The company I work for makes servers. BIOS issues are a major headache for us. For example, we had a long email thread with a mobo vendor where they sent us a new BIOS yesterday that works with the 2.4 kernel but not with the 2.6 kernel.
Normally motherboard manufacturers are pretty responsive about fixing BIOS bugs or adding features, but we think we could do even better ourselves.
While we haven't sold Linux BIOS on any of our systems yet, we have donated hardware for testing and we follow their progress.
EFI is designed for the ia64. It doesn't look like that platform is going to take off, but maybe EFI will survive on its own.
Someone already correct your mistake. Slashdot got the story _exactly_ right.
The interesting question is whether SCO will refile. If they don't refile, then it's still ambiguous who owns the copyright. If they do refile then the judge strongly indicated that he wanted to rule on whole own the copyrights (as apposed to ruling on malice). He also hinted that he would likely rule in favor of Novell on the copyright claims.
They'll obviously choose to refile or not based on which one can draw out the process longer.
IBM's not actually saying "Put Up Or Shut Up". That's sort of what they said with the request for a Declaratory Judgement.
This request for a summary judgement is more, "You've been claiming for a year to have evidence. You've been told twice by Judge Wells to produce evidence. You've signed avidavits that you've produced all the evidence. But you still haven't produced any evidence." The point to produce evidence or to shut up has come and gone but you haven't produced any.
At some point the judge has to decide whether IBM violated the copyrights or not. SCO hasn't shown and evidence and they've sworn that they showed everything they have. Either SCO is lying or IBM hasn't violated their copyrights...
In my testing, ext3 is the most reliable Linux journalled filesystem.
Click here to download my filesystem test. You should run it as root overnight if you want to test your fs. (Warning there is a chance of pretty bad corruption). On ext3, the file system has never been corrupted and the computer has never crashed.
I'd also be interested if someone could run the test on OS X.
Brian Skiba and his assistant at Deutsche Bank both left to work for a company in California. The question to me is, if they left on their own, or if they were encouraged to leave after DB got a subpeona from IBM?
The SCOX stock price has been hovering at the $6.00 mark for the last couple days, always closing just above. It could be that a bunch of people have set things up so that they automatically purchase SCOX when it's less than $6.00. This isn't necessarily manipulation at all.
>>Then we can safely assume you are a master coder whose word is law in GNU/Linux?
Programming is not so hard. People act like it's a lot harder than it really is.
If there is something that bothers me enough about software, then I might eventually get off my lazy tail end and fix it. It's been known to happen. It's no big deal...
Translating a book to film has sometimes been done baldy and sometimes been done well. The same is true for games.
The big difference is that books always about telling a story and games are sometimes about twitch reflexes. Twitch games could be made into a movie, but what's the point? Story games could be made into great films.
The Final Fanatasy games are about telling a story more than anything. The movie failed because the story in the movie was not as good as the stories in the games.
In the FF games, the authors have 70+ hours of game play to create an environment. There are all kinds of sub plots, funny characters, and emotional episodes. The scenery in the games is very rich with complex architecture and cultural settings.
In the FF movie, there was no humour and very little emotion.
I really didn't understand this complaint from the article at all to be honest. The author is looking for reasons to get upset but not able to any good ones.
"Open source doesn't have any documentation, project X does, but normally it doesn't and I'm upset by that.
Also the Project X documentation uses technical terms. I can understand it perfectly, but some people probably couldn't. I'm upset by that too.
If I couldn't understand the documentation then I would just use the email support but what about if I didn't know how to access email? What would you do for me in that case? Plus I don't like email because no one searches the archives, instead they just ask the same questions over and over and rely on pity for the answer!!! I'm really getting my panties in a knot now aren't I!!!"
The fact is Project X had documentation, she understood it fine and she was also aware of the email support list. She should find something real to complain about instead.
You know what else would be good, is if we had some kind of device to poke users in the eye. Beeping sounds and flashing alarms don't send users a clear message. If we could deliver a swift poke in the eye with a pointed device then users would sit up and pay attention.
Would you prefer that your deck was broken or would you prefer that it was fixed badly? Obviously, you'd prefer the latter because that's what you ended up with...
I guess it's because the RIAA is illegally abusing their monopoly to make the internet worse for everyone.
Personally, I don't use iTunes and I buy used CDs or CDs from independent artists. But stuff like this potentially gets non programmers interested in computer laws and encourages them to contribute to the EFF. If that happens that is a good thing.
