You can import bookmarks from Mozilla to FF with little effort. I keep both around for the Mozilla mail client, but I may break down and install Thunderbird and NVu and wait for the suite to catch up, if ever.
Actually, Jeff & Keith Weiskamp parted ways with Coriolis a couple of years back. His new operation, Paraglyph Press, is being distributed by O'Reilly, and while it does have a number of Windows-oriented books (let's be fair, that's the majority of the market), it does have Mac, Java, Perl, and even Kylix (not surprising for the man who wrote the definitive Turbo Pascal reference) books also.
RTFA, but quickly, LM hash (Lan Manager hash) is the older MSFT scheme for encrypting passwords. It's been known as insecure for some time, but thought to take an fair amount of time to crack. This saves the problem; take the hashed PW, run it through this site and recover the password.
Con: The secretaries/accountants/etc. that would have to convert all the Word & Excel macros they've accumulated over the years would be a problem.
Pro: The push to server-based apps and browser-based presentation is making the OS that browser runs from almost irrelevant. Factor in cost-of-security and cost-of-Windows-upgrades and the penguin starts looking a lot more appealing.
Of course, information like this doesn't help their arguments that the majority of P2P traffic is illegal file-sharing.
Given that this is traffic for this week since the Fedora FC3test1 announce, that's a bucket of legal traffic to put against whatever they're claiming.
I suppose so, but usually somebody shows up who's a greater trivia master; the actual number of five-timers per season was relatively small (such that some four-timers would end up in the tournament to fill out the roster, based on $$ won), so the fact this guy has outgunned so many others is actually fairly impressive.
For the non-US readership: three contestants with a ring-in button. 'Hook' for the show is that you get an 'answer' and have to respond in the form of a question ("The US President who wrote the Declaration of Independence"; "Who is Thomas Jefferson?")
Three rounds: first two consist of six categories of five questions each (game 'board' is six columns of five monitors each). Cash value of questions in first round runs $200-1000. in $200 increments, second round ('Double Jeopardy') runs $400-2000 in $400 jumps.
You lose the value of the question on wrong answers, so you can potentially run negative.
There are random 'Daily Double' squares (one in first round, two in second), where you can wager some/all of your winnings on getting that item correct, allowing for big shifts in position during the game. Third round ('Final Jeopardy') the players wager some/all of their winnings on a single question/answer; high total wins for the day.
Former rule was five days and you're out (but eligible for the year-end 'Tournament of Champions'); this has been dropped this year allowing for the current streak of said Ken J.
Another option is this, which looks like a set of USB speakers to your PC, and sends the audio stream on FM. Cheap and straightforward.
Yes, I know it's a cheap FM transmitter, but it'll handle streaming audio just fine, and save me messing around with YA device at the A/V cabinet.
They bought some rights to code, it's doubtful (given the Novell suit) that they got the copyrights to it. The licenses they inherited from AT&T said any code added on remained the property of those developers; only if they carried in SysV code as part of it did it need to be protected.
Nobody's asking them to give their code away, nobody wants it. They want SCO to stop claiming they own the independently-developed Linux code that IBM brought features to, the same as they brought JFS, NUMA, etc. to AIX from their other OS'.
SCO's business is floundering, and they've stooped to nuisance suits against a deep-pocketed IBM claiming they own AIX/Dynix, thinking they'd be bought out, but instead have drawn the attention of the Pinstripe Nazgul onto themselves. The end result is likely to be a smoking crater in Lindon where once stood SCO. And the rest of us will bring marshmallows.
I thought the point of SCO's lawsuit against AutoZone was that AZO stopped using SCO, and the Lindon pinheads are just sure they couldn't have managed the migration without copying some of their precious code...
McD's could give a rat's rump about the SCO case as such, but their IT department has to see The Writing on The Wall: that the vendor for the back-end software in their thousands of franchises is crashing. There's already an injunction in place in Germany against SCO making claims against Linux, and using SuSE gives it a 'local vendor' bonus there, so it's an easy choice for a proving ground.
