What Y2K *really* did for us:
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1) Made us aware of how dependent we are on technology. This is a very important point. Techno-terrorism can quickly bring about some of the gloom-and-doom from the Y2K prophets.
2) Gave IT a blank check (and time) to update systems. Hey, stuff gets old. Robert Cringley's "Y2K: The Winter of our Disconent" told the tale of a report that winds on a Wall Street desk every day, but the recipient does not know why he's getting it. Stuff like this lets MIS look at systems, upgrade as necessary for perfromance reasons, and update software. MIS typically doesn't get the funding they need to do the job. A nice scare of "hey, if the systems crash, we better have a better backup solution now" can quickly get that new tape drive approved.
3) Made the public aware of how important programmers and administrators really are. Many organizations consider at least administrators necessary evils. Now they're more necessary and less evil.
The 750 from Intel is available, according to yahoo. The 800 is in limited quanitites. It kinda gets me frosted that a company would announce a product like this, but isn't really shipping it. At least not that anyone can find.
I'd think there are better people deserving of this honor.
Here's my suggestions:
Joel Klein, DOJ: Shredded MS witnesses into little babbling vegetables. Pretty much won the DOJ case against MS, which is really one of the biggest deals in the past 3 years.
Linus: C'mon. RHAT, LNUX, all the anit-MS out there? Sure, I'm being a bit biased, but you've seen more news generated about Linux than Amazon this year.
Alan Greenspan: The real man behind the incredible economy for the year (BTW, he was A&E's Biography of the year)
Someone else nominated the head of NASA, and I must agree. Their "cheaper, better, faster" may take a few years to really pay off, and they may take a few PR hits along the way, but it's better than doing nothing.
It contained bit characters who always had wearables on, usually gathering intel for your favorite three letter agency. They were called gargoyles.
Re:What time did Andover start trading?
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IPOs usually take place around noontime EST +/- hour. Usually +. I think ANDN started about 1:15, RHAT stared about 12:30.
Re:Can't move funds into Etrade quick enough.
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Wires officially take 24-48 hours to clear. I think the only thing faster is to use an EFT (i.e. ATM card) and that can be done by E-trade if your bank isn't open. Only problem is you need to send E-trade a blank voided check so they have the codes for your bank and account, so that takes a bit of setup time.
I'll add this to the known list of accomplishments:
1) 1-2-3 Jello (remember that?) 2) Get Teflon to stick to pans 3) Artificial blood 4) Clarkson Packet Drivers (now Crynwr?) 5) Galahad! 6) The great sinking science center
Any other CU people out there that can add to this?
I went back to my hometown of Schenectady, NY for Thanksgiving, and I read the local paper. The sunday edition (not online, sorry) has a commentary by a former superintendent of my high school talking about the 10 commandments and separation of church and state.
While he's abolutely against putting up the 10 commandments for a bunch of reasons, he's not against putting up rules of morality in school, which he admits are inspired by the 10 commandments, but are not religious in nature. Here's a few:
1) Be at school on time every day 2) Honor your mother and father 3) Don't curse or lie 4) Do your homework, by yourself, every day.
...and there were 6 others.
Now I can see the cynics out there saying "ya, but what will that do?". To be honest, I'm not sure. But there seems to be a big business in a store called "successories" which sells those posters you see plastered all over the office with the quirky sayings (you'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take). If business buys into that idea and it works, why not try it in schools?
It doesn't necessarily mean hes a college student.
But I find the statement irrelevant. Working in the PC field now for 10 years (admittedly 4 in college), I find the author is pretty much correct.
There's plenty of anecdotal and direct evidence that NT is, in reality, hard to use and fully understand. Documentation is sparse and scattered (there's no NDP out there to help), MSFT doesn't like admitting to bugs, and bug fixes more often than not introduce new bugs. While BSOD is ready to be put into Webster's, when one says "kernel panic" the first thought to everyone's mind is "he burnt the popcorn again".
UNIX (Linux) was hard to learn. There was little documentation. There were few users. It was only used by engineers. The tide has turned. There is documentation, and lots of it. Millions of people are using UNIX at home and at work as part of their normal day, and by people who have a wide range of computer skills. All we need is to find those undocumented Win32 APIs and we'll have a system that anyone can install and use. And have enough resources to do it right.
See the other notes here regarding the Linux implementation of memory management. I'm here to talk about Apache.
It's somewhat true. I don't know about caching static pages in RAM (wouldn't suprise me though), but there are programs like mod_perl that load up Perl CGI scripts in memory and leave them there. The Perl is already compiled and in memory, so the next time that CGI is hit, it just runs straight from memory.
It's dynamically allocated. Nothing used by programs is used for the disk cache, and you may see some swapping of programs that are probably started, but never used (innd anyone, or httpd on a home system that isn't on the net?).
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Well, for how well a company does by not breaking up, take a look at IBM in the late 80s/early 90s. They took a beating, dropping almost 1/2 their value in two years.
