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Royal Bank of Canada Cashes Out of SCO; SCO Begins Layoffs
jbell99999 is the first one to submit news that the Royal Bank of Canada is divesting itself of SCO stock. They're selling part of their preferred stock to Baystar, which has already indicated that they want to redeem their shares, and converting the rest to regular stock, which they can presumably sell on the open market. In other SCO news, Versicherung writes "The Santa Cruz Sentinel is reporting, SCO is laying off 10 percent of its worldwide workforce. The cuts come less than a month after the company brought on a new chief financial officer and just before the company ended its second fiscal quarter April 30." See also stories at Eweek and Linuxinsider.com.
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First post! W00t!
That's why I always follow the rule that says if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Anyone who invests in the stock market should keep this in mind before they throw money at companies like SCO and BreX.
Yikes... spell-check your sig, dear friend.
Way off-topic, but eh...
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
What, no Netcraft posts yet?
Stupid eh-hole, don't bask too long in the "glory" of the Canadian education system. Learn to spell richt. Sigs cause cancer.
I switched from Linux to Windows about 3 years ago. It was just a pain in the ass to try and do anything in linux. You want to install a network card? Better set aside a weekend to recompile the kernel and then spend countless frustrating hours trying to configure everything.
Plug the same card into a windows machine and you're browsing the web in under 5 minutes.
Just this week I'm trying to give linux another shot. I have an old powerbook I want to set up as a wireless web browsing station, and WiFi cards that it supports are all 5 year old tech which is still a lot more expensive than a new card, so using YellowDog linux seemed like an ideal solution. The main install went well enough, expect it's only got a 2 gig drive and the distro puts a lot of useless junk on (like PPoE) so there's no room for X.
Then I have to spend hours browsing poorly written howtos and websites to find a driver that *might* support my network card. I downloaded the prism2 sourcefiles (since it's running on a PPC, I couldn't find a binary version), and then when I try to 'make configure' it wants the kernel source code...okay, I download the kernel source code, and prism still says it's missing or incomplete. I even tried recompiling that source and I get the same problem.
It's just not worth it. I'll spend the $1600 on a new powerbook (that will run OSX and includes an apple WiFi card). Anything is better that continuing to struggle with linux.
This is not the year of linux yet. Maybe I'll try it again on a desktop in a couple of years.
It works well enough on the server; I do have a linux server that started as slackware 3.3, and maintaining server features is reasonably easy, but linux is still useless on the desktop.
This is just another proof.
Yes, I misspelled one word in there. So be it, just more to the point of what I was saying. We are no better then the rest of the planet, spelling errors included.
For this monstrous calamity of an offense, I trust that my trial on charges of treason to the sacred cow of national superiority will be short and execution swift and merciful.
Don't you mean "truly fearsome Paladins"?
Kill, Tux, kill!
Is that a sword or a toilet plunger you are holding, Sir Knight? Herr Knight?
How does one address a spelling Nazi exactly?
FOR ME TO POOP ON!
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.