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The article is incorrect. The actual SCO OpenServer certification status is:
1. SCO OpenServer does not hold a Unix 98 cert, AIX does. 2. SCO OpenServer does not hold a Unix 98 cert, True64 does 3. SCO OpenServer does not hold a Unix 98 cert, Solaris does. 4. SCO OpenServer does not hold a Unix 95 cert, AIX does
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infty. SCO holds only a 95 cert for Unixware which it bought (and certified for the bought code, nothing later on) and for which the Open Group holds some of the trademarks anyway.
It is called Quality Assurance. Very unpopular lady. But very nice to know.
Besides that what does it mean behind?
Off the top of my head: Debian has been shipping automounter 4.0 singe days unknown. Redhat as of 8.0 is still stuck in the low 3.x versions. Difference - with redhat you can hang the machine easily on automounting and you cannot automount smbfs, afs, etc shares. There are other examples as well.
So behind in the version numbers of latest wizzy-sleazy visual candy crap does not mean behind in usability on a company network. Just the opposite.
Nope, but not for the reason you have been thinking of.
Mister House (which itself is OK) is usually used to drive X10 hardware which excuse me for the engineering language is a crock of shit. Low bandwidth (several bits per second) shared bus over power line. Once you got past 4-5 peripherals and it has just started to look really usefull you start getting gremlins. Lights coming on and off by themselves, central heating going haywire and so on. Most importantly it starts taking up to 10 seconds for some of the sensors to respond to a poll. So your garage lamp gets turned on 10 seconds after your IR sensor reacts.
No thanks.
Do not smoke this shit (have friends who do though). Once I am done with all the current house work I will wire some of the stuff but it will be using good ole cat5 for the sensors on dedicated wiring. And good ole cat5 to the relays once again on dedicated wiring. And some use for some good ole serial boards that will otherwise byte the bullet. Possibly once again driven by a heavily modified mister house but no X10.
The point is designing an rail launcher. Which is what these guys do for a living.
Problem with rail launchers is that the aerodynamics of moving surfaces located close to one another at such speeds is horror squared if not even to a higher degree. That is the reason people still use rockets to fire loads in space instead of this. Idea is there, has been there for ages, but we have at least 20 years to go before we understand some of the preliminaries for a successful implementation.
That is before correcting for the wrong kind of meters used by the British Rail companies. Ask anyone british they will explain you the idea of wrong leaves, wrong snow and wrong jet engines when it comes to rail service. Very popular concept around here;-)
For example - George Bush without the "W". Quote (from a 1999 interview): "I trully believe that an atheist cannot be a citizen of this great country".
So is his favourite pet Tony B. He got asked the question about his support for creationism in the house of commons and he could not answer.
You forgot ot add something - easy to manufacture. VW was manufactured all over the third world because you could assemble it in any small factory. Same goes for AKs.
PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BUYING STUFF THAT THEY GET SPAMMED ABOUT!
Correct. That is the reasom I have cancelled all Amex accounts in my household, do not buy anymore from play.com, etc. But IMO what I have done is an exemption, not the rule. After all there are still people who believe in Nigerian SCAMs out there;-)
I have been saying it since 1995. Even as far back as that (1.2.x - 1.3.x) linux on the same hardware was beating the shit out of it. I had to replace sevearal SCO systems with linux at the time and my overall impressions were:
1. SCO was slower 2. SCO was horrible to maintain 3. The file system hierarchy had nothing in common neither with system V, nor with posix, nor with anything else for that matter 4. It was so ridden with security holes that it could be hacked by script kiddiez on the fly. Raising the sec to higher levels (C2) even made the job easier for them beacause half of executables were setuid to maintain the functionality for C2 and almost every one of them had a buffer overrun. 5. The only thing it was useful for was running Oracle on a PC.
Since then, linux has got better. And as 5 is no longer the case SCO is dying. Frankly it deserves anything it gets. All IBM needs is an injunction preventing SCO from enforcing the 100 day clause in its contract. After that it is game over.
The netnanny alert sets off simulatenously on all employees in the company. That is mayhem and destruction way beyond the scale of an average virus. It is havoc squared;-)
1. In all countries that have reasonable diesel uptake to be interested in BioDiesel the government earns a considerable amount through fuel tax. As a result they are scared shitless of any chance for people to manufacture fuel themselves. A good example is UK where the Customs and Excise department staged ambushes on roads in Wales last year to stop cars that do not smell of abnoxious gasoline fumes and require them to immediately present a document that proves that their fuel has paid fuel duty. Any cars that could not prove this on the spot were impounded. Considering that in the UK you do not even need to carry a driving license with you to drive you can judge by yourself how scared the treasury is. It is the same as with the use of natural gas. The UK government has done anything in their power to make sure that the uptake of that one is only token and very low and is done in a way that cannot use household gas so that it does not hit their revenue stream.
