Judge Calls Microsoft A "Monopoly"
GNU/Linux And The Global Village
British Businesses Advised To Avoid Linux
Corel Signs First OEM Deal For Corel Linux
Linux Kernel 2.4 Update
SuSE Linux 6.3 On DVD!
Open Source For Microsoft?
Red Hat Funds Open-Source Think Tank
Programmers Or Entrepreneurs?
Halloween VI: The Fatal Anniversary
Eric S. Raymond -- Are you ready for Burn All GIFs Day?
Linux Gazette #47 Out Now!
Creative Labs To Embrace The Open Source Philosophy
Slackware 7.0 Released!
Dell Preloads Red Hat Linux
Linux Shoot-Out
Perl.com
Netcraft: What's That Site Running?
Linux Events
----[ OP-ED PIECE
Happy Halloween! It's been an interesting week. At first it seemed that I'd not get much accomplished so far as Athena was concerned given the severe time constraints of having to actually work for a living in addition to trying to learn Linux - and of course to do my bit to help folks get a better handle on it all by my writing here in TLB.
I'm glad to say I did get a lot accomplished after all. Here's what you can look forward to this week from me:
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Review of Red Hat 6.1 Install and what to watch out for to make your experience a smoother one than mine was.
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How I finally got LILO to dance to my tune, and not the other way around, as it had been last week.
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Details on how I finally got my Zip drive to work!
First though a short bit on KDE and GNOME. I'm in the process of changing my default GUI over to KDE. Why you ask? One too many times of having to hit the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combo because the GNOME/Enlightenment GUI decided to "lock up tight as a drum" when I'd done nothing more than make an errant click on the desktop. Seriously.
The "final straw" was when I was playing a game of FreeCiv with Steve last weekend and in the midst of the game had to kill the X server because it locked up on me. Luckily for me though since this isn't Windows, it didn't require a forced reboot. When I started up the X server again I found that everything was as I'd left it. It was still more than a little irritating though.
Fortunately, since I run Red Hat, and have installed both GNOME and KDE the "default" no matter which one you decide to run, has menus that allow access to programs for the other desktop environment. I discovered to my great pleasure this Saturday afternoon that when I tried to open a GNOME-specific application it complained about not running in a "GNOME-compliant" environment - and then proceeded to launch a copy of GNOME to run the program (the GNOME ICU program). That was a pretty cool. Not cool enough to make up for the "crash at the click of a mouse" that has been happening, but pretty cool nonetheless.
This is not to say that I'm giving up on GNOME. I most certainly am not doing that! I like GNOME. And Enlightenment. But until they're more stable, I'll not be using them as default.
KDE is not without problems either though. My biggest concern with KDE is KMail. For some reason that I can't quite nail down, it has this unpleasant tendency to die every once in a while when opening a particular email. No clue as to why, but whatever it is, I have to delete the "offending" email in Pine, since it's guaranteed to freeze KMail every time it attempts to read it.
Fortunately for me I now have Pine and Fetchmail configured to bring across my email and no longer have to rely on using KMail to get my email "fix" every day. I now find myself using KMail mostly when I want to do a "cut and paste" of a URL for a story for TLB as it seems that Pine doesn't know about mice... sigh. Maybe Mutt will understand what a mouse is and allow me to copy stuff over to an Emacs window then I can go back to just ignoring KMail -- for the most part anyway.
----[ COLOUR OF THE WEEK
"Dictionaries at the ready, this guy's getting verbal!"
--Professor Whatchamecallit: US Marine Corp, Plant-Life Division
Egotistically inspired by the self-praise of my own words "The Army of NT Darkness" featured in the next paragraph (ESP Rulez!), I've made the colour black this week. Although in retrospect, I've likely had conscious thought won over by sub-conscious because of the nightmare crash that caused 6 months work to be lost this week. It's in mankind's interest to arrogantly assume their conscious thought forever dominates instinct. A leopard can't chance its spots, the fox, the scorpion, and the river -- that sort of thing. (Perhaps I should make next week's colour grey as a sort of strangely melodramatic nuclear-aftermath type thing... or perhaps I should just go with gut-reason. You see my point? There is none. Perhaps I should have held down the delete key before sending this out to thousands of people?? Strangely enough though, this gibberish cunningly leads on nicely to my weekly rambling. Almost as though I had unintentionally intended to have this paragraph here. Pause for spooky Halloween-type atmosphere. "You are now entering the Outer Limits, first stop the Twilight Zone".