The is some organization buying huge lots of SCOX and so no sort of news affects the share price these days. It's not the stock buy back, since SCO can only buy employee stock.
My mother isn't a programmer. She always jokes around that I work for KFC (the Colonel get it). But she can install Click and Run software. That's the type of software I try to write; stuff that's easy to install and easy to use.
With JAVA no matter how hard you work, your installer will always be as bad as the Sun JDK installer.
So your program works two non-free JVMs that don't come by default on RedHat, Suse, Debian, Mandrake, Lindows, Xandros, or anything else worth mentioning.
Have you ever tried to get your mother to install the Sun JVM? I had to help my Computer Science professor do it so I know that it's difficult.
Basically I want my software to _work_. Even when I give programs to kernel hackers I try explain things so that anyone can do it. Java programs are impossible to support in this way.
Last week on IRC I watched 2 reasonably well known kernel programmers trying to get a Java bench marking program to work for half an hour before they gave up.
It cracked me up.
Was the CLASSPATH set? Did they have the newest Sun JVM? They still couldn't figure it out.
They obviously weren't using a default system otherwise they would have been using a free JVM. So they had a better than 25% chance of getting it to work but it still didn't.
> I've only had one serious issue with getting Java programs to run on Windows, OS X and Linux
I really don't care if you can run your program on Windows or OS X. I'm just talking about running your java program no the _default_ Linux JVMs. Try all the Free JVMs that come with Debian and then tell me that you haven't had any problems.
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>> not to mention less attractive - physical appearance has been shown to be a major factor in hiring decisions
Just get a decent hair cut and wear appropriate clothes. When I'm 50, I intend to look fairly styling...
> Tough, it's happening
The company I work for makes servers. BIOS issues are a major headache for us. For example, we had a long email thread with a mobo vendor where they sent us a new BIOS yesterday that works with the 2.4 kernel but not with the 2.6 kernel.
Normally motherboard manufacturers are pretty responsive about fixing BIOS bugs or adding features, but we think we could do even better ourselves.
While we haven't sold Linux BIOS on any of our systems yet, we have donated hardware for testing and we follow their progress.
EFI is designed for the ia64. It doesn't look like that platform is going to take off, but maybe EFI will survive on its own.
We'll see what happens...
The lurkers...
We're watching everything you do.
And we're not amused.
I agree that it would be a good feature. Konqueror let's you do this.
Someone already correct your mistake. Slashdot got the story _exactly_ right.
The interesting question is whether SCO will refile. If they don't refile, then it's still ambiguous who owns the copyright. If they do refile then the judge strongly indicated that he wanted to rule on whole own the copyrights (as apposed to ruling on malice). He also hinted that he would likely rule in favor of Novell on the copyright claims.
They'll obviously choose to refile or not based on which one can draw out the process longer.
LinuxToday doesn't actually control their own adds, and the editor likes it that way. The ads are controlled by the parent company Jupiter Media.
LinuxToday is _more_ trust worthy because they don't deal with advertisers directly.
IBM's not actually saying "Put Up Or Shut Up". That's sort of what they said with the request for a Declaratory Judgement.
This request for a summary judgement is more, "You've been claiming for a year to have evidence. You've been told twice by Judge Wells to produce evidence. You've signed avidavits that you've produced all the evidence. But you still haven't produced any evidence." The point to produce evidence or to shut up has come and gone but you haven't produced any.
At some point the judge has to decide whether IBM violated the copyrights or not. SCO hasn't shown and evidence and they've sworn that they showed everything they have. Either SCO is lying or IBM hasn't violated their copyrights...
Heh heh. You're right, of course.
It's pretty easy to audit the script.
There is a older version of the script included in the last couple LTP releases. If you'd prefer.
In my testing, ext3 is the most reliable Linux journalled filesystem.
Click here to download my filesystem test. You should run it as root overnight if you want to test your fs. (Warning there is a chance of pretty bad corruption). On ext3, the file system has never been corrupted and the computer has never crashed.
I'd also be interested if someone could run the test on OS X.
Brian Skiba and his assistant at Deutsche Bank both left to work for a company in California. The question to me is, if they left on their own, or if they were encouraged to leave after DB got a subpeona from IBM?
The SCOX stock price has been hovering at the $6.00 mark for the last couple days, always closing just above. It could be that a bunch of people have set things up so that they automatically purchase SCOX when it's less than $6.00. This isn't necessarily manipulation at all.
>>Then we can safely assume you are a master coder whose word is law in GNU/Linux?
