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There was the pump and LA lights but by far the coolest and best feeling ones were Nike Air. Amuasingly enough some of the patents on AIR expired in 1997. So there could be competetiors using it now as well. AIR was really cool becasue of the science that went into the "AIR" (molecular weight of gases) and the nature of the container (semi permeable to real air.. which made it inflate itsef..sorta)..

On April 13th pair Networks donated almost 2/3 of the money he received. ($20,000 of ~$33,000)

So, I'd say that's a good start.

The difference between the normal boiling points of hydrogen and oxygen is about 70K. They had trouble guarding against problems caused by heat transfer in that situation. The difference between the NBP of O2 and ambient (where the kerosene will be held) is around 200K. That's a much larger driving temperature difference to work against. To reduce the risk of failure from thermal stresses, or even freezing the kerosene, insulation must be added. This cuts into any weight savings from having a common bulkhead in the first place.

Long story short (and sorry for the verbose response), my fears are probably unfounded. Judging from the story and the website they seem to be stressing weight savings in their design. Heck, maybe they've come up with a brand new ultralightweight insulation to put on the common bulkhead. That'd be a cool thing that would have other applications.

Can the Open Voting system handle a variety of vote aggregation (counting) methods?

Yes, the mechanisms used in the Open Voting system may be used with virtually all current and proposed systems of counting votes.

Most of the Open Voting system is concerned with the mechanisms for displaying elections and contests to voters, for aggregating the voter's choices onto a printed ballot, for optionally user verification of that ballot, for casting the ballot, and accumulating an electronic form of that data for use by tabulation tabulation software. The actual tabulation software could be extended to handle any of the various proposed vote counting systems.

Some of the proposed systems of counting votes are somewhat intricate and are beyond the scope of this FAQ.

We've just linked in an online demo of the voting system as it will operate in a polling station. You can go to the Open Voting Consortium web site, and click on 'web demo'. Or go straight to the ballot if you're impatient.

Please keep in mind that we're not proposing voting through web browsers, or across the internet, because of the numerous security issues. This web demo is intended to let you see what you'd see on our demo on April 1 in California, for people who can't be there.

What you'll see is a ballot formatted for a large screen (1280x1024). You fill it out, then click 'print ballot'. What would happen in a polling station is that the ballot is printed out. In the online version, you can get the ballot as a PDF, Postscript, or JPEG image.

In the stand-alone polling station you will be able to take your paper ballot to a validation station that will read your vote back to you, so that you know that the paper ballot accurately represents your vote.

You then take your ballot to the tabulation station, where a poll worker will scan the ballot and store it in a locked box, where the paper ballots are available for recounts, audits, etc.

...even though my procmail system had defanged the filename so he had to rename it. What're ya gonna do?

I have procmail set up to delete certain attachments, although forcing it to run along with SpamAssassin on my web host is proving to turn more than a few hairs gray... but when I do, I swear, I will be an ubergeek, I swear! Qmail, procmail, et al are great tools to defang spam for family consumption, as well as reduce download times for myself. Even over cable, I spent way too long downloading "Microsoft fixes" from "Hotmail addresses."

And Longhorn is an example of MS copying Apple copying NeXT :)

heh heh, yes, I feel the same. But then the question becomes, why waste time with a GUI? Just use BASH which is always going to be faster.

The point is, you feel that way and I feel that way, but if we build a file manager that way, it becomes incredibly bloated with options and commands and different ways to do things, each of which satisfies a constituency of the 5% of people who use the feature. End result: well, Konqueror ;-) Konqueror has loads of features but it takes so long to start up that I often just use BASH.... I would prefer something simple and beautiful.

Havoc's quote is from this article. It's well worth reading.

By the way, the "rename" utility might be of use to you (I think it is actually written in perl):

rename The_Clash clash *.mp3

The GNOME people have always been bold in trying out new strategies. After the gnome2 drive to simplify the UI and move away from featuritis it has come a long way. There are some exciting developments like dashboard, gstreamer and desktop integration bounty hunt. Watch out for 2.6!

http://www.theinsider.org/news/dollar_bill_symbols .asp

http://watch.pair.com/mason.html#seal

I wasn't referring to the Seal, I was specifically referring to the Masonic symbols therein. Now I'm not saying I agree with these wa^H^Hwriters conclusions, but I think it's pretty obvious that the symbols are there.

