Linus sounds awfully tired
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It seems to me that the more interviews I see from Linus, the more tired he sounds, or is exasperated a better word, anyone else noticing this? I think everyone in the UNIX community would like to see real answers to the questions in regards to.NET, and "competing" softwares. He even dodged the "Where do you see Linux in 5 to 10 years" question. Maybe he took some advise from Steve Jobs and decided not to be a preacher.:)
Do a search on dejanews for their name and email address. If there are any matches, the kind of questions they are asking or answering should tell you something.:)
You know, I'm not surprised that it was good in older versions.. Seems to me that the 3.63+ problems were mostly related to all the fancy Java features and what-not. If it was Sun who did the tech-support, then they are certainly to blame for one of the worst tech-support experiences in my career. Things like "Oh, you didn't install the complete server package (core only), oh well we don't support that configuration" types of responses. I guess I had some pretty high hopes for iPlanet, with my previous experiences with IIS in hand. And the sad truth about Apache is that my hopes to use it in a commercial environment falls on deaf ears.. Open-source they say, well that can't possibly be secure... sigh.. nothing like the finance sector.:)
They could take some pointers from Cisco, about what "tech support" is. Anyone here ever deal with Netscape/AOL over the phone? And I don't mean for client support, we're talking iPlanet and commercial product support.
no doubt, they are a good engine, but aren't we just repackaging existing services? Or more succinctly, making slight improvements on existing technologies?
Is Google's technology really so ground breaking? Didn't Yahoo take it in a bigger leap? I get this feeling when I read This article back in April, is Google's business strategy or practises really all the newsworthy? You decide.:)
Probably not very far, but like everyone else on slashdot, it's nice to let myself believe that there would be an interesting lawsuit that could bring the behemoth of MS to its knees (at least for a few moments). But in the end, the suit will probably disappear into obscurity. Or wait? Can Xerox come back and sue for the infringement of their first GUI OS?
I agree with everything you are saying, and thanks for the detailed info. Very interesting. I've attached a link to a quote from the actual article. Which I am sure you can dig up a the Globe and mail Toronto's newspaper that the link was quoted from. If you're interested, and you find the link. Let me know, I'm curious also.
Delrin Kenro
I found some more info here. Apparently it was 620,000$ CDN that he won. They been the odds of "1 in 6 billion" 3 times in a row. Here are some excerpts
- Corriveau used an "antique 286" computer to analyse 7,000 combinations from the keno game, [which uses an electronic pseudo-random number generator].
- The Casino managers shut the game down and called the police.
- The Surete du Quebec [provincial police] fraud squad investigated; Corriveau and his family even took polygraph tests.
Might want to look on yahoo or somewhere to find the details of the actual judgement. Though I am pretty sure he was let off completely.
Yeah tell me about it. There must have been a sympathetic judge, who liked the idea of the underdog teaching the big boys a small lesson. From what I remember, he took home more than $60,000 CDN. That's like $3 US.;-)
RE:Bingo
Actually, I agree with you. Bingo is fun, cheap, and you won't lose your house and children... we'll probably not, as long as those old dye stamping grannies aren't high-rollers.:)
Actually, I was making a "witty" commentary on something that happened here in montreal. A hyper-addicted gambler watched and recorded all the kino games for a period of time. And found a flaw in the so-called "random" number generation (computerised), he successfully was able to predict the outcome on a large number of occasions, and the Casino tried to sue him for the money back.. unsuccessfully. They then started using real balls to get the numbers.:)
Oh, so this is how those pretend to be geniuses/idiot savants do it. Next think you know, they'll be figuring out a way to crazy casino games like Kino.....waitaminute.
We'll be drinking out of our Gandalf slushy-cups and be playing Frodo 3d for OSX. Actually, I already bought the Bilbo Baggins front cover for my Nokia phone, and it plays the theme song for LOTR. Oh, and look at Liv Tyler in the 2002 Middle Earth pinup calendar. "Power can be found in the smallest of things"...
Maybe not television ads, but there were like, Star-Wars coke cans, toothbrushes, just about anything you could imagine. For what seemed like ages before the movie was released.
I hope they don't over play the whole thing like they did for Star Wars. I liked the movie of course, but they literally spammed the hell out of us with ads. I'd prefer to be pleasantly surprised with the film actually does come out.
On another note, the link to the streaming trailer is 404 and the download mirrors are toast.
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It seems to me that the more interviews I see from Linus, the more tired he sounds, or is exasperated a better word, anyone else noticing this? I think everyone in the UNIX community would like to see real answers to the questions in regards to .NET, and "competing" softwares. He even dodged the "Where do you see Linux in 5 to 10 years" question. Maybe he took some advise from Steve Jobs and decided not to be a preacher. :)
The only command that will work though is winipcfg or ipconfig for those NT ppl. ;-)
Do a search on dejanews for their name and email address. If there are any matches, the kind of questions they are asking or answering should tell you something. :)
What do you do now?? What do you do now?!?
