I don't care what Novell says. They're trying to smooth feathers is all. Go back and read the entire statement Ballmer made and tell me you didn't feel physically revolted by his words. I know I did.
Yeah, I'm with you, pal. When I consider Steve Ballmer's comments regarding this deal, it stinks to high heaven. There's no way Novell or Microsoft will ever square this deal in my eyes in light of those patent threats made by the CEO of Microsoft. Novell's proper reaction should have been to turn right around and drop the deal once they heard what that creep was spouting. "Undisclosed balance sheet liability" my arse.
No matter what Novell does, they still look to me to have been bullied into this agreement. Most likely MS came to Novell threatening legal action and this is how they settled it. We weren't inside, and we'll never know, but that's what this whole thing feels like to me.
...of iptables or netfilter did they steal from Linux to make up their new traffic-shaping capabilities that has been in Linux and other *nix variants for years?
Woot, MS just got a bit more professional in their offering. How nice.
OpenDocument is the format that OpenOffice.org and StarOffice use for their documents, the one that's completely open, the one that Massachusetts wanted to standardize their document processes on but got shut down once Microsoft tossed their gubernatorial candidate/winner into the mix and scapped that show.
OpenXML, on the other hand, is Microsoft's proprietary format that it wants to be registered as an open standard, however it won't be truly as it has patent encumbrances. Besides, Microsoft likely sees OpenXML as another way to extort the computer industry for more licensing fees.
Well, okay, maybe we're to that part just after the middle of the end, just before the bad guy takes one between the eyes for the Gipper or something like that.
Here's his opinion on the whole sordid mess, but in brief, he says that SCO no longer matters, and that he probably won't report further on it until final resolution.
I'm happy to see things finally start to kill off SCO's FUD machine. This, friends, is the beginning of the end for IBM v SCO.
Nice knee jerk reaction, bungwipe. You're the exact target the idiotic Patriot Act was meant to placate. Now that you've got your false sense of security, what are you going to do with it?
I want to see the list of what Ballmer and cohorts assert is infringed in Linux. I want to see what components of the Linux OS are supposedly infringing. Until I see that, Ballmer's words are so much FUD and bullshit that I'm ready to vomit.
I don't suppose e360 tried registered mail, return receipt requested via snail mail, did they? Or did e360 simply send Spamhaus email from the same e360 servers that are blocklisted and then said Spamhaus didn't respond?
What SCO relies on as evidence of code copying is their employee Sandeep Gupta's Redacted Declaration, in which he details what he believes to be the major copying offenses. However, Gupta's analysis of the code, as rebutted by Brian Kernighan, doesn't exclude materials that SCO couldn't claim copyright over, such as code that is mandated by standards and common industry practices, materials which have already been placed in the public domain, and elements of code over which SCO couldn't claim ownership. Also, IBM claims that they have received from Caldera licenses to use the code.
IBM's Summary Judgment motions are works of art. They're clear, they're concise, and I cannot see how SCO could squirrel out of having their entire case tossed away like so much garbage. I'm looking forward to the 25th of this month as we'll finally see what the SCO weasels try to pull to keep this whole farce alive. I expect to be laughing like a hyena as I read those memos.
Not to mention the nightmare that would go with securing a distributed lot of little computerized devices. I can't imagine what fun *THAT* would be.
Sheesh, it's this kind of thinking that makes my own head spin. CEO's are so far removed from the details that go into keeping their data and programmable processes safe and reliable that they come up with silly ideas like this.
They've been screwed since day one of the whole litigious fiasco. Shame seems not to have any effect or relevance to the SCOX management team, though, as they still believe their campaign to extort money from anyone/everyone associated with Linux development is the One True Way to corporate enlightenment. Unfortunately for them, potential customers are scared of doing business with them with their litigious ways, and efforts to support and sell UNIX and their Me mobile platform are being met with the sound of chirping crickets from all reports. Even their financials have shown a glum outlook, and they've consistently lost money ever since the fourth quarter of 2003 as a result.
Tough shit. Sue all your friends and see how long they remain so. Sounds like a fine way to build a business... NOT!
