UnXi's claim that you link to http://www.sco.com/5reasons/#5 is just lies. In the UK, I think the Trading Standards Authority would have something to say. If one thing is now clear, SCO never owned the rights to Unix, never owned unix, still don't own unix.
I like the comment on this page which says "UnXis's award-winning Global Services offer a complete portfolio[...]". Which "Awards" exactly? Buying the remains of SCO probably $600k down-the-drain. I also note on the The OpenGroup's website (the owners of UNIX), that they (TheOpenGroup) own the trademark UNIXWARE. So what do UnXi actually own? A few hundred thousand lines of unmanageable and out of date code? Seriously guys, Unixware and OpenServer are deader than a dead thing with dead dangly bits.
> You can incorporate it into your own code, provided that you license your code as GPL (commercial software doesn't usually allow that)
Actually, you only have to license your code as GPL if you distribute it. I know it's a small point (why would you write software and then not distribute it?!), but if you don't distribute your code (binary and/or source) you can use GPL code without restriction.
Don't think this fiasco is over yet. The UK government has a rather poor record of securing data. It won't be long until the entire database is up on WikiLeaks.
We're a funny lot in the UK. The English are particularly strange. I should point out that I was born in the fine county of Essex, England. We don't eat horses. We don't eat dogs. We don't (on the whole) eat veal. And we definately don't eat Blue Fin tuna. However, we do produce veal.... we just ship it to Europe. What we don't eat gets turned into dog food. Similarly, we have alot of dear (venison), but instead of eating it ourselves, we (again) feed it to cats and dogs. I don't know if we export horse meat, but I'd wager that we do..... we just won't eat it ourselves. Me? Well I'm English.
UK Schools now routinely use the "Data Protection Act" or "Privacy Concerns" to prevent parents taking photos of their children at school plays, sports days, assemblies, award ceremonies, etc. Actually, the "Data Protection Act" doesn't have anything to do with this. The schools are petrified that one pervert might come into their school and take photos of kids and upload them to some sicko website (Myspace, Facebook, Bebo???) and get the school a whole load of bad publicity. When I was recently "told off" by my daughter's Karate instructor for taking photos just before a grading (she got a green belt), I did feel like saying "Where exactly in the Data Protection Act does it say I can't take pictures of my children?". Of course I didn't, I wanted my child to be able to take part. However I was denied the opportunity to have any photographic record of her achievements. There is also the fact that many schools make money out of videoing these events and selling the DVD's. The schools are just protecting a revenue stream. There's nothing to stop the perverts buying the DVD and having a jolly good hand shandy over it. Where's the "Data Protection Act" now?!!
Does anyone ever read TFA at slashdot, or do any research before posting a comment. Oh... sorry, this is slashdot, of course they don't! The iter website actually lists the consortium as "China, EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the USA". Indeed if you want to get a job there, you need to be citizen of one of those areas. I'm British, which is (just about!) part of the EU, so I'm eligible. As it happens, they also include Switzerland with "EU", even though it isn't. The ITER project builds on the developments at JET and other fusion projects..... which have been looking for a way to get fusion working for along time already. Considering the potential benefit, the time and effort is worth it. Actually, I think it will take us that long to get to grips with the potential outcome. Imagine the disasterous consequences to the global economy if oil and gas were suddenly made worthless! Has anyone thought of doing the financial modelling of the possibility that ITER is successful?!
They still have Unixware and SCO OpenServer, which are "Unix Products". They also (presumably) have Caldera (Linux) and DrDos. To be honest, I can't imaging anyone actually making any money out of these products now.
Sophos's main website is www.sophos.com. Sophos is the solution I have chosen for the company I work for. The "Enterprise Console" stuff requires a Windows server. As it happens, Sophos had a centralised administration system called "InterCHK", and that could be used with a linux server (that's how I originally set it up), however the new tools are Windows only (shame). I recently evaluated NOD32: I came to the conclusion that the centralised adminitstration wasn't as good as Sophos, so stuck with Sophos (despite the Windows Server issue). I should point out that I still occasionally get computers which get compromised..... it's always the "Road Warriors". We've not had a virus enter through the main network since I've worked here. I should add that the gateway is a linux box and it scans emails using ClamAV. My vote: Sophos (but you're gonna need a Windows box to run the "Enterprise Console" on.
