Per (again) Frank Soltis, the Magic Box runs Linux "back in the [IBM] lab," but it won't be released because the PASE stuff can run Unix programs natively, without actually running Unix. It runs AIX binaries without recompiling, allegedly, and AIX's next release is (was?) supposed to run Linux apps natively.
(He also expressed regret that the 23 AS/400's that used to run at the heart of the Microsoft network had finally been phased out, after many years of "We don't like you anymore, we're getting rid of these. Oh, and can we extend the maintenance contracts another year?" They were replaced with 1200+ NT servers. So much for uptime.)
No, but at least they are not designed for Microsoft's SOL operating systems
Heh. Last time I heard Larry Soltis (Father of the AS/400, for you penguinheads) speak, he said Microsoft was negotiating with IBM to port NT to a Power-4 platform.
Now, this was February, and I don't know where it's gone since then, but it's not as far-fetched as it sounds.
What about poor open source hackers like myself? Can we afford $100 to maintain a copyleft?
There is plenty of precedent for different laws for copyrights held by corporations vs. individuals... seems reasonable that copyright renewal could be cheaper for individuals than corporations.p. Even with a free renewal, though, this would take care of really-abandoned abandonware.p.
I was not aware of this. [C]ould someone point me in the right direction here and explain when this occured and what case/legislative act brought this about.
Look for Terry Carroll's Copyright FAQ, or Brad Templeton's Copyright Myths page... they should give cites somewhere.
I can only assume i'm not alone, but if I and others are in the same situation, does this not mean that the virus isn't as widespread as people say it is?
Maybe, maybe not. It's more prevalent in the business world than the home setup (where Outlook Express, which doesn't default the same way, is much more common than Outlook). I administer a list server that runs a lot of hobby mailing lists, and saw exactly one of the originals the morning of the 5th (from a UK user using his work account), and not a thing since.
Whether that means the estimates are accurate and the distribution is uneven, or the estimates assume the home market was hit as badly as the business one, is a good question. I'm inclined toward the latter guess, myself.
Next, it is not clear whether the alleged copyright is of a PUBLISHED work or an UNPUBLISHED work. The treatment of each is different under the law (the former is allowed more fair use). The letter from Microsoft does not clarify this point, but one might infer from the document itself that it claims to contain trade secrets and thus is UNPUBLISHED, while the fact that it is openly available on the web would indicate that it is a PUBLISHED work. I hope that a judge will find that Microsoft intended this work as unpublished, but because of poor legal advice, posted it as published, and therefore the DMCA does not apply.
Does anybody but me hear this in the voice of Wallace Shawn (Vizzini, The Princess Bride)?
The problem here is, I think, that unlike patents, copyrights are not selectively enforceable. That is, I seem to recall that if a copyright holder does not notify violators of the copyright that they have, in fact, violated the copyright, then the copyright is no longer held.
This has not been the case in the US for many years. Only trademarks work that way now.
Yes, it is. It's legal for you to give your CD to someone, have them make a backup (or whatever you are legally able but physically unable to do) of it, and give it and the copy back to you.
It is not, however, legal for the other guy to make a copy of his CD, even if it's the same CD, and give you a backup. Yes, the net effect is the same. It's law, don't make the mistake of applying common sense to it.
For me, pure and simple: portability. I code for both NT and Unix environments. At work, we've got a CFO pushing the CIO to switch a Windows-only shop to Linux (he's cheap and it's free). In the event it happens (unlikely, unfortunately, since we're stuck with so many customer- and Fed-required systems that are NT-only), my Perl scripts are going to run on Apache without modification, but the ASP/VB stuff some of the other areas are doing is going to have to be scrapped and rebuilt.
Stupid question time. I run a mailing list server, and one of the users on one of the lists (yes, amazingly... just one) got bit, and sent the critter to the list.
Now, my software happens to snag attachments and replace them with links, so this one didn't go anywhere, but someone did obediently go and acquire the pointed-to file before I removed read access. Fortunately, he was using Netscape, so nothing happened.
So here's my question: since mailing list users tend to blindly trust each other, and sometimes they do want to legitimately exchange executables, is there something I can run on the li'l ol' penguin-powered server that will detect (some, most, any) Windows viruses so I can protect these people from themselves?
(Yeah, some of them are morons. But, dangitall, they're my morons.)
Microsoft has announced that they are changing the name of their popular e-mail program to "Microsoft Lookout!"
That's it, I'm suing for trademark infringement... I changed the desktop shortcut to my Outlook to "Microsoft lookOut" the first day I started working here.
Of course, I suspect even I don't have the right to that mark, since I doubt I beat out all the prior use...
Not the C64, as some have mentioned, but the Tandy Color Computer, its (not terribly successful) competitor. Also the Tano Dragon, the UK equivalent (of the Coco, not the Commo).
MC68A09E, to be precise. I used to read the hex dumps and hand-decode its ROMs. Hoo boy.
In the AS/400 shops I've worked, it has been fairly typical to insist on having source code... if you're an airline or a bank and your vendor suddenly goes AWOL, you have to have a bankup plan. The FAA or OTS/FFIEC/FDIC (respectively) pretty much requires it, so the vendors comply. If they don't want to actually issue you-the-customer the source code, it's put in escrow.