Mkay?

The only downside is that you can only download what other people have posted. But if you ask nicely someone will usually upload whatever obscure album I'm looking for after a couple of days. In a way, its like a IRC trading with REALLY REALLY bad lag. :)

They have several vault sites where they keep the works of Elron Hubbard preserved. Quite elaborate and expensive. Seems redundant, you can find all the used copies of Dianetics and Battlefield Earth you could ever want at 2nd hand books stores.

It is clearly based on the Discordian Law of Fives.

All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to five.

That seems okay, I guess, but what's wrong with a good old-fashioned game of Pokethulhu?

I set her up with a MovableType blog - even though her webhost provided a ready-to-use blog called Bloxsom - so she could keep people up to date and interact with the other artsy-fartsy bloggers. I also setup an art Gallery for her to more easily manage and show off (and sell) her photography.

She says she'd never go back to the way she did it before because of all the time the web interfaces save her. I imagine these kinds of CMS's will only get more popular as time goes on; and I for one am GLAD to see the barrier to entry being lowered for people would rather spend their time taking pictures than fucking around with archane nuts and bolts.

(PS. please don't mod this up - don't want a /.'ing ... and I'm not using reverse psychology you ... you sweaty, basement-dwelling, cocksucking mods. crap. now that would be a mod up out of revenge, so here's a link to goatse.cx and tubgirl - nobody mods that shit up).

If in order to escape draconian DMCA-like laws, you get on a big boat and go out in international waters to perform copyright-dangerous actions, then does that make it Piracy on the High Seas?

While L R0n Hubbard wasn't out on the seas to get his fix of MP3 goodies, several Sc1entologist-staffed boats, commandeered by Hubbard, cruised around the Mediterranean for several years at the start of the 70's. The supposed reason was to get away from unrest and persecution of Scient0logy experienced in the UK and the US, and for this purpose, could be considered a good idea.

Unfortunately it didn't go quite so well with the fleet facing problems with authorities all around the Med, and even crowds of angry locals on Madeira.

Of course, there are also rumors that Hubbard was abducted by the US Gov during this time, but you can make your own mind up on that.

I wonder if Linux could become the new Sc1entology :-)

4. Dumping binary objects leads to a JVM-specific repository. Again, using the Font example, storing the name and size would produce two values that could be used on any other JVM to produce a valid font (at least I think Java still uses default font values if it can't find the requested one?). Whereas, dumping an actual Font object results in the storing of the specific implementation of the object used. This means that if the user upgrades their JVM to a more recent version (e.g. JDK1.3 to JDK1.4), all their previously stored preferences may be unreadable.

If there were the case, this would be a significant argument against using Java serilization in general... Fortunately, Sun take great pains to make serializable objects portable between JVM implementations.

Read up on the serialVersionUID

Try pairnic. They're part of Pair, one of the best web hosts around.
Pairnic is not the cheapest (for 1 year registrations anyway) but they're worth it, especially if you ever need support. They'll be there...

And I didn't even wait until my dl was finished to post. So there.

Now at a station near you !
Windows : Linorg Projeto Brasil ISC | IndianaU | BinaryCode | ibiblio.org | PAIR | SecsUp | Telentente | Umbc Vienna UT

Linux : IndianaU | ISC | BehrSolutions | BinaryCode | ibiblio.org | pair | SecsUp | Telentente | Umbc Vienna UT Belnet | KULeuvenNet CVUT Sunsite FUNET

Now at a station near you !
Windows : Linorg Projeto Brasil ISC | IndianaU | BinaryCode | ibiblio.org | PAIR | SecsUp | Telentente | Umbc Vienna UT

Linux : IndianaU | ISC | BehrSolutions | BinaryCode | ibiblio.org | pair | SecsUp | Telentente | Umbc Vienna UT Belnet | KULeuvenNet CVUT Sunsite FUNET

Oh sure, I dont think the X-Prize will yeild an immediate competitor to the Shuttle, or the best rockets come to that. For instance, the Atlas 551, as commissioned for the Pluto New Horizons mission in 2006, can lift 20.6 metric tonnes to LEO for a mere(!) $110 million. But even that is too expensive - what the Xprize could eventually deliver is the technology for what the Shuttle should have been - a genuine cheap reusable craft for LEO. When the Shuttle was first concieved, they were going to have 100 missions a year.. It just never really worked out.

if I was you, I'll put some sexy blondes into this screenshot
seriously, you should entertaining your potential customer, not scare them off.

