It's not ok to just put a spam header on the message. Why should I have to dedicate bandwidth, disk space and processing power to messages that I absolutely do not want. Spammers are lowlife and abuser's of the the Net's share the wealth attitude towards passing packets and messages. They should be shot, pissed on and punished.
It's the only answer. Form them into at lease 3 grous, O/S, desktop apps, content and make them 3 completely separate companies with clear rules and guidelines as to how they can interact.
It's good for the industry as other technology will have a chance to flurish, it's not really bad for M$ (it never hurt standard oil) or their share holders as they start with a huge lead over all their competators.
This is the only solution that will solve the problem, which is that M$ can and does use it's two monopolies to support each other and drive competition out of the market place.
This is very interesting, Home Depot sounds like it could be a pretty large reference account for IBM. I wonder if we have them to thank for the IBM Linux JDK that was released last week.
The firecracker (CM17A) is not the same thing as the CM11A! It uses a protocol that depends on toggling the wires such as DTR. The CM11A uses a serial protocol where you send and recieve bytes from it. Most of the software for Linux such as heyu, x10d,... do not currently work with the CM17A. There are early versions of programs that do work (eg. bottle rocket) but they are still very new.
This has been available for a while now. The "freebee" kit is a good bargain but watch out, you only get one lamp module and will want to buy more. The good news is that X10 is really reasonably priced and they always throw in free stuff. Be warned though that the firecracker controller is nothing more than a simple remote for X10 devices, it does not include most of the features of the more complex controllers, including builtin macros, being able to query devices, etc.
There is a couple of packages for linux that control the firecracker. You can find links at freshmeat. I've tried this one and it works ok.
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~tymm/
Put the technology on a card please
on
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This looks really cool, but i'd rather build my own system. If they sold the technology on a PCI card with Linux support software and an API, i would buy one in a second.
Ok, i'll give you a factor of 10, the rest of the machines had local drives for compilers and object files. I think that this is also offset by the fact that the Sun is a heavily used multi-user machine and the others were entirely stand-alone dedictated to the build.
I work for a software company and did time as build captain for a while on our product. I was amazed at the difference in speed between various systems. The product is a fair size with a mix of C and Java and here are the relative speeds of a build on the various machines. (this was over a year ago and from memory:)
- nt on a 200 mh intel 128MB standalone - 140 minutes - nt on a 300 mh alpha 256MB standalone - 130 minutes - Unix on some sort of AIX ~40 minutes - Sun Ultra with 2 160 mh CPUs 500 MB - 50 some odd users developers pounding on it, over 400 processes - 6 minutes
One major point in the Sun machine's favour was that the code was on local file systems, the rest of the machines had to go through a 100 mb ethernet to get it.
It was unbelieveable the difference in speed. Next look at the absolute pain it is trying to set up automated builds on an nt machine, not to mention the fact that both the nt machines would be dead half the time when you try to launch the builds. Microsoft has nothing to brag about.
Think about it, if Yahoo, a company that really has no product at all, can hit the $200 mark, why not RedHat. Heres why:
1) They've already had pretty good success selling a product they also give away. 2) They are synonymous with Linux and Linux is the current darling of the trade press. 3) People are looking for another Yahoo, Amazon or Ebay and will jump on it. 4) The Linux community will buy it because it gives us a real chance to own a piece of the pie and put our money behind something we believe in. 5) The stock will get/.ed on the IPO and quadruple in price:)
My machine has been pumping in results all week but my totals haven't been going up. Also if you add up the number of results sent in for every one in a group it doesn't seem to match the result for that group.
I used to hate IBM with a passion back in the days when I had to deal mainframes. Now i've refocused all my bad vibes on M$:) and kind of think of IBM as pretty cool. Look at the good things coming out of alphaworks, such a jikes. Now if they would just scrap AIX in favour of Linux, they would be great.
Who knows maybe in the future someone even more evil than microsoft will come along and I'll feel the same way about them.
Linux, an open source operating system that is increasingly gaining ground as an alternative to Microsoft's I like this quote "Linux, an open source operating system that is increasingly gaining ground as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows, is used by several million people--largely technically sophisticated computer users--in the United States. Although the small base of Linux home users will limit the impact of BellSouth's policy, critics still note that the most sophisticated users are more likely to require a high-speed Net access option like DSL." I like it that the press is starting to depict Linux users as people that know better rather than just geeks.
