Hmmm, and EV1's largest competitor would be? From SCO's perspective, it would mean hitting a few thousand birds with one stone. EV1 then swoops in, and tells potential clients that they are safe with them. Before the dust settles, EV1 might make a good return on their investment. Sleezy, but since when did that have anything to do with business?
As much as I hate to admit it
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FreeBSD 5.2 Review
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· Score: 4, Insightful
The reviewer does hit a nail on the head, "If you are after an easy-to-use desktop system that doesn't require you to learn anything new, then you better look elsewhere."
This is the arrogance/beauty of FreeBSD, it is designed/engineered/distributed as an O/S to get the job done like no other. The Bauhaus school of software design. It is an SOB to get a new user going on, but once they see the light, good luck prying it from their hands. Good things are rarely easy.
The best thing ever to happen to FreeBSD was Linux, the best thing ever to happen to Linux was FreeBSD. A good, clean, honest competition which leaves both sides stronger.
LINDON, Utah, Jan. 20/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner of the UNIX(R) operating system and a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions, today filed suit against Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL - News) for its alleged bad faith effort to interfere with SCO's rights with respect to UNIX and UnixWare(R). Among the allegations in the suit:
* Novell has improperly filed copyright registrations in the United
States Copyright Office for UNIX technology covered by SCO's
copyrights.
* Novell has made false and misleading public claims that it, and not
SCO, owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights.
* Novell has made false statements with the intent to cause customers
and potential customers to not do business with SCO.
* Novell has attempted, in bad faith, to block SCO's ability to enforce
its copyrights.
* Novell's false and misleading representations that it owns the UNIX
and UnixWare copyrights has caused SCO irreparable harm to its
copyrights, its business, and its reputation.
The lawsuit, filed in Utah State court, in Salt Lake City, requests preliminary and permanent injunctive relief as well as damages. The injunction would require Novell to assign to SCO all copyrights that Novell has wrongfully registered, prevent Novell from representing any ownership interest in those copyrights, and require Novell to retract or withdraw all representations it has made regarding its purported ownership of those copyrights.
You might want to take a look at FreeBSD 5-Current. The framework for loading NDIS drivers has recently been added. That may be the solution to your problem. I have not used it yet, myself, so I can't comment on how well it does the job.
If you want to view your DV-video camera, a firewire card is going to give you a much better image than sampling analog output with a video capture/tuner card.
Personally, I think everyone is mis-reading this. It has nothing to do with the ILEC's and everything to do with the FCC maintaining its power base.
Most of the big players in Telecom have announced intent to carry the majority of their traffic, in the near future, over IP. No way the FCC is going to let the single biggest piece of its influence walk away.
I have. Compare them to AT&T Research Labs, Bell Labs, or some of IBM's facilities. and I am not exactly impressed by the quantity or quality of the work I see on Microsoft's R&D site. Compare the budgets of those organizations. Where does all that money go? Are they the most inefficient R&D organization on the planet?
Also, I am less than pleased about the P/R regarding the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Yes, Microsoft has made some significant contributions for presentation of the data gathered by the project. Nice spin for P/R purposes, but where were they the first 5+ years of the project? All of the processing, in that time period, was done by Alpha's running Digital Unix at Fermilab.
Something that has puzzled me for a very long time. Microsoft spends an amazing amount of money on R&D, even claiming that Longhorn will cost more that the entire Apollo program to develope. What do they spend their time and resources on? I don't exactly see a flood of papers and patents flying out of there.
NOT! This was tried over ten years ago by an outfit in Chicago called Videocart. It was a spectacular failure. Well, I guess we'll see if anyone learned anything since then.
Verisign would not have foisted it upon everyone with no warning. What was going through their minds? I think they actually thought no one would make a fuss about it. Sorry, Verisign, didn't work this time.
If nothing else, Edward succeeded in teaching the human race that it could destroy itself. Our eyes were opened. Do you think that humanity would have realized that pollution, global warming, etc. could destroy our planet if we didn't have the bomb first? Personally, I don't think so.
Way back when, Unix was the "Unix Time Sharing System." IIRC, the first Unix running on a mainframe was under TSS. Of course, this all gets silly as the name "mainframe" was derived from a Central Office frame, which earlier computers bore a resemblance to.
Slashdot Mirror
Not a thing.
http://mirror.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/which contains a great deal of interesting material collected over the years from the comp.dcom.telecom newsgroup on USENET.
"We demand that you notify us of system crashes beforehand."
Scary part, I was working at a High Energy Physics research lab. I said, "No problem, but I'll need a Higgs Boson to do it."