Interesting to see this coming down to the micro level.
seemed like PKWare fell behind and was no longer profiting from its algorithm.
I can't speak to its success in doing so, but PKWare had apparently switched its focus from the PC market to larger fish. I regularly see their ads in AS/400 pubs, for instance.
But the scribble factor is quite large... and often overlooked.
What he said.
Especially for badly-written manuals. I'm fighting my way through a set right now - it looks like their notion of a manual is to take the Powerpoint presentation from their live classes, throw a few notes in between the screen shots, and call it good. It's going to take a lot of scribbling.
Of course, if PDFs were halfway modifiable (yes, we've got all the expensive Adobe tools, but still), I could just incorporate those into the rest of our electronic documentation as I went. Unfortunately, my estimation of the.pdf "standard" is dropping daily...
"Web-hosting provider." Not every web server. I think the notion is that web-hosting providers these days tend to have both IIS and Apache servers available. I don't know about "almost every," but at least it seemed to be a "large majority" - if they don't have an IIS server tucked away (or, for the primarily-NT shops, an Apache server) for those who want it, they've usually got another service, sometimes with a different domain name, that offers it.
Hmmmm. 75% of all mutual funds underperform the S&P 500.
At the risk of sounding like a smartmouth, the answer is to invest in the other 25%. Though, really (and this was probably your point), investing in other things is probably a better way to get "20% easy." My investments are pulling in 20% right now, easy. Slightly better, long-term, since that's pure dividends and not counting the theoretical increase in the value of the principal investments.
Of course, none of them are in mutual funds OR Internet startups, either...
So is my perspective skewed or something here? Is your experience primarily with small companies?
The only place I've ever worked that had drug testing was an airline - the FAA requires that pilots, mechanics, and anyone else with direct impact on the aircraft themselves be tested. By way of making sure they didn't drop anybody out of that last "anyone else" category, they randomly tested everyone.
Of course, the one time my number came up, I forgot several times (we were in the process of moving the whole company) and when I finally made it to the testing center a couple of months late, my boss paged me and told HR they'd just have to do without my test. (I put my foot down and stayed... "I've waited two hours, darnit, I'm going through with this! If you don't like the policy, CHANGE IT, don't just keep making exceptions.")
And when I hired a PC tech who tested positive for marijuana, HR gave me the option of them firing him or not. (Having cleverly deduced that he had interviewed just for the purpose of getting a free drug test to see if he was clean yet before he applied for a *real* job, I let them fire him, though.) I learned it wouldn't have been the first exception, so even then they didn't take it too seriously.
My present employer requires a financial/criminal background check and that's it... but it's a bank, so I guess that's to be expected.p.
So no, I'm not saying sing their praises. I'm just saying lay off the crap.
Well, conversely then... what crap?
All I'm saying is the whole OGL thing is a PR stunt. That's not giving them crap, that's just acknowledging that they're doing bidness as usual. Nothing eeeeevil, just not deserving of all the back-patting Dancey is giving himself, and certainly not Open Source.
What they're doing is just a clever marketing way of getting people - that is to say, game authors and publishers - to produce supplemental product for their game, while subtly hampering (via the trademark issue) any direct competition. It's really very, very clever.
Especially when you remember that the license as proposed is world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive... but not irrevocable.
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Per (again) Frank Soltis, the Magic Box runs Linux "back in the [IBM] lab," but it won't be released because the PASE stuff can run Unix programs natively, without actually running Unix. It runs AIX binaries without recompiling, allegedly, and AIX's next release is (was?) supposed to run Linux apps natively.
(He also expressed regret that the 23 AS/400's that used to run at the heart of the Microsoft network had finally been phased out, after many years of "We don't like you anymore, we're getting rid of these. Oh, and can we extend the maintenance contracts another year?" They were replaced with 1200+ NT servers. So much for uptime.)
Heh. Last time I heard Larry Soltis (Father of the AS/400, for you penguinheads) speak, he said Microsoft was negotiating with IBM to port NT to a Power-4 platform.
Now, this was February, and I don't know where it's gone since then, but it's not as far-fetched as it sounds.
There is plenty of precedent for different laws for copyrights held by corporations vs. individuals... seems reasonable that copyright renewal could be cheaper for individuals than corporations.p. Even with a free renewal, though, this would take care of really-abandoned abandonware.p.
Look for Terry Carroll's Copyright FAQ, or Brad Templeton's Copyright Myths page... they should give cites somewhere.
Maybe, maybe not. It's more prevalent in the business world than the home setup (where Outlook Express, which doesn't default the same way, is much more common than Outlook). I administer a list server that runs a lot of hobby mailing lists, and saw exactly one of the originals the morning of the 5th (from a UK user using his work account), and not a thing since.
Whether that means the estimates are accurate and the distribution is uneven, or the estimates assume the home market was hit as badly as the business one, is a good question. I'm inclined toward the latter guess, myself.
Nope. Trademarks work that way, but copyrights don't. (They used to, many many years ago, but they don't nowadays.)