And one step below the 100k threshold lies my favorite host of choice, Pair Networks. And take a look at what the longest running sites are using.

According to the author's site, there's also a newer app that's been more thoroughly reviewed, though I've never used it. Check out CryptoPad.

Cygwin is not an emulator. Why don't you actually get a clue? It's basically a set of UNIX programs compiled for windows. It runs natively on Windows, it can natively run windows programs, et cetera.

The point is, Cygwin supports most UNIX APIs and looks very much like UNIX. However, it isn't. Likewise, MacOS X might look like UNIX. However, it's more like a UNIX compatibility layer on Apple's own system core. There is a ton of proprietary, closed-source, closed-specs stuff like Quartz that is integrated very deeply into the system. MacOS X is, if anything, an updated version of NextStep. I don't think that was ever called UNIX, even though it did have the same kind of UNIX command-line support.

I read through the GCC project for information on compatibility with the Watcom compiler. GCC has been adding alot of cruft and cludging its optimization for a long time. This latest release is quite slow, imho. Anyways, to remind people, the Watcom compiler is freely availble (Sybase Open Watcom Public License version 1.0) at many places. Try it out. I discovered GCC is stopping support for the M68K architecture. What is up with that? M68K is a verry popular architecture that is still used in embedded-Linux solutions. What will they discontinue next, Alpha and Sun Sparc architecture?

One last question to anyone who might be able to answer, anyone tried the Watcom compiler with M68K? I don't have the documentation for Watcom in front of me and would like to answer a friend of mine's question on whether Watcom can cross-compile for M68K. Thanks.

Tom must be the hardware king...

Either that, or Pair Networks know what they're doing.

Jeez, talk about your Landshark Rush! This is going to get horribly violent ... and I like it! Woo-hoo!
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Going from memory, here. But IIRC, the differences are significant - one the order of 10% of the text. CT translations are missing, among other things, the Great Comission, references to Christ as deity, and the Johannine Comma. Proponents of the CT like to insist that the differences cause no fundamental change in doctrine, ignoring the doctrine of preservation. The early writings of the Church fathers also tend to support the TR over the CT, for example:

Well, now they had my attention and interest, but I still wasn't convinced. Finally, after I had bought the entire 11 volume set of early church writings (Ante-Nicene Fathers) from Jesus' time to 300 AD, I noticed that it had a Scripture reference for every single scripture quoted every where in all 10 volumes (11th. is the reference volume). I got an idea. I started to look up all the verses that were supposedly changed or omitted by the modern translations as compared to the KJV. The verses quoted by the early fathers don't read exactly like any translation we have, but guess what?

Yes. In every case, not only did one, but two or three early church pastors, elders, bishops in different times, in different geographical areas (as communication wasn't so good back then), quote the verses essentially with the same content and similar words as the KJV or NKJV. I also found them quoting the verses that were omitted in the new translations. I used to have a detailed study of each verse, who quoted it and how it was worded, by the KJV and modern translation. In every case, it was similar to the KJV.

Now that convinced me. There can be no logical argument against that. If the Textus Receptus had added words and verses to the pure text, as claimed by our smiling modern scholars, then why did the early church have the same ones added to their quotations? It is true that the modern translations are based on the oldest semi-complete N.T. manuscripts: Sinaiaticus, Vaticanicus, and Alexandrius, but they ignore the early church's earlier testimony, including the 5,000 complete, but newer manuscripts (after 500 AD), and the fragments we DO have of 1st. & 2nd. century manuscripts which basically support the Textus Receptus as well.

Looks to me as if Pair Networks is more a webhosting company. Much easier to "deploy" IPv6 in that sort of enviroment. Get a leased line to an 6Bone peering site, enable some BSD/Linux routers (as Cisco didnt' even have production IPv6 code a year ago), and there you go.

Perhaps I googled for the wrong Pair Networks?

The Project Shifts into High Gear

The first step was to place Post-It notes in each location of the plates. As you will remember, we determined the four standard plate configurations that we would be using and which connections each plate offered. We examined our drawing of the plate locations and placed additional Post-It notes on each wall for each of the locations that had the plate type number and the connection number written on it.

