Dude, what the hell are you thinking? Mentioning that you have a SISTER (Female - Point 1!) who works at PIXAR (Female With Money - Point 2) who understands PHYSICS (Female With Money And Brains - Point 3, GEEK TRIFECTA!) seems like you're just begging to get spammed by thousands of Slashdot Nerds who are now imagining your sister as the perfect epitome of womanhood and wondering how to get you to cough up her phone number.
I think the randomness and seeming meaninglessness of the deaths was the point - i.e., in war, good people just vanish in a heartbeat, and sometimes their individual deaths don't advance anything at all. Yes, the cause is sometimes worth fighting for, but not everyone who dies directly advances towards the goal merely by the fact of their death. In other words, war sucks.
I wouldn't say "ever"...both Cuba and Syria have made steps towards getting removed from the US ban list, and with Fidel teetering on death's edge, who knows what the future will bring.
Correct. Admiral Cain stated that all computers on the Pegasus were offline while they were in drydock, which was why a. they were never infiltrated and b. why they had to do the FTL jump blind - the ship was literally being taken apart for maintenance when the Cylons attacked attacked and they had no navigation computer ready to go.
Well, this moron has only THREATENED to sue MS, not actually gone and done it, but I digress.
This guy has me rooting for both Microsoft and Janet Reno. Quite a trick. Apparently, this yahoo doesn't like Janet Reno, as evidenced by this bit from the Wikipedia article on him:
Thompson gave Reno a letter at a campaign event requesting that she check a box to indicate whether she was homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Thompson said that Reno then put her hand on his shoulder and responded, "I'm only interested in virile men. That's why I'm not attracted to you."[10][11] He filed a police report accusing her of battery for touching him.
I never even tried SQL ledger, simply because while researching different Linux accounting packages I came across some post by one of the head guys, possibly this "Dieter" doorknob, replying to a user with something very much like the following:
"Well, I wouldn't worry about it. We are not that concerned with security because there's nothing that SQL Ledger works with that would be of interest to anyone except an accountant, and I don't think we need to worry about a bunch of rogue accountants."
That statement alone made me not want to touch the packae, even though it looked very nice otherwise.
Apple just can't seem to match Microsofts's superior delay history. Microsoft has already astounded the world by an amazing THREE YEAR delay in the original Vista release date and the actual delay; this impressive delay is one of the longest delays for a product that actually eventually made it out of the front door instead of dying...
And here's Apple, trying to out-do Microsoft, and the best then can do is delay Leopard for three lousy months - and technically speaking, it's not much of a delay since the original release date was "Spring 07".
I mean, come on, Apple. Surely you can break something in Leopard to force a longer delay. Microsoft wins, hands down. Apple still lags way behind MS on viruses, as well. With my Windows machine, unpatched, I have THOUSANDS of viruses that can infect my machine if I want to. Apple just doesn't give me that ability. Maybe they just don't care.
All junkyards are like this. They charge prices higher than what they buy it for because it costs money to store that stuff, costs money to dismantle it, costs money to keep the lights on, costs money to insure it. They have a facility where stuff is stored for years gathering dust, bringing in no revenue. They most likely sell 1% of what they have. That 1% has to cover the cost of staying in business and putting food on the table.
And, an Apollo engine is not worth $15 grand in scrap metal. It is worth whatever you would save on R & D if you were working on a similar project and needed to reverse engineer the thing. Even on a smaller scale, if you have an old rocket engine, and you're building another one, and spending $10000 on an old piece of junk to study leads you to ask, "hey, why is that like that, I should research it some more" and you discover something that prevents your shiny new engine from blowing itself up you're ahead of the game.
Without junkyards and their "outrageous" markups, new parts would be much, much more.
1. It is sometimes difficult, if not impossible, to produce licenses for all software that is installed. In a perfect world, a company could pull an invoice for each piece of software. In the real world, companies merge and dissolve, buy used equipment, and move machines all over the place, sometimes losing identifying information. Also, the BSA's requirements for "proof of a legal license" are much stronger than what the law requires; i.e. the BSA tells your business, "Even if you have an invoice if it doesn't meet our specifications we're going to litigate, we may lose in court if we're unfortunate enough to get a competent judge but you can settle now for $x which should be cheaper than going to trial." Get that? You can legally own software, and if you go all the way to court the court will agree you own the software, but if it doesn't meet the BSA checklist of THEIR accepted proof they will sue you anyway and put the burden on you.
