After you play with it a while. (actually i think the idea is that you are suppose to upload, build/port and run your own software). Anyway when you are done, fill out the questionare and they will send you a Linux license plate (way cool), a redhat cap (red), and a little toy compaq car (gave to my kid:)).
Sure microsoft can give away or even pay universities to use their crap but they can't easily fight the ingrown Unix culture and the fact that Linux allows students to play under the hood. If you want to do research into a new network protocol or O/S scheduling algorithm, you are going to play with something that you can understand and change.
Last time I was in a GM dealership to get parts was a couple of years ago, but at that time they were using NCD Xterminals. They could bring up all the parts books on the screen, zoom in and out and actually print you a schematic of how to assemlbe something. It was way cool.
"Desktop applications for end-users need a rich set of services provided by an operating system such as Windows," something Linux doesn't offer. HAH, is that their plan, to say Linux doesn't offer the rich set of services that windoze does. What a joke!
I'm confused by the ac kernel patches. It seems that when a new kernel comes out it is almost immediately followed by a flurry of ac patches. Whats the deal?
What an excellent article. The thing that struck a chord with with me was the suggestion that RedHat should invest in an office suite. This is where Corel is going, but they are also trying to create their own distribution. RedHat should kill two birds with one stone.
I'll agree that SCO classic is awful, but SCO ended up with UnixWare which was originally written by Bell Labs (I think) to be the reference implementation of SVR4 (which is basically what Solaris is). I used it back when Novell owned it and thought that it was a pretty good system. Reguardless of what your religous opinion is of SVR4, a lot of work went into it and it is True Unix. Now what RedHat would do with it I can't say, but have the feeling that it would hurt their focus as a Linux company.
I think the point about COM is interesting. Does StarOffice use CORBA? Is there a standard IDL interface defined for things like word processors, spreadsheets, email programs? I know that Sun has worked on this for years starting with Project DOE (Distributed Objects Everywhere). It would be really nice to see all the Unix application vendors unite to create and support a common interface so that us users can pick and choose the applications we want to use. (of course Emacs will implement them all:))
This begs the question: How much do you care what kind of processor you are running? The answer has to do with whether Linux does an adequate job of hiding platform differences so that porting a piece of software to a different machine is just a matter of a recompile. If it is easy to build an application on any machine, and most applications are distributed in source form, most people will probably not care what kind of machine they run on and PPC machines will be much more popular. On the other hand, if most applications are only available as binaries, and it takes a great deal of effort to port the code and QA it, then alterantive machines don't have much of a chance.
URIs in HTTP can be represented in absolute form or relative to some known base URI, depending upon the context of their use. The two forms are differentiated by the fact that absolute URIs always begin with a scheme name followed by a colon.
URI = ( absoluteURI | relativeURI ) [ "#" fragment ]
I disagree, M$ must be stopped and as soon as possible. Sure if it were just operating systems and applications, the market could potentially correct the situation. The big problem is that M$ is now aggressively expanding their borders. They are in the position where they can and are trying to buy up whole new markets. A perfect example is the cable industry. If you haven't noticed M$ wants to own your set top, in the hope that that will be the main interface to both the Internet and the phone system. Once they have that locked down they will user their combined monopolies to insure that no one is ever in a position to challenge them.
Think about the scary evil corporations of bad sci-fi books. Thats what M$ wants to be, and the have a good shot at it.
Does anyone know if the KDE and Gnome guys have agreed on a common IDL interface? It's great to have two CORBA based desktops, I just hope that we can mix and match the applications.
I think you would fry you nuts on electromagnetic radiation having your machine between your legs like that all day!
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Ok, i think i understand the concept of a union now, lets see:
1. They allows old obsolete workers keep their jobs at the expense of young freshly trained and energetic ones who will do it for less, that makes sense, NOT. Older workers have the value of experience. If that experience is no longer relevant...
2. Companies are in the business of providing workers with jobs at 3 times the price that they worth in a free market situation, not to make a profit for their stockholders, WRONG. Over inflation hurts everyone.
3. In bad times, companies must continue to pay unionized workers full salary and not trim excess labour or dead wood. Lets just let them go out of business instead, then no one has a job there.