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We used standard Post-It notes stuck to the wall to indicate the proposted locations for the jacks.

Labeling each of the connections with a number is very important. Doug created a method where each and every plate had an assigned number. Multiple types of the same type of connection were labeled with a letter. For example, a plate was numbered 1008 in the first floor office. In the data patch panel you would find a connection that was labeled 1008A. If this plate had a second data connection it would be labeled 1008B. The 1008 number carries over to the voice and coax as well, with these being labeled using the same number scheme. As long as you know the plate number, you can find the connection quickly within the patch panels for the voice, data and coax.

The Project Shifts into High Gear, Continued

Once all of the locations were selected and labeled, we then needed to find a pathway to get the cable fished into the existing walls. The challenge was running the cable to the second floor, as there was no direct access from the termination point in the basement to the second floor. The first floor was fairly easy because we had ample access provided by the full basement and crawl spaces under both the first floor office and family room. The termination point that was located in my basement lab was being built from the ground up, so we had the ability to run the cables during the framing process prior to hanging the drywall.

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When you have to pull multiple cables at the same time, the best thing to do is tape the ends of the cables, as shown in the picture.

Getting the cabling to the second floor can present a challenge in any installation. Depending on the age of your home and its design, this task can be more or less difficult. Doug examined several options for doing this while keeping the cabling inside the house. Many installers like to take the easy way out and will want to run the cable outside with some sort of casing like Panduit, for example, and bring it into the attic this way. but is this the way that you would want it done? I don't think so. Perhaps in older homes this is the only option, but it is NOT the preferred method. The better option is to take advantage of existing raceways, ducts, and areas that can be used to route the cabling.

In our case, Doug tapped the knowledge of Newcome team member Jeff Harris, who has over ten years of experience installing alarm systems into pre-existing homes. Jeff spent considerable time examining both our basement and the attic to determine the best solution for running the wiring up to the second floor. Jeff also had to consider building codes and dos and don'ts for running cable up to the second floor. Fortunately, Doug found an old coax cable from a previous cable TV installation that helped clue him in as to how to do this.

The Project Shifts into High Gear, Continued

While it might seem easier to merely snag one of these coax cable or phone wires and tie a pull string to it to run the cable up, this is not really the proper method. The reason is that these cables are often roughed in during the framing and electrical install portion of the construction of the home, and often the wires are stapled to the framing or studs. Thus, when you pull on these cables they go nowhere. Doug and Jeff determined that the coax cable for the cable TV in the front b

The Project Shifts into High Gear

The first step was to place Post-It notes in each location of the plates. As you will remember, we determined the four standard plate configurations that we would be using and which connections each plate offered. We examined our drawing of the plate locations and placed additional Post-It notes on each wall for each of the locations that had the plate type number and the connection number written on it.

(image)
We used standard Post-It notes stuck to the wall to indicate the proposted locations for the jacks.

Labeling each of the connections with a number is very important. Doug created a method where each and every plate had an assigned number. Multiple types of the same type of connection were labeled with a letter. For example, a plate was numbered 1008 in the first floor office. In the data patch panel you would find a connection that was labeled 1008A. If this plate had a second data connection it would be labeled 1008B. The 1008 number carries over to the voice and coax as well, with these being labeled using the same number scheme. As long as you know the plate number, you can find the connection quickly within the patch panels for the voice, data and coax.

The Project Shifts into High Gear, Continued

Once all of the locations were selected and labeled, we then needed to find a pathway to get the cable fished into the existing walls. The challenge was running the cable to the second floor, as there was no direct access from the termination point in the basement to the second floor. The first floor was fairly easy because we had ample access provided by the full basement and crawl spaces under both the first floor office and family room. The termination point that was located in my basement lab was being built from the ground up, so we had the ability to run the cables during the framing process prior to hanging the drywall.

(image)
When you have to pull multiple cables at the same time, the best thing to do is tape the ends of the cables, as shown in the picture.

