I want and need has a bunch of crap I don't, and costs too much, and the next level down, has hardly of the stuff I want.
I bought a fairly beefy laptop last year, so I can run virtual servers for development when I'm on the road. It's not within the minimum guidelines for Vista. I've tried to run it on my desktop and laptop, no go.
Software I rely upon will not work with Vista. Sure, Visual Studio 2003 is a no go. I also develop in 2005, and I can build .NET 1.1 from that, but...haven't gotten it to work on Vista.
Vista will be an also ran for MS OS's. It will be like MS-DOS 4.0 (back then, I tried it, and retrograded to 3.2 very quickly). Hell, MS isn't pushing it hard like they were with XP.
What has worked in the past for MS should work for the next version, the OS should:
So, I'm sticking with my XP for now, I will wait for the next OS, the one that MS creates after learning what a disaster Vista is.
This headline could read:
Who in the world thought this was NEWS?
And, you'd be the first one to cry to the f*&king heavens as soon as the Government let YOUR secrets out in the open. Or when a government, controlled by a political party other than your chosen favorite, screwed up in a major way when Intelligence is released into the wild.
Find a government on the planet that does as you desire, I'll show you mythology. Only those seeking the downfall of a political system, or governing body require that body to release all its secrets. When that body is your government, then you meet the definition of "Traitor".
Whether controlled by Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians (mythological political party), The Raving Loons of Parump, the government must keep secrets and protect select information from release until such a time that its release is no longer a harm to the citizens and country.
I felt a disturbance in the Slash, as if a bunch of geeks said, "What the F&*K, Microsoft Office?"
Why not the full featured DirecTV TiVO that was promised to us back in 2005 for delivery in SPRING 06?
Not a single product on the list that I was interested in, anyway. Maybe thats why it takes so long, or why they never show up. Interest has waned, or the need is filled by someone who can deliver.
...Japans Self Defense Forces (JSDF) have stated that they have successfully tagged Godzilla with an RFID, but are having trouble tagging Mothra. Happy Depato owner, Suzuki Tadao, stated, "This is extra glorious day. You don't know the trouble it is to rebuild this store everytime that F*&^ing lizard comes to town. Now with RFID, he will not get in door."
The JSDF is also considering whether or not to require Team Ultraman to wear RFIDs. Col. Niiyama Michio said, "Sure, that F*&^ing lizard comes to town, and I'm not sure who causes more destruction, him or those F*&^ing super heroes."
Japan News Agency note to news editors: Shin Nihon Dictionary - Godzilla translates to "that F*&^ing lizard".
Back in the day, before the "IBM PC", almost every company was coming out with their own computer.
Sharp had the MZ80K that had its own monitor and build in tape deck, and contrary to what others were doing at the time, instead of loading BASIC, it ran Pascal.
Now, anyone have any info on the Acorn, and the BBC computer?
I was stationed in the UK in the early 80's, at RAF Upper Heyford when the BBC ran a test. They broadcast, on TV, a short 1 minute blast of binary. I recorded it onto cassette (it had been pre-announced for the week that they would do it) and then I loaded it into my Sinclair, and viola, it ran.
I think the BBC was the first to run a regular computer show. If a tape of that specific episode could obtained, no museum exhibit would be complete without it running on loop.
Does anyone remember the plethora of magazines that had tons of code listings? How many people learned to code from those?
You need an Altair.
That was my first in the 70's. Great fun and very open. Build your own cards. Wire wrap. Learn to solder. Great fun, great fun.
Also, the Sincliar ZX80, Sinclair ZX81/Timex 1000, Kaypro II, Osbourne.
When I strapped a 32K, banked switched ram pack to my ZX81, a buddy told me that I was crazy to have wasted my money, that I'd never use the 16k in one bank. The Sinclair had a the nasty habit of recording the entire memory used or not, when you saved to tape. So, the more memory you installed the longer the load.
I also owned a few pirated computers:
Anyone remember the Orange? It was an Apple, made in Taiwan from the specs Apple provided a factory when they wanted to go into mass production.
I had a Genie, which was a knock off of the TRS-80 Model I, but you could get it in kit form. RS didn't much care until Genie started selling assembled units, if I remember correctly.
And, my first "IBM PC Compatible was a Heath-kit.
That was all when hacking meant building your own stuff, or getting into the hardware and making your own changes. Of course the lead solder didn't affect my mind...too much.
Early rumors had him working with Amazon in the effort, but this should clear things up.
Google, Amazon, Opera, Mozilla, all are good ideas but as they expand their reach, they turn to crap. Google is going to Hell, Amazon is there, Opera likes the road, and Moz? They seem to be eyeing it.
Whatever happened to, "Do what you do best. Forget the rest"?
NMCI.
EDS is still trying to hire people that can spell NMCI, let alone run a network.
O.K., one more time, and this is a message from the inside: Just the rendering is changed. When I get an HTML email on my .mil account, I see raw mark-up. It just does not render as html. It's the same as if you open a web page and view the source. It's signed, and unchanged. It is un-rendered.
If I get more specific, the DHS will visit you and use their little flashy things and make you forget. And, yes, we have those little...shit, what was I saying?
The content doesn't change, just the rendering.