How Dare You Say That About GNOME Bill!
The intention of this article was both to momentarily raise Bill's blood pressure by 0.1, and more importantly, waste bandwidth.
It's in the Linux community's style for us all to stick-up for Linux when The Armies of NT Darkness dare to attack us, and at the same time (paradoxically when viewing the "Linux community" as a collective -- like the press often do) be the "perfect little advocate".
Personally I think advocacy goes a little against the "hacker's grain", is perhaps a little hypocritical (since we are "challenging modern-day convention" after all (i.e. people expect us to be "the spanner in the works"), and most of all, seems a little too much like acceptable censorship for my liking. Fortunately it's not something I feel strongly about, since Advocacy has its many merits... so I'll not belabour this "I'm getting side-tracked" point. I could just have easily argued for -- instead of against Advocacy. This is what made me such a good member of the debate team during my school years. ;) The whole philosophy of Linux is accept nothing as though it were chiselled in stone, and feel free to question anything -- no matter how sacred. The "Should drivers be included with the kernel?" question springs to mind.
It's also in our spirit to bicker incessantly with each other about "my distro is better than yours because...", "Emacs is better than Vi because...", "GNOME is better than KDE because...". Any GNOME fans that got worked up by Bill's words in this week's Op-Ed section, should just chill out. If I had written the piece I would have hailed GNOME over KDE. It's all a matter of keeping up with the time-honoured tradition of "System V vs. BSD: Which side are you on?". At the end of the day, choice and freedom are two of the many things that make Linux so special.
----[ THIS WEEK'S BEST LINUX NEWS & ARTICLES
Because there wasn't an issue last week, this week you're actually getting a fortnight's news. A fortnight may seem a long time ago but have you ever taken a good look at the "latest" news featured in your just-out favourite computer magazine? That happened six months ago man! True story, I was flicking through my favourite "just-released" computer magazine, and it had a story on the "Hotmail incident"! (The one about accessing anyone's account with just their username -- and lets face it, it's a sure thing someone has the username "john152798".)
Judge Calls Microsoft A "Monopoly"
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has this to say about everyone's favourite company: "Through its conduct toward Netscape, IBM, Compaq, Intel, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products."
GNU/Linux And The Global Village
I've said it on many an occasion and so too has Bill. Our world could do with a little more niceness and a little less monopolising, greed, hatred et al. Perhaps the growth of Linux and its global community is a big step in the right direction. I think it is, and so does this guy.
British Businesses Advised To Avoid Linux
A British security consultant gets the Linux community worked up with his 6 lame reasons for why British businesses should avoid Linux.
Corel Signs First OEM Deal For Corel Linux
Corel has arranged a deal, whereby a copy of Corel Linux, Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux, and Corel WordPerfect Suite 8 OEM for Windows will be shipped with over 20 million PC Chips motherboards (one of the world's largest suppliers). Should just 5% decide to install Corel Linux there will be 1 million more Linux users worldwide from this deal alone! (Still not worried about Linux Bill?)
Linux Kernel 2.4 Update
An excellent summary on what to expect from the soon to be released 2.4 kernel, presented in a non-technical manner. Definitely worth a read.
SuSE Linux 6.3 On DVD!
SuSE Linux 6.3 - to be released in late November - will be the first ever Linux distro to be available on both CD-ROM and DVD!.
Open Source For Microsoft?
Call me stupid if you will, but quite frankly this had never crossed my mind. And since I've read a great many Linux articles, and this is the first mention I've ever come across, it's obvious it hasn't crossed the minds of many others either. The "Article of the Week" for sure. Go read it.
Red Hat Funds Open-Source Think Tank
With its three largest shareholders (Marc Ewing, Bob Young, and Frank Batten) donating $8 million between them, and Marc Ewing taking on the role of Director -- it's clear Red Hat want to do their best to make this scheme work. Their intention through this scheme, is to promote awareness of Linux and its benefits to all walks of life. You know, the world of Linux never ceases to amaze me. Perhaps one day Linux will bring about World-Peace. Perhaps not, but you never can tell with these things. :) It certainly can't hurt to promote freedom of information and niceness over the dollar.