I think this one fifth is a gross under-estimate. Don't forget that almost half the earth is bathed in sunlight most of the time. I'd reckon that at any one time, no more than a third of the population can see the stars at all!
I'd be more worried about taking too much energy from the Gulf Stream, therefore depriving Northerm Europe of its warm water, plunging us into a man-made Ice Age. Solves the global warming issue though!
Indeed. Palm is dead. If you have shares in Palm sell them quick while they're still worth something. Shame really. Actually, ironic really, since it's Apple who is really hammering the last nail into the coffin..... remember, it was Palm that took the PDA concept from Apple and made it work. Now Apple has retaken the last of that market and killed it. Poetic justice I guess.
Outlook has a cute little bug associated with IMAP folders and using more than one mail client..... Outlook will send a "The email was not read" read receipt if the email is deleted from the imap folder before you've read it in Outlook... even if you tell Outlook not to send read receipts. This is rather annoying if you routinely use an alternative email to delete your spam. The next time you load Outlook it sends out a load of read receipts to the spam merchants, therefore confirming you (my!) email address.
P.S. Check out: here, here, and here. It's not just me!
The answer is strangely detailed in the previous Slashdot posting, namely the Conficker worm. Just install the Conficker/Downadup worm/virus on every PC and server in the building and walk out!
This ridiculous venture is exactly what is wrong with the world. If Osama Bin Laden want to strike at the heart of what is wrong with the "west", Dubai is the place he should start. Seriously, have these people not heard of global warming? Even if they power this thing with solar energy, it's still a massive waste... think of all the other things that could be done with that energy. Jesus!
Is it just me, or is this post completely disuncomprehensional? OK, I expect to come across legal gobble-de-gook that I don't understand on Groklaw... but on slashdot?
So... who is John B. (Jack) Thompson? What does "disbarred" mean? (I know what "barred" means. It means "not allowed to". So "disbarred" means "_is_ allowed to"....???) And WTF does this have to do with the price of carrots?... or.... ?
OK, on the BBC, they _keep_ on telling us what "credit crunch" means... and where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is... and it can get a bit annoying that they keep on explaining the bleedin' obvious, but this post takes the biscuit.
> "... and cheap Blu-ray players that cost > less than $200."
Cheap... cheap compared to what? Cheap compared to a standard DVD player that you can get for £17 ($34). BlueRay as a format is failing because BluRay players are still expensive compared to DVD players.
Concerning the DRM issue. Most people (non slashdotters) don't care about DRM. They want to buy a DVD and play it on thier DVD player.
In our house, we have three DVD players.... before I start buying BluRay discs as the default, ALL three players will have to be BluRay capable. Cost is still the main issue.
I generally find them rather arrogant... and often rather smelly. Generally with unwashed long hair and long straggly beards. All-in-all, rather unpleasant characters.
You go from this > Joules = (1000 * [0/0]) + (-1000 * [0/0])
to this > Joules = (1000 * 0) + (-1000 * 0)
But 0/0 is not 0! Infact 0/0 is undefined.
Here's a simple "proof" that 1=2:
a=b a*a = a*b (that is, multiply both sizes by a) a*a - b*b = a*b - b*b (that is, take away b*b from both sides) (a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b) (note the diference of two squares) a+b = b (cancel out a-b from both sides) b+b = b (remember a=b) 2b = b 2 = 1 (that is, cancel out bs fom both sides).
The error in this proof is the cancelling out on both sides of (a-b), which is 0 because a=b.
You can't divide by zero. Can't be done. 0/0 is not 0. Sorry.
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UnXi's claim that you link to http://www.sco.com/5reasons/#5 is just lies. In the UK, I think the Trading Standards Authority would have something to say. If one thing is now clear, SCO never owned the rights to Unix, never owned unix, still don't own unix.