I gave up on PC World back in about 1993. Back then it was a pile of commercial shite. I'm certain it's devolved even further on the evolutionary ladder since then.
I recently switched from my computer tech position to a home-based medical and legal transcription gig. I ftp down audio files from my employer, transcribe the reports, and return the finished work via ftp. No download work, no get paid. This summer, I've worked out on the deck in my yard, from my ex-wife's house in TN, and from various motel rooms I've stayed in during vacations and trips to pick up my son for spring and summer visits. The freedom is awesome, but it makes booking a motel room a real bitch, especially if you want to stop and stay the night in the middle of KY, where internet access is a rarity, to sightsee.
I've been slowly blocking out Comcast's virus-infected customers using iptables. I receive spam, analyze it to find the IP address of where it came from, whois that IP address, and then simply block the CIDR address covering that range of users. Lately most of the spam I've been receiving is from Comcast IPs along with other large cable companies (RoadRunner, Adelphia, Cogent, Sprint, etc), and I'm very happy with the resulting reduced load on that machine.
Thanks spammers! You've helped me build a very effective spam firewall!
Looks like Tivo is going for a Microsoft-like monopoly over the video-on-demand and record-and-playback market. Yeah, real good for them, I'm certain as now they can charge whatever the want for the service. Meanwhile, customers and other companies that geared up to compete, hopefully keeping Tivo on its toes and the pricing down, lose.
Even though the new air travel rules say you can't bring computing equipment on board as carry-on, I'm certain they priced themselves right out of any chance of anyone buying the service. No one's going to pay $5/hour just to surf the 'Net.
My own personal belief is that 'Net access should start to become like electricity, gas, water, and other utilities and just as ubiquitous and accessible. If I go to a hotel, it should be free access, wired or wireless. The hotels that want to rape you for $10 a day or more need their heads examined. Sure, it's profitable, but I've selected hotels based solely on whether or not they provided free internet access.
Wanna tell me how I type medical transcription with HEADERS ALL IN CAPS without a capslock key and still maintain enough speed to remain profitable?? You really wanna make my job that much harder, what with my already having to listen to grammatically-challenged, supposedly-degreed professionals, usually through a thick accent, under unrealistic deadlines that already make my job a supreme challenge?
FUCK YOU.
The person with this idea needs to expand his world vision beyond his own little chunk of reality and think of others who might actually need that key to survive.
All the movie remakes are what is getting my goat. I've seen all the original movies while growing up in the 70s, so why would I want to see the remakes at today's inflated movie prices? Of all the remade movies that have been released in the last ten or fifteen years, I can't count on but one hand the number that impressed me as being better than the original.
Bewitched: Dumb. The Flintstones movie: Shoulda left it as a cartoon, the live-action remake sucked goat nuts. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Ain't seen it, but damn, it looks like a piece of ass and friends say it doesn't compare to the Gene Wilder classic. About the only fare I've been able to tolerate that seem like remakes are the latest creations by Stan Lee and Marvel Comics like Xmen and Spiderman. Those films rocked.
I blame this lack of creativity as stemming from a generation of people who had all their stories created for them then spoonfed via television for the past four decades. Before then, people had to actually make up new stories to entertain themselves. Maybe we need some cataclysm that would take away television and other entertainment to get people back into the creative groove, or we need to douche Hollywood as there seems to be a bit of constipation in that festering anus of a town.
I think if I were confronted with that same situation, I'd say, "Excuse me?" I'd then say nothing more, leave the entire order there at the checkout, and leave the store.
I refuse to shop with merchants who agree to help our currently corrupt government turn American into the Home of the Paranoid and Land of the Caged.
As I sit here in my living room, windows closed and heat turned on, the outside temperature is a chilly 57 degress at 9 am on a Monday morning in Detroit. Normal temps about this time of day and year would be 20 degrees higher. The last thing I'm worried about is my machines overheating.
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I won't be able to get my WoW fix tomorrow morning. Oh noes! Whatever shall I do? Clean house? Work? Interact with family members? Oh noes! Not that!
