Very carefully over the last quarter, instead of sending out mass invoices, we stepped very carefully and really had a lot of direct one-on-one meetings with 15 or so companies.
So SCO's suggesting their behaviour has been "careful". What's careless? Killing babies, kittens and puppy dogs en masse?
Not to mention all those Silica Gel satchets that warn you "Do not Eat".
Darren Casey (an Aussie comedian) said it best:
(Summarised)
"I bought a pair of shoes. When I opened the box and took out the shoes a little bag of Silica Gel dropped out. I read the satchet and it said 'Desiccated Silica Gel: Do Not Eat'. I thought 'Thank God they warned me. Whenever I buy a pair of shoes I like to rummage around: see if there's something I might _eat_'"
I played a game of "Frozen Bubble" Against Linus at Linux.Conf.Au. on what I assumed was his laptop (but may not have been).
It was an apparently vanilla Fedora Cora 1.
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p.s. He beat me 4/5: came back from 1/4. Bastard! =) p.p.s. Who cares what distro he uses? As far as I'm concerned most of the differences between the distros are pretty academic.
I'd really like if the autoconf tools (configure and friends) would get a small extension that just displays (or better yet, saves to a central location) the locations of all files that were just installed. Just so that I don't have to dive into a Makefile (or 90 pages of./configure --help) to figure it out.
> maybe not, but I sure as hell would:-] oh and btw, I kick it with the trophy girls, and yeah, they're a bunch of fucking cunts, all of them, brainless and shallow, but at least they hot. lol
Fucking a trophy doesn't count: anyone can shove a trophy up their arse.
It never ceases to amaze me how many fucking clueless try-hard loser misogynists wannabe's we have in this place that complain that they never get any.
You know the great thing about you guys? You make it easy for a dude like me who actually loves and respects women to get regular sex.
> I think the main reason that the GPL has never been tested in courst is because violations are very difficult to prove.
Dude, I see GPL violations popping up every few months on LKML and other places, usually due to someone reverse-engineering a binary or rom and finding GPL code/comments. Discovery doesn't seem too difficult.
In most cases I've heard a bit of grumbling, followed by an "I'll contact the company and tell them that they're doing the wrong thing", then a followup.
It seems to me that the authors of the code just want the company to do the right thing and not steal their code. They never seem keen on litigation.
Of course this is in stark contrast to what a number of corporations (yay SCO, ya fuckwits) do.
As a Christian I have to wonder what this is doing to the children who end up playing these games behind their parents' backs...
As a parent, my kids will never get a chance to play these games because I will be hogging the PC playing them myself!
You, sir, deserve a medal. You have found the solution to the US's "War Against Violent Video Games(tm)". We just need to get the parents addicted to violent video games, then they'll be much less likely to want them banned.
Excel project management software? That's news to me.
Oh absolutely. Very common. Works quite well too for small projects at least. Columns=tasks, rows=dates or vice-versa. Use cell background colour to show which staff member is doing what/whatever.
I actually prefer whipping up a tasklist in a spreadsheet than a Gantt Chart: it's more easily parsed by the majority of people and I can use OpenOffice.org to produce the spreadsheet.
To many business people Excel is the Swiss Army Knife of applications.
You mean to tell me that you honestly believe that for the majority of users, it is easier to live in a command prompt and type things like "urpmi programname" instead of getting a nice, professional Autostart program that lets you browse CD contents, run the program, install (with the ability to CHOOSE program locations and options!), stick itself on the Start menu for access, and uninstall itself correctly?
Indeed a great number of people using computers today have no concept of dropping to a CLI to perform standard operations and frankly I don't see why they should.
However if you want a nice gui front-end for automatically updating Linux software there are some nice ones available such as Ximian Red Carpet. Red Hat's up2date worked pretty painlessly for me when I was testing it too.
> They just need to demodulate the primary power coupling so they can use it to create an inverse antitachyon pulse.
demodulate the primary power coupling? I thought you had to "remodulate" it, which happens to have an 85% chance of disrupting the Warp reactor's containment field. You'll need to get permission from the Captain but that shouldn't be too much of a problem: he'll ask you how long it will take, get a nod from "This Season's Vulcan(tm)" and authorise it.