Nonono. "Y'all" is still singular. "All y'all" is the plural.
It does? What does that say about the times I run Lynx in a shell on my ISP's server which then retransmits to my random self?
Does anybody but me hear this in the voice of Wallace Shawn (Vizzini, The Princess Bride)?
Aksherly, you can: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
This has not been the case in the US for many years. Only trademarks work that way now.
Yes, it is. It's legal for you to give your CD to someone, have them make a backup (or whatever you are legally able but physically unable to do) of it, and give it and the copy back to you.
It is not, however, legal for the other guy to make a copy of his CD, even if it's the same CD, and give you a backup. Yes, the net effect is the same. It's law, don't make the mistake of applying common sense to it.
(Kilometerage may vary outside the US.)
For me, pure and simple: portability. I code for both NT and Unix environments. At work, we've got a CFO pushing the CIO to switch a Windows-only shop to Linux (he's cheap and it's free). In the event it happens (unlikely, unfortunately, since we're stuck with so many customer- and Fed-required systems that are NT-only), my Perl scripts are going to run on Apache without modification, but the ASP/VB stuff some of the other areas are doing is going to have to be scrapped and rebuilt.
Now, my software happens to snag attachments and replace them with links, so this one didn't go anywhere, but someone did obediently go and acquire the pointed-to file before I removed read access. Fortunately, he was using Netscape, so nothing happened.
So here's my question: since mailing list users tend to blindly trust each other, and sometimes they do want to legitimately exchange executables, is there something I can run on the li'l ol' penguin-powered server that will detect (some, most, any) Windows viruses so I can protect these people from themselves?
(Yeah, some of them are morons. But, dangitall, they're my morons.)
That's it, I'm suing for trademark infringement... I changed the desktop shortcut to my Outlook to "Microsoft lookOut" the first day I started working here.
Of course, I suspect even I don't have the right to that mark, since I doubt I beat out all the prior use...
Huh? Per US Code, Title 17, Section 107 (the fair use clause):
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including (...), is not an infringement of copyright.
Not the C64, as some have mentioned, but the Tandy Color Computer, its (not terribly successful) competitor. Also the Tano Dragon, the UK equivalent (of the Coco, not the Commo).
MC68A09E, to be precise. I used to read the hex dumps and hand-decode its ROMs. Hoo boy.
Interesting to see this coming down to the micro level.
I can't speak to its success in doing so, but PKWare had apparently switched its focus from the PC market to larger fish. I regularly see their ads in AS/400 pubs, for instance.
What he said.
Especially for badly-written manuals. I'm fighting my way through a set right now - it looks like their notion of a manual is to take the Powerpoint presentation from their live classes, throw a few notes in between the screen shots, and call it good. It's going to take a lot of scribbling.
Of course, if PDFs were halfway modifiable (yes, we've got all the expensive Adobe tools, but still), I could just incorporate those into the rest of our electronic documentation as I went. Unfortunately, my estimation of the .pdf "standard" is dropping daily...
At the risk of sounding like a smartmouth, the answer is to invest in the other 25%. Though, really (and this was probably your point), investing in other things is probably a better way to get "20% easy." My investments are pulling in 20% right now, easy. Slightly better, long-term, since that's pure dividends and not counting the theoretical increase in the value of the principal investments.
Of course, none of them are in mutual funds OR Internet startups, either...
The only place I've ever worked that had drug testing was an airline - the FAA requires that pilots, mechanics, and anyone else with direct impact on the aircraft themselves be tested. By way of making sure they didn't drop anybody out of that last "anyone else" category, they randomly tested everyone.
Of course, the one time my number came up, I forgot several times (we were in the process of moving the whole company) and when I finally made it to the testing center a couple of months late, my boss paged me and told HR they'd just have to do without my test. (I put my foot down and stayed... "I've waited two hours, darnit, I'm going through with this! If you don't like the policy, CHANGE IT, don't just keep making exceptions.")
And when I hired a PC tech who tested positive for marijuana, HR gave me the option of them firing him or not. (Having cleverly deduced that he had interviewed just for the purpose of getting a free drug test to see if he was clean yet before he applied for a *real* job, I let them fire him, though.) I learned it wouldn't have been the first exception, so even then they didn't take it too seriously.
My present employer requires a financial/criminal background check and that's it... but it's a bank, so I guess that's to be expected.p.
I did, only I kept apples with apples, and company names with company names:
D20 under OGL:
Can call your version Hasbro: NO
Can call your version D20: NO
Netscape 6.0:
Can call your version Netscape: NO
Can call your version Communicator: YES
Well, conversely then... what crap?
All I'm saying is the whole OGL thing is a PR stunt. That's not giving them crap, that's just acknowledging that they're doing bidness as usual. Nothing eeeeevil, just not deserving of all the back-patting Dancey is giving himself, and certainly not Open Source.
What they're doing is just a clever marketing way of getting people - that is to say, game authors and publishers - to produce supplemental product for their game, while subtly hampering (via the trademark issue) any direct competition. It's really very, very clever.
Especially when you remember that the license as proposed is world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive... but not irrevocable.