Programmers Or Entrepreneurs?
How can programmers possibly make money out of giving their software away for free?? Juancarlo Añez over at Borland's Developer News tells you how.
Halloween VI: The Fatal Anniversary
A perfect summation of the dastardly dealings of Microsoft and their toadies, on the first anniversary of perhaps their most embarrassing document ever. Many companies have sold their soul to the dollar demon, and deservedly paid the price. A must-read.
Eric S. Raymond -- Are you ready for Burn All GIFs Day?
On November 5th webmasters everywhere are going to convert every GIF on their site. Why? Because a low-life company called Unisys wants $5000 from every site that contains a GIF -- that's why!! Do your bit to protect our Net. Convert your GIFs to PNGs (or BMP, JPG), broadcast the fact that your site contains no GIFs, and point people to www.burnallgifs.org. You can be sure that this site is going to do its bit. Are you?
Linux Gazette #47 Out Now!
The latest edition of the "New York Times of Linux e-zines" - Linux Gazette - was released today, featuring the usual crop of interesting reading -- and plenty of it. Once again we get a few mentions. "Gee ma, we're famous." :)
Creative Labs To Embrace The Open Source Philosophy
Now this is good news. Only 7 days back, I had for you the article "ATI Embrace Linux". And now Creative Labs - another hardware giant - is following suit. Things are definitely improving. Yet more proof that Linux is significantly changing the computing landscape -- and on a global scale.
Slackware 7.0 Released!
The oldest Linux distro of them all - Slackware - is now out of beta, and it certainly sounds impressive. Featuring the 2.2.13 kernel, glibc-2.1.2, KDE 1.1.2, October GNOME, and XFree86 3.3.5, Slackware 7.0 is nothing if not bang up to date.
Dell Preloads Red Hat Linux
Dell are so big, that basically anything they do is big news. This story is perhaps a little bigger than the norm. Rather than just include a copy of Red Hat with a server or charge extra to install it, Dell are now installing it at no extra charge. Well done Dell, you've got my vote!
Linux Shoot-Out
CNET compares Red Hat 6.1 to Calderra OpenLinux 2.3.
----[ QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Music to my ears from U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson:
"Through its conduct toward Netscape, IBM, Compaq, Intel, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products."
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----[ KERNEL NEWS
None of us are kernel-hackers so we could never pretend to be some kind of authority on the subject of discussing Linux kernel development in any great depth. It is important though to cover the Linux kernel so next week I'll try and add a bit more meat to this section by pointing you to some important resources on the subject.
As of the 7th November '99:
Current development kernel: 2.3.26 (Released: 6th November '99)
Current stable kernel : 2.2.13 (Released: 20th October '99)
2.2.x Change List | 2.3.x Change List
The complete and definitive record of every change the 2.2.x and 2.3.x kernel has undergone.
KernelNotes.org
The place to go for the latest stable and development kernel.
----[ DID YOU KNOW...
"To the ancient Greeks, a daemon was a protective spirit that presided over a person's destiny. In UNIX circles, however, daemon stands for Disk And Execution MONitor. Daemons are server processes that are responsible for offering certain services. They run in the background and generally lie dormant until a process—either local or remote—calls upon them."
- Source -
"The source code of kernel version 2.2 comprises more than 1.5 million lines of C and assembly language code, and occupies more than 54Mb of disk space when uncompressed."
- Source -
----[ LINKS TO INTERESTING PLACES
Perl.com
Next week I'll be starting a regular section in this e-zine on Perl. Anyone wanting to find out more about Perl, and retrieve documentation, should definitely check out this superb site. Any webmasters out there should doubly check it out -- the design is perfection.
Netcraft: What's That Site Running?
Now here's a very cool site. Just tap in someone's domain name and this site will tell you what it's running on. Don't believe us when we say Linuxdot.org is powered by Linux? Why not check it out. ;) (And no we don't use FrontPage, our provider also has FrontPage extensions for Unix. This site is 100% hand-coded. WYSIWYG is for amateurs! ;) )
Linux Events
Phew, here's a godsend if ever I saw one. Nowadays it's a nightmare keeping up with all the latest up-and-coming Linux Expos. LinuxStart has come to the rescue to keep you informed.
----[ MICROSOFT: AND NOW THE FUN BEGINS...