2. When the BSA does an audit, they shut your office down. No one works. Lost productivity, anyone?
3. No matter what, it costs money to respond to a BSA audit. Even if they find nothing wrong, which is rare.
Isn't it possible to have a nice, easy to find button, "Reset all interface (mouse, keyboard shortcuts) controls to default?" in a place where someone can't help but find it if they screw up the controls?
It's worse than that. Apparently, they showed up, REQUESTED the case be moved from state court to Federal court, and then proceeded to ignore the court. Spamhaus does have a legal malpractice case against their lawyers.
They could have gotten off on the jurisdiction thing, but ASKING to be MOVED to another court instead of asking for a dismissal, and THEN ignoring the court you requested is a very stupid thing to do.
Yup, that does work, especially in states with open carry laws.
We called the police, telling them that a tranisient was going up and down the street, pounding on the windows of every house, pushing the window panes back, obviously trying to get inside.
"We can't do anything until he actually enters a house."
Mind you, this is in an affluent neighborhood with very expensive homes. Imagine what the poor people have to put up.
I didn't bat an eye. I just replied, "No problem, since you can't be bothered to send people out, I'm just going to walk up and down the street with a shotgun, and if I witness someone committing a felony that appears to be "burglary of an occupied structure" I will take appropiate action as allowed by Arizona law."
Clueless dispatcher: "What does that mean?"
"Ever hear of the Make My Day law? There's 9 crimes in Arizona that (or at least were, when this happened, back in '93) any citizen can use deadly force to interrupt...rape, kidnapping, attempted murder, arson of an occupied structure...and burglary of an occupied residence.)
I never did have to get the shotgun. I just sat back and watched as 5 squad cars and the helipcopter showed up and promptly removed the guy. Now, one squad car would have been sufficent, but because the police refused to do their job at first they had to respond in force because they were afraid there was going to be a shootout.
All perfectly legal, too. Nifty. They still do games like that in Phoenix. Phoenix police lately are nortorious for making it difficult to take stolen vehicle reports because it makes their statistics look bad.
Agreed. Richard Feynman, who was arguably one of the 5 most brilliant men of the 20th century, stated that the only reason he was able to discover as many things as he did was because he could quickly arrive at rough answers by doing mathematical shortcuts in his head, and he was afraid - in the 1980's - that since the coming generations didn't have to learn those shortcuts, they would be a t a great disadvantage compared to the great physicists of the past.
Are we changing the GPL to be, in effect, "Software wants to be free, unless we just don't like you" ?
Stuff like this is why some people think the open source movement is full of kooks.
A person has the right to do what they want to with software they create. However, don't pollute the free, non-partisan nature of the GPL with your political crap. Create and name your own license.
I have absolutely no complaints about Dell from a business support perspective.
Their home support is evil.
There's a clear difference in machine quality, as well. Take two Dell machines, with nearly identical specs, one from the home line and one from the business line.
Same specs = same computer, right? Nope. In addition to the home machine being preloaded with every piece of crap software under the sun, the business machines seem to be better quality. Larger capacitors on the motherboard, perhaps, or just better quality components all around. Take two Dell machines, one from home, one from business, same specs but different model lines, wipe the HDD and install XP Pro from scrach. The business machine will just seem snappier, a bit crisper, a bit more solid. I'm convinced it's because they're slightly over-engineered and are designed to last.
Business support? I get routed to America, and I can say, hey, here's our express service code, we have a corporate account, I am a tech for their IT department, and I have a bad [whatever]. They usually say, "ok, where do you want the part shipped." Every now and then, they ask me a couple of questions, obscure, model specific stuff, just to make sure I covered all the bases. Once, I thought I had a bad motherboard - no boot, no post, removed every component except memory and still no post - and the tech said, "Pull the riser board, let's make sure it's not that." Sure enough, thing booted back up and they just sent me a riser instead of a motherboard. Cool, quick and competent.
