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  1. Re:Even better, you can still download the code... on The Power Behind the SCO Nuisance · · Score: 2, Informative
    That code base went to become 4.1BSD Lite.

    Actually, that's 4.4BSD Lite, released in 1994... there was no 4.1BSD Lite, and 4.1BSD is from 1981, long predating the 1992 USL vs. BSDI lawsuit.

    This is due to the 1993 lawsuit settlement. SCO is contrained by that settlement as well.

    The lawsuit was settled on February 4, 1994. Check the announcement.

    P.S. The BSD Family Tree.

  2. Re:Theodore Gray - Renaissance man on Making Ice Cream With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's called the subjunctive. See also, "be that as it may ..."

  3. Re:Full version XP for $93, Pro for $143-NOT Legit on Will Microsoft Subsidize WinXP For Lindows Buyers? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I accidentally left out the "or," but I did mention that it'd be nice if the agreement were more explicit about what constitutes a non-peripheral hardware component. However, the agreement is very explicit about the bundling requirements for server and application software, and I don't see any way that NewEgg can claim that a cable is a fully assembled computer system. But they do it anyway...

  4. Re:Full version XP for $93, Pro for $143-NOT Legit on Will Microsoft Subsidize WinXP For Lindows Buyers? · · Score: 1
    Okay. Iâ(TM)m talking about something like the Microsoft OEM System Builder Agreement, which states in part:
    4. SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION
    4.1. If the enclosed Software Unit includes a Microsoft desktop operating system program, MS grants to you a non-exclusive right to distribute each Software Unit, provided it is distributed accompanied with either a fully assembled computer system or non-peripheral computer hardware component. A fully assembled computer system shall consist of at least a central processing unit, a motherboard, a hard drive, a power supply and a case.
    4.2. If the enclosed Software Unit includes a Microsoft application or server program, MS grants to you a non-exclusive right to distribute each Software Unit, provided it is distributed to the end user accompanied only with a fully assembled computer system.
    4.3. Each Software Unit may only be distributed to an end user pursuant to the end user license agreement that accompanies the Software Unit.
    Perhaps NewEgg has signed an agreement with less stringent requirements, but I highly doubt it. So desktop OSes must be sold with a full computer system, non-peripheral hardware. I don't think the $5 splitter cable qualifies, although it'd be nice if MS clarified that. And applications and servers must be sold with a full computer system. NewEgg's Windows 2003 Server 5 CAL for $694 plus a cable violates the agreement; gotta pay the $880 or so like everyone else. NewEgg's Office XP Small Business Edition for $186 isn't legit either.
  5. Re:Full version XP for $93, Pro for $143- Legit. on Will Microsoft Subsidize WinXP For Lindows Buyers? · · Score: 1

    Iâ(TM)m not talking about NewEgg. Iâ(TM)m asking about the OEM license agreement from Microsoft: what hardware purchase is required by the OEM EULA? A suitable answer to the question would either be a document on Microsoftâ(TM)s web site, or a copy of some text allegedly by Microsoft. Not something written by NewEgg, or any other retailer.

  6. Re:Full version XP for $93, Pro for $143- Legit. on Will Microsoft Subsidize WinXP For Lindows Buyers? · · Score: 1
    Microsoft's 'with hardware' clause may have been intended to mean a processor and motherboard etc... but a $5 cable satisfies the formal requirement.

    Hmm, I wonder if it really does⦠I had always heard the requirement summarized as âoemust be purchased with non-peripheral hardware,â and it seems to me that a $5 cable wouldn't qualify. I've never seen a copy of the actual requirement text thoughâ"anyone have a link?

  7. Wrong? Right back atcha! on Giant Hailstones Can Spoil Your Flight · · Score: 4, Informative
    A simple Google search shows the existance of an Airbus A340-312

    Another simple Google search shows that every other article says the plane was an Airbus A321.

  8. Re:According to The Onion... on Klingon Interpreter Needed In Oregon · · Score: 1
    As an aside how many Navajo's are there total in the US?

    Did you read the page I linked to? It answers that question too...

  9. Re:According to The Onion... on Klingon Interpreter Needed In Oregon · · Score: 1
    Although it is fairly inaccurate that there are only 1000 speakers

    FWIW, according to The Ethnologue (which got its info from the 1990 Census), there were 148,530 Navajo speakers in the US in 1990. Looks like that number's up to 178,014 in the 2000 Census.

  10. Re:For your convenience (2nd try) on Slashback: Australia, Nomenclature, Books · · Score: 1
    Doesn't work on IE... it's , not .

    Pls fix thx.

  11. Re:He's joking, right? on Michael Robertson of Lindows Responds · · Score: 1
    Michael, I don't know where you're buying your software, but I picked up my copy of Microsoft Office for $180.

    I suspect he's buying his software from a legitimate vendor, not someone who sells OEM software in violation of Microsoft's licensing agreement. Perhaps you disagree with the concept of software licensing, but it's rather disingenuous to point compare a gray market price to regular retail.

  12. Resizing emacs windows on Stallman Meets KDE Team for Tea · · Score: 2, Informative
    Since he was mainly a terminal user, I showed him the multi-terminal capability of konsole. This highlighted a bugs in emacs: it does not notice that the konsole window is resized. [...] I told him there is a kind of signal emitted by the terminal when it resizes (I don't remember exactly) and he wants me to send him more information on that.

    I'm pretty sure emacs has paid attention to SIGWINCH for many years now... Not being a KDE user, I don't have konsole, but I just ran emacs 21.3 in an xterm (emacs -nw), and emacs resized properly when I resized the xterm window. Also works in a PuTTY ssh session.

