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It's possible that Judge Kimball could make Judge Wells' ruling moot when/if he ever rules on IBM's Partial Summary Judgment motion. Wells has to favor SCO in that she has to consider the possibility that giving them what they want might improve their case.

I'm hoping that since Wells has likely been advising with Kimball on this that Kimball's decision will come soon on IBM's PSJ motion. I'm also hoping that goes in IBM's favor since it would pretty much kill all of SCO's other lawsuits.

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You can find a transcript of the order here on IP-Wars.net. Groklaw has an article about the ruling.

I think the order is outrageous personally. IBM's being ordered to produce all versions of AIX and Dynix along with notes, whitepapers, and all that fun stuff. This is going to be a mountain of code and documents considering that AIX is 20 years old.

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I did some checking on the YDL iBook and PowerBook support pages and Airport Extreme is not yet supported (which seems to be common for 802.11g on Linux), though standard 802.11b cards are supported.. It also looks like there is no 3D acceleration (but 2D acceleration works) for the Graphics card and putting the computer to sleep only partially works.

So I may have been wrong initially, it looks like there's still some work to be done to make Apple's laptops fully supported on Linux. But you've still got a great Unix OS with Mac OS X if you can't get Linux to run as well as you want.

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Well, if you'd like to do that then a PPC machine is not the best choice. But if you're just going to be running Linux applications then it makes a pretty good Linux Laptop. Plus you get out Mac OS X and a bunch of other great software.

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I think that Apple makes the best laptops in the world and if you want to put Linux on them you can. Yellow Dog Linux seems to be a good choice if you go this route. Though it appears that Airport Extreme drivers aren't yet working.

But if you've got OS X then what do you need Linux for? Most Linux software can be recompiled for use on Mac OS X.

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Yup yup... it's from the same Free iPod company so it will work if you get enough referals.

The offers are pretty good. Theres one for buying printer ink! Sheesh... I think just about anyone can do that :)

I went for the blockbuster offer of sending movies directly to your house from a selected list. It's like Netflix, only cheaper.

I'm just sending this out here because I figured someone might be interested to know about it. I decided to sign up for it because I've always had a difficult time with Macs and I thought this would give me a chance to learn more about them.

Hey, I know wired wrote back in August that free ipod was "legit"... anyone know if they still are?

Since the same company is now doing: free minimac...

Any followups on this?

He plans on buying one and upgrade the ram and HD on The Screen Savers next week. So check it out.

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I've had my TiVo for over 4 years now. I love it to death. I think that TiVo did a hell of a lot of things right. Some quick examples:

1. Unlike, say, Microsoft, they never discouraged their users from hacking their boxes. As a result, a huge community of TiVo hackers emerged (see http://www.tivocommunity.com/). I upgraded my TiVo's 30 gig hard drive to two 120's, and installed a cachecard/network card combo from 9th Tee, which means I can do fun tricks like scheduling shows and season passes from the road, or watching shows in my bedroom on my XBOX.

2. Really great support. I've only had to call TiVo a couple of times, both for channel lineup issues, but they were always extremely friendly and helpful over the phone. For example, after I moved into my new house, I realized that Adelphia had just upgraded the cable in my area, and TiVo didn't have the lineup yet. So I called support, and the next day, TiVo called me back to tell me that my lineup was added. Simply awesome.

3. Choosing Linux. When I telnet into my TiVo, I get a bash shell. I've installed an ftp server, web server (TiVoWeb), and even installed cron. How cool is that? Plus, this excellent decision has led to new software being developed exclusively for the TiVo (such as a caller id display that uses the TiVo's built-in modem, so you can see who's calling without getting up off the couch). Simply brilliant.

4. The interface. They obviously put a ton of work into it, and it really shows. It just kicks so much ass.

Now obviously, they dropped the ball in a couple of areas. The Comcast merger was just a more recent one. I think these are the two biggies:

1. I think that their biggest problem has always been slow adoption; as long as I've had the thing, I've been seeing ads pop up on TiVo Central giving me hot deals on new TiVo units, which I'm supposed to share with my friends and family. Great, I can save Dad $50 on his new unit. But if they really expect me to convince Dad that he can't live without a season pass on those Seinfeld reruns he loves so much, then they should be giving me the 50 smackers. I'd probably have 10 people signed up under me right now if I got some sort of compensation for it. (By the way, click here to get a free Mini Mac!) :-)

2. Too expensive. The hardware and service together really do cost too much, unless you got in early like I did (back when lifetime service was $200). They should do what my damn cell phone company does: Knock the hardware down to like $99, and make me pay a very affordable $9.95 a month. If I try to cancel before 2 years are up, hit me with some obscene early termination fee. Yes, I hate it when cell phone companies do this, but that's how they stay in business. Besides, it's not like I'd be foolish enough to cancel my TiVo service anyway. TiVo is heroin. So far, I've paid $499 for TiVo and lifetime service, so TiVo won't make any more money off of me. If they were using my above plan, I would have paid in $589 so far, with more coming in every month.

I would really hate to see TiVo go. I hope they don't. But I suspect that even if the service dies, thanks to the openness of their hardware platform, someone (maybe me) will figure out how to write a script to pull show data off of Yahoo! TV or something. And with Microsoft and MythTV and several others entering the PVR market, there's no question that TiVo's invention is here to stay.

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