Granted, it's come back, but AT&T was at about 10 in 1985, and is now at about 45ish (4.5x gain). IBM was trading about 40 in 1985, and is now trading at 95 (~2x gain). I don't know about you, but I would have rather had $100 in shares of AT&T than $100 in shares from IBM. The above was all pulled from yahoo, and adjusted for splits.
AOL is not a monopoly, as it has not gone on a buying spree to gobble up smaller ISPs. Nor has it gone into agreements with the local telcos to make it harder for ISPs (local or national) to operate or get started. AOL has been seen fluxuating their policies and costs based on competition from local ISPs.
Were AOL a monopoly, all of the above would not be the case.
in regards to Social Security, it is a monopoly. So is the postal service, and so (until 1996) was your cable company, and possibly your electric service. They're all (for lack of a better word) "govt approved" monopolies. However, in the case of at least cable companies, there was only a multi-year agreement between the local town and the cable company. There was nothing preventing a competitive cable company to come in and pick up the next contract by offering better service/prices.
The govt is absolutely not seizing assets of private citizens. In fact, the assets will be worth more if MS is broken up (see Standard Oil and AT&T as two examples).
The idea is not that MS' competitors had good or bad software. The idea is that MS consitently used its monopoly power to prevent startups from creating their own competitive software. If the whole "giving Windows95 to IBM 15 minutes before its launch" doesn't prove this point, nothing will. The startup in this case was Lotus, recently purchased by IBM.
Jackson's Findings of Fact prove that the events described by IBM and Compaq are true and could only be accomplished by a company that wielded monopoly power (i.e. MS).
Second, the DoJ could get some setbacks in appeals, since some courts between Judge Jackson and the Supreme Court are sympathetic to MS.
Third, there won't be anywhere else for MS to go except make a deal now with the DoJ, or take their chances with the Supreme Court, which could be worse than a deal with the DoJ.
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1) Made us aware of how dependent we are on technology. This is a very important point. Techno-terrorism can quickly bring about some of the gloom-and-doom from the Y2K prophets.
2) Gave IT a blank check (and time) to update systems. Hey, stuff gets old. Robert Cringley's "Y2K: The Winter of our Disconent" told the tale of a report that winds on a Wall Street desk every day, but the recipient does not know why he's getting it. Stuff like this lets MIS look at systems, upgrade as necessary for perfromance reasons, and update software. MIS typically doesn't get the funding they need to do the job. A nice scare of "hey, if the systems crash, we better have a better backup solution now" can quickly get that new tape drive approved.
3) Made the public aware of how important programmers and administrators really are. Many organizations consider at least administrators necessary evils. Now they're more necessary and less evil.
The 750 from Intel is available, according to yahoo. The 800 is in limited quanitites. It kinda gets me frosted that a company would announce a product like this, but isn't really shipping it. At least not that anyone can find.
Sounds like MS all over again.
I know about Dr. No. And I thought the second one was "Never say Never Again", which isn't really a Bond movie. Not by any purist standards, anyway...
Is that right? Or have I missed one?
I'd think there are better people deserving of this honor.
Here's my suggestions:
Joel Klein, DOJ: Shredded MS witnesses into little babbling vegetables. Pretty much won the DOJ case against MS, which is really one of the biggest deals in the past 3 years.
Linus: C'mon. RHAT, LNUX, all the anit-MS out there? Sure, I'm being a bit biased, but you've seen more news generated about Linux than Amazon this year.
Alan Greenspan: The real man behind the incredible economy for the year (BTW, he was A&E's Biography of the year)
Someone else nominated the head of NASA, and I must agree. Their "cheaper, better, faster" may take a few years to really pay off, and they may take a few PR hits along the way, but it's better than doing nothing.
Go read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
It contained bit characters who always had wearables on, usually gathering intel for your favorite three letter agency. They were called gargoyles.
IPOs usually take place around noontime EST +/- hour. Usually +. I think ANDN started about 1:15, RHAT stared about 12:30.
Wires officially take 24-48 hours to clear. I think the only thing faster is to use an EFT (i.e. ATM card) and that can be done by E-trade if your bank isn't open. Only problem is you need to send E-trade a blank voided check so they have the codes for your bank and account, so that takes a bit of setup time.
Pfft. Why bother with the VC? Just go public. :)
I'll add this to the known list of accomplishments:
1) 1-2-3 Jello (remember that?)
2) Get Teflon to stick to pans
3) Artificial blood
4) Clarkson Packet Drivers (now Crynwr?)
5) Galahad!
6) The great sinking science center
Any other CU people out there that can add to this?
I went back to my hometown of Schenectady, NY for Thanksgiving, and I read the local paper. The sunday edition (not online, sorry) has a commentary by a former superintendent of my high school talking about the 10 commandments and separation of church and state.
While he's abolutely against putting up the 10 commandments for a bunch of reasons, he's not against putting up rules of morality in school, which he admits are inspired by the 10 commandments, but are not religious in nature. Here's a few:
1) Be at school on time every day
2) Honor your mother and father
3) Don't curse or lie
4) Do your homework, by yourself, every day.
...and there were 6 others.