  13. Re:geek hierarchy is circular on Harry Potter with Guns · · Score: 1
    You didn't even link to the Geek Hierarchy :)

    Can I think of myself as above the goths?

    Nope, consult the chart. However, as furries, we can consider ourselves above Comic Book Fans Who Only Read X-Men Spinoffs :) Well, I'm off to see X2 (only the real thing for me)... ciao fur meow :)

  14. Re:Where to download this "FX32!" ? on Intel's Itanium Will Get x86 Emulation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can get it from here. At least I think that's it... I haven't had NT4 running on my alpha in years, and that file's an Installshield self-extracting EXE for NT Alpha, so I can't run it.

  15. Re:Gentoo... on Optimizing KDE 3.1.x · · Score: 1
    No, I think you're missing the point... the point is that we've been running other programs while compiling for decades now. On 486s, even. There's nothing special about Gentoo in that regard. I was passing the time by reading Usenet while waiting for a compile to finish before Linux even existed.

    I did not say that you can play games or encode OGG-files while compiling software and get good performance/responsiveness.

    Sounds like something's wrong with your OS or setup if you can't do that on your 1.1GHz machine... I can certainly play games and encode OGG files and compile at the same time, and the fastest machine I have is a PIII 850MHz laptop. I can even use nice to control the portion of CPU time I'd like to give to each of those tasks.

  16. Re:Another thing that X should have had a long tim on Translucent Windows for X using OpenGL · · Score: 1
    Just as a matter of interest, how long has MS Windows had translucent windows?

    Windows 2000 was the first version of Windows that added OS-level translucency support... so I guess it's been around 3 years now.

    Personally, I like the mouse pointer shadow and dragging translucent icons around, but I think translucent windows in general, and that fade in/fade out of menus is annoying and lame.

  17. Re:DoS!=DOS on DOS Attack Via US Postal Service · · Score: 1
    That is a an API problem, not a limit of the OS.

    More like a problem with the Doom III installer. GetDiskFreeSpaceEx takes a directory name and returns the amount of free space available on the volume that directory is in. Sounds like the Doom III installer is "helpfully" trimming off the directory and just passing in the drive letter. As Microsoft pointed out back in the Windows 2000 beta days:

    The introduction of Dfs, NTFS junctions, and volume mount points creates situations where logical directories do not have to correspond to the same physical volume. Thus, disk space should not be assumed based on space queries made in directories other than the current one.
  18. Re:huh? on Switch Interviews Douglas Engelbart · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'm not the orignial poster, but sometimes it's better to post as AC because moderators are usually morons who mod down 50% of the posts as redundant, even if it isn't.

    Don't be so concerned about being modded down... it's only a few karma points (which you'll soon get back if you post something good).

  19. Re:HP11c 4EVA! on HP Calcs Live On Under PalmOS · · Score: 1
    And a HP-15c (the 11c's big brother, identical except with more memory)

    The 15C isn't just an 11C with more memory; it has a few extra functions not present in the 11C. The ones I remember off the top of my head are complex number support and matrix support.

  20. Re:I don't know about the rest of you... on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1
    Yeah, just the Nutrisweet (aspartame) which is considered a poison in many countries.

    Just Google for "nutrisweet poison", you'll see.

    Only by people who don't know how to spell "NutraSweet."

  21. Re:Cool. on Staying Current with NetBSD · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I gather that there is a dependency or two for building cvsup that isn't portable across the various architectures out there, and so it's not very popular in the NetBSD camp.

    cvsup is written in Modula-3, and the Modula-3 compiler hasn't been ported to many of the platforms NetBSD supports. I think it's only available for NetBSD/i386, actually...

  22. Re:Secure CVS - how did NetBSD do it? on Staying Current with NetBSD · · Score: 4, Insightful
    What's the point of serving an open source project over ssh?

    Obviously the encryption isn't important, but ssh does more than encryption--it also makes sure that you're actually talking to the server you think you're talking to. With ssh, you can avoid someone redirecting your connection to another machine and sending you trojaned source files.

  23. No misunderstanding on OpenBSD Lands $2 Million In DARPA Money · · Score: 1

    I think it's you guys who misunderstand what Theo does... which is threatening to spam the FreeBSD and NetBSD mailing lists through an anonymous remailer when he doesn't get his way. Quit supporting the little crybaby.

  24. Re:Just in case... on How to Make a Starship Enterprise out of a 3.5" Floppy · · Score: 1
    The reason http://paralytic.buyclamsonline.com/image.png doesn't match the background properly is because it claims to have a gamma value of 0.55, whereas the file created in PSP doesn't specify any gamma value at all. I don't use Photoshop, so I have no idea what options it has when saving PNGs--do you see any way to have it not put in a gamma value?

    BTW, I couldn't get the PNG on your page to match the background no matter which browser I used... I tried Mozilla, Safari, OmniWeb, and IE under MacOS X; and Mozilla and IE under Windows XP. Whereas PyroMosh's PNG matches the background on all the above except for Safari (which points to a bug in Safari's gamma handling... it's still beta, after all).

    Since you mention Safari, you're running MacOS (X), which has its own gamma setting... Go to the Displays prefs panel, Color tab. What do you have your monitor's gamma set to?

  25. Re:Why Do I Not Get the Latest Stories in RSS? on AMD and Fujitsu Spin Off Static Memory Giant · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Heh, and when you click on the link, the FAQ doesn't even answer the question!