/bin/sh should be the Bourne Shell, PERIOD. Ever since the first idiot tried to link/bin/sh to/bin/other-shell, it has caused nothing but trouble. It may not be the greatest, but the Borne shell has been one of the most immutable parts of Unix, for most of its history.
Has anyone thought about the possibility that these guys went throught the wringer in trying to get this patent? After, almost a half decade, they finally succeeded? If this is, in fact, the case, we should be commending them on their dedication, and determination. Personally, I have no idea, but one should evaluate the possibilities before passing judgement.
Close to three years ago, I carefully researched and evaluated my choices of laptops. I settled on a PCG-F430. To date, it has served me extremely well, runs every O/S I have thrown at it, even Plan 9, and has served me reliably. The only service I have performed on it was to replace the HD after 2+ years. Given the abuse I had given this machine, that was not unexpected. I have been tempted looking at newer machines, but, to date, the damn thing just works.
Sadly, in today's market, you can count on the brand names less and less, but if you do the research, you can still find great products. If you don't do the research, you can end up with a turkey.
"The Apple iTunes Store is one of the most recent efforts by record companies to license their music to online distributors."
Yeah, right, excuse me while I put my hip waders on. Actually, this might be deep enough, that I need a snorkel. I'm amazed that Apple found some way to convince them to do it. I suspect that the record companies' reasoning went somewhat along the lines of, "We have to make some of it available somewhere, or the courts will nail us for failing to make an attempt."
Answer to #1, FreeBSD maps the Linux system calls into its own. No Linux code or kernel is used to provide this interface. However, to "really" use it, you need to copy Linux libraries and binaries onto the system.
The Blender project is a major milestone in the progression of open source software. For the first time, a closed project was brought into the open by the users. Compared to others, they have been remarkably fast at bringing a working product to market. They have also been extremely responsible in respect for copyright, and are currently helping to bring more closed work into the open. This project is one class act, and I hope that their model is extremely successful.
I must have been hallucinating, then, when I had AT&T System V/386 boxes all over the place, Sun 386i's, and Altos's. Well, that was the 1980's, and I guess SCO can't remember back that far..
Damn, for such an arrogant SOB, Adam sure made some incredible contibutions to the industry. Wonderfully informative publications, portable computing, the choice of Microsoft and Non-Microsoft Basic. A true visionary. We will sadly miss him. His orignal machine was one of the first to provide true value to the masses in computing.
Edward is far from whacked. I think exceptionally focused is a more accurate description. If you want to know, "How can I solve this problem with a thermo-nuclear detonation?" Edward is the man to talk to. No other human being on the face of this planet even comes close to the breadth and depth of knowledge he posesses on that topic. This also includes a first hand knowledge and experience that I hope is neither forgotten or repeated. Yes, his failures outnumber his sucesses, but isn't that true of all science?
He is a far from perfect man, but the vilification, he endures to this day, is undeserved. He has been brutally honest over the course of his career, even though it has had some dire consequences. Read his autobiography to get some insight into the testimony against Robert Oppenheimer. IMHO, he was just one of the first poor saps to be pulled into the nightmare that was known as McCarthyism. His contributions to science and change in our society are rivaled by few.
As for the helicopter at LANL, any pilot who would listen to a 70+ year old man on where to land needs to have his license revoked immediately. Last I knew, Edward did not have a pilot's license. Dropping bombs is one thing, dropping helicopters is another issue entirely.
For Edward's side of the story, may I recommend reading "Memoirs - A twentieth-Century journey in science and politics" ISBN 0-7382-0532-X. This is his autobiography, which gives some remarkable insights into an incredible portion of our history.
IBM is not paying royalties for Linux, but for AIX. SCO is the current owner of UNIX(R), and is probably collecting royalties from every UNIX(R) vendor except Sun. The reason Sun is not included is that they bought out their license, and no longer pay royalties.
We used to have at Bell Labs in the late 1980's. If we ever wanted to put one of our competitors out of business, we would send them a copy of the 5ESS source code. They would go bankrupt trying to analyze it.