1.1. To add to 1, despite the fact that Biodiesel has a flash point of 300 degrees plus and is as safe to handle as fuel can get government still classes it as car fuel for storage purposes so that people who can buy bulk cannot store it (UK has an ancient wartime law that prohibits the storage of more then 20l of petrol outside a car fuel tank without a license).
2. Biodiesel is manufactured at the moment largely from recycled oil that will have to be disposed of (usually burned) because it is an extreme environmental pollutant. To produce Biodiesel stuff is filtered through HEPA and some of the more obnoxious soluble impurities are removed by running it past an absorbent. It is also usually dried from excess water. In civilised countries the food producers (including the ones that produce bulk rate bakery and supermarket foods) are required to dispose of the oil in a legit manner. AFAIK at the moment less then 0.001% is used.
1. This guy has a fame of designing impossible things. He also has an unlimited budget. Several years ago he showed that it is possible to design, test-fly and bring to test sample production a light military fighter jet with less then 5 million. So all he needs to do now is go to the Home Defense or whatever this abomination is called now and say: "Hay we had two obscure characters in burkas asking for samples of that old jet aircraft programme, and we need some money by the way".
2. The predecessor of this craft (the Proteus) solved the biggest problem of all drop launches. The drop launches so far have been looked upon (within the Shuttle and Buran programs) and abandoned, because in order to be feasible the drop aircraft needs to go way beond the 12-14 km of the current cargo jets. We are talking 17km+ at least. The Proteus as far as I recall does that. It was designed to fly high as a radio relay.
It was bought with the Alpha team. Dec, then Compaq has had it in development for circa 10 years before don Cappella decided that they cannot make processors (can someone finally deliver him some clue through the relevant orifice). IBM got it through an older partnership with Compaq/Alpha that predated the sale to Intel.
Anyway, if not this idiotic decision to sell your crown juvels the game in the server town would have been quite different now. Basically the PPC and Alpha would have been multithreaded while Intel would have still cooked eggs (or boiled water) in a single thread of execution.
Every monitor has a refresh rate where it whines. You can hardly help it. I am writing this on a professional Iiyama 19" CRT which is the only brand I have been buying for ages for both home and work. They all have the disgusting habit of humming if you are trying to run them at a refresh rate that is too low. You raise the refresh where it belongs and things come back to normal. Actually while on the subject Viewsonic is crap compared to Iiyama.It is not as crap as Philipps which has never learned to converge a color mask.
The best way to undestand what a monitor is worth is not Internet, store or luser reviews. All you need to run is X. That is just X, no managers, nothing. The ugly gray background in naked X immediately shows any unevenness in the color mask, blurr, anything. So until you have run X (without any apps and without tools to set it) and have played with the refresh rates to see how it looks you do not know what you are working on.
Ah... and do not buy monitors with built in speakers. Whatever the brand. Run X on them and see how the color convergence goes to hell near the speakers if you wander why.
If you cannot run X for technnical reasons find the same background and view it under one of those "other" OSes.
Try that option on the following computer shop: www.globaldirect.co.uk. It tries (or at least tried) to set the session cookie with every single image or page it sends. So you get an overall of 40-50 cookie dialogues. And there are quite a few sites like that out there so the average Joe Public will disable this option outright
If the telescope is in space the Sun closes only several degrees of the viewing angle.
While definitely annoying this is not anywhere close to critical. So unless there will be some other pressing need, this is way off. Also the telescope should be put into one of the main Sun/Earth Lagrange points (L1 or L2), not arbitrary 3/6 months before/behind us.
If you are talking abot a 1000000 dollar application that is to be used by 20-30 potential customers - no. ClearSales, SAP, telco level oice switching etc are a good example. They require up to 3-7 million per year worth of extensive fiddling with them to keep them working and useful for whoever bought them.
So stop seeing all software as a personal editor. It aint.
No probs. Even a standard cheap shit safe box can keep data safe for 2h at 910C outside. That is the minimal criteria for a data safe and for example my safe box at home has been sertified to it (I hope it never get tested in real conditions if the cert is real).
So I do not see a problem for a dedicated collection box to keep tape alive in it. After all it is not the box to survive. It is the tape within.
The incoming ports looks like coming from a NAT. Real IPs in the AsiaPac are hard to find so so methinks that you are seeing two ISPs nats and quite likely the real culprits are quire different.
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The article is incorrect. The actual SCO OpenServer certification status is:
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1. SCO OpenServer does not hold a Unix 98 cert, AIX does.
2. SCO OpenServer does not hold a Unix 98 cert, True64 does
3. SCO OpenServer does not hold a Unix 98 cert, Solaris does.
4. SCO OpenServer does not hold a Unix 95 cert, AIX does
ad naseum...
infty. SCO holds only a 95 cert for Unixware which it bought (and certified for the bought code, nothing later on) and for which the Open Group holds some of the trademarks anyway.