Home support? Enter in a service tag number for a home machine, and you're on a merry romp through India. They MUST make you jump through hoops, but some of the more experienced techs will allow you to skip most of the hoops if you explain you usually work on the corporate machines and actually know what you're talking about.
Server support? Beautiful. "Hi, I'm running CentOS, a clone of RedHat Enterprise with the branding removed." Dell: "No problem, how can we help?" In every case, got first call resolution, and even when the tech was obviously clueless about my specific issue, they were honest about it -"Well, I don't know, let me put you on hold and ask some people". I've worked in enough call centers to tell when someone is wandering around saying, "hey, anyone know how to fix [this obscure issue]?" Invaribly, they come back on within 5 minutes or so, "This should work, so and so has seen this before."
I enjoy the great documentation and smooth support on their business line. I avoid the home line whenever possible. I have noticed that a lot of the Dell Latitude Laptops in years past have really crappy internal wireless; an electronics engineer informed me that he thought Dell had cut corners on some of the Lats by not hooking up proper internal antennas in the shells. We have a client with a huge wireless setup in a hotel, and if they have signal problems it's almost always a Sony Vaio, a Dell Latitude or a pre-2004 Mac.
Heh..the previous poster, who "works the abuse desk at one of AZ's oldest ISP's", isn't kidding around...he takes spam quite seriously as I found out when he turned off an IP that one of my clients was using, hoping I would contact him, and I did, to have him tell me that the client was infected with a virus that was allowing it to act as a spam relay. Nice catch - and then I found out that this guy was someone who was active in the BBS world 20 years ago...small world.
Oh, and Lane, this is MacLeod from Zephyr...make sure you check out www.retrobbs.org:)
I second this. Spambayes works very well with Outlook & Exchange. The only problem is that since it's a client-side program, it's not working when the Outlook client isn't running. I have several clients who have an Exchange server hosted by someone else, and they are in the habit of opening their Outlook and letting it sit for 10 minutes so Spambayes can catch up on all the spam if they haven't checked their email for a few days. Also, of course, they now hate checking webmail since Spambayes only works with the Outlook client.
Actually, the way I read it was, "We tried a Linux distro, back in 2001, everyone complained that we should have picked some other distro, and we got sick of not being able to please anyone and dropped the whole thing."
The Linux Community needs to listen to Dell, not the other way around.
Are we "clients" of Dell? Yeah, sort of, but let's face it, if Linux disappeared overnight it would not make a bit of difference to Dell's bottom line. There is simply no profit motive for them to listen to a bunch of whiny, "gimmie gimmie gimme Micro$oft SUXORS!" idiots who can't even agree on a common desktop environment.
On the other hand, if the Linux community listens to Dell - who, personally, is obvious sympathetic to Linux - and agrees on certain standards that would make it possible for Dell to ship a "generic" Linux distro and basic RPM &.DEB drivers that could theoretically work with any distro - well, then that would be a TRUE win for Linux.
I've used Dell support for Linux Servers. They want RedHat Enterprise, and I can understand it, because from a support perspective, it is predictable. I called 'em up and said, "Hey, I'm running CentOS, a RHEL clonse, just treat me like I'm running RedHat, ok?" and the techs say "sure!" and eagerly get to helping me with my problems. The Dell Techs are smart enought (well, the business ones based in the US, the Indians have to stick to their scripts) to support a "baseline" linux. However, it would be an UNPROFITABLE support nightmare to support every - or even the 5 biggest - distros out there.
Go ahead. Whine about how "Dell doesn't listen to the Linux community". You'll score points with the Linux zealots who find it easier to badmouth the 90% of the world that doesn't use Linux. But, if you want to make true Linux desktop adaption a reality - if you want to see Linux develop a true installed base that would prevent Microsoft from doing something wacky like develop proprietary extensions that "everyone must have" or enough of an installed base so that some big, coroporate lobbyists will DEFEND Linux when our braindead politicians are bought off by other big corporate lobbyists try to ban Linux form some ridiculous reason - and don't laugh, it's on the horizon, there are powerful interests - both corporate and governmental (RIAA, anyone) that think the idea of people being able to actually work their own computer hardware & software is a Bad Thing(tm) - well, if you want to see Linux groow, then listen to what people like Michael Dell say, and figure out wheat we can do to make their lives easier.