Sorry but the facts of life are that companies exist to make money for the people that own them. If the company does not make money it will cease to exist. A good company also does well by the people that work for it and benifits from doing so. Not all companies are good and they suffer for it in may ways. But the fact remains that your value to the company is proportional to your percieved ability to contribute to the bottom line. If your percieved value is not high enough to get what you want. Well it's up to you do something about it. Banding up with your buddies to say, "we're going to shut you down until you pay us more than you think we are worth" is not the right answer.
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This is a stupid idea. Unions are for low level grunts that can not differentuiate themselves by excelling at their jobs. They are based on the concept of seniority, ie. this grunt is preferred over that grunt because he has managed to last longer and the only way they can try to get a head is through mass extortion techniques such as strikes and corporate sabotage. Geeks excel on an individual basis and can get a head through hard work, smarter ideas and constant self improvment. There is no need to form a union to get what you want. If you don't like your situation vote with your feet. Let's keep out of the dark ages.
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I think the URL is in the email that they send you when you register.
After you play with it a while. (actually i think the idea is that you are suppose to upload, build/port and run your own software). Anyway when you are done, fill out the questionare and they will send you a Linux license plate (way cool), a redhat cap (red), and a little toy compaq car (gave to my kid :)).
I sure wish they would build this thing out of an Itsy!
Sure microsoft can give away or even pay universities to use their crap but they can't easily fight the ingrown Unix culture and the fact that Linux allows students to play under the hood. If you want to do research into a new network protocol or O/S scheduling algorithm, you are going to play with something that you can understand and change.
I've never had a kernel panic in 4 years of running Linux on many machines, both intel and sparc. I don't think this is an issue.
Last time I was in a GM dealership to get parts was a couple of years ago, but at that time they were using NCD Xterminals. They could bring up all the parts books on the screen, zoom in and out and actually print you a schematic of how to assemlbe something. It was way cool.
Do you mean xmodmap? Does it have some sort of interactive mode? I've tried xev, and nothing shows up when I press the keys.
Any of the special buttons in the upper right corner.
Does anyone know if the new keyboard support includes the Logitech Internet Keyboard?
"Desktop applications for end-users need a rich set of services provided by an operating system such as Windows," something Linux doesn't offer. HAH, is that their plan, to say Linux doesn't offer the rich set of services that windoze does. What a joke!
I'm confused by the ac kernel patches. It seems that when a new kernel comes out it is almost immediately followed by a flurry of ac patches. Whats the deal?
What an excellent article. The thing that struck a chord with with me was the suggestion that RedHat should invest in an office suite. This is where Corel is going, but they are also trying to create their own distribution. RedHat should kill two birds with one stone.
I'll agree that SCO classic is awful, but SCO ended up with UnixWare which was originally written by Bell Labs (I think) to be the reference implementation of SVR4 (which is basically what Solaris is). I used it back when Novell owned it and thought that it was a pretty good system. Reguardless of what your religous opinion is of SVR4, a lot of work went into it and it is True Unix. Now what RedHat would do with it I can't say, but have the feeling that it would hurt their focus as a Linux company.
Now if we could get the Java Micro edition to run under Linux on these things, we would have platform options at the palm top level!
I think the point about COM is interesting. Does StarOffice use CORBA? Is there a standard IDL interface defined for things like word processors, spreadsheets, email programs? I know that Sun has worked on this for years starting with Project DOE (Distributed Objects Everywhere). It would be really nice to see all the Unix application vendors unite to create and support a common interface so that us users can pick and choose the applications we want to use. (of course Emacs will implement them all :))
This begs the question: How much do you care what kind of processor you are running? The answer has to do with whether Linux does an adequate job of hiding platform differences so that porting a piece of software to a different machine is just a matter of a recompile. If it is easy to build an application on any machine, and most applications are distributed in source form, most people will probably not care what kind of machine they run on and PPC machines will be much more popular. On the other hand, if most applications are only available as binaries, and it takes a great deal of effort to port the code and QA it, then alterantive machines don't have much of a chance.