If this works, with the Novell deal now giving them a US support base, they have a potential migration path out of a failing vendor. Whether they wait for SCO to crater or just move ahead and dare SCO to bring suit on their largest customer remains to be seen.
It's likely SCO was looking for a buyout for their silence when this mess started. IBM wasn't interested: it'd be seen as a tacit admission of guilt. Given that their services folks run systems & networks for many F500 companies, admitting you cribbed code from a competitor would be a death sentence. Hence the unleashing of the Pinstripe Horde upon SCO; they need a clean reputation and only a flattened SCO will accomplish that.
At this point SCO has nothing to offer but whatever value is left in the SysV codebase, and the Novell case is determining whether SCO even has the copyrights or simply licensing rights. By the time these various lawsuits sort out, it's likely the only thing left of SCO will be a glowing hole in the ground. The key will be ensuring that the rights to SysV revert to either of Novell or The Open Group and get (finally) released under some flavor of OSS license.
If they want to have a PC at the beach, odds are they have their own laptop. Just get a pipe into the place (cable/DSL), put in a hub/access point (insert Your Prefered Vendor here - Linksys, Netgear, SMC, etc.), configure it fairly tight, wire up a coupla wall jacks and leave instructions.
Given it's a beach house in summer, put a good surge protector on it; the units sold for DSS users will protect both power, phone and coax lines.
The folks suggesting a commercial account for liability protection are probably a little too paranoid, though; if your renters download enough stuff to bring the MPAA/RIAA down on you, the type of account you set up with is unlikely to matter to the Overpriced Suits across from you in the courtroom.
If you look at the fact that most distros include 1+ office packages, and compilers/IDEs, and servers, then the valid comparison would be to a bundle of XP Pro + MS Office + Visual Studio + Server 2003.
Suse pro can be had for ~$90 US most places. I defy you to get that price for the above bundle of MS code.
At this point it's in IBM's interest to make sure someone else doesn't acquire the SCO remnants and restart this whole crapfest. I'm sure a payoff, um, settlement was in SCO's mind when they filed suit, and IBM in return has chosen to pursue a scorched-and-salted-earth policy to ensure it only has to do this once. That they may validate the GPL in court in the process is a serendipitous side effect.
Thinking of ST II: Wrath of Khan, where Kirk uses the 'prefix code' of the ship Khan's hijacked to drop its shields just before blasting it...
Then you have the problem of keeping the in-cabin override switch unknown to the general public so the hijackers can't just lock out the tower as soon as they take the cockpit.
(a) The Worm did more damage in its day than almost anything seen since. And it was no accident, AC: RTM had interned at BTL and was intimately familiar with Unix internals. The only accident was that his delay counters were too small and spread the worm much faster than he'd intended.
(b) RTFA: Spaf has no interest in DRM/DMCA/etc. other than the chilling effect it's had on several areas he'd been working in and now doesn't dare to for concern of becoming the next Ed Felten.
Hmmm, given that MS paid into the SCO legal fund last year under the context of "licensing fees", and couldn't be seen to repeat, interesting how this provider goes all gushy over MS and drops a buncha money on SCO. Wonder how soon that money will be, um, replenished by Microsoft's defeat-Linux-at-all-costs PR fund?
Realistically I think there'll need to be *some* film-based copies for the historical record; for that matter, given the half-life of most drive technologies, an archive-quality film-based copy may be the safest bet for long-term storage.
Also consider that unlike film, in theory you could recycle HDs with new content, reducing the distribution costs even further. Whether it will make sense with the plummeting cost of drives to reuse or just toss 'em would have to be worked out.
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Of course, the fact that their German stores use SuSE, and now Novell owns that, probably have SCO a little concerned with future cashflow...
SCO delenda est!!
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You can import bookmarks from Mozilla to FF with little effort. I keep both around for the Mozilla mail client, but I may break down and install Thunderbird and NVu and wait for the suite to catch up, if ever.