Our numbers are not enough for Dell to listen. Be nice, and they will work with us on hardware, and slowly, we will gain more influence. Be rude and insulting, and they'll tune us out.
Is there any evidence for this other than a 1-paragraph CNET story? There's NOTHING on the mysql site about this, although there's a big thing on SCO's homepage - which, of course, doesn't seem to have any quotes from MySql.
Come on, people, think. SCO routinely issues press releases that have no relation to reality. I wouldn't be surprised if they bought a $50 incident support call or something and referred to that as "signing an agreement."
Someone from mysql needs to check in and let us know what's going on - so far, the only source for this "news" appears to be SCO, and that's no source at all.
An "interested observer", was asked to comment on the ramifications of the mind-controlling insects. The observer simply looked at the reporter and said, "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
Yeah, they spent $millions or $billions, sure. Over 100 years. And most of those $millions or $billions were MATCHED with taxpayer dollars - incentives, free gifts of right-of-way, etc. The telephone network was built with the help of BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars, over DECADES. It could not be "rebuilt" by any competitor, no matter how well financed, in anything less than another few decades - and even then, they most likely would not be able to legally acquire the same rights-of-way that were given to the telco when it was a monopoly.
You want to be a free-market capitalist? Fine, so do I. In a free market, you have to pay for value received. The telcos want a monopoly over their partially-taxpayer funded network? No problem. Let's calculate how much taxpayer support they've received over the past 100 years, bill them, with interest, and then they can be allowed to have exclusive control over their lines.
THAT'S free market. What the FCC has just done is corporate welfare - big companies sucking off of the public tit and pushing the smaller puppies away.
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Dude, what the hell are you thinking? Mentioning that you have a SISTER (Female - Point 1!) who works at PIXAR (Female With Money - Point 2) who understands PHYSICS (Female With Money And Brains - Point 3, GEEK TRIFECTA!) seems like you're just begging to get spammed by thousands of Slashdot Nerds who are now imagining your sister as the perfect epitome of womanhood and wondering how to get you to cough up her phone number.
I think the randomness and seeming meaninglessness of the deaths was the point - i.e., in war, good people just vanish in a heartbeat, and sometimes their individual deaths don't advance anything at all. Yes, the cause is sometimes worth fighting for, but not everyone who dies directly advances towards the goal merely by the fact of their death. In other words, war sucks.
I wouldn't say "ever"...both Cuba and Syria have made steps towards getting removed from the US ban list, and with Fidel teetering on death's edge, who knows what the future will bring.
This is obvious a fake post.
I mean, come on, someone claiming to have actually gotten Paypal on the phone? How likely is that?
"We're Paypal. We don't care. We don't have to."
-apologies to SNL.
Correct. Admiral Cain stated that all computers on the Pegasus were offline while they were in drydock, which was why a. they were never infiltrated and b. why they had to do the FTL jump blind - the ship was literally being taken apart for maintenance when the Cylons attacked attacked and they had no navigation computer ready to go.
Well, this moron has only THREATENED to sue MS, not actually gone and done it, but I digress.
This guy has me rooting for both Microsoft and Janet Reno. Quite a trick. Apparently, this yahoo doesn't like Janet Reno, as evidenced by this bit from the Wikipedia article on him:
Thompson gave Reno a letter at a campaign event requesting that she check a box to indicate whether she was homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual. Thompson said that Reno then put her hand on his shoulder and responded, "I'm only interested in virile men. That's why I'm not attracted to you."[10][11] He filed a police report accusing her of battery for touching him.
What a great line.
I never even tried SQL ledger, simply because while researching different Linux accounting packages I came across some post by one of the head guys, possibly this "Dieter" doorknob, replying to a user with something very much like the following:
"Well, I wouldn't worry about it. We are not that concerned with security because there's nothing that SQL Ledger works with that would be of interest to anyone except an accountant, and I don't think we need to worry about a bunch of rogue accountants."
That statement alone made me not want to touch the packae, even though it looked very nice otherwise.
