> Well -- Win95 does this. It drives me crazy -- am I the only one? I've
> never understood why it couldn't "tell" that Word was already open! Or
> Netscape. I've gone down to the hidden Win95 horizontal "programs open bar"
> before and have had four instances of netscape and three of Word. Too wierd.
I've seen this too. Mixed blessings, allowing you to easily have
several files open at the same time.
> But why would I want "server-type" software on my Desktop?? I think of
> server's as having a far more troublesome job -- getting requests from lots
> of different "other people." My desktop PC only gets requests from Moi.
> Right?
Workgroup file sharing, requests from multiple tasks that need
cooperative drivers, ability to use multiple machines and talk to tasks on
multiple machines so that your interface program can present data to you.
As What's his name O'Reily said in his talk to the Linux group here
at Cisco, the web (internet / intranet) is becoming the application.
Your page (interface) is assembled from data obtained from multiple sites,
massaged and presented by yet another site. And when you want more
details, you end up on other sites. In such a system, it is no longer
necessary to have all the processes work, as there are alternative
sources/processes for the information. It becomes a fail-soft system
spanning the globe, a system that no small group of hostile nations can
knock out or censor.
In that, it has the potential of becoming a system that represents
the people themselves, no the governments, nor corporations that would
censor your access to data for their own ends.
(That said, I am seeing that there are a number of corporate sponsored
mailing lists, often under the guise of university run client (patient)
support groups, which are actively censored and actively biased in favor
of the supporting organizations, to the surprise of the participants.
Mention the magic words, and your post gets sent in within minutes. Don't
mention the words, or have a track record for suggesting cheaper, better
alternatives, and your post rarely makes it to the list. Case in point,
medical mailing lists receiving subsidies from major pharmaceutical
corporations.)
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