Actually, Jeff & Keith Weiskamp parted ways with Coriolis a couple of years back. His new operation, Paraglyph Press, is being distributed by O'Reilly, and while it does have a number of Windows-oriented books (let's be fair, that's the majority of the market), it does have Mac, Java, Perl, and even Kylix (not surprising for the man who wrote the definitive Turbo Pascal reference) books also.
RTFA, but quickly, LM hash (Lan Manager hash) is the older MSFT scheme for encrypting passwords. It's been known as insecure for some time, but thought to take an fair amount of time to crack. This saves the problem; take the hashed PW, run it through this site and recover the password.
Con: The secretaries/accountants/etc. that would have to convert all the Word & Excel macros they've accumulated over the years would be a problem.
Pro: The push to server-based apps and browser-based presentation is making the OS that browser runs from almost irrelevant. Factor in cost-of-security and cost-of-Windows-upgrades and the penguin starts looking a lot more appealing.
It's a flash-memory chip on a USB plug, call it what it is.
Remember thinking the same thing when I saw it originally, about time somebody besides Kirk got the babe.
The corresponding ep for McCoy (RIP, Dee) was For the World is Hollow.., also third season.
Given that this is traffic for this week since the Fedora FC3test1 announce, that's a bucket of legal traffic to put against whatever they're claiming.
I suppose so, but usually somebody shows up who's a greater trivia master; the actual number of five-timers per season was relatively small (such that some four-timers would end up in the tournament to fill out the roster, based on $$ won), so the fact this guy has outgunned so many others is actually fairly impressive.
For the non-US readership: three contestants with a ring-in button. 'Hook' for the show is that you get an 'answer' and have to respond in the form of a question ("The US President who wrote the Declaration of Independence"; "Who is Thomas Jefferson?")
Three rounds: first two consist of six categories of five questions each (game 'board' is six columns of five monitors each). Cash value of questions in first round runs $200-1000. in $200 increments, second round ('Double Jeopardy') runs $400-2000 in $400 jumps. You lose the value of the question on wrong answers, so you can potentially run negative. There are random 'Daily Double' squares (one in first round, two in second), where you can wager some/all of your winnings on getting that item correct, allowing for big shifts in position during the game. Third round ('Final Jeopardy') the players wager some/all of their winnings on a single question/answer; high total wins for the day.
Former rule was five days and you're out (but eligible for the year-end 'Tournament of Champions'); this has been dropped this year allowing for the current streak of said Ken J.
Another option is this, which looks like a set of USB speakers to your PC, and sends the audio stream on FM. Cheap and straightforward. Yes, I know it's a cheap FM transmitter, but it'll handle streaming audio just fine, and save me messing around with YA device at the A/V cabinet.
With the latest release of Crossover Office, I've been able to run the three gotta-have Doze apps for my work: Sametime, Visio & MS-Project.
Gotta check that Meanwhile option, though, for one less app that I need it for; thanks for the pointer..
Nobody's asking them to give their code away, nobody wants it. They want SCO to stop claiming they own the independently-developed Linux code that IBM brought features to, the same as they brought JFS, NUMA, etc. to AIX from their other OS'.
SCO's business is floundering, and they've stooped to nuisance suits against a deep-pocketed IBM claiming they own AIX/Dynix, thinking they'd be bought out, but instead have drawn the attention of the Pinstripe Nazgul onto themselves. The end result is likely to be a smoking crater in Lindon where once stood SCO. And the rest of us will bring marshmallows.
I thought the point of SCO's lawsuit against AutoZone was that AZO stopped using SCO, and the Lindon pinheads are just sure they couldn't have managed the migration without copying some of their precious code...
McD's could give a rat's rump about the SCO case as such, but their IT department has to see The Writing on The Wall: that the vendor for the back-end software in their thousands of franchises is crashing. There's already an injunction in place in Germany against SCO making claims against Linux, and using SuSE gives it a 'local vendor' bonus there, so it's an easy choice for a proving ground.