Hmmm, and EV1's largest competitor would be? From SCO's perspective, it would mean hitting a few thousand birds with one stone. EV1 then swoops in, and tells potential clients that they are safe with them. Before the dust settles, EV1 might make a good return on their investment. Sleezy, but since when did that have anything to do with business?
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The reviewer does hit a nail on the head, "If you are after an easy-to-use desktop system that doesn't require you to learn anything new, then you better look elsewhere."
This is the arrogance/beauty of FreeBSD, it is designed/engineered/distributed as an O/S to get the job done like no other. The Bauhaus school of software design. It is an SOB to get a new user going on, but once they see the light, good luck prying it from their hands. Good things are rarely easy.
The best thing ever to happen to FreeBSD was Linux, the best thing ever to happen to Linux was FreeBSD. A good, clean, honest competition which leaves both sides stronger.
Yup, following in GM's footsteps. The 1975 Monza with a V8 required you to remove the engine to replace the sparkplugs.
LINDON, Utah, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner of the UNIX(R) operating system and a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions, today filed suit against Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL - News) for its alleged bad faith effort to interfere with SCO's rights with respect to UNIX and UnixWare(R). Among the allegations in the suit:
* Novell has improperly filed copyright registrations in the United
States Copyright Office for UNIX technology covered by SCO's
copyrights.
* Novell has made false and misleading public claims that it, and not
SCO, owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights.
* Novell has made false statements with the intent to cause customers
and potential customers to not do business with SCO.
* Novell has attempted, in bad faith, to block SCO's ability to enforce
its copyrights.
* Novell's false and misleading representations that it owns the UNIX
and UnixWare copyrights has caused SCO irreparable harm to its
copyrights, its business, and its reputation.
The lawsuit, filed in Utah State court, in Salt Lake City, requests preliminary and permanent injunctive relief as well as damages. The injunction would require Novell to assign to SCO all copyrights that Novell has wrongfully registered, prevent Novell from representing any ownership interest in those copyrights, and require Novell to retract or withdraw all representations it has made regarding its purported ownership of those copyrights.
and all I got was this crummy watch.
What would we have done without ya?
You might want to take a look at FreeBSD 5-Current. The framework for loading NDIS drivers has recently been added. That may be the solution to your problem. I have not used it yet, myself, so I can't comment on how well it does the job.
If you want to view your DV-video camera, a firewire card is going to give you a much better image than sampling analog output with a video capture/tuner card.
What other host could it possibly feed on? They have decided to devolve into the most efficient of life forms, the parasite.
Personally, I think everyone is mis-reading this. It has nothing to do with the ILEC's and everything to do with the FCC maintaining its power base.
Most of the big players in Telecom have announced intent to carry the majority of their traffic, in the near future, over IP. No way the FCC is going to let the single biggest piece of its influence walk away.
I have. Compare them to AT&T Research Labs, Bell Labs, or some of IBM's facilities. and I am not exactly impressed by the quantity or quality of the work I see on Microsoft's R&D site. Compare the budgets of those organizations. Where does all that money go? Are they the most inefficient R&D organization on the planet?
Also, I am less than pleased about the P/R regarding the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Yes, Microsoft has made some significant contributions for presentation of the data gathered by the project. Nice spin for P/R purposes, but where were they the first 5+ years of the project? All of the processing, in that time period, was done by Alpha's running Digital Unix at Fermilab.
Something that has puzzled me for a very long time. Microsoft spends an amazing amount of money on R&D, even claiming that Longhorn will cost more that the entire Apollo program to develope. What do they spend their time and resources on? I don't exactly see a flood of papers and patents flying out of there.
"I think a gun crazed wack job...."
;->
So, I take it you actually know ESR.
Whatever happened to Canter and Siegel?
NOT! This was tried over ten years ago by an outfit in Chicago called Videocart. It was a spectacular failure. Well, I guess we'll see if anyone learned anything since then.
Verisign would not have foisted it upon everyone with no warning. What was going through their minds? I think they actually thought no one would make a fuss about it. Sorry, Verisign, didn't work this time.
If nothing else, Edward succeeded in teaching the human race that it could destroy itself. Our eyes were opened. Do you think that humanity would have realized that pollution, global warming, etc. could destroy our planet if we didn't have the bomb first? Personally, I don't think so.
For all of the real innovations you have contributed to the community.
Way back when, Unix was the "Unix Time Sharing System." IIRC, the first Unix running on a mainframe was under TSS. Of course, this all gets silly as the name "mainframe" was derived from a Central Office frame, which earlier computers bore a resemblance to.
Back when we didn't have DNS, pathalias was our dear friend. Gone, but not forgotten!
And thank you for the wonderful conrtibutions you have made to the community. The world is a better place because of your efforts!