Has anyone thought about the fact that the US Government may take a pro-SCO stance in all of this? You see, however much you might hate large corporations like Microsoft and others, they do make up the bread and butter of our economy. That's why some legislators have taken an anti-OSS stance. They view it as similar to communism.
Also, notice how David Boies is representing this case, didn't he used to work for the DOJ on prosecuting the Microsoft case? Our current Republican government, as much as I detest their practices and cowboy attitude, is very much pro-capitalism, even to the point of taking away personal rights and giving them to corporations.
IP theft is becoming an extremely large issue to those in power (the corporations), and I think that the government may try to make an example of IBM... Release trade secrets to terrorists, go to jail, or something similar.
AT&T, as part of it's monopoly ruling, had to divest all assets other than telco related assets. Therefore, whoever purchased those assets (the old SCO) now owns them, including licensing agreements.
It doesn't matter who's name is on the deed to your house, if you sell that house and the deed with it, the new owner now has all rights to it.
"So is anybody clean? What about Apple and Microsoft?" I wondered. "Sun is clean," he saidâ"but he gave no answer in regards to Apple and Microsoft.
It appears that Sun has purchased a license to use Unix System V in perpetuity, which cannot be revoked. Therefore, SCO does not own any derivative works. Also, according to the documents on SCO's website, which assign licensing rights to IBM for Unix System V, this license was granted in 1985, which makes IBM still fall within the 20 year "sunset clause" that most of these agreements have.
I must admit, I used to not think SCO had a case, but now it's starting to look like they do have a very good one.
Pretty soon Solaris and possibly HP-UX (not sure what kind of Unix license they own) could be the only Unices left standing.
I'll probably be modded into oblivion for this, let me just preface it with this disclaimer: I hate to say this because I like Linux and want to see it used more often, but...
This is good news for Sun and sysadmins that work on Sun equipment. If management stops purchasing AIX due to uncertainty over licensing issues, that leaves only HP as a major competitor in the Unix marketspace, and they are quickly descending into Itanic territory after abandoning PA-RISC so will soon be a non-player.
This could leave Solaris on Sparc as the only viable commercial flavor of Unix out there.
WTF? Why not just buy a Serial ATA controller if you really want it that bad. No system with a free PCI slot in it should be considered obsolete just because it doesn't have some massively parallel Serial ATA RAID controller on the motherboard.
Perhaps Apple wants to do it the right way and keep system costs down. Those that need or feel like they need Serial ATA can pay extra for it. Those that don't need or even want it can save money on the initial system price.
I've heard great things about OS X and I've been dying to switch for a while now, but then I hear this...
I'm supposed to switch from an OS that is relatively stable (Linux) and seems to handle NFS and SMB mounts just fine, and never requires a reboot, to this? And, I'm supposed to buy ~$2000 worth of hardware just to do it? And it will run half as fast as my PIV at home for 3 times the price...
No thanks... I'll wait until they figure out how to do a Unix workalike OS properly before I spend my hard-earned dollars on a pretty GUI.
I don't know about the embedded G4s, but I do know that the most recent MDD PowerMacs and the 17" PowerBook all use 167 mhz. FSB. 12" and 15" Powerbooks and older PowerMacs are stuck with 133 mhz. FSB.
It's funny because even though the memory in the newer PowerMacs and PowerBooks is DDR memory at 266 or 333, the processor can't even utilize it because the FSB is so slow. I think they put the DDR memory in there just as a marketing gimick so that people wouldn't think they were as slow.
I will be glad when the 970 finally hits... God knows Apple needs it right now.
During the transition from 68000 to PowerPC, Apple bent over backwards to give developers access to emulators, test labs, and even loaned machines to big developers. But they didn't start commercially selling anything until eight or nine months after the WWDC announcements.
I'd like to remind you that the PPC970 is binary compatible with PowerPC. It will run all existing 32-bit PowerPC applications without the need to port them.
Yes, but you aren't taking into account the FSB speed of the processor which is really choking the G4 right now. 167 mhz. is just not fast enough to feed the processor as fast as the Altivec unit can process instructions.
The 1.8 ghz. PPC 970 should have a 900 mhz. FSB, fed by dual bank DDR400 (PC3200) memory it will really cook!
I just bought a new Dell and for only an extra $110 on the system price I got a Radeon 9800 128MB (not the Pro, but it's the same card, just clocked 50mhz. slower).
This card rocks! I was looking at the benchmarks on the site linked to in this article and my mid-budget $110 Radeon 9800 is outperforming the GeForce FX 5800 by about 200 in the 3dmark scores...
I would highly recommend the 9800, not the 9800 pro, which is just too expensive.
Nvidia released their next generation of cards a day late and a dollar short, and now they are having to cheat just to make it look like they can keep up with ATI. This ATI card only has a small fan on it and makes practically 0 noise. It is one great card and I will probably not buy an Nvidia again. I had a GeForce 4ti4200 in my last system and it was a good card, but the capacitors started to leak and the card went bad after about 6 months...:-(
I'm not sure how much I would trust a review of a widescreen television from someone that doesn't even know how to enable 16:9 widescreen mode on their DVD player...
My god, if you look at the picture of the Monster's Inc. screenshot you can tell he is running it in standard 4:3 letterboxed mode from his DVD player, which is further stretching the image to 16:9 dimensions... Ugh!!!
