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VikingBrad writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on Dr Warwick Toomey of The Unix Heritage Society claiming that SCO may not know the origin of code in System V, including claims that there is a lot of BSD software in Sys V."
Alex writes "I wondered where the 100k+ lines of copied code
in the linux kernel would come from in comparison
to the SCO Unixware stuff. Then a thought popped
up in my head: what if they just compared linewise?
All those empty lines in the code would have the
same content. But how many empty lines are in the
Linux Kernel Code? This small shell script counts them for you:
emptylines=0; function parse_dir () { for file in $1/*; do if [ -d "$file" ]; then parse_dir $file; else while read line; do if [ "$line" = "" ]; then emptylines=$[$emptylines+1]; echo $emptylines; fi; done
Kernel 2.4.22, yet cleaned of the code which SCO
claimed was stolen, has still 733140 empty lines, probably copied and pasted by the bad, bad kernel developers from the good, good SCO guys..."
Great, you guys get the spammers, and i'll clean up on their 12 yr old daughters.
These stupid cut/paste posts are NOT USEFUL. The article is NOT SLASHDOTTED. These are trolls trying to get long/annoying posts moderated to the top of everyone's page, or when they're not an AC, a idiot karma whore. Please refrain from moderating these things up as you're doing nothing to help us.
Col Seddon wrote the following in usenet, comp.sys.amiga.games, in refrence to people asking where they can find games from the mid 80's to run on the amiga ( mostly via emulation).
Secondly, EVERYONE WHO PUBLICISES, ADVOCATES, ATTEMPTS OR OTHERWISE AIDS PIRACY ON THIS NEWSGROUP WILL LIKELY BE REPORTED TO THEIR ISP.
Sorry for the all caps, folks, but this needs to be said, and everyone needs to read it. If you don't like this policy (which I plan to enforce as strictly as I reasonably can, publicising when I report someone to make an example of them) don't post here, it's as simple as that. Feel free to also e-mail abuse@pol.co.uk and complain to them about what I'm doing - they will laugh at you, and probably forward your message to me so I can laugh too.
Smackdown needs to be laid on comp.sys.amiga.games. I have already started the process, noble people who want to participate, please join the forumn and voice your valued oppinion. There will be much entertainment.
Notwithstanding senators.
One smartass remark is a -1 Troll, another that is almost exactly the same is +4 Funny.
Pull your heads out!
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
You just have to comment on everything dont you? Especially hours after the original post was made and hours after you've lost any chance at getting your lame attempt of a joke modded up. Are posts like this how you got to be the most prolific poster (3500+ posts! sheish!) this AC has ever seen?
Because all operating systems are written by programmers, I assume that any operating system is much smarter than me. Thus, any good operating system should try to outsmart me by restricting my options at every turn. Linux, like all versions of Unix, is lousy at restricting my options because at the command line virtually any operation can be performed with ease. (For example, 'rm -rf /win' could 'delete an entire mounted directory, with no popup window warnings whatsoever.)
I'm proud to say that there is no such danger in Windows Server 2003. Windows pop up when I want to make a change, and then more pop up to ask if I'm sure I want the change. Thankfully, Windows Server 2003 looks after my computer's well-being by occasionally switching configuration settings from the way I want them to what the OS programmers think they might probably ought to be. Boy, I'm just impressed with how smart they are. Once I learned to live with whatever the default settings are on any new hardware I install, I can't say the number of hours I have saved.
I use that spare time to reboot my Windows Server 2003 machine multiple times a day. Technical support personnel recommend that I do it regularly-- kind of like brushing my teeth. To help remind me of this necessity, windows pop up to tell me to reboot whenever I make a configuration change. By now my machine is minty fresh, I figure.
There is no such useful rebooting in a Linux system. It is as reliable as the sunrise, with uptimes in weeks, months and years. Virtually no configuration change requires a reboot, to boot. Imagine all that plaque in the computer. Gross!
In Windows I am prevented from making dangerous fundamental configuration changes unless I use a special "registry editor". I have found it so useful to have this separate editor that I hope in future versions they go all the way and supply a separate editor for each file on the disk-- in that way windows could pop up at every keystroke to warn me that changing any line in the file I am editing could cause the system to not run properly. If this were only the case, people would finally learn that it is best to just stick with the mouse and they would be freed of the need to constantly move their hands back to the keyboard. (If one stops to think about it, the mouse is a much better device to use than the keyboard. Ever hear of someone getting carpal tunnel syndrome from a mouse? No. It's comfortable and ergonomic. Like Morse code devices. That's how long distance communication started, after all.)
Linux, by contrast, requires no special editor to change configuration files. The fact that there is no "registry" in Linux allows the abomination of using any text editor whatsoever to do the configuration. Can you believe that configuration files are usually stored clear text? Talk about dangerous!
I am also happy to report that I have experienced no truth to the rumor that Windows disks become corrupt after improper shutdowns. Indeed, I have been forced to improperly shutdown the machine innumerable times after it locks up, and I have no apparent problems to report regarding the disk. No such claim can be made for Linux. They say something about lack of data points. Excuses are all I ever seem to hear from the Linux crowd.
By sheer size alone, Windows Server 2003 beats Linux hands down. It is so much bigger, it is _obvious_ that it is better. Why would you want a small OS with the large disks and RAM sizes we have these days? For this reason alone, I heartily recommend Windows as a way to maximize resource utilization. Your CPU and disk will constantly be pegged to the limit, the way god intended. The Linux kernel and drivers accounts for only about 750KB. Why, even the Microsoft Win16 subsystem uses more space than that.
It is no surprise that Windows Server 2003 costs $300 on the retail market and Linux doesn't cost anything. People know what they want, and they want Windows Server 2003. Because Linux is free, that means it's basically worthless. T