Here is a possible translation of the German text:
Today Microsoft President Steven Ballmer admitted something the most Windows users already know. "All of our products are shite, we know that but quite frankly we don't care. We have a monopoly and our customers are stupid, they are trapped on our platform and have to use what we give them. It doesn't matter that products like Apache are better than ours. If some one creates a better product we just bundle our inferior one with the next upgrade that they are forced to install. We know most people are lazy and will not bother to download and install a better product if one comes with the system."
Please note, I don't speak or read German, but I can read between the lines and that's what I saw there:)
Did anyone else notice that the vicroy bore a striking resemblence to the Prime Minster of Canada? Both in accent and appearance. (except for the droopy mouth:))
I mean that neither side should be allowed to sit in a back room somewhere for a week or two coming up with a specially tweaked version of the OS/Webserver/... to address the test. The comparisons should represent what customers can get their hands on. This means to me nt with the latest service pack xxx and the latest shipping IIS vs the lastest released linux kernel, apache, samba,... I want Linux to win but i'm also really curious to see it what happens.
I suppose you could look at it like this, was/is commerciallizm good for the Internet. In some ways yes, the net is now a big part of most peoples lives, I now have a super fast connection at home for a relatively cheap price,... Or on the other hand look how many idiots are on the net, look how M$ is trying to screw it up.... The same will happen to linux, many more poeple will have access to it and use it, there will be better applications. On the other hand things that we don't like will also happen. You have to take the good with the bad I guess.
Wired had an interesting piece on cold fusion a few months ago. After reading it i had the feeling that CF really does exist. Unfortunately it is very dependent on some unkown qualities of an expensive metal that is needed for the process and is also very unreliable. It also does not seem to be able to produce enough energy output to be overly useful (at least at this time). Due to the bad PR of the "scandal" CF is also a very unfashionable thing to be doing research in.
My 5 year old is learning phonics in kindegarden the progam is called finger phonics. He can now read most Dr. Suess books. It's a good thing. I think that school are starting to clue in an go back to stuff that works
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It's not ok to just put a spam header on the message. Why should I have to dedicate bandwidth, disk space and processing power to messages that I absolutely do not want. Spammers are lowlife and abuser's of the the Net's share the wealth attitude towards passing packets and messages. They should be shot, pissed on and punished.
It's the only answer. Form them into at lease 3 grous, O/S, desktop apps, content and make them 3 completely separate companies with clear rules and guidelines as to how they can interact.
It's good for the industry as other technology will have a chance to flurish, it's not really bad for M$ (it never hurt standard oil) or their share holders as they start with a huge lead over all their competators.
This is the only solution that will solve the problem, which is that M$ can and does use it's two monopolies to support each other and drive competition out of the market place.
This is very interesting, Home Depot sounds like it could be a pretty large reference account for IBM. I wonder if we have them to thank for the IBM Linux JDK that was released last week.
The firecracker (CM17A) is not the same thing as the CM11A! It uses a protocol that depends on toggling the wires such as DTR. The CM11A uses a serial protocol where you send and recieve bytes from it. Most of the software for Linux such as heyu, x10d, ... do not currently work with the CM17A. There are early versions of programs that do work (eg. bottle rocket) but they are still very new.
This has been available for a while now. The "freebee" kit is a good bargain but watch out, you only get one lamp module and will want to buy more. The good news is that X10 is really reasonably priced and they always throw in free stuff. Be warned though that the firecracker controller is nothing more than a simple remote for X10 devices, it does not include most of the features of the more complex controllers, including builtin macros, being able to query devices, etc.
There is a couple of packages for linux that control the firecracker. You can find links at freshmeat. I've tried this one and it works ok.
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~tymm/
This looks really cool, but i'd rather build my own system. If they sold the technology on a PCI card with Linux support software and an API, i would buy one in a second.
Ok, i'll give you a factor of 10, the rest of the machines had local drives for compilers and object files. I think that this is also offset by the fact that the Sun is a heavily used multi-user machine and the others were entirely stand-alone dedictated to the build.
I work for a software company and did time as build captain for a while on our product. I was amazed at the difference in speed between various systems. The product is a fair size with a mix of C and Java and here are the relative speeds of a build on the various machines. (this was over a year ago and from memory :)
- nt on a 200 mh intel 128MB standalone - 140 minutes
- nt on a 300 mh alpha 256MB standalone - 130 minutes
- Unix on some sort of AIX ~40 minutes
- Sun Ultra with 2 160 mh CPUs 500 MB - 50 some odd users developers pounding on it, over 400 processes - 6 minutes
One major point in the Sun machine's favour was that the code was on local file systems, the rest of the machines had to go through a 100 mb ethernet to get it.
