Although his mother's Catholic faith was very important, in Middle-Earth he was attempting to invent an English Mythos, comparable to the pagan Norse and Germanic myths.
In so doing he was trying to replace the oral tradition he believed had been lost to the Anglo-Saxons by the Norman invasion.
And as has been stated I disagree with the conclusion in the article. Either the whole thing is a prank, it was stolen by somebody for his own personal use, stolen without a buyer in mind, or stolen to order.
One can not rule out a prank, especially because of the date, but I doubt it.
Stolen for personal use: Maybe. Certainly I cool thing to own, but if you had the where-with-all to have pulled this off perhaps you'd have targetted somewhere else.
The article suggested that the thieves may try to sell it over the net. I can't see it. With all the eyes watching, you'd be mad to try to post it on E-Bay.
Stolen to order must be favourite. It's the kind of thing that interests the 'private collector'.
It must be murder to try and shift, just think of the attention this theft is getting.
The adapter you probably want is a 13W3 -> VGA. ie the sun end has a plug about the size of a 25pin serial cable but with 3 large holes and 13 small ones, the other end VGA (3 rows of 5 pins).
The Sun part number is 530-2357-01
Be warned they're expensive so consider contacting a Sun-clone manufacturer.
I have to agree. We've just finished a review at work for new 21" displays. After quickly discounting cheap bands as false economy the choice came back to Sony and a couple of Samsungs. The only reason this took so long was the Sony's price - in the end the Samsungs couldn't compete for definition at 85Hz.
Bottom line if you can justify the cost buy Sony. (And you don't have to switch XFConfig if you pinch a screen from a Sun workstation - they're Sony too).
Now all we have to do is get it past the bean-counters.
Maybe that you were 14 isn't irrelvant. It's like the old fortune used to say (incorrectly): the only things to come out of Berkeley were LSD & BSD. that pre-dates me and I'm an old-fart.
And who can forget (if they saw it) him asking Michael Howard (Home Sec.) the same questions 14 times in a row because refused to give a straigt answer. It went something like
JP: "Did you ask the Director of Prisons to resign?"
NH: blah, blah, avoid issue
JP: "Did you ask him to resign?"
NH: more of the same
JP: "Did you ask him to resign?"
repeat
Great stuff
BTW It was obvious that Kissinger hadn't been told was to expect from our Jez (even if it was 9:00am on a Monday morning).
This topic seems to have fallen into wondering why Intel are doing the investing. The alternatives suggested are (in no particular order) a) diversifying ie. putting money into more that one distribution b) investing in a distribution that puts out commercial apps - cos thats were the money is. c) investing in a distribution that's strong in the Far East.
All these would appear good reasons for Intel to take a risk. What I was really asking when I posted the original question it what direction TurboLinux would take now it has the backing, and not just in the geographical sense? Do they build on their Asian success and push further into China or are they going to try and complete with Red Hat in North America?
If I were making the decision I'd choose China, but we don't know who's pulling the strings in this deal.
Would it be in Intel's interest to have two of their investees fighting one another? Possibly. I've yet to be persuaded that Red Hat's strength is anything other that its ubiquitousness coupled with an extremely good package management system in rpm. It's not the installation procedure that make a distribution good, it's how easy it is to upgrade. Turbo Linux getting a toehold here would be difficult. However the rise of China as a market does seem to be significant especially as the number of new Chinese distributions is on the increase.
There seems to be a notion that they go head to head with Red Hat, but what have TurboLinux got to offer over Red Hat. If SUSE is supposed to be aimed at the europian market, Debian at the purist, where do Turbo Linux go?
Indeed, I was under the impression that the period required for the doubling was decreasing. There have been numerous cries that the end was in sight. Surely somebody should come up with a new law predicting how often these warm arise an how long it is before chip designers come up with a solution to overcome the new limitations.
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In so doing he was trying to replace the oral tradition he believed had been lost to the Anglo-Saxons by the Norman invasion.
And as has been stated I disagree with the conclusion in the article. Either the whole thing is a prank, it was stolen by somebody for his own personal use, stolen without a buyer in mind, or stolen to order.
One can not rule out a prank, especially because of the date, but I doubt it.
Stolen for personal use: Maybe. Certainly I cool thing to own, but if you had the where-with-all to have pulled this off perhaps you'd have targetted somewhere else.
The article suggested that the thieves may try to sell it over the net. I can't see it. With all the eyes watching, you'd be mad to try to post it on E-Bay.
Stolen to order must be favourite. It's the kind of thing that interests the 'private collector'.
It must be murder to try and shift, just think of the attention this theft is getting.
The Sun part number is 530-2357-01
Be warned they're expensive so consider contacting a Sun-clone manufacturer.
Bottom line if you can justify the cost buy Sony. (And you don't have to switch XFConfig if you pinch a screen from a Sun workstation - they're Sony too).
Now all we have to do is get it past the bean-counters.
Maybe that you were 14 isn't irrelvant. It's like the old fortune used to say (incorrectly):
the only things to come out of Berkeley were LSD & BSD.
that pre-dates me and I'm an old-fart.
5 pence a minute per packet then
JP: "Did you ask the Director of Prisons to resign?"
NH: blah, blah, avoid issue
JP: "Did you ask him to resign?"
NH: more of the same
JP: "Did you ask him to resign?"
repeat
Great stuff
BTW It was obvious that Kissinger hadn't been told was to expect from our Jez (even if it was 9:00am on a Monday morning).
All these would appear good reasons for Intel to take a risk. What I was really asking when I posted the original question it what direction TurboLinux would take now it has the backing, and not just in the geographical sense? Do they build on their Asian success and push further into China or are they going to try and complete with Red Hat in North America?
If I were making the decision I'd choose China, but we don't know who's pulling the strings in this deal.
Would it be in Intel's interest to have two of their investees fighting one another? Possibly. I've yet to be persuaded that Red Hat's strength is anything other that its ubiquitousness coupled with an extremely good package management system in rpm. It's not the installation procedure that make a distribution good, it's how easy it is to upgrade. Turbo Linux getting a toehold here would be difficult. However the rise of China as a market does seem to be significant especially as the number of new Chinese distributions is on the increase.
That my twopenneth anyway
There seems to be a notion that they go head to head with Red Hat, but what have TurboLinux got to offer over Red Hat. If SUSE is supposed to be aimed at the europian market, Debian at the purist, where do Turbo Linux go?
Indeed, I was under the impression that the period required for the doubling was decreasing. There have been numerous cries that the end was in sight. Surely somebody should come up with a new law predicting how often these warm arise an how long it is before chip designers come up with a solution to overcome the new limitations.