Apple just can't seem to match Microsofts's superior delay history. Microsoft has already astounded the world by an amazing THREE YEAR delay in the original Vista release date and the actual delay; this impressive delay is one of the longest delays for a product that actually eventually made it out of the front door instead of dying...
And here's Apple, trying to out-do Microsoft, and the best then can do is delay Leopard for three lousy months - and technically speaking, it's not much of a delay since the original release date was "Spring 07".
I mean, come on, Apple. Surely you can break something in Leopard to force a longer delay. Microsoft wins, hands down. Apple still lags way behind MS on viruses, as well. With my Windows machine, unpatched, I have THOUSANDS of viruses that can infect my machine if I want to. Apple just doesn't give me that ability. Maybe they just don't care.
All junkyards are like this. They charge prices higher than what they buy it for because it costs money to store that stuff, costs money to dismantle it, costs money to keep the lights on, costs money to insure it. They have a facility where stuff is stored for years gathering dust, bringing in no revenue. They most likely sell 1% of what they have. That 1% has to cover the cost of staying in business and putting food on the table.
And, an Apollo engine is not worth $15 grand in scrap metal. It is worth whatever you would save on R & D if you were working on a similar project and needed to reverse engineer the thing. Even on a smaller scale, if you have an old rocket engine, and you're building another one, and spending $10000 on an old piece of junk to study leads you to ask, "hey, why is that like that, I should research it some more" and you discover something that prevents your shiny new engine from blowing itself up you're ahead of the game.
Without junkyards and their "outrageous" markups, new parts would be much, much more.
1. It is sometimes difficult, if not impossible, to produce licenses for all software that is installed. In a perfect world, a company could pull an invoice for each piece of software. In the real world, companies merge and dissolve, buy used equipment, and move machines all over the place, sometimes losing identifying information. Also, the BSA's requirements for "proof of a legal license" are much stronger than what the law requires; i.e. the BSA tells your business, "Even if you have an invoice if it doesn't meet our specifications we're going to litigate, we may lose in court if we're unfortunate enough to get a competent judge but you can settle now for $x which should be cheaper than going to trial." Get that? You can legally own software, and if you go all the way to court the court will agree you own the software, but if it doesn't meet the BSA checklist of THEIR accepted proof they will sue you anyway and put the burden on you.
2. When the BSA does an audit, they shut your office down. No one works. Lost productivity, anyone?
3. No matter what, it costs money to respond to a BSA audit. Even if they find nothing wrong, which is rare.
Isn't it possible to have a nice, easy to find button, "Reset all interface (mouse, keyboard shortcuts) controls to default?" in a place where someone can't help but find it if they screw up the controls?
It's worse than that. Apparently, they showed up, REQUESTED the case be moved from state court to Federal court, and then proceeded to ignore the court. Spamhaus does have a legal malpractice case against their lawyers.
They could have gotten off on the jurisdiction thing, but ASKING to be MOVED to another court instead of asking for a dismissal, and THEN ignoring the court you requested is a very stupid thing to do.
Yup, that does work, especially in states with open carry laws.
We called the police, telling them that a tranisient was going up and down the street, pounding on the windows of every house, pushing the window panes back, obviously trying to get inside.
"We can't do anything until he actually enters a house."
Mind you, this is in an affluent neighborhood with very expensive homes. Imagine what the poor people have to put up.
I didn't bat an eye. I just replied, "No problem, since you can't be bothered to send people out, I'm just going to walk up and down the street with a shotgun, and if I witness someone committing a felony that appears to be "burglary of an occupied structure" I will take appropiate action as allowed by Arizona law."
Clueless dispatcher: "What does that mean?"
"Ever hear of the Make My Day law? There's 9 crimes in Arizona that (or at least were, when this happened, back in '93) any citizen can use deadly force to interrupt...rape, kidnapping, attempted murder, arson of an occupied structure...and burglary of an occupied residence.)
I never did have to get the shotgun. I just sat back and watched as 5 squad cars and the helipcopter showed up and promptly removed the guy. Now, one squad car would have been sufficent, but because the police refused to do their job at first they had to respond in force because they were afraid there was going to be a shootout.