Well, by now unless you've been living under a rock or something you've heard about the Judge handing down his "Findings of Fact" in the Microsoft vs. DOJ Anti-Trust case.
All I can say is I'm glad the Judge had the guts to do what was "right" despite the fact that Microsoft is such a huge company.
This is not, of course, the "end of it all" but rather the beginning of the most important phase of the trial now. Now that the Judge has declared that Microsoft is - in fact - a "monopoly" and that they've "abused the consumer" by use of their monopoly status, the Judge and the lawyers for both sides - but primarily the Government lawyers - have to decide how best to proceed with a "suitable punishment" for the monopoly that is Microsoft.
I don't like Microsoft. I've never made any pretense otherwise. I am incredibly glad to see that the DOJ has managed to prove it's case to the satisfaction of the Judge and that the Judge had the guts to "do what's right" in this matter. I say that for a reason. In law, especially in law, "what's right" rarely has any resemblance to "what's legal". And in this case I was afraid that some sort of legal sleight-of-hand would pull Microsoft's "chestnuts out of the fire" despite their having done their utmost to make a mockery of the trial from start to finish including the - to me at least - "infamous video" that the DOJ was quick to discover had been "doctored."
Now the "fun" begins. Trying to determine a suitable punishment for Microsoft.
I've said that I don't like Microsoft. I don't. I have always felt that their "business practices" left much to be desired - to say the least - and now the DOJ and the Judge have seen fit to agree with my own personal assessment of the situation.
I do not, however, think that "breaking up" Microsoft into a bunch of "Baby Bill's" - as was done in the AT&T case years ago - is the proper way to proceed. For a lot of reasons but primarily because the process itself would be horribly complex and take - quite literally - years to complete, by which time the situation in the computer industry will have changed so far from the way it is today as to be unrecognizable. It would also do absolutely nothing to curtain Microsoft's shoddy business practices.
No. What needs to be done rather - in my opinion of course - is to make Microsoft "feel some pain" and I mean that sincerely. Microsoft has made a lot of other companies "feel the pain" and now it is their turn to accept what they have been far too ready to "dish out" to others. Namely any company that was (1) stupid enough to believe that Microsoft could be a "trusted business partner" or (2) stupid enough to try and compete against Microsoft directly in whatever field Microsoft had set their eye on.
Either way you lost.
If you competed against Microsoft then they either bought you out - if you were lucky - or just used their size and market position - and the fact that they were the only people that really knew about all the APIs for Windows and rolled over your company like a steam-roller leaving behind nothing but a grease-spot on the pavement (so to speak).
On the other hand if you were foolish enough to think that Microsoft could be a "trusted business partner" because they came to you and whispered in your ear, "let's be partners, we'll both make tons of money," you quickly discovered that Microsoft had found a way to - for all intents and purposes - "steal" whatever it was that you had made, and then you were out in the cold" with nothing.
This happened to more than one company foolish enough to believe Microsoft could be trusted in business. You don't believe me? Good! Don't accept what anyone tells you blindly and you'll go far in this life. Do a little research into the way that Microsoft "acquired" the Spyglass browser - which they renamed Internet Explorer - for an example of what I mean.
So, if you don't want to break up Microsoft then what do you do? I saw an incredibly simple - yet elegant - suggestion for that. Make Microsoft get government approval for all their future contracts. That would be one way to ensure - beyond any doubt - that Microsoft complies with the law in the future. It does not however - in my opinion - go far enough.
I think that the DOJ and the Judge should also allow any company that is currently "under contract" with Microsoft to have the option to either continue with that contract "as is" - to decide to just ditch it in it's entirety - or to have the option to re-negotiate a new contract given the findings in the DOJ trial.
This is not the only thing that could be done but it is something that could be done now, and would have an immediate impact on Microsoft's pocketbook - the only real language they understand - by allowing companies that have up to now been afraid of making Microsoft "angry" and being "squashed like a bug" that they have not been able to do what any business should have the right to do - look after their own best interests instead of what Microsoft told them what those best interests were.
This is not something that - ordinarily - I would want the government to have the power to do. These are not, however, "ordinary circumstances" by any stretch of the imagination. I feel a bit of flexibility should be in order here to allow the government to well and truly stop Microsoft's shoddy business practices from continuing, and also to allow, at least in some measure, an opportunity for some of the companies already hurt by Microsoft's monopolistic behavior to try and recover at least a bit of what they have already lost.