Now I can see the cynics out there saying "ya, but what will that do?". To be honest, I'm not sure. But there seems to be a big business in a store called "successories" which sells those posters you see plastered all over the office with the quirky sayings (you'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take). If business buys into that idea and it works, why not try it in schools?
It doesn't necessarily mean hes a college student.
But I find the statement irrelevant. Working in the PC field now for 10 years (admittedly 4 in college), I find the author is pretty much correct.
There's plenty of anecdotal and direct evidence that NT is, in reality, hard to use and fully understand. Documentation is sparse and scattered (there's no NDP out there to help), MSFT doesn't like admitting to bugs, and bug fixes more often than not introduce new bugs. While BSOD is ready to be put into Webster's, when one says "kernel panic" the first thought to everyone's mind is "he burnt the popcorn again".
UNIX (Linux) was hard to learn. There was little documentation. There were few users. It was only used by engineers. The tide has turned. There is documentation, and lots of it. Millions of people are using UNIX at home and at work as part of their normal day, and by people who have a wide range of computer skills. All we need is to find those undocumented Win32 APIs and we'll have a system that anyone can install and use. And have enough resources to do it right.
I'd have to agree. Fiction (at the time) that has a scientific twist to it.
Asimov was great at stretching these limits (see Asimov's mysteries for a nice collection of sci-fi mystery stories).
Though where would one fit Turtledove's Guns of the South, or Stephenson's Zodiac? Hrm.
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15 hours or 7.5 hrs record with AA, 12 hr playback with NiMH rechargable.
How would this finding affect getting a refund from system vendors or MSFT for purchasing a PC with Windows pre-installed?
See the other notes here regarding the Linux implementation of memory management. I'm here to talk about Apache.
It's somewhat true. I don't know about caching static pages in RAM (wouldn't suprise me though), but there are programs like mod_perl that load up Perl CGI scripts in memory and leave them there. The Perl is already compiled and in memory, so the next time that CGI is hit, it just runs straight from memory.
It's dynamically allocated. Nothing used by programs is used for the disk cache, and you may see some swapping of programs that are probably started, but never used (innd anyone, or httpd on a home system that isn't on the net?).
Well, for how well a company does by not breaking up, take a look at IBM in the late 80s/early 90s. They took a beating, dropping almost 1/2 their value in two years.
Granted, it's come back, but AT&T was at about 10 in 1985, and is now at about 45ish (4.5x gain). IBM was trading about 40 in 1985, and is now trading at 95 (~2x gain). I don't know about you, but I would have rather had $100 in shares of AT&T than $100 in shares from IBM. The above was all pulled from yahoo, and adjusted for splits.
AOL is not a monopoly, as it has not gone on a buying spree to gobble up smaller ISPs. Nor has it gone into agreements with the local telcos to make it harder for ISPs (local or national) to operate or get started. AOL has been seen fluxuating their policies and costs based on competition from local ISPs.
Were AOL a monopoly, all of the above would not be the case.
in regards to Social Security, it is a monopoly. So is the postal service, and so (until 1996) was your cable company, and possibly your electric service. They're all (for lack of a better word) "govt approved" monopolies. However, in the case of at least cable companies, there was only a multi-year agreement between the local town and the cable company. There was nothing preventing a competitive cable company to come in and pick up the next contract by offering better service/prices.
The govt is absolutely not seizing assets of private citizens. In fact, the assets will be worth more if MS is broken up (see Standard Oil and AT&T as two examples).
The idea is not that MS' competitors had good or bad software. The idea is that MS consitently used its monopoly power to prevent startups from creating their own competitive software. If the whole "giving Windows95 to IBM 15 minutes before its launch" doesn't prove this point, nothing will. The startup in this case was Lotus, recently purchased by IBM.
Jackson's Findings of Fact prove that the events described by IBM and Compaq are true and could only be accomplished by a company that wielded monopoly power (i.e. MS).
Well, for one thing, it won't stall in appeals.
Second, the DoJ could get some setbacks in appeals, since some courts between Judge Jackson and the Supreme Court are sympathetic to MS.
Third, there won't be anywhere else for MS to go except make a deal now with the DoJ, or take their chances with the Supreme Court, which could be worse than a deal with the DoJ.
This got me thinking about just blocking anything from doubleclick. Here's my ipchains-save:
-A output -s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -d 208.211.225.89/255.255.255.255 -j REJECT
-A output -s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -d 199.95.207.0/255.255.255.0 -j REJECT
-A output -s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -d 199.95.208.0/255.255.255.0 -j REJECT
-A output -s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -d 204.253.104.80/255.255.255.255 -j REJECT
Use 'em, abuse 'em, let me know if there's more IPs.
ipchains-restore (file with above text)
What's the MTRR?
Oh course! Take a look at the other companies that were broken up as a result of anti-trust cases. The best (and most recent) is AT&T.
If MSFT gets broken up, the smaller babysofts will still be making money, and 1 share of MSFT gets translated into each of the BSFTs.
In terms of market cap (# stocks X stock price) MSFT is the largest, at about 450B (that's Billion) dollars US.
GM has a market cap of 45B, and GE (former market cap leader) is 440B.