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As for the pocket knife, that would be great but you can't carry it on an airplane anymore.

That's why there will be a version without the knife, only containing the USB stick, a pen and a lamp.

The full version will be sold for 59 Euro, the non-terrorist version for 55 Euro, as the German computer magazine Golem.de reports.

I bet that sales of Victorinox have gone down since 9/11.

That might be the reason why they start selling pocket knifes without knifes...

Am I seeing this correctly? (screenshot #6 Does The GIMP 2.0 support SVG? HALLELUJAH!!! That's fantastic! I Googled around and found this article (translated from German).

This is wonderful, but a bit strange. I once inquired around about why The GIMP was so lacking in vector art tools. Why wasn't there a tool for making basic shapes, for instance? The answer I found (by Googling around) was that The GIMP is based on the old Unix philosphy, which focuses on small, reusable components. Designing in this way made components highly portable, and separated the work of creating a GUI from the core work. The GIMP did not support vector art because that was the job of a vector art authoring tool. The GIMP was a rastor image manipulation tool. This answer didn't satisfy me, because the GIMP itself is a huge conglomerate of tools, some of which are hardly related. The GIMP is the GUI wrapper which coordinates all of the little components (which are individually accessible through script-fu). So why insist that it was only for rastor image manipulations?

OpenOffice.org Draw can import/export SVG, but I don't like the interface very well. I prefer the spartan interface of a text editor for SVG. :) But I'd be willing ot try a GIMP tool.

There was a GNU project (which apparently failed) that was trying to create a vector art authoring tool. I can't remember the name of it.

Did anybody else notice that the new file dialogue shown here:
http://scr.golem.de/?d=0310/gimp&p=7
includes a form for toilet paper? My god I love open source software!

Here's the `winmpified' version of TheGimp 1.3 on XP: http://www.golem.de/screenshots/0310/gimp/gimp-win xp.png

Here are some decent screenshots

-ghostis

Dr. Stefan Hildemann claims to have had a chance to see SCO's code show without having to sign the NDA; he has posted his impressions (in German).
http://forum.golem.de/phorum/read.php?f=44&i=1774& t=1716
Thanks to Robert Taylor this English translation of the posting

... The crunch, however, is a function of the scheduler, which is, over a length of about 60 lines, indeed identical except for slight differences. In this section, there is also a whole lot of corresponding comments...

This raises more interesting questions. Since the SMP scheduler in question was specifically written directly for Linux kernel, and both Caldera/SCO employees only added patches, does it not seem more likely that if there is common source and comment then it is likely that the source in question was copied from GPL'ed Linux source to The SCO Groups own Unix?

Microsoft Germany is just as German as Suse. The first big town who started this trend was Schwabisch Hall (city in Swabia, Swabians are famous for penny-pinching). Main reason for Linux: mayor wanted to save money because community was broke. Similar in Munich and there another aspect was the publicity: One city council member even made campaign advertising with Linux golem.de

Ok I took a few minutes to do some research for you.

The statement of the NDAless witness in German

An English translation of the above.

What another person that did sign the NDA can say about what he saw.

Ok I took a few minutes to do some research for you.

The statement of the NDAless witness in German

An English translation of the above.

What another person that did sign the NDA can say about what he saw.

If you look at the campaign ads in Munich these days you might actually get the idea that politicians got what RMS was talking about all the time: there is a slogan "Mehr Linux Mehr Freiheit" -- "More Linux More Freedom" (see here)

So seemingly some of our politicians understood that there are reasons beyond price tags to switch to Linux.

There's an English translation of the German report (disclaimed as not authoritative) here. (Hmm, aren't unauthorized translations derivative works? :-)

THIS IS ONLY A WORKING TRANSLATION; I DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AS TO POSSIBLE MISTAKES OR ERRORS. I WILL NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY CONCERNING THE CONTENT OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT.

Today, I had the possibility to have a look at the incriminating code passages.

Due to a mistake on the part of the representing lawyer's office, my colleague and I - as opposed to the 7 other representatives that were allowed to look at things today - did not have to sign a Non Disclosure Agreement. This was in full contrast to the examiners of Microsoft corp., who apparently had to maintain silence even towards their own superiors and may only give notice to the internal company audit department.

