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AMD Donates Servers to Groklaw
Core 2 Duo writes "Apparently, someone at AMD noticed that Groklaw has been having trouble running on the old IBM servers ibiblio uses, so they donated two powerful AMD Opteron servers to ibiblio specifically for Groklaw's use. Curiously, this means that Groklaw is no longer hosted by IBM's servers, but SCO's own investor relations website is."
The anti-SCO funding conspiracy has widened to include IBM, AMD, *and* SCO!
SCO's "investor" relations website?
:-)
I don't think that there's very many "investors" in SCO any more. Perhaps the server space could be put to better use
Neil
Yeah, and the Swift Boat Veterans use Apache.
It's like the world is upside down!
Please engage sense of humor before flaming. Sheeze.
You know, just to keep things fair. But unfortunately they're Linux, and I don't have enough cash to buy licenses for them. Ah well.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
..found at the end of the article: So... somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.
So thanks P.J. for the Sound of Music reference. Where do I begin? I am sixteen going on seventeen... or maybe Edelweiss, Edelweiss, you look happy to meet me... or maybe even when the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember AMD's gift, and then I don't feeeeeeeel soooo baddddddd
How long has that been there?
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
because here comes the Slashdotting.
Is this their way of atoning for their heightened interest in DRM? "We'll give PJ two servers, but you give up framebuffer access."
Rumor has it that Slashdot runs on a beowulf cluster of these babies.
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I know this is OT, but whenever I read groklaw, I always see it as GroKlaw. The favicon doesn't help any either. It's like a green Zoidberg. While I don't care what others do with their own bodies, personally, I want no part of it. What are those mutant clawed people going to do with computers anyway? Not type, that's for sure. *shudder*
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Where will SCO get their servers from ?
Who will Darth McBride will get his car and parts from ?
(they've sued DaimlerChrysler and AutoZone too)
The problem with being a stupid troublemaker and
Microsoft shill is that noone respects you anymore.
It's very clear that apart from the companies engaged
into some form of Linux distribution, and apart from
their (former) customers, there's little respect
for The SCO Group in the marketplace at large.
AMD's support is clearly a vote for high ethical
standards and transparency, something The SCO Group
is not exactly renowned for.
I am a little curious
to see how this saga
ends, but I guess I
was hoping it would
take less than a decade
to resolve.
Hi PJ, we will need to meet you to sign some papers for the servers...
Why is a Core 2 Duo submitting news about AMD anyway?
Doesn't anynoe think it's odd that this story about an AMD donation was posted by "Core 2 Duo", which is linked to the Intel page? Since there's no user page for that name, I'm assuming that it's not a person, but somehow a special submission... odd, together with this new Intel Opinion center... might it have caused some bias?
Sorry for the use of the word logic in connection with SCO, but I believe the following scenario wouldn't be too far fetched:
hackers of the world unite!
Oh delicious irony. It only seems like yesterday when someone said:
v e_1.html
;-)
"AMD plans to block access to the framebuffer in hardware to help enforce DRM schemes,
such as allowing more restricted playback of Sony Blu-Ray disks.
They can pry my Print Screen key from my cold, dead fingers."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcur
Groklaw; Better head down to Staples for some legal pads and boxes of biros. You're gunna need them!
Most people today wouldn't realize it, but OpenServer and UnixWare were excellent products to use even into the late 1990s. Before about 1999, Linux just wasn't suitable to use for most serious server applications. Sure, you could run a small web or FTP server on a PC running Linux, but that's where it maxed out.
That's just not true. Linux was perfectly suitable for serious server applications. I know of several enterprises that used Linux servers for mission critical applications as early as 1996, including a firm I worked for in the financial industry. At that time, Linux on high-end PCs was a better solution than Solaris 2.6 on Sparc hardware for a number of trading applications. Of course, both Sun and Linux have moved on from there, with Sun taking the lead on some out-of-the-box enterprise solutions, and Linux taking the lead in other ways (custom solutions, cost, openness, etc.).
As for SCO having been one of the better Unicies around, it had a terrible reputation as early as 1989, and was never thought highly of by myself or any of my colleagues, in constrast to HPUX, Sun, BSD, the various free BSDs, and Linux. Obviously some industries embraced SCO, but others (the financial industry in particular, where latency, uptime, performance, and security are paramount) soundly rejected it from day one. So to characterise it as "often the best UNIX systems to use on PC hardware" post 1994 is IMHO pretty erroneous. Pre-1992 there was no Linux or FreeBSD on PC hardware, so with MINIX being SCO's main competition, your argument becomes stronger, but by the late 1990s it certainly wasn't the case.
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Your sig is illegal if you are in the US. It falls under 'inciting violence' and is thus not protected speech. It does however show you for what you are; a typical rabid liberal who wants to kill anyone who doesn't agree with him.
Stephen? Stephen Colbert? Is that you?
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PJ is really a lawyer working for AMD.
It was an ironic punishment for the DRM story about them earlier (which I also submitted). Of course, it looks like Intel is doing that, too, as part of the TCPA crap, so...
:)
Anyhow, if you're going to submit "anonymously" why not leave an entertaining name? Actually, you've seen lots of crazy names and fake(?) emails on my anonymous submissions before. But, for some reason, there's almost always one and only one comment noticing the name. This time, it's you
> On the other hand, this can all be explained by submitters trying to be clever. But that's not nearly as fun.
:) I'm not an editor, though, although you've probably seen many of my stories and you didn't realize it. Unless you were one of the few people who noticed the strangely appropriate name used...
I'm the submitter both of the DRM story and this one. No clue who Spinnerbait is, though? I mean, you can put ANYTHING *cough*Microsoft Delenda Est*cough* in there, and most people will ignore it. Well, except that one guy who knew what it meant.
I was just having a little fun and punishing AMD a little for the DRM, even while thanking them for their support of Groklaw