They are legal. From RFC 2068 (HTTP 1.1)
3.2.1 General Syntax
URIs in HTTP can be represented in absolute form or relative to some
known base URI, depending upon the context of their use. The two
forms are differentiated by the fact that absolute URIs always begin
with a scheme name followed by a colon.
URI = ( absoluteURI | relativeURI ) [ "#" fragment ]
absoluteURI = scheme ":" *( uchar | reserved )
relativeURI = net_path | abs_path | rel_path
net_path = "//" net_loc [ abs_path ]
abs_path = "/" rel_path
rel_path = [ path ] [ ";" params ] [ "?" query ]
path = fsegment *( "/" segment )
fsegment = 1*pchar
segment = *pchar
params = param *( ";" param )
param = *( pchar | "/" )
scheme = 1*( ALPHA | DIGIT | "+" | "-" | "." )
net_loc = *( pchar | ";" | "?" )
query = *( uchar | reserved )
fragment = *( uchar | reserved )
pchar = uchar | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+"
uchar = unreserved | escape
unreserved = ALPHA | DIGIT | safe | extra | national
escape = "%" HEX HEX
reserved = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+"
extra = "!" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")" | ","
safe = "$" | "-" | "_" | "."
unsafe = CTL | SP | | "#" | "%" | "<" | ">"
national = <any OCTET excluding ALPHA, DIGIT,
reserved, extra, safe, and unsafe>
I'd say they fall under national
I disagree, M$ must be stopped and as soon as possible. Sure if it were just operating systems and applications, the market could potentially correct the situation. The big problem is that M$ is now aggressively expanding their borders. They are in the position where they can and are trying to buy up whole new markets. A perfect example is the cable industry. If you haven't noticed M$ wants to own your set top, in the hope that that will be the main interface to both the Internet and the phone system. Once they have that locked down they will user their combined monopolies to insure that no one is ever in a position to challenge them.
Think about the scary evil corporations of bad sci-fi books. Thats what M$ wants to be, and the have a good shot at it.
From reading the product info. It looks like this
is mail server software, so it is more like exchange and sendmail than outlook. I think.
Does anyone know if the KDE and Gnome guys have agreed on a common IDL interface? It's great to have two CORBA based desktops, I just hope that we can mix and match the applications.
True, we'd be real happy if the shuttle was running Linux. On the other hand if it was running nt, i'd be running out to buy a hard hat :)
I bought a Mac Plus for $5 to use as a clock in my office. I liked it so much I now have 3 including an SE/30 that i'm going to run netbsd on.
I think you would fry you nuts on electromagnetic radiation having your machine between your legs like that all day!
Ok, i think i understand the concept of a union now, lets see:
1. They allows old obsolete workers keep their jobs at the expense of young freshly trained and energetic ones who will do it for less, that makes sense, NOT. Older workers have the value of experience. If that experience is no longer relevant...
2. Companies are in the business of providing workers with jobs at 3 times the price that they worth in a free market situation, not to make a profit for their stockholders, WRONG. Over inflation hurts everyone.
3. In bad times, companies must continue to pay unionized workers full salary and not trim excess labour or dead wood. Lets just let them go out of business instead, then no one has a job there.
Sorry but the facts of life are that companies exist to make money for the people that own them. If the company does not make money it will cease to exist. A good company also does well by the people that work for it and benifits from doing so. Not all companies are good and they suffer for it in may ways. But the fact remains that your value to the company is proportional to your percieved ability to contribute to the bottom line. If your percieved value is not high enough to get what you want. Well it's up to you do something about it. Banding up with your buddies to say, "we're going to shut you down until you pay us more than you think we are worth" is not the right answer.
This is a stupid idea. Unions are for low level grunts that can not differentuiate themselves by excelling at their jobs. They are based on the concept of seniority, ie. this grunt is preferred over that grunt because he has managed to last longer and the only way they can try to get a head is through mass extortion techniques such as strikes and corporate sabotage. Geeks excel on an individual basis and can get a head through hard work, smarter ideas and constant self improvment. There is no need to form a union to get what you want. If you don't like your situation vote with your feet. Let's keep out of the dark ages.