I like the comment on this page which says "UnXis's award-winning Global Services offer a complete portfolio[...]". Which "Awards" exactly? Buying the remains of SCO probably $600k down-the-drain. I also note on the The OpenGroup's website (the owners of UNIX), that they (TheOpenGroup) own the trademark UNIXWARE. So what do UnXi actually own? A few hundred thousand lines of unmanageable and out of date code? Seriously guys, Unixware and OpenServer are deader than a dead thing with dead dangly bits.
I thought that WindowsNT was heavily influenced by the VMS architecture?!
> You can incorporate it into your own code, provided that you license your code as GPL (commercial software doesn't usually allow that)
Actually, you only have to license your code as GPL if you distribute it. I know it's a small point (why would you write software and then not distribute it?!), but if you don't distribute your code (binary and/or source) you can use GPL code without restriction.
Don't think this fiasco is over yet. The UK government has a rather poor record of securing data. It won't be long until the entire database is up on WikiLeaks.
> On the other extreme, rising star Chrome appears to be left out, too. What does Google think of that?"
Who are JPMorgan Chase? I did a Google search for them and I didn't find anything?
I agree.
And, IBM will never be replaced as the dominant PC manufacturer.
We're a funny lot in the UK. The English are particularly strange. I should point out that I was born in the fine county of Essex, England. We don't eat horses. We don't eat dogs. We don't (on the whole) eat veal. And we definately don't eat Blue Fin tuna. However, we do produce veal.... we just ship it to Europe. What we don't eat gets turned into dog food. Similarly, we have alot of dear (venison), but instead of eating it ourselves, we (again) feed it to cats and dogs. I don't know if we export horse meat, but I'd wager that we do..... we just won't eat it ourselves. Me? Well I'm English.
UK Schools now routinely use the "Data Protection Act" or "Privacy Concerns" to prevent parents taking photos of their children at school plays, sports days, assemblies, award ceremonies, etc. Actually, the "Data Protection Act" doesn't have anything to do with this. The schools are petrified that one pervert might come into their school and take photos of kids and upload them to some sicko website (Myspace, Facebook, Bebo???) and get the school a whole load of bad publicity. When I was recently "told off" by my daughter's Karate instructor for taking photos just before a grading (she got a green belt), I did feel like saying "Where exactly in the Data Protection Act does it say I can't take pictures of my children?". Of course I didn't, I wanted my child to be able to take part. However I was denied the opportunity to have any photographic record of her achievements. There is also the fact that many schools make money out of videoing these events and selling the DVD's. The schools are just protecting a revenue stream. There's nothing to stop the perverts buying the DVD and having a jolly good hand shandy over it. Where's the "Data Protection Act" now?!!
So, SCO is actually worth less than I thought! Oh well. You can't win them all.
Does anyone ever read TFA at slashdot, or do any research before posting a comment. Oh... sorry, this is slashdot, of course they don't! The iter website actually lists the consortium as "China, EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the USA". Indeed if you want to get a job there, you need to be citizen of one of those areas. I'm British, which is (just about!) part of the EU, so I'm eligible. As it happens, they also include Switzerland with "EU", even though it isn't. The ITER project builds on the developments at JET and other fusion projects..... which have been looking for a way to get fusion working for along time already. Considering the potential benefit, the time and effort is worth it. Actually, I think it will take us that long to get to grips with the potential outcome. Imagine the disasterous consequences to the global economy if oil and gas were suddenly made worthless! Has anyone thought of doing the financial modelling of the possibility that ITER is successful?!
They still have Unixware and SCO OpenServer, which are "Unix Products". They also (presumably) have Caldera (Linux) and DrDos. To be honest, I can't imaging anyone actually making any money out of these products now.
Sophos's main website is www.sophos.com. Sophos is the solution I have chosen for the company I work for. The "Enterprise Console" stuff requires a Windows server. As it happens, Sophos had a centralised administration system called "InterCHK", and that could be used with a linux server (that's how I originally set it up), however the new tools are Windows only (shame). I recently evaluated NOD32: I came to the conclusion that the centralised adminitstration wasn't as good as Sophos, so stuck with Sophos (despite the Windows Server issue). I should point out that I still occasionally get computers which get compromised..... it's always the "Road Warriors". We've not had a virus enter through the main network since I've worked here. I should add that the gateway is a linux box and it scans emails using ClamAV.