Getting the cabling to the second floor can present a challenge in any installation. Depending on the age of your home and its design, this task can be more or less difficult. Doug examined several options for doing this while keeping the cabling inside the house. Many installers like to take the easy way out and will want to run the cable outside with some sort of casing like Panduit, for example, and bring it into the attic this way. but is this the way that you would want it done? I don't think so. Perhaps in older homes this is the only option, but it is NOT the preferred method. The better option is to take advantage of existing raceways, ducts, and areas that can be used to route the cabling.

In our case, Doug tapped the knowledge of Newcome team member Jeff Harris, who has over ten years of experience installing alarm systems into pre-existing homes. Jeff spent considerable time examining both our basement and the attic to determine the best solution for running the wiring up to the second floor. Jeff also had to consider building codes and dos and don'ts for running cable up to the second floor. Fortunately, Doug found an old coax cable from a previous cable TV installation that helped clue him in as to how to do this.

The Project Shifts into High Gear, Continued

While it might seem easier to merely snag one of these coax cable or phone wires and tie a pull string to it to run the cable up, this is not really the proper method. The reason is that these cables are often roughed in during the framing and electrical install portion of the construction of the home, and often the wires are stapled to the framing or studs. Thus, when you pull on these cables they go nowhere. Doug and Jeff determined that the coax cable for the cable TV in the front b

Article Info
Building A Home Network From Scratch
Created: June 30, 2003
By: David Stellmack
Category: Networking
Summary:No matter if you choose a wired or wireless network, planning and flexibility are the keys in getting a sucessful installtion that you will be happy with. We were lucky enough to select the right contractor who helped us achieve our goals and exceed or expectations. The result was a state of the art infrastucture that we will not outgrow anytime soon.

Intro (image)

The Ins and Outs of Building a Home Network

With interest rates at an all-time low in the U.S., many Americans are now able to build or buy their first home or, if they are already a homeowner, to upgrade to something better. Buying or building a home offers those who are technology-minded the opportunity to consider the integration of home connectivity up-front. Many new, custom-built homes now offer some level of basic home connectivity as an option; but this is a new phenomenon. Considering that the Internet has become a mainstream feature of our collective lifestyle in just a few short years, unless the home you are buying is fairly new it is likely that you are pretty much left to your own devices when it comes to networking.

First, you have to consider the pipe into your house. Normally, your choices are either DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) or Cable modem; but as many have discovered to their dismay after they have signed on the dotted line of the purchase contract, neither of these options may be available. Generally speaking, the further the home is located from a metropolitan area, the fewer options for Internet connectivity there are. While satellite and ISDN options do exist, they are probably the least desirable solutions.

While we don't suggest that Internet connectivity options should outweigh other factors in a home purchase, if high-speed Internet access is important to you, then it is wise to do some basic investigation as to what options are available at your home location. An hour spent on the telephone with local cable and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may make the difference between satisfaction and regret with a home long after the sale has concluded.

Wired or Wireless?

No discussion of home networking would be complete without a brief discussion of wired and wireless solutions. While wireless solutions offer perhaps the most convenient solution for many home computer users, they may not present the best solution.

"Wireless" is the current buzzword these days, and it seems every hardware product vendor is touting his or her particular ability to provide it. The word "wireless" evokes visions of being able to wander around various rooms in your home or even outside without the network line that tethers home users to a single place. However, depending on the version of wireless you select and/ or are able to afford, your results might not measure up to "manna" grade, or even a mediocre grade, over time. The physical construction, design and layout of your house can affect whether or not wireless is a good solution, and you may have to invest in multiple access points (in infrastructure mode) linked together via Ethernet to provide coverage for wireless access to the various locations within your house.

If wireless coverage isn't an issue, a more important factor might be connection speed. From our testing, many 802.11a 54-Mbit solutions certainly don't have the amount of signal penetration that is required for wireless access in many multi-story homes and office environments. For example, if you have computer systems in the kids' room on the second floor and your family room is located on the first floor some distance away, you may or may not be able to achieve a connection from both places, depending where the access point i

The "new" Finder isn't really that new at all. In fact, much of its basic design is so old it hurts. Have a look at this screenshot from the NextStep OS, and note the "File Viewer". Now compare it to this pic of the "new" Finder's column view. Apparently Mr. Jobs is using his position to bring back as many NextStep-isms as he can. That wouldn't be a bad idea, except the NextStep File Viewer pretty much sucks compared to more modern means of browsing a file system. You get a separate column for every subfolder; more than three levels deep, and it gets difficult to navigate with the column view. Personally, I like folders as a means of organizing files, and things often get nested pretty deep. My experience with NextStep makes me think that trying to browse anything but the flatest of filesystems will likely be horrendously painful with this "new" Finder.