I don't care what Novell says. They're trying to smooth feathers is all. Go back and read the entire statement Ballmer made and tell me you didn't feel physically revolted by his words. I know I did.
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Yeah, I'm with you, pal. When I consider Steve Ballmer's comments regarding this deal, it stinks to high heaven. There's no way Novell or Microsoft will ever square this deal in my eyes in light of those patent threats made by the CEO of Microsoft. Novell's proper reaction should have been to turn right around and drop the deal once they heard what that creep was spouting. "Undisclosed balance sheet liability" my arse.
No matter what Novell does, they still look to me to have been bullied into this agreement. Most likely MS came to Novell threatening legal action and this is how they settled it. We weren't inside, and we'll never know, but that's what this whole thing feels like to me.
...of iptables or netfilter did they steal from Linux to make up their new traffic-shaping capabilities that has been in Linux and other *nix variants for years?
Woot, MS just got a bit more professional in their offering. How nice.
OpenDocument is the format that OpenOffice.org and StarOffice use for their documents, the one that's completely open, the one that Massachusetts wanted to standardize their document processes on but got shut down once Microsoft tossed their gubernatorial candidate/winner into the mix and scapped that show.
OpenXML, on the other hand, is Microsoft's proprietary format that it wants to be registered as an open standard, however it won't be truly as it has patent encumbrances. Besides, Microsoft likely sees OpenXML as another way to extort the computer industry for more licensing fees.
Feeling a bit of misandry there, miss?
Go watch this and cheer up, eh?
Well, okay, maybe we're to that part just after the middle of the end, just before the bad guy takes one between the eyes for the Gipper or something like that.
Here's his opinion on the whole sordid mess, but in brief, he says that SCO no longer matters, and that he probably won't report further on it until final resolution.
I'm happy to see things finally start to kill off SCO's FUD machine. This, friends, is the beginning of the end for IBM v SCO.
Easier solution: Kill all those with tiny penes. Only the well-endowed should be allowed to live, thus no need for penis pills. QED.
Nice knee jerk reaction, bungwipe. You're the exact target the idiotic Patriot Act was meant to placate. Now that you've got your false sense of security, what are you going to do with it?
I want to see the list of what Ballmer and cohorts assert is infringed in Linux. I want to see what components of the Linux OS are supposedly infringing. Until I see that, Ballmer's words are so much FUD and bullshit that I'm ready to vomit.
I don't suppose e360 tried registered mail, return receipt requested via snail mail, did they? Or did e360 simply send Spamhaus email from the same e360 servers that are blocklisted and then said Spamhaus didn't respond?
I'm wishing I had a Pacer account.
What SCO relies on as evidence of code copying is their employee Sandeep Gupta's Redacted Declaration, in which he details what he believes to be the major copying offenses. However, Gupta's analysis of the code, as rebutted by Brian Kernighan, doesn't exclude materials that SCO couldn't claim copyright over, such as code that is mandated by standards and common industry practices, materials which have already been placed in the public domain, and elements of code over which SCO couldn't claim ownership. Also, IBM claims that they have received from Caldera licenses to use the code.
IBM's Summary Judgment motions are works of art. They're clear, they're concise, and I cannot see how SCO could squirrel out of having their entire case tossed away like so much garbage. I'm looking forward to the 25th of this month as we'll finally see what the SCO weasels try to pull to keep this whole farce alive. I expect to be laughing like a hyena as I read those memos.
Not to mention the nightmare that would go with securing a distributed lot of little computerized devices. I can't imagine what fun *THAT* would be.
Sheesh, it's this kind of thinking that makes my own head spin. CEO's are so far removed from the details that go into keeping their data and programmable processes safe and reliable that they come up with silly ideas like this.
America died several years ago. Welcome to the Corporate States of North America and the White Western World.
They've been screwed since day one of the whole litigious fiasco. Shame seems not to have any effect or relevance to the SCOX management team, though, as they still believe their campaign to extort money from anyone/everyone associated with Linux development is the One True Way to corporate enlightenment. Unfortunately for them, potential customers are scared of doing business with them with their litigious ways, and efforts to support and sell UNIX and their Me mobile platform are being met with the sound of chirping crickets from all reports. Even their financials have shown a glum outlook, and they've consistently lost money ever since the fourth quarter of 2003 as a result.