Programming is not so hard. People act like it's a lot harder than it really is.
If there is something that bothers me enough about software, then I might eventually get off my lazy tail end and fix it. It's been known to happen. It's no big deal...
Translating a book to film has sometimes been done baldy and sometimes been done well. The same is true for games.
The big difference is that books always about telling a story and games are sometimes about twitch reflexes. Twitch games could be made into a movie, but what's the point? Story games could be made into great films.
The Final Fanatasy games are about telling a story more than anything. The movie failed because the story in the movie was not as good as the stories in the games.
In the FF games, the authors have 70+ hours of game play to create an environment. There are all kinds of sub plots, funny characters, and emotional episodes. The scenery in the games is very rich with complex architecture and cultural settings.
In the FF movie, there was no humour and very little emotion.
Groklaw coverred the story.
Fortunately he wrote an article answering that exact question a while back for lwn.net
So you might ask yourself: Why is there a sudden rise in pushing for GPL enforcement by the netfilter/iptables project? The remainder of this article will try to give you an answer from the project's point of view.
PS: Subscribe to lwn.net. They're good people.
Slashdot is consistent, it's Sun which is utterly nuts.
There are a bunch of books on using the GIMP.
I really didn't understand this complaint from the article at all to be honest. The author is looking for reasons to get upset but not able to any good ones.
"Open source doesn't have any documentation, project X does, but normally it doesn't and I'm upset by that.
Also the Project X documentation uses technical terms. I can understand it perfectly, but some people probably couldn't. I'm upset by that too.
If I couldn't understand the documentation then I would just use the email support but what about if I didn't know how to access email? What would you do for me in that case? Plus I don't like email because no one searches the archives, instead they just ask the same questions over and over and rely on pity for the answer!!! I'm really getting my panties in a knot now aren't I!!!"
The fact is Project X had documentation, she understood it fine and she was also aware of the email support list. She should find something real to complain about instead.
You know what else would be good, is if we had some kind of device to poke users in the eye. Beeping sounds and flashing alarms don't send users a clear message. If we could deliver a swift poke in the eye with a pointed device then users would sit up and pay attention.
Would you prefer that your deck was broken or would you prefer that it was fixed badly? Obviously, you'd prefer the latter because that's what you ended up with...
The same is true for software.
I guess it's because the RIAA is illegally abusing their monopoly to make the internet worse for everyone.
Personally, I don't use iTunes and I buy used CDs or CDs from independent artists. But stuff like this potentially gets non programmers interested in computer laws and encourages them to contribute to the EFF. If that happens that is a good thing.
I contribute to the EFF too.
>> I don't think you hold copyright on a derivative work - not even the "diff" you created.
Legally you do, if the diff is copyrightable. It's always safest to assume that it is.
>> I generally just turn over copyright to the owner, so it does not come up,
By definition if you signed a copyright transfer then it came up. Your statement is self contradictory.
You wish.
The is some organization buying huge lots of SCOX and so no sort of news affects the share price these days. It's not the stock buy back, since SCO can only buy employee stock.
My mother isn't a programmer. She always jokes around that I work for KFC (the Colonel get it). But she can install Click and Run software. That's the type of software I try to write; stuff that's easy to install and easy to use.
With JAVA no matter how hard you work, your installer will always be as bad as the Sun JDK installer.
So your program works two non-free JVMs that don't come by default on RedHat, Suse, Debian, Mandrake, Lindows, Xandros, or anything else worth mentioning.
Have you ever tried to get your mother to install the Sun JVM? I had to help my Computer Science professor do it so I know that it's difficult.
Basically I want my software to _work_. Even when I give programs to kernel hackers I try explain things so that anyone can do it. Java programs are impossible to support in this way.
Last week on IRC I watched 2 reasonably well known kernel programmers trying to get a Java bench marking program to work for half an hour before they gave up.
It cracked me up.
Was the CLASSPATH set? Did they have the newest Sun JVM? They still couldn't figure it out.
They obviously weren't using a default system otherwise they would have been using a free JVM. So they had a better than 25% chance of getting it to work but it still didn't.
> I've only had one serious issue with getting Java programs to run on Windows, OS X and Linux
I really don't care if you can run your program on Windows or OS X. I'm just talking about running your java program no the _default_ Linux JVMs. Try all the Free JVMs that come with Debian and then tell me that you haven't had any problems.
>> moved it to Linux from Windows NT
Perhaps you didn't read my post. I'm talking only about running it on Linux. Did you try running it with the Kaffe JVM? Linux users will.