I just loooove those numbers! 600:1, 450cd/m^2, 22ms... So amazing... NOT!

For instance, Viewsonic boasts some imressive contrast ratios. In reality they suck. At least, the viewsonics that I saw on display and had a chance to compare to some other brands were left to shame. Same, but even to a greater extent can be said about response times. Everyone seems to find their own way of defining those. Some for fading of a pixel from white to black; some - from black to white. (notice that those two are QUITE different due to the way those transistors operate). Some go even further and declare that very dark colors are very close to completely black, and very bright colors to white, so they'll measure times for those 'approximate' extremes, and some even just measure the 'common case' response time, whatever that is.

I (and a lot of other people - just check Tom's hardware guide for their LCD overview) seem to notice that there is just way too much fudge in those numbers when it comes to measuring different aspects of LCDs.

Let me give you an example. My monitor (Samsung 181T), for example, boasts 25ms response time. I'd say it's more like 35 (at least that's what tom's hardware guesses it to be and I think he is quite close), but FPS games are a lot more playable on mine than on a lot of other 25ms panels. Why? Probably because their "fudge" factor is a bit smaller. The only real way to tell a difference easily is to look at the same set of tests being displayed on an array of several different panels. First and foremost you'll notice that color fidelity on some of them sucks. That factor alone will probably eliminate more than half of the panels from what you could consider buying. After that try adjusting contrast/brightness and notice that some monitors (notable ViewSonics) are pathetic. After that, if there are any monitors still left, check if their response time is reasonable. Chances are, it isn't. After that, slow down, think and lower your expectations.

When shopping for an LCD I learned a lesson that the numbers you see describing LCDs are not what they appear. There is so much discrepancy in how manufacturers define various parameters that those numbers become close to meaningless. The only numbers that aren't fudged are the resolution and hom much power they use. Maybe also the life of the bulb. That's about it. So, next time you are impressed with the specs of some particular LCD panel, try to see if you can have a look at it next to some other panels, performance of which is known to you. Make sure they are running the same stuff, and see what difference you can see.

C'mon, anyone who has to ask slashdot such easily solvable questions shouldn't be running his own server. Go with a dedicated server. Here's one for $250/month. They'll keep your OS up to date, do the backups for you, and you can continue with your webmonkey expertise.

One thing's for certain. If your website is important enough to pay over $100/month for it, you shouldn't be using shared hosting.

You can get a dedicated server with a 30 GB Disk space, and 60 GB of transfer for $249 a month with Pair Networks. Solid network and uptime. Most server problems are rectified in less than 10-15 minutes(That includes full replacement if nessecarry), and they haven't had a full network outage in over 7 years.

Basically they are just a really good company to work with.

Disclaimer: I do not work for Pair, nor do I get anything for referals I'm just a very satisfied customer.

It's true that many hosts limit base users to about 250 megs -- some even as low as 100 megs (hell, my IMAP box hits that if I don't purge in a week).

That said, I've been extremely happy with Pair Networks, who has continually upped our max space over the years I've been- and most of my clients -- have been -- with them. Ridiculously high uptime, for what it's worth.

$30 for 600 megs ('webmaster' account)really doesn't suck.

Give them (and their co-lo/Quickserve) plans a look.

No, I don't work for them -- but I am one really happy customer.

Obviously they could prosecute the person who incorporated their code illegally into a release that they didn't authorize, but once they start distribution under a license, the people who download that code should certainly have the right to use that code as indicated by the code's license.

There seem to be a lot of people arguing this angle here, and I should not be surprised, as this is /. after all, but it really demonstrates a serious lack of understanding both of copyrights and the nature of these licenses.

Firstly, the only way you can legally release code under *any* license is to be the copyright holder. If I steal code from someone else, and do not have the copyright, then include it in a GPL project and the copyright holder finds out, they have every right to sue, and the GPL actually becomes invalid for that software because the copyright ducks are not in a row.