Also of interest to any company, currently engaged in legal action with Microsoft - or that had been considering such an action - is that the DOJ trial, and the Judge's Findings of Fact, have just helped them prove a huge portion of their case without the need of going through the entire trial process. After all, if the DOJ has already proved that Microsoft is a "monopoly" and that they used that position to "abuse the consumer" then there really isn't much left to prove, to show that your company was hurt by their actions, is there?
----[ REVIEW OF RED HAT 6.1 INSTALLATION
Last week I mentioned that I had received a review copy of Red Hat 6.1 from Red Hat and I promised to review the installation this week.
To be up front, the install was not without problems. However, to Red Hat's credit, despite the fact that I'd paid nothing for the copy they sent me for review, they didn't hesitate to provide the same level of Tech Support as if I'd been a paying customer. That was a nice touch during what was to be a rough week.
First a word of warning about the install process. They tell you this in the book included if you get the Deluxe Edition (what I'll be reviewing), but if you purchased just the CD from a company like CheapBytes, or received a copy from a friend, then you'll likely not have this book at hand during the install.
You should choose to do a "Custom" install -- especially if you have files on your hard drive that you wish to keep.
The available installation options are as follows:
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Workstation: This selection will wipe out all your Linux partitions, but leaves the rest alone.
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Server: This selection will wipe out all your partitions! Let me repeat that. Doesn't matter if it's Linux, DOS, or OS/2 -- if you do a Server Install it's history!
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Custom: This lets you decide what gets "wiped" and what gets left alone. Both of the above install options include an "auto-partitioning" scheme whilst the Custom install requires you to do that manually.
In addition to the above broad categories of install you also have the option of doing either a GUI install or the more traditional text-based install.
When I decided to do the install I had the drive already partitioned and the installation booklet said that although there might be updates on the Red Hat Errata page, you should try to do the install with the diskettes provided with the product first.
I did that. It didn't work. The solution is to go to the Red Hat Errata page for Red Hat 6.1 and check out the Installation section. There you can retrieve the *.img file required to create an installation boot disk.
They have several different *.img files, so you'll want to make sure you download the right one. You'll also want to retrieve the updates*.img file as well, as that will be needed during the install process.
I downloaded the boot*.img and updates*.img files since I was going to be installing from CD-ROM to a stand-alone machine, and not over a network or to a laptop. I then entered the following commands to create the diskette images required to boot into the install (I used /ftp as the directory in my examples for where the *.img files are located):
dd if=/ftp/boot*.img of=/dev/fd0 (That's a zero BTW.)
dd if=/ftp/updates*.img of=/dev/fd0
(Note: If you're using the bash shell (likely since it's commonly the Linux default) then you could just press the Tab key each time you come to an asterix (*) in the above 2 lines.)
No matter which install method you choose - GUI or text - you'll need to boot with the revised *.img file, and type the following at the boot prompt:
linux updates
You may also at this point want to enter expert and text . You have to enter text to get the text-based install. Otherwise it defaults to the GUI install.
When prompted to do so, remove the boot disk and insert the "updates" disk. The installation program will then proceed as normal.
What I am about to say regarding the install process is something that may not apply to anyone else. I know that - for me - the GUI install did not work. And on the text-based install LILO was not properly configured.
I contacted Red Hat Tech Support and gave them as many details as I could and Mike V. (the person I dealt with) was not able to reproduce what happened on my system. It's Linux. I suppose it happens. He was, however, helpful in getting LILO properly configured after the text-based install was completed.
Of course, I was setting things up a bit differently than many people would have. I had the install setup for the following:
/dev/hda1 / 1Gb
/dev/hda2 /boot 15Mb
The reason for this being that since I've several different Linux distributions installed (3 at present counting Red Hat 6.1), and with intentions of installing a few more - for testing purposes - I wanted to be able to have a separate /boot partition that could be the same for all the various distributions, and also allow me to remove the Red Hat 6.1 from it's chosen location should I decide to do so later.
I ended up with LILO installed onto the MBR and all the relevant files on the /boot partition where they belong. I can now boot into whichever distro I choose with no problems. It did require me to copy the relevant kernels for each distro over to the /boot partition however - and if any initrd.img files are needed they would have to go there as well. In my case that did not apply.