If this works, with the Novell deal now giving them a US support base, they have a potential migration path out of a failing vendor. Whether they wait for SCO to crater or just move ahead and dare SCO to bring suit on their largest customer remains to be seen.
It's likely SCO was looking for a buyout for their silence when this mess started. IBM wasn't interested: it'd be seen as a tacit admission of guilt. Given that their services folks run systems & networks for many F500 companies, admitting you cribbed code from a competitor would be a death sentence. Hence the unleashing of the Pinstripe Horde upon SCO; they need a clean reputation and only a flattened SCO will accomplish that.
At this point SCO has nothing to offer but whatever value is left in the SysV codebase, and the Novell case is determining whether SCO even has the copyrights or simply licensing rights. By the time these various lawsuits sort out, it's likely the only thing left of SCO will be a glowing hole in the ground. The key will be ensuring that the rights to SysV revert to either of Novell or The Open Group and get (finally) released under some flavor of OSS license.
If they want to have a PC at the beach, odds are they have their own laptop. Just get a pipe into the place (cable/DSL), put in a hub/access point (insert Your Prefered Vendor here - Linksys, Netgear, SMC, etc.), configure it fairly tight, wire up a coupla wall jacks and leave instructions. Given it's a beach house in summer, put a good surge protector on it; the units sold for DSS users will protect both power, phone and coax lines. The folks suggesting a commercial account for liability protection are probably a little too paranoid, though; if your renters download enough stuff to bring the MPAA/RIAA down on you, the type of account you set up with is unlikely to matter to the Overpriced Suits across from you in the courtroom.
If you look at the fact that most distros include 1+ office packages, and compilers/IDEs, and servers, then the valid comparison would be to a bundle of XP Pro + MS Office + Visual Studio + Server 2003.
Suse pro can be had for ~$90 US most places. I defy you to get that price for the above bundle of MS code.
At this point it's in IBM's interest to make sure someone else doesn't acquire the SCO remnants and restart this whole crapfest. I'm sure a payoff, um, settlement was in SCO's mind when they filed suit, and IBM in return has chosen to pursue a scorched-and-salted-earth policy to ensure it only has to do this once. That they may validate the GPL in court in the process is a serendipitous side effect.
SCO delenda est!!
Thinking of ST II: Wrath of Khan, where Kirk uses the 'prefix code' of the ship Khan's hijacked to drop its shields just before blasting it... Then you have the problem of keeping the in-cabin override switch unknown to the general public so the hijackers can't just lock out the tower as soon as they take the cockpit.
Of course, if you notice, Kelly Freas is nominated for Best Pro Artist both currently and in the Retro's...
(a) The Worm did more damage in its day than almost anything seen since. And it was no accident, AC: RTM had interned at BTL and was intimately familiar with Unix internals. The only accident was that his delay counters were too small and spread the worm much faster than he'd intended.
(b) RTFA: Spaf has no interest in DRM/DMCA/etc. other than the chilling effect it's had on several areas he'd been working in and now doesn't dare to for concern of becoming the next Ed Felten.
Spaf's rep is impeccable IMHO.
Hmmm, given that MS paid into the SCO legal fund last year under the context of "licensing fees", and couldn't be seen to repeat, interesting how this provider goes all gushy over MS and drops a buncha money on SCO. Wonder how soon that money will be, um, replenished by Microsoft's defeat-Linux-at-all-costs PR fund?
Realistically I think there'll need to be *some* film-based copies for the historical record; for that matter, given the half-life of most drive technologies, an archive-quality film-based copy may be the safest bet for long-term storage.
Also consider that unlike film, in theory you could recycle HDs with new content, reducing the distribution costs even further. Whether it will make sense with the plummeting cost of drives to reuse or just toss 'em would have to be worked out.
Of course, the fact that their German stores use SuSE, and now Novell owns that, probably have SCO a little concerned with future cashflow... SCO delenda est!!