If I am the copyright holder and I release code under the GPL, then of course I can release code under a different license later, but I cannot take back the original license. This is essentially what happened to ssh and is why the OpenSSH project was able to be jump started. The original SSH was released under a fairly open license, and though subsequent versions were proprietary, the old version could be used and built upon.

In the case of an employee things are a bit stickier since essentially an employee represents the company they work for, who is the copyright holder. IANAL, but AIUI, if an employee acts without authorization and/or against the company's interest, they can be said not to truly represent the company in their actions and therefore are personally responsible (if I steal a printer from work, I cannot say that as a representative of the company this makes the company responsible).

Besides employees likewise sign IP agreements which specifically cover this sort of thing. Everything they do for the company is (c) TheirCompany and they are forbidden to divulge company secrets, thus creating a blanket injunction which is meant to cover just this sort of eventuality.

So in short, no, having someone "sneak in" code under a Free Software license does not make it magically legal as the basis for release (ownership of copyright) is not met in such cases. And there is precedent for such a case, ironically probably brought on by the same individuals (as the execs who were with Novell when it sued UCB for "stealing Unix code" are now with SCO).

But SCO's argument is (or was) that Un*x itself is their `IP'. They can't really argue they didn't know Linux was Un*x-based.

BUt Linux is not Unix based. Or rather it is supposed not to be. It is a kernel which loosely conforms to as much of POSIX as possible with a userland which for the most part was based on the GNU tools (GNU's Not Unix!) and BSD (also not UNIX.

I know this is a bit off-topic and may seem somewhat inflamatory, but I really feel I need to respond to this.

Implying that the moon landings were a hoax is foolish at best, but more so very insulting to the thousands of people involved in the project and the dozens of astronauts that risked (and in some cases lost) their lives for it. I'm not going to say any more about this except to recommend that you read Philip Plait's Bad Astronomy web site, more specifically the section on Moon Landing Hoax theories.

Regarding the use of the Saturn V booster since SkyLab... Why? Whilst these were powerful and flexible boosters and had a perfect launch record, they did not have a perfect test record and it was only a matter of time before a launch accident occured (which, I might add, could have been catostrophic at and around the launch pad). They were also pretty expensive and difficult to operate. I highly recommend you take a look at one of the Saturn Vehicle Histories you'll find on-line. If you have any lingering doubts as to the existance of the F-1 or the Saturn V, there are still some in existance you might want to have a look at for yourself.

I know this is a bit off-topic and may seem somewhat inflamatory, but I really feel I need to respond to this.

Implying that the moon landings were a hoax is foolish at best, but more so very insulting to the thousands of people involved in the project and the dozens of astronauts that risked (and in some cases lost) their lives for it. I'm not going to say any more about this except to recommend that you read Philip Plait's Bad Astronomy web site, more specifically the section on Moon Landing Hoax theories.

Regarding the use of the Saturn V booster since SkyLab... Why? Whilst these were powerful and flexible boosters and had a perfect launch record, they did not have a perfect test record and it was only a matter of time before a launch accident occured (which, I might add, could have been catostrophic at and around the launch pad). They were also pretty expensive and difficult to operate. I highly recommend you take a look at one of the Saturn Vehicle Histories you'll find on-line. If you have any lingering doubts as to the existance of the F-1 or the Saturn V, there are still some in existance you might want to have a look at for yourself.

IIRC the capsule is also used on launch, and rockets have escape mechanism with additional boosters
(check the page for description of how it worked too) on top of the rocket that carry top part away from exploding rocket or ejection seats.

IIRC the capsule is also used on launch, and rockets have escape mechanism with additional boosters
(check the page for description of how it worked too) on top of the rocket that carry top part away from exploding rocket or ejection seats.

Also, if the local box doesn't have cpu to spare, a dedicated cpu farm for SA could be used. I guess your "Not easily" comment covers this. :)

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I've had a many-year-long relationship with Pair Networks, and am a huge fan with several hosting accounts.

Pair's one of the oldest and most respected hosting companies out there. They've got ridiculous amounts of bandwidth, and are very generous with hosting allowances.

For example, you can add as many domains under a single $30/mo "Webmaster" account as you'd like for an additional $1 apiece, and their $30/mo account has a 600mb allowance.

Their servers are running FreeBSD, and they allow shell access and custom binaries (custom-compiled PHP, for instance) on their Advanced and higher accounts.

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