A careful study of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly demonstrates that she is well versed in the law, and spends the necessary effort to research her opinions. I like this is in a Judge, even though I may not agreewith their opinions. IMHO, Microsoft's behavior, to date, has been a clear demonstration of why anti-trust law was created to begin with. I deeply hope that Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is able to see from a similar perspective. If we're lucky, she'll decide that Judge Jackson was far too restrained, and hand Microsoft ground butt in a handbasket. But, then again, I've always been a hopeless optimistic.
It should really be named the Melinda Gates Foundation. She must be quite a woman. Until Bill made the best decision in his career, his charitable contributions from 1976 to 1997 amounted to be a big fat ZERO!!! It does appear the Melinda has had an enormous influence. In the past few years, the Gates Foundation has grown to one of the largest charitable contributors in the world when measured by dollars, but still is one of the smaller ones when you look at the percentage of the endowment they donate to charities. John D. Rockefeller gave 10% of his income every year to charity, beacause he realized that he built his fortune through the society and he owed that society a substantial debt. Maybe, someday, Bll Gates will come to the same conclusion.
Until then, I wil stand by my conclusion that Bill Gates has been a tightwad, of previously un-imaginable proportion.
Divine Intervultures^H^H^H^H^Hventures here in Chicago is up to the same stunts. Sadly, the only reference I can find for this is on a pay site, chicagobusiness.com. I'm really starting to wonder if a patent is actually the mark of the beast. This is getting completely out of control.
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If you were actually sitting in this car, wouldn't your brains be converted to a slurry? What's the point? Or is that the real explanation?
A picture of an all seeing eye, with the caption "1984, we're behind schedule. National Security Agency"
/bin/sh should be the Bourne Shell, PERIOD. Ever since the first idiot tried to link /bin/sh to /bin/other-shell, it has caused nothing but trouble. It may not be the greatest, but the Borne shell has been one of the most immutable parts of Unix, for most of its history.
Has anyone thought about the possibility that these guys went throught the wringer in trying to get this patent? After, almost a half decade, they finally succeeded? If this is, in fact, the case, we should be commending them on their dedication, and determination. Personally, I have no idea, but one should evaluate the possibilities before passing judgement.
Close to three years ago, I carefully researched and evaluated my choices of laptops. I settled on a PCG-F430. To date, it has served me extremely well, runs every O/S I have thrown at it, even Plan 9, and has served me reliably. The only service I have performed on it was to replace the HD after 2+ years. Given the abuse I had given this machine, that was not unexpected. I have been tempted looking at newer machines, but, to date, the damn thing just works.
Sadly, in today's market, you can count on the brand names less and less, but if you do the research, you can still find great products. If you don't do the research, you can end up with a turkey.
3 years before release: Product will do everything for everyone.
2 years before release: Product will do everything for the majority of users.
1 year before release: Product will do many things for many users.
Release: Well it does something.
"The Apple iTunes Store is one of the most recent efforts by record companies to license their music to online distributors."
Yeah, right, excuse me while I put my hip waders on. Actually, this might be deep enough, that I need a snorkel. I'm amazed that Apple found some way to convince them to do it. I suspect that the record companies' reasoning went somewhat along the lines of, "We have to make some of it available somewhere, or the courts will nail us for failing to make an attempt."
Answer to #1, FreeBSD maps the Linux system calls into its own. No Linux code or kernel is used to provide this interface. However, to "really" use it, you need to copy Linux libraries and binaries onto the system.
If memory serves correct, IPV6 has an address range reserved that maps to every square meter of the planet. Wouldn't that be good enough? ;->
The Blender project is a major milestone in the progression of open source software. For the first time, a closed project was brought into the open by the users. Compared to others, they have been remarkably fast at bringing a working product to market. They have also been extremely responsible in respect for copyright, and are currently helping to bring more closed work into the open. This project is one class act, and I hope that their model is extremely successful.
I must have been hallucinating, then, when I had AT&T System V/386 boxes all over the place, Sun 386i's, and Altos's. Well, that was the 1980's, and I guess SCO can't remember back that far..