I've finally installed it to my satisfaction and now just need to find time to actually set it up correctly.
One thing I'm really looking forward to setting up - and trying out - is the new to Red Hat "Update Agent", which will go out and bring back the updated versions of the programs that you have specified - and even install them for you. I'll be doing exactly that, and I'll tell you if it works "as advertised" or not, in a future issue.
Another thing I had time to do, was setup an Internet connection. Red Hat 6.1 features the WvDial program (v1.40). The setup is GUI-based and found my modem without a problem. You just put in the name of your ISP, the phone number, username, and password. And if you wish you can also add your Primary and Secondary DNS IP addresses. Very well done.
I'll be coming back to talk more about Red Hat 6.1 in a future issue after I've had a chance to work with it some more. I just wanted to give you an overview of how the install went -- and mention things that you should look out for during the install.
----[ THIS WEEK WITH ATHENA
Athena is Bill's Linux box -- his pride and joy. Each week he gives us an update on what's been happening with Athena... hopefully providing some tips for your own Linux box in the process...
As I said in the Red Hat 6.1 review I have gotten LILO to bow to my will - finally - and so I'll just leave it at that. No victory dance. I'm too tired to dance.
Zip Drive Works!
One of the things that has been plaguing me for the past few weeks has been the inability to use my ZIP drive because the kernel didn't seem to want to compile correctly for whatever reason and would "choke" when booting with the new kernel. That was incredibly frustrating as I could see the ZIP drive being recognized during the part of the boot process before it choked.
One of the first things I did after getting Red Hat 6.1 installed successfully was to try to compile in support for the ZIP drive into the kernel.
It worked! I'm rather puzzled though as I didn't do anything differently than the other times. Obviously this time though all the necessary files and libraries and so forth were found. However, there is one small detail that puzzles me. Now when the system boots it displays a couple of pages worth of error messages about "unresolved dependencies" for modules that aren't even installed. I'm not quite sure what that's all about, but I've a few ideas to try out when I find the time. It's more of an annoyance than anything else as the ZIP drive works just fine and that is - bottom line - all that really matters.
As for the CD-RW drive I've had no time to even try that as yet. I'm hopeful that it too will work correctly now but won't know for a bit yet as I have just last evening finally managed to get the system into a "steady state" again with the new kernel and LILO being able to boot into whichever distro I wish.
Doesn't seem like much does it? Installed a new distro and got my ZIP drive to work.
----[ WHAT'S NEW AT LINUXDOT.ORG THIS WEEK?
After the crash that left my system useless for a good part of the week I've had little time to focus on the site. What time I have had has been spent downloading all the software I lost -- and can't live without, and learning the intricacies of Perl.
Speaking of Perl, I'm going to be starting a regular weekly section in this e-zine on Perl. The first installment will appear in the next issue. One thing I will say is do yourself a favour -- get into Perl. It rules! If not Perl, then some other powerful scripting language like PHP or Python. The things you can do with this knowledge, are nothing short of amazing.
if ($knowledge == $power) {
print ("I'm impressed!");
} else {
print ("Ignorance is bliss.");
}
----[ FRUIT & VEG 2000 ENTERPRISE EDITION SERVICE RELEASE 5
Seen at Sainsbury's Supermarket Today (UK) :
WINDOWS
Unhandled Exception Violation at XXXX:XXXX etc etc etc.
Press any key to continue.
Now we all know that the best thing about Windows is that it doesn't just crash, it lets you select "Ok" first. The funny thing about the above message is that it was on the screen of the weighing machine for the fruit and veg!!
If Windows can't even keep a weighing machine going, what chance has your enterprise server??!!
This independent study was in no way sponsored by any member of the Linux community.
Copyright © 1999 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Ouch, take that Mr Gartner! :)
----[ WRAP-UP
Just a few quick words to thank everyone who sent email about my trials and tribulations with both LILO and the ZIP drive. I answered most of them. If I missed somebody sorry about that.
Now that I've managed to put a couple of very nagging problems behind me it's a huge relief. Now I can get on with the task of making Linux do what I want, when I want. And that is a nice feeling. Just to know I have that option.
Thank you Linus for giving us that.
----[ CREDITS
This week's The Linux Bits has been brought to you by:
Bill Turner- Chief Writer
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