Now for the code itself:
Under the supervision of a notary public, 46 pages were shown, each containing, by one half, code from Linux (for the most part, print-outs of posts taken directly from the Linux-Kernel-Mailing List) and, by the other half, listings of SCO. Whether these are indeed sources of SysV is not comprehensible that way, as they are taken out of their context. Another interesting thing is that all date and time details have been removed from both, even from the comments. The comments themselves are really identical here and there, even some jokes are the same on both sides. It is, however, conspicuous that in the places that correspond most, the source code that can be found in front of the comments is quite dissimilar after all. The fundamental construction of the queried functions is similar; however, the concrete implementation is quite different. Variables and names of functions are different, loops are structured differently, conditions work via chain queries (?) (Kettenabfrage) or bit patterns (?) (Bitmuster). All in all, only one thing can be said for certain: The functions offered by the respective code passages are often equal, which, however, was to be expected from the start anyway.

In the concrete implementation, there are, however, so many differences, that a proof of the origin being the same will be difficult, even though certainly not impossible.

The crunch, however, is a function of the scheduler, which is, over a length of about 60 lines, indeed identical except for slight differences. In this section, there is also a whole lot of corresponding comments.
Comparable similarity can only be found in one routine of the memory management, which is, however, only in the Linux version accompanied by comments.
Whether a competent proof can be made out of these two correspondences can only be estimated with certainty by a lawyer. I consider the vague similarities in other passages to be insufficient, as the same standards were the basis for both and therefore, a certain correspondence is to be expected.

Concerning the same comments to different source passages, I can see no rhyme or reason in it. This would in any case have to be investigated in again meticulously, in particular with the date and time details provided. Because only with these could a breach of copyright be proved at all.

Concerning the discussion about the part of Linux sold under the GPL by SCO/Caldera, it must be stated that up to the present, no court has had to decide on the legal validity of the GPL. Should this, however, be ascertained, which is not certain, SCO can use only those parts of Linux by way of comparison that were not published by SCO and in the development or co-development SCO did not take part. I consider this, too, a difficulty in the proceedings to come.
As the original, unpatched Linux-sources were not touched but only modifications that had been inserted by different distributors, it has to be clarified in any case whether these might have rights to the queried passages, be it directly or indirectly, e.g. through company mergers, take-overs, "all-inclusive"-deals etc. The chances for proceedings to open a

Don't have much time at the moment, but in case nobody has posted these yet:

NOTE: German Language

A German developer (who says that he didn't sign their NDA!) reports on SCO's "evidence". He says that he's seen 46 pages (not just 80 lines) but doesn't seem convinced.

In another article, Claybrook gives more details of how the story changed, and also remarks on some rather odd things about SCO's "evidence".

Don't have much time at the moment, but in case nobody has posted these yet:

NOTE: German Language

A German developer (who says that he didn't sign their NDA!) reports on SCO's "evidence". He says that he's seen 46 pages (not just 80 lines) but doesn't seem convinced.

In another article, Claybrook gives more details of how the story changed, and also remarks on some rather odd things about SCO's "evidence".

Here are some other useful SL-C700 links I've found in the last week or so:

MobileNews article with LOTSA pix (in Japanese, but the pix are easy to see).

Here is a mobigeeks blurb (with several off-links to other interesting places, also a forum).

About a quarter of the way down this page, there are some good closeup pix.

Here is an nvmax.com article, describing Dynamism's efforts, and several other off-links.

Here is Sharp's own page, also in Japanese, but has a couple of decent pix.

Here's a German article, with a good description of the specs.

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First, there are mp3 addon's for old Handsprings and Palm's for example . I'm sure there are smaller ones too.

Secondly, i'm not convinced that the base palm cannot decode mp3's the small memory footprint on the older palm's may be a problem, but I suspect that a mono 128k bit signal can probably be decoded on the 33mhz models. Look at Mayplay for an example of a mp3 decoder from the time when mp3s were just getting popular. I remember running it on a 486DX2-66 without any problems at all. I seem to remember it chewing up all my CPU time, but being able to decode stereo 128kbit mp3's.

In addition to LEDs and data storage, GaN based devices have tremendous potential in communication (cell phone base stations), space electronics, compact UV photodetectors, high power microwave integrated circuits, power electronics, medical devices, etc. (Sh*t, this stuff seems to be coming from my thesis-writing mode I'm in.)

You don't know of enough tech sites to claim that "almost every tech site" banded together on something. No one does.

I would love to see a more technical analysis of the soundbug and I looked around.

The official site is here, and has a nice photo.

A german article is here

However, I did not find a nice frequency response graph based on some standard material like a pane of glass one metre square, or MY office desk ;-) for example.

In all, it looks reasonably cool, and I can see applications everywhere. Now, when am I going to be able to get one in Morocco??

A German site has these dimensions: 13.3 cm x 9.5 cm x 3.2 cm, weight 290 g. By contrast, the iPod is 10.2 cm x 6.1 cm x 1.9 cm, weight 185g.

Does anyone have a link to a good translation of the article? The translation at altavista is incomprehensible!

Thanks!