/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed
I can just see Gates smug little smile, doing a little tennis-clap.. applauding the ruling.. "I have the doomsday device!"
they're so cute... :)
But how am I going to know how many bogomips my processor is? ;-)
You know, I'm not surprised that it was good in older versions.. Seems to me that the 3.63+ problems were mostly related to all the fancy Java features and what-not. If it was Sun who did the tech-support, then they are certainly to blame for one of the worst tech-support experiences in my career. Things like "Oh, you didn't install the complete server package (core only), oh well we don't support that configuration" types of responses. I guess I had some pretty high hopes for iPlanet, with my previous experiences with IIS in hand. And the sad truth about Apache is that my hopes to use it in a commercial environment falls on deaf ears.. Open-source they say, well that can't possibly be secure... sigh.. nothing like the finance sector. :)
They could take some pointers from Cisco, about what "tech support" is. Anyone here ever deal with Netscape/AOL over the phone? And I don't mean for client support, we're talking iPlanet and commercial product support.
no doubt, they are a good engine, but aren't we just repackaging existing services? Or more succinctly, making slight improvements on existing technologies?
Is Google's technology really so ground breaking? Didn't Yahoo take it in a bigger leap? I get this feeling when I read This article back in April, is Google's business strategy or practises really all the newsworthy? You decide. :)
Has anyone looked on Netcraft to see who's even running Tux? Maybe the lack of people using it can explain the lack of security problems? ;-)
that's easy /
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chmod -R 000
Delrin
Probably not very far, but like everyone else on slashdot, it's nice to let myself believe that there would be an interesting lawsuit that could bring the behemoth of MS to its knees (at least for a few moments). But in the end, the suit will probably disappear into obscurity. Or wait? Can Xerox come back and sue for the infringement of their first GUI OS?
I agree with everything you are saying, and thanks for the detailed info. Very interesting. I've attached a link to a quote from the actual article. Which I am sure you can dig up a the Globe and mail Toronto's newspaper that the link was quoted from. If you're interested, and you find the link. Let me know, I'm curious also.
Delrin Kenro
I found some more info here. Apparently it was 620,000$ CDN that he won. They been the odds of "1 in 6 billion" 3 times in a row. Here are some excerpts
- Corriveau used an "antique 286" computer to analyse 7,000 combinations from the keno game, [which uses an electronic pseudo-random number generator].
- The Casino managers shut the game down and called the police.
- The Surete du Quebec [provincial police] fraud squad investigated; Corriveau and his family even took polygraph tests.
Might want to look on yahoo or somewhere to find the details of the actual judgement. Though I am pretty sure he was let off completely.
Yeah tell me about it. There must have been a sympathetic judge, who liked the idea of the underdog teaching the big boys a small lesson. From what I remember, he took home more than $60,000 CDN. That's like $3 US. ;-)
LOL! I liked that one (your comment, AND the movie for that matter)... setec astronomy
RE:Bingo Actually, I agree with you. Bingo is fun, cheap, and you won't lose your house and children... we'll probably not, as long as those old dye stamping grannies aren't high-rollers. :)
Actually, I was making a "witty" commentary on something that happened here in montreal. A hyper-addicted gambler watched and recorded all the kino games for a period of time. And found a flaw in the so-called "random" number generation (computerised), he successfully was able to predict the outcome on a large number of occasions, and the Casino tried to sue him for the money back.. unsuccessfully. They then started using real balls to get the numbers. :)
Oh, so this is how those pretend to be geniuses/idiot savants do it. Next think you know, they'll be figuring out a way to crazy casino games like Kino.....waitaminute.
We'll be drinking out of our Gandalf slushy-cups and be playing Frodo 3d for OSX. Actually, I already bought the Bilbo Baggins front cover for my Nokia phone, and it plays the theme song for LOTR. Oh, and look at Liv Tyler in the 2002 Middle Earth pinup calendar. "Power can be found in the smallest of things"...
Maybe not television ads, but there were like, Star-Wars coke cans, toothbrushes, just about anything you could imagine. For what seemed like ages before the movie was released.
I hope they don't over play the whole thing like they did for Star Wars. I liked the movie of course, but they literally spammed the hell out of us with ads. I'd prefer to be pleasantly surprised with the film actually does come out.
On another note, the link to the streaming trailer is 404 and the download mirrors are toast.
Hmm, on a barely related note. doesn't MS has a stake in Apple? Isn't apple just another faceless drone company with the big Gates behind it? ;-)