It was unbelieveable the difference in speed. Next look at the absolute pain it is trying to set up automated builds on an nt machine, not to mention the fact that both the nt machines would be dead half the time when you try to launch the builds. Microsoft has nothing to brag about.
Think about it, if Yahoo, a company that really has no product at all, can hit the $200 mark, why not RedHat. Heres why:
/.ed on the IPO and quadruple in price :)
1) They've already had pretty good success selling a product they also give away.
2) They are synonymous with Linux and Linux is the current darling of the trade press.
3) People are looking for another Yahoo, Amazon or Ebay and will jump on it.
4) The Linux community will buy it because it gives us a real chance to own a piece of the pie and put our money behind something we believe in.
5) The stock will get
Since I upgraded my client to 1.2, none of my results have registered!
My machine has been pumping in results all week but my totals haven't been going up. Also if you add up the number of results sent in for every one in a group it doesn't seem to match the result for that group.
I used to hate IBM with a passion back in the days when I had to deal mainframes. Now i've refocused all my bad vibes on M$ :) and kind of think of IBM as pretty cool. Look at the good things coming out of alphaworks, such a jikes. Now if they would just scrap AIX in favour of Linux, they would be great.
Who knows maybe in the future someone even more evil than microsoft will come along and I'll feel the same way about them.
Linux, an open source operating system that is increasingly gaining ground as an alternative to Microsoft's
I like this quote "Linux, an open source operating system that is increasingly gaining ground as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows, is used by several million people--largely technically sophisticated computer users--in the United States. Although the small base of Linux home users will limit the impact of BellSouth's policy, critics still note that the most sophisticated users are more likely to require a high-speed Net access option like DSL."
I like it that the press is starting to depict Linux users as people that know better rather than just geeks.
Here is a possible translation of the German text:
:)
Today Microsoft President Steven Ballmer admitted something the most Windows users already know.
"All of our products are shite, we know that but quite frankly we don't care. We have a monopoly and our customers are stupid, they are trapped on our platform and have to use what we give them. It doesn't matter that products like Apache are better than ours. If some one creates a better product we just bundle our inferior one with the next upgrade that they are forced to install. We know most people are lazy and will not bother to download and install a better product if one comes with the system."
Please note, I don't speak or read German, but I can read between the lines and that's what I saw there
The british put a skirt on the avrocar and got a
cool thing that actually worked called a hovercraft.
Did anyone else notice that the vicroy bore a striking resemblence to the Prime Minster of Canada? Both in accent and appearance. (except :))
for the droopy mouth
I mean that neither side should be allowed to sit in a back room somewhere for a week or two coming up with a specially tweaked version of the OS/Webserver/... to address the test. The comparisons should represent what customers can get their hands on. This means to me nt with the latest service pack xxx and the latest shipping IIS vs the lastest released linux kernel, apache, samba, ... I want Linux to win but i'm also really curious to see it what happens.
There should be a rule that both side use only
shipping code.
Now can we get them to get the Internet Keyboard working under XFree86?
I suppose you could look at it like this, was/is commerciallizm good for the Internet. In some ways yes, the net is now a big part of most peoples lives, I now have a super fast connection at home for a relatively cheap price, ... Or on the other hand look how many idiots are on the net, look how M$ is trying to screw it up....
The same will happen to linux, many more poeple will have access to it and use it, there will be better applications. On the other hand things that we don't like will also happen. You have to take the good with the bad I guess.
The FAQ says that it will work on a firewall that passes http. It says nothing about proxies.
Wired had an interesting piece on cold fusion a few months ago. After reading it i had the feeling that CF really does exist. Unfortunately it is very dependent on some unkown qualities of an expensive metal that is needed for the process and is also very unreliable. It also does not seem to be able to produce enough energy output to be overly useful (at least at this time). Due to the bad PR of the "scandal" CF is also a very unfashionable thing to be doing research in.
Most likely it was something to the effect of, "Oh, I see you are using Linux. How nice, I guess you won't be wanting to renew your '98 license then".
Now if they could just post a version of 4.51 for
glibc
My 5 year old is learning phonics in kindegarden
the progam is called finger phonics. He can now
read most Dr. Suess books. It's a good thing.
I think that school are starting to clue in
an go back to stuff that works