All perfectly legal, too. Nifty. They still do games like that in Phoenix. Phoenix police lately are nortorious for making it difficult to take stolen vehicle reports because it makes their statistics look bad.
Agreed. Richard Feynman, who was arguably one of the 5 most brilliant men of the 20th century, stated that the only reason he was able to discover as many things as he did was because he could quickly arrive at rough answers by doing mathematical shortcuts in his head, and he was afraid - in the 1980's - that since the coming generations didn't have to learn those shortcuts, they would be a t a great disadvantage compared to the great physicists of the past.
Are we changing the GPL to be, in effect, "Software wants to be free, unless we just don't like you" ?
Stuff like this is why some people think the open source movement is full of kooks.
A person has the right to do what they want to with software they create. However, don't pollute the free, non-partisan nature of the GPL with your political crap. Create and name your own license.
I have absolutely no complaints about Dell from a business support perspective.
Their home support is evil.
There's a clear difference in machine quality, as well. Take two Dell machines, with nearly identical specs, one from the home line and one from the business line.
Same specs = same computer, right? Nope. In addition to the home machine being preloaded with every piece of crap software under the sun, the business machines seem to be better quality. Larger capacitors on the motherboard, perhaps, or just better quality components all around. Take two Dell machines, one from home, one from business, same specs but different model lines, wipe the HDD and install XP Pro from scrach. The business machine will just seem snappier, a bit crisper, a bit more solid. I'm convinced it's because they're slightly over-engineered and are designed to last.
Business support? I get routed to America, and I can say, hey, here's our express service code, we have a corporate account, I am a tech for their IT department, and I have a bad [whatever]. They usually say, "ok, where do you want the part shipped." Every now and then, they ask me a couple of questions, obscure, model specific stuff, just to make sure I covered all the bases. Once, I thought I had a bad motherboard - no boot, no post, removed every component except memory and still no post - and the tech said, "Pull the riser board, let's make sure it's not that." Sure enough, thing booted back up and they just sent me a riser instead of a motherboard. Cool, quick and competent.
Home support? Enter in a service tag number for a home machine, and you're on a merry romp through India. They MUST make you jump through hoops, but some of the more experienced techs will allow you to skip most of the hoops if you explain you usually work on the corporate machines and actually know what you're talking about.
Server support? Beautiful. "Hi, I'm running CentOS, a clone of RedHat Enterprise with the branding removed." Dell: "No problem, how can we help?" In every case, got first call resolution, and even when the tech was obviously clueless about my specific issue, they were honest about it -"Well, I don't know, let me put you on hold and ask some people". I've worked in enough call centers to tell when someone is wandering around saying, "hey, anyone know how to fix [this obscure issue]?" Invaribly, they come back on within 5 minutes or so, "This should work, so and so has seen this before."
I enjoy the great documentation and smooth support on their business line. I avoid the home line whenever possible. I have noticed that a lot of the Dell Latitude Laptops in years past have really crappy internal wireless; an electronics engineer informed me that he thought Dell had cut corners on some of the Lats by not hooking up proper internal antennas in the shells. We have a client with a huge wireless setup in a hotel, and if they have signal problems it's almost always a Sony Vaio, a Dell Latitude or a pre-2004 Mac.
Heh..the previous poster, who "works the abuse desk at one of AZ's oldest ISP's", isn't kidding around...he takes spam quite seriously as I found out when he turned off an IP that one of my clients was using, hoping I would contact him, and I did, to have him tell me that the client was infected with a virus that was allowing it to act as a spam relay. Nice catch - and then I found out that this guy was someone who was active in the BBS world 20 years ago...small world.
:)
Oh, and Lane, this is MacLeod from Zephyr...make sure you check out www.retrobbs.org
I second this. Spambayes works very well with Outlook & Exchange. The only problem is that since it's a client-side program, it's not working when the Outlook client isn't running. I have several clients who have an Exchange server hosted by someone else, and they are in the habit of opening their Outlook and letting it sit for 10 minutes so Spambayes can catch up on all the spam if they haven't checked their email for a few days. Also, of course, they now hate checking webmail since Spambayes only works with the Outlook client.
Best of all, it's free.