More info on:
http://www.opengroup.org/products/cert/certprod
So SCO has no legal right to call their flagship product unix anyway. Openserver is not and should not be allowed to be called Unix.
It is called Quality Assurance. Very unpopular lady. But very nice to know.
Besides that what does it mean behind?
Off the top of my head: Debian has been shipping automounter 4.0 singe days unknown. Redhat as of 8.0 is still stuck in the low 3.x versions. Difference - with redhat you can hang the machine easily on automounting and you cannot automount smbfs, afs, etc shares. There are other examples as well.
So behind in the version numbers of latest wizzy-sleazy visual candy crap does not mean behind in usability on a company network. Just the opposite.
er... is that without a gnu shell or without a shell?
Ash does the job nicely and it ain't GNU as far as I recall. It is actually more posixly pedantic then bash.
Nope, but not for the reason you have been thinking of.
Mister House (which itself is OK) is usually used to drive X10 hardware which excuse me for the engineering language is a crock of shit. Low bandwidth (several bits per second) shared bus over power line. Once you got past 4-5 peripherals and it has just started to look really usefull you start getting gremlins. Lights coming on and off by themselves, central heating going haywire and so on. Most importantly it starts taking up to 10 seconds for some of the sensors to respond to a poll. So your garage lamp gets turned on 10 seconds after your IR sensor reacts.
No thanks.
Do not smoke this shit (have friends who do though). Once I am done with all the current house work I will wire some of the stuff but it will be using good ole cat5 for the sensors on dedicated wiring. And good ole cat5 to the relays once again on dedicated wiring. And some use for some good ole serial boards that will otherwise byte the bullet. Possibly once again driven by a heavily modified mister house but no X10.
That is not the point.
The point is designing an rail launcher. Which is what these guys do for a living.
Problem with rail launchers is that the aerodynamics of moving surfaces located close to one another at such speeds is horror squared if not even to a higher degree. That is the reason people still use rockets to fire loads in space instead of this. Idea is there, has been there for ages, but we have at least 20 years to go before we understand some of the preliminaries for a successful implementation.
That is before correcting for the wrong kind of meters used by the British Rail companies. Ask anyone british they will explain you the idea of wrong leaves, wrong snow and wrong jet engines when it comes to rail service. Very popular concept around here;-)
It is the entire clan:
For example - George Bush without the "W". Quote (from a 1999 interview): "I trully believe that an atheist cannot be a citizen of this great country".
So is his favourite pet Tony B. He got asked the question about his support for creationism in the house of commons and he could not answer.
You forgot ot add something - easy to manufacture. VW was manufactured all over the third world because you could assemble it in any small factory. Same goes for AKs.
Does not look like a standard AK magazine... This is shorter so it may be under 10 rounds ;-)
All 3 and 4 U ACME rack cases used to come with a filter on the air intake.
Correct. That is the reasom I have cancelled all Amex accounts in my household, do not buy anymore from play.com, etc. But IMO what I have done is an exemption, not the rule. After all there are still people who believe in Nigerian SCAMs out there ;-)
Check the nuclear/thermonuclear bomb development history. You will find the answer.
Forgot to add: eager to supply blood, piss and grime for a lifetime.
I have been saying it since 1995. Even as far back as that (1.2.x - 1.3.x) linux on the same hardware was beating the shit out of it. I had to replace sevearal SCO systems with linux at the time and my overall impressions were:
1. SCO was slower
2. SCO was horrible to maintain
3. The file system hierarchy had nothing in common neither with system V, nor with posix, nor with anything else for that matter
4. It was so ridden with security holes that it could be hacked by script kiddiez on the fly. Raising the sec to higher levels (C2) even made the job easier for them beacause half of executables were setuid to maintain the functionality for C2 and almost every one of them had a buffer overrun.
5. The only thing it was useful for was running Oracle on a PC.
Since then, linux has got better. And as 5 is no longer the case SCO is dying. Frankly it deserves anything it gets. All IBM needs is an injunction preventing SCO from enforcing the 100 day clause in its contract. After that it is game over.
The netnanny alert sets off simulatenously on all employees in the company. That is mayhem and destruction way beyond the scale of an average virus. It is havoc squared ;-)
Nope, that is not the reason.
Here is why:
1. In all countries that have reasonable diesel uptake to be interested in BioDiesel the government earns a considerable amount through fuel tax. As a result they are scared shitless of any chance for people to manufacture fuel themselves. A good example is UK where the Customs and Excise department staged ambushes on roads in Wales last year to stop cars that do not smell of abnoxious gasoline fumes and require them to immediately present a document that proves that their fuel has paid fuel duty. Any cars that could not prove this on the spot were impounded. Considering that in the UK you do not even need to carry a driving license with you to drive you can judge by yourself how scared the treasury is. It is the same as with the use of natural gas. The UK government has done anything in their power to make sure that the uptake of that one is only token and very low and is done in a way that cannot use household gas so that it does not hit their revenue stream.