My vote: Sophos (but you're gonna need a Windows box to run the "Enterprise Console" on.
I think this one fifth is a gross under-estimate. Don't forget that almost half the earth is bathed in sunlight most of the time. I'd reckon that at any one time, no more than a third of the population can see the stars at all!
I'd be more worried about taking too much energy from the Gulf Stream, therefore depriving Northerm Europe of its warm water, plunging us into a man-made Ice Age. Solves the global warming issue though!
Vim
nuf sed
Emacs!
Indeed. Palm is dead. If you have shares in Palm sell them quick while they're still worth something. Shame really. Actually, ironic really, since it's Apple who is really hammering the last
nail into the coffin..... remember, it was Palm that took the PDA concept from Apple and made it work. Now Apple has retaken the last of that market and killed it. Poetic justice I guess.
> ARM netbook is Linux...
Don't let Apple hear you say that! :-)
Outlook has a cute little bug associated with IMAP folders and using more than one mail client..... Outlook will send a "The email was not read" read receipt if the email is deleted from the imap folder before you've read it in Outlook... even if you tell Outlook not to send read receipts. This is rather annoying if you routinely use an alternative email to delete your spam. The next time you load Outlook it sends out a load of read receipts to the spam merchants, therefore confirming you (my!) email address.
P.S. Check out:
here,
here,
and
here. It's not just me!
The answer is strangely detailed in the previous Slashdot posting, namely the Conficker worm. Just install the Conficker/Downadup worm/virus on every PC and server in the building and walk out!
This ridiculous venture is exactly what is wrong with the world. If Osama Bin Laden want to strike
at the heart of what is wrong with the "west", Dubai is the place he should start. Seriously,
have these people not heard of global warming?
Even if they power this thing with solar energy,
it's still a massive waste... think of all the other things that could be done with that energy.
Jesus!
Is it just me, or is this post completely disuncomprehensional? OK, I expect to come
across legal gobble-de-gook that I don't understand on Groklaw... but on slashdot?
So... who is John B. (Jack) Thompson? What does "disbarred" mean? (I know what "barred" means. It means "not allowed to". So "disbarred" means "_is_ allowed to"....???) And WTF does this have to do with the price of carrots? ... or .... ?
OK, on the BBC, they _keep_ on telling us what "credit crunch" means... and where the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is... and it can get a bit annoying that they keep on explaining the bleedin' obvious, but this post takes the biscuit.
As Magee would say. Sheesh. WTF?! Rant over.
> "... and cheap Blu-ray players that cost
> less than $200."
Cheap... cheap compared to what? Cheap compared to a standard DVD player that you can get for £17 ($34). BlueRay as a format is failing because BluRay players are still expensive compared to DVD players.
Concerning the DRM issue. Most people (non slashdotters) don't care about DRM. They want to buy a DVD and play it on thier DVD player.
In our house, we have three DVD players.... before I start buying BluRay discs as the default, ALL three players will have to be BluRay capable. Cost is still the main issue.
> How Do You Find Programming Superstars?
I generally find them rather arrogant... and often rather smelly. Generally with unwashed
long hair and long straggly beards. All-in-all, rather unpleasant characters.
You go from this
> Joules = (1000 * [0/0]) + (-1000 * [0/0])
to this
> Joules = (1000 * 0) + (-1000 * 0)
But 0/0 is not 0! Infact 0/0 is undefined.
Here's a simple "proof" that 1=2:
a=b
a*a = a*b (that is, multiply both sizes by a)
a*a - b*b = a*b - b*b (that is, take away b*b from both sides)
(a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b) (note the diference of two squares)
a+b = b (cancel out a-b from both sides)
b+b = b (remember a=b)
2b = b
2 = 1 (that is, cancel out bs fom both sides).
The error in this proof is the cancelling out on both sides of (a-b), which is 0 because a=b.
You can't divide by zero. Can't be done. 0/0 is not 0. Sorry.