You can call me, God, for short.
...We accept you, we accept you, we are one!
Damn, for such an arrogant SOB, Adam sure made some incredible contibutions to the industry. Wonderfully informative publications, portable computing, the choice of Microsoft and Non-Microsoft Basic. A true visionary. We will sadly miss him. His orignal machine was one of the first to provide true value to the masses in computing.
Damn, it doesn't seem like that long ago. I can still remember the phone #: (312) XXX-8086. To Ward and Randy, Thanks for the memories.
Edward is far from whacked. I think exceptionally focused is a more accurate description. If you want to know, "How can I solve this problem with a thermo-nuclear detonation?" Edward is the man to talk to. No other human being on the face of this planet even comes close to the breadth and depth of knowledge he posesses on that topic. This also includes a first hand knowledge and experience that I hope is neither forgotten or repeated. Yes, his failures outnumber his sucesses, but isn't that true of all science?
He is a far from perfect man, but the vilification, he endures to this day, is undeserved. He has been brutally honest over the course of his career, even though it has had some dire consequences. Read his autobiography to get some insight into the testimony against Robert Oppenheimer. IMHO, he was just one of the first poor saps to be pulled into the nightmare that was known as McCarthyism. His contributions to science and change in our society are rivaled by few.
As for the helicopter at LANL, any pilot who would listen to a 70+ year old man on where to land needs to have his license revoked immediately. Last I knew, Edward did not have a pilot's license. Dropping bombs is one thing, dropping helicopters is another issue entirely.
For Edward's side of the story, may I recommend reading "Memoirs - A twentieth-Century journey in science and politics" ISBN 0-7382-0532-X. This is his autobiography, which gives some remarkable insights into an incredible portion of our history.
IBM is not paying royalties for Linux, but for AIX. SCO is the current owner of UNIX(R), and is probably collecting royalties from every UNIX(R) vendor except Sun. The reason Sun is not included is that they bought out their license, and no longer pay royalties.
We used to have at Bell Labs in the late 1980's. If we ever wanted to put one of our competitors out of business, we would send them a copy of the 5ESS source code. They would go bankrupt trying to analyze it.
After 20+ years of standing in front of the main stacks, I cant't understand what the author is talking about. ;->
of business would be to send them a copy of the Windows source code. They would go bankrupt figuring out how such a heaping pile ever worked.
A careful study of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly demonstrates that she is well versed in the law, and spends the necessary effort to research her opinions. I like this is in a Judge, even though I may not agreewith their opinions. IMHO, Microsoft's behavior, to date, has been a clear demonstration of why anti-trust law was created to begin with. I deeply hope that Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is able to see from a similar perspective. If we're lucky, she'll decide that Judge Jackson was far too restrained, and hand Microsoft ground butt in a handbasket. But, then again, I've always been a hopeless optimistic.
It should really be named the Melinda Gates Foundation. She must be quite a woman. Until Bill made the best decision in his career, his charitable contributions from 1976 to 1997 amounted to be a big fat ZERO!!! It does appear the Melinda has had an enormous influence. In the past few years, the Gates Foundation has grown to one of the largest charitable contributors in the world when measured by dollars, but still is one of the smaller ones when you look at the percentage of the endowment they donate to charities. John D. Rockefeller gave 10% of his income every year to charity, beacause he realized that he built his fortune through the society and he owed that society a substantial debt. Maybe, someday, Bll Gates will come to the same conclusion.
Until then, I wil stand by my conclusion that Bill Gates has been a tightwad, of previously un-imaginable proportion.
Divine Intervultures^H^H^H^H^Hventures here in Chicago is up to the same stunts. Sadly, the only reference I can find for this is on a pay site, chicagobusiness.com. I'm really starting to wonder if a patent is actually the mark of the beast. This is getting completely out of control.
I do miss seeing the '67 Red Firebird, in town for Grateful Dead shows. Oh yeah, we miss Pat, too. ;-> I wonder if he still has it?
Keep up the good fight Pat!