1.1. To add to 1, despite the fact that Biodiesel has a flash point of 300 degrees plus and is as safe to handle as fuel can get government still classes it as car fuel for storage purposes so that people who can buy bulk cannot store it (UK has an ancient wartime law that prohibits the storage of more then 20l of petrol outside a car fuel tank without a license).
2. Biodiesel is manufactured at the moment largely from recycled oil that will have to be disposed of (usually burned) because it is an extreme environmental pollutant. To produce Biodiesel stuff is filtered through HEPA and some of the more obnoxious soluble impurities are removed by running it past an absorbent. It is also usually dried from excess water. In civilised countries the food producers (including the ones that produce bulk rate bakery and supermarket foods) are required to dispose of the oil in a legit manner. AFAIK at the moment less then 0.001% is used.
It will.
1. This guy has a fame of designing impossible things. He also has an unlimited budget. Several years ago he showed that it is possible to design, test-fly and bring to test sample production a light military fighter jet with less then 5 million. So all he needs to do now is go to the Home Defense or whatever this abomination is called now and say: "Hay we had two obscure characters in burkas asking for samples of that old jet aircraft programme, and we need some money by the way".
2. The predecessor of this craft (the Proteus) solved the biggest problem of all drop launches. The drop launches so far have been looked upon (within the Shuttle and Buran programs) and abandoned, because in order to be feasible the drop aircraft needs to go way beond the 12-14 km of the current cargo jets. We are talking 17km+ at least. The Proteus as far as I recall does that. It was designed to fly high as a radio relay.
It was bought with the Alpha team. Dec, then Compaq has had it in development for circa 10 years before don Cappella decided that they cannot make processors (can someone finally deliver him some clue through the relevant orifice). IBM got it through an older partnership with Compaq/Alpha that predated the sale to Intel.
Anyway, if not this idiotic decision to sell your crown juvels the game in the server town would have been quite different now. Basically the PPC and Alpha would have been multithreaded while Intel would have still cooked eggs (or boiled water) in a single thread of execution.
here went my mod poinst - sighh...
Every monitor has a refresh rate where it whines. You can hardly help it. I am writing this on a professional Iiyama 19" CRT which is the only brand I have been buying for ages for both home and work. They all have the disgusting habit of humming if you are trying to run them at a refresh rate that is too low. You raise the refresh where it belongs and things come back to normal. Actually while on the subject Viewsonic is crap compared to Iiyama.It is not as crap as Philipps which has never learned to converge a color mask.
The best way to undestand what a monitor is worth is not Internet, store or luser reviews. All you need to run is X. That is just X, no managers, nothing. The ugly gray background in naked X immediately shows any unevenness in the color mask, blurr, anything. So until you have run X (without any apps and without tools to set it) and have played with the refresh rates to see how it looks you do not know what you are working on.
Ah... and do not buy monitors with built in speakers. Whatever the brand. Run X on them and see how the color convergence goes to hell near the speakers if you wander why.
If you cannot run X for technnical reasons find the same background and view it under one of those "other" OSes.
Try that option on the following computer shop: www.globaldirect.co.uk. It tries (or at least tried) to set the session cookie with every single image or page it sends. So you get an overall of 40-50 cookie dialogues. And there are quite a few sites like that out there so the average Joe Public will disable this option outright
If the telescope is in space the Sun closes only several degrees of the viewing angle. While definitely annoying this is not anywhere close to critical. So unless there will be some other pressing need, this is way off. Also the telescope should be put into one of the main Sun/Earth Lagrange points (L1 or L2), not arbitrary 3/6 months before/behind us.
Bollocks.
Depends what are you talking about.
If you are talking about a desktop editor - yes.
If you are talking abot a 1000000 dollar application that is to be used by 20-30 potential customers - no. ClearSales, SAP, telco level oice switching etc are a good example. They require up to 3-7 million per year worth of extensive fiddling with them to keep them working and useful for whoever bought them.
So stop seeing all software as a personal editor. It aint.
No probs. Even a standard cheap shit safe box can keep data safe for 2h at 910C outside. That is the minimal criteria for a data safe and for example my safe box at home has been sertified to it (I hope it never get tested in real conditions if the cert is real).
So I do not see a problem for a dedicated collection box to keep tape alive in it. After all it is not the box to survive. It is the tape within.
The incoming ports looks like coming from a NAT. Real IPs in the AsiaPac are hard to find so so methinks that you are seeing two ISPs nats and quite likely the real culprits are quire different.
I guess you are deaf or something. I have mine underclocked by 300. So it is f*** quiet. Dunno about AMD but it will make me switch to Via.