Actually, the way I read it was, "We tried a Linux distro, back in 2001, everyone complained that we should have picked some other distro, and we got sick of not being able to please anyone and dropped the whole thing."
Oh, give me a break.
.DEB drivers that could theoretically work with any distro - well, then that would be a TRUE win for Linux.
The PARENT is right.
The Linux Community needs to listen to Dell, not the other way around.
Are we "clients" of Dell? Yeah, sort of, but let's face it, if Linux disappeared overnight it would not make a bit of difference to Dell's bottom line. There is simply no profit motive for them to listen to a bunch of whiny, "gimmie gimmie gimme Micro$oft SUXORS!" idiots who can't even agree on a common desktop environment.
On the other hand, if the Linux community listens to Dell - who, personally, is obvious sympathetic to Linux - and agrees on certain standards that would make it possible for Dell to ship a "generic" Linux distro and basic RPM &
I've used Dell support for Linux Servers. They want RedHat Enterprise, and I can understand it, because from a support perspective, it is predictable. I called 'em up and said, "Hey, I'm running CentOS, a RHEL clonse, just treat me like I'm running RedHat, ok?" and the techs say "sure!" and eagerly get to helping me with my problems. The Dell Techs are smart enought (well, the business ones based in the US, the Indians have to stick to their scripts) to support a "baseline" linux. However, it would be an UNPROFITABLE support nightmare to support every - or even the 5 biggest - distros out there.
Go ahead. Whine about how "Dell doesn't listen to the Linux community". You'll score points with the Linux zealots who find it easier to badmouth the 90% of the world that doesn't use Linux. But, if you want to make true Linux desktop adaption a reality - if you want to see Linux develop a true installed base that would prevent Microsoft from doing something wacky like develop proprietary extensions that "everyone must have" or enough of an installed base so that some big, coroporate lobbyists will DEFEND Linux when our braindead politicians are bought off by other big corporate lobbyists try to ban Linux form some ridiculous reason - and don't laugh, it's on the horizon, there are powerful interests - both corporate and governmental (RIAA, anyone) that think the idea of people being able to actually work their own computer hardware & software is a Bad Thing(tm) - well, if you want to see Linux groow, then listen to what people like Michael Dell say, and figure out wheat we can do to make their lives easier.
Our numbers are not enough for Dell to listen. Be nice, and they will work with us on hardware, and slowly, we will gain more influence. Be rude and insulting, and they'll tune us out.
This guy is lucky as hell. He now has two years in prison to take some English writing classes. It's obvious he's been neglecting his english studies.
I read his diatribe and all I can think is, "wow, this moron is really almost 30 years old?!"
Is there any evidence for this other than a 1-paragraph CNET story? There's NOTHING on the mysql site about this, although there's a big thing on SCO's homepage - which, of course, doesn't seem to have any quotes from MySql.
Come on, people, think. SCO routinely issues press releases that have no relation to reality. I wouldn't be surprised if they bought a $50 incident support call or something and referred to that as "signing an agreement."
Someone from mysql needs to check in and let us know what's going on - so far, the only source for this "news" appears to be SCO, and that's no source at all.
An "interested observer", was asked to comment on the ramifications of the mind-controlling insects. The observer simply looked at the reporter and said, "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
How are they going to stop the sun from destroying the video display? It's a big problem with ATM's & McDonald Drive Thrus here in Arizona...
Yeah, they spent $millions or $billions, sure. Over 100 years. And most of those $millions or $billions were MATCHED with taxpayer dollars - incentives, free gifts of right-of-way, etc. The telephone network was built with the help of BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars, over DECADES. It could not be "rebuilt" by any competitor, no matter how well financed, in anything less than another few decades - and even then, they most likely would not be able to legally acquire the same rights-of-way that were given to the telco when it was a monopoly.
You want to be a free-market capitalist? Fine, so do I. In a free market, you have to pay for value received. The telcos want a monopoly over their partially-taxpayer funded network? No problem. Let's calculate how much taxpayer support they've received over the past 100 years, bill them, with interest, and then they can be allowed to have exclusive control over their lines.
THAT'S free market. What the FCC has just done is corporate welfare - big companies sucking off of the public tit and pushing the smaller puppies away.