> However, much of that is dumb luck, and most of the rest is due to having inside connections and privileged information you can't access as a member of the general public.
Yes indeed.
Also you must take into account people ramping stocks on public forums and such. Nothing like a bit of social engineering. Here's the plan:
1. Buy stock X 2. Log in to a few public stock trading forums and mention "Stock X looks good" or "Stock X's price is about to explode!" 3. Watch stock price go up as people buy above current stock price 4. Cash in. 5. I'm so sorry for saying this: PROFIT!
People really shouldn't connect the stock market with reality in any way: any similarity is purely coincidental.
Yes indeed. They need to behave in a way closer to how they do it in Sci-Fi, like Star Trek:
1. Problem is discovered 2. Noone on earth can possibly come up with any helpful ideas to rectify the situation 3. A senior officer, remembering lessons learnt from camping trips with his/her/it's dad, pulls some totally unrealistic and inappropriate solution out of their arse 4. The captain agrees with the plan, it is set in motion and by ignoring numerous breaches in the laws of physics, the damn plan works.
Problem solved, plus as an added bonus you become a "ISS Hacker" and can put a glider on the bottom of your homepage.
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This is the bit that I didn't get:
Very carefully over the last quarter, instead of sending out mass invoices, we stepped very carefully and really had a lot of direct one-on-one meetings with 15 or so companies.
So SCO's suggesting their behaviour has been "careful". What's careless? Killing babies, kittens and puppy dogs en masse?
Cheers
Stor
I read the Linus interview and enjoyed it. Linus always has a couple of cool things to say.
Then I started reading the McBribe interview. I got about half way down and all I was hearing was "Blah blah blah I'm I dirty tramp"[1]
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[1] From the Alan Sandler movie "Mr Deeds"
What about Linux users?
;)
We're all paranoid fucks. Years of battling the machines, y'know?
The result is we eye emails from known bods with suspicion.
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Stor
p.s. Yes, even cron jobs
This one will barely be an annoyance.
Aww man don't say that. If those aren't "Famous Last Words" I don't know what are.
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Stor
Not to mention all those Silica Gel satchets that warn you "Do not Eat".
Darren Casey (an Aussie comedian) said it best:
(Summarised)
"I bought a pair of shoes. When I opened the box and took out the shoes a little bag of Silica Gel dropped out. I read the satchet and it said 'Desiccated Silica Gel: Do Not Eat'. I thought 'Thank God they warned me. Whenever I buy a pair of shoes I like to rummage around: see if there's something I might _eat_'"
Cheers
Stor
Someone's running a dodgy useless Perl script...
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Stor
I played a game of "Frozen Bubble" Against Linus at Linux.Conf.Au. on what I assumed was his laptop (but may not have been).
It was an apparently vanilla Fedora Cora 1.
Cheers
Stor
p.s. He beat me 4/5: came back from 1/4. Bastard! =)
p.p.s. Who cares what distro he uses? As far as I'm concerned most of the differences between the distros are pretty academic.
And exactly what has my old try-hard Apple II cracking group "Big Shafts Association" got to do with this?
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p.s. We rocked. No really we did, honest...
You really ought to investigate CheckInstall
It does exactly what you're after but can also automatically build rpms, debs and Slackware packages.
A lot of the heavy lifting is done through a utility called Installwatch, which is included in the CheckInstall package.
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Stor
> If I'm a "right-wing wacko", then so is the 70% or so in the country who support Bush
Yeah that sounds about right.
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Ahh you misunderstand!
It's "Open" as in "Caldera OpenLinux" or "Microsoft Shared Source"
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Stor
> maybe not, but I sure as hell would :-] oh and btw, I kick it with the trophy girls, and yeah, they're a bunch of fucking cunts, all of them, brainless and shallow, but at least they hot. lol
Fucking a trophy doesn't count: anyone can shove a trophy up their arse.
Cheers
Stor
It never ceases to amaze me how many fucking clueless try-hard loser misogynists wannabe's we have in this place that complain that they never get any.