Tough shit. Sue all your friends and see how long they remain so. Sounds like a fine way to build a business... NOT!
I gave up on PC World back in about 1993. Back then it was a pile of commercial shite. I'm certain it's devolved even further on the evolutionary ladder since then.
I recently switched from my computer tech position to a home-based medical and legal transcription gig. I ftp down audio files from my employer, transcribe the reports, and return the finished work via ftp. No download work, no get paid. This summer, I've worked out on the deck in my yard, from my ex-wife's house in TN, and from various motel rooms I've stayed in during vacations and trips to pick up my son for spring and summer visits. The freedom is awesome, but it makes booking a motel room a real bitch, especially if you want to stop and stay the night in the middle of KY, where internet access is a rarity, to sightsee.
I've been slowly blocking out Comcast's virus-infected customers using iptables. I receive spam, analyze it to find the IP address of where it came from, whois that IP address, and then simply block the CIDR address covering that range of users. Lately most of the spam I've been receiving is from Comcast IPs along with other large cable companies (RoadRunner, Adelphia, Cogent, Sprint, etc), and I'm very happy with the resulting reduced load on that machine.
Thanks spammers! You've helped me build a very effective spam firewall!
Looks like Tivo is going for a Microsoft-like monopoly over the video-on-demand and record-and-playback market. Yeah, real good for them, I'm certain as now they can charge whatever the want for the service. Meanwhile, customers and other companies that geared up to compete, hopefully keeping Tivo on its toes and the pricing down, lose.
Even though the new air travel rules say you can't bring computing equipment on board as carry-on, I'm certain they priced themselves right out of any chance of anyone buying the service. No one's going to pay $5/hour just to surf the 'Net.
My own personal belief is that 'Net access should start to become like electricity, gas, water, and other utilities and just as ubiquitous and accessible. If I go to a hotel, it should be free access, wired or wireless. The hotels that want to rape you for $10 a day or more need their heads examined. Sure, it's profitable, but I've selected hotels based solely on whether or not they provided free internet access.
Wanna tell me how I type medical transcription with HEADERS ALL IN CAPS without a capslock key and still maintain enough speed to remain profitable?? You really wanna make my job that much harder, what with my already having to listen to grammatically-challenged, supposedly-degreed professionals, usually through a thick accent, under unrealistic deadlines that already make my job a supreme challenge?
FUCK YOU.
The person with this idea needs to expand his world vision beyond his own little chunk of reality and think of others who might actually need that key to survive.
All the movie remakes are what is getting my goat. I've seen all the original movies while growing up in the 70s, so why would I want to see the remakes at today's inflated movie prices? Of all the remade movies that have been released in the last ten or fifteen years, I can't count on but one hand the number that impressed me as being better than the original.
Bewitched: Dumb. The Flintstones movie: Shoulda left it as a cartoon, the live-action remake sucked goat nuts. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Ain't seen it, but damn, it looks like a piece of ass and friends say it doesn't compare to the Gene Wilder classic. About the only fare I've been able to tolerate that seem like remakes are the latest creations by Stan Lee and Marvel Comics like Xmen and Spiderman. Those films rocked.
I blame this lack of creativity as stemming from a generation of people who had all their stories created for them then spoonfed via television for the past four decades. Before then, people had to actually make up new stories to entertain themselves. Maybe we need some cataclysm that would take away television and other entertainment to get people back into the creative groove, or we need to douche Hollywood as there seems to be a bit of constipation in that festering anus of a town.
I think if I were confronted with that same situation, I'd say, "Excuse me?" I'd then say nothing more, leave the entire order there at the checkout, and leave the store.
I refuse to shop with merchants who agree to help our currently corrupt government turn American into the Home of the Paranoid and Land of the Caged.
As I sit here in my living room, windows closed and heat turned on, the outside temperature is a chilly 57 degress at 9 am on a Monday morning in Detroit. Normal temps about this time of day and year would be 20 degrees higher. The last thing I'm worried about is my machines overheating.