You know the great thing about you guys? You make it easy for a dude like me who actually loves and respects women to get regular sex.
Stor
> I think the main reason that the GPL has never been tested in courst is because violations are very difficult to prove.
Dude, I see GPL violations popping up every few months on LKML and other places, usually due to someone reverse-engineering a binary or rom and finding GPL code/comments. Discovery doesn't seem too difficult.
In most cases I've heard a bit of grumbling, followed by an "I'll contact the company and tell them that they're doing the wrong thing", then a followup.
It seems to me that the authors of the code just want the company to do the right thing and not steal their code. They never seem keen on litigation.
Of course this is in stark contrast to what a number of corporations (yay SCO, ya fuckwits) do.
Cheers
Stor
Not a problem. I posted that just for you. Enjoy.
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Stor
Sorry ID, you've lost me.
I downloaded Frozen Bubble the other day and haven't looked back.
=)
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Stor
p.s. OK so I'm kidding about never looking back but I gotta say: it's a fun little game!
You, sir, deserve a medal. You have found the solution to the US's "War Against Violent Video Games(tm)". We just need to get the parents addicted to violent video games, then they'll be much less likely to want them banned.
Woot.
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Stor
You have your order backwards - the reason these people are treated that way is because they are engaging in murdering civilians.
"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind" --Ghandi
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Excel project management software? That's news to me.
Oh absolutely. Very common. Works quite well too for small projects at least. Columns=tasks, rows=dates or vice-versa. Use cell background colour to show which staff member is doing what/whatever.
I actually prefer whipping up a tasklist in a spreadsheet than a Gantt Chart: it's more easily parsed by the majority of people and I can use OpenOffice.org to produce the spreadsheet.
To many business people Excel is the Swiss Army Knife of applications.
Cheers
Stor
And yes, its a shame that MS Projct is the defacto standard PM PC Tool, and I havent seen any OSS that comes close.
There are a couple. Last time I checked out Mr Project it had a fair way to go but wasn't bad:
Mr Project
Toutdoux
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Stor
Indeed a great number of people using computers today have no concept of dropping to a CLI to perform standard operations and frankly I don't see why they should.
However if you want a nice gui front-end for automatically updating Linux software there are some nice ones available such as Ximian Red Carpet. Red Hat's up2date worked pretty painlessly for me when I was testing it too.
Cheers
Stor
What's a Linux bore-a-thon?
Is it going to the site, clicking on "Get Quicktime Now" and having no Linux version available?
I guess that is boring.
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Stor
> They just need to demodulate the primary power coupling so they can use it to create an inverse antitachyon pulse.
demodulate the primary power coupling? I thought you had to "remodulate" it, which happens to have an 85% chance of disrupting the Warp reactor's containment field. You'll need to get permission from the Captain but that shouldn't be too much of a problem: he'll ask you how long it will take, get a nod from "This Season's Vulcan(tm)" and authorise it.
No?
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Stor
> However, much of that is dumb luck, and most of the rest is due to having inside connections and privileged information you can't access as a member of the general public.
Yes indeed.
Also you must take into account people ramping stocks on public forums and such. Nothing like a bit of social engineering. Here's the plan:
1. Buy stock X
2. Log in to a few public stock trading forums and mention "Stock X looks good" or "Stock X's price is about to explode!"
3. Watch stock price go up as people buy above current stock price
4. Cash in.
5. I'm so sorry for saying this: PROFIT!
People really shouldn't connect the stock market with reality in any way: any similarity is purely coincidental.
Cheers
Stor
Yes indeed. They need to behave in a way closer to how they do it in Sci-Fi, like Star Trek:
1. Problem is discovered
2. Noone on earth can possibly come up with any helpful ideas to rectify the situation
3. A senior officer, remembering lessons learnt from camping trips with his/her/it's dad, pulls some totally unrealistic and inappropriate solution out of their arse
4. The captain agrees with the plan, it is set in motion and by ignoring numerous breaches in the laws of physics, the damn plan works.
Problem solved, plus as an added bonus you become a "ISS Hacker" and can put a glider on the bottom of your homepage.
Cheers
Stor