Also, why not run the PC in 1280x768 mode as well? LCDs do not perform very well unless you run them in their native resolution. It would have been nice if he ran DScaler and scaled up some 480i sources as well.
Half of the benefit of one of these TV's is their ability to properly display the full picture information on 16:9 anamorphic DVDs.
"We're also looking at variable pricing and congestion pricing," he said, "and we could even do different time-of-day rates." For example, the state could make it more expensive to drive downtown during rush hour than it would be to cover the same ground during a midnight munchie run when the streets are deserted.
I was reading the article just fine until I got to this point:
When that final address is used up in a couple of years, the online world will grind to a halt.
Obviously this is totally incorrect. When we run out of IPv4 addresses the Internet will still keep routing packets happily just as it always has. He makes it sound as if the entire Internet will just meltdown or something...
It will force network administrators that can no longer receive IP address blocks from ARIN to be more creative and possibly start to use NAT devices and reallocate IP addresses that are not being effectively utilized.
I work for one of the largest Unix vendors out there (hint, we used to put the . in.bomb).
Anyway, I can tell you that in one of my many Unix classes when we were learning how to configure IPv6 the instructor mentioned that the reason why IPv6 had been added by default to our new versions of Unix was that we were getting a tremendous amount of pressure from our customers overseas, primarily in Asian markets, who were unable to get IPv4 address blocks from their ISPs, and were therefore deploying IPv6 exclusively.
I believe currently a lot of Asia is running IPv6 with IPv4 gateways at main NAPs.
-obdisclaimer, the opinions expressed are not those of my employer.
Considering that I have some systems with uptimes in YEARS, a few going on a DECADE,...
Any black hats out there want to know about a system that hasn't seen any security patches in the last 10 years?
You, my friend, are a fool. There is one school of thought that says "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." There is another school of thought out there that says "stay up to date on your patches." Somewhere in the middle there is a happy medium. I myself prefer to wait a couple of months for the general public to test my patches first, then roll them out to test environment, then roll them out to production. That way I have the necessary security patches, but I'm not on the bleeding edge.
It would seem to me that not taking down a system to install patches for 10 years borders on criminal negligence...
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Your reckless copying and pasting is what got us into this whole mess in the first place!
:-)
Let's all be just a little more careful next time...
Yes, you're right, but IBM doesn't make the kind of campaign contributions that Microsoft does...
Bill Gates is a sick, sick man...
Has anyone thought about the fact that the US Government may take a pro-SCO stance in all of this? You see, however much you might hate large corporations like Microsoft and others, they do make up the bread and butter of our economy. That's why some legislators have taken an anti-OSS stance. They view it as similar to communism.
Also, notice how David Boies is representing this case, didn't he used to work for the DOJ on prosecuting the Microsoft case? Our current Republican government, as much as I detest their practices and cowboy attitude, is very much pro-capitalism, even to the point of taking away personal rights and giving them to corporations.
IP theft is becoming an extremely large issue to those in power (the corporations), and I think that the government may try to make an example of IBM... Release trade secrets to terrorists, go to jail, or something similar.
Any thoughts?
...conveniently overlooking the fact that if you don't have the deed in your name that you don't have the right to sell the house.
You're not disputing the fact that AT&T owned System V at one point in time, are you?
AT&T, as part of it's monopoly ruling, had to divest all assets other than telco related assets. Therefore, whoever purchased those assets (the old SCO) now owns them, including licensing agreements.
It doesn't matter who's name is on the deed to your house, if you sell that house and the deed with it, the new owner now has all rights to it.
Did you notice this part of the article:
"So is anybody clean? What about Apple and Microsoft?" I wondered. "Sun is clean," he saidâ"but he gave no answer in regards to Apple and Microsoft.
It appears that Sun has purchased a license to use Unix System V in perpetuity, which cannot be revoked. Therefore, SCO does not own any derivative works. Also, according to the documents on SCO's website, which assign licensing rights to IBM for Unix System V, this license was granted in 1985, which makes IBM still fall within the 20 year "sunset clause" that most of these agreements have.
I must admit, I used to not think SCO had a case, but now it's starting to look like they do have a very good one.
Pretty soon Solaris and possibly HP-UX (not sure what kind of Unix license they own) could be the only Unices left standing.
SCO bought the licenses from AT&T years ago.
s/AT&T/SCO
I'll probably be modded into oblivion for this, let me just preface it with this disclaimer: I hate to say this because I like Linux and want to see it used more often, but...
This is good news for Sun and sysadmins that work on Sun equipment. If management stops purchasing AIX due to uncertainty over licensing issues, that leaves only HP as a major competitor in the Unix marketspace, and they are quickly descending into Itanic territory after abandoning PA-RISC so will soon be a non-player.
This could leave Solaris on Sparc as the only viable commercial flavor of Unix out there.
[dons flame-retardant jacket]
WTF? Why not just buy a Serial ATA controller if you really want it that bad. No system with a free PCI slot in it should be considered obsolete just because it doesn't have some massively parallel Serial ATA RAID controller on the motherboard.
Perhaps Apple wants to do it the right way and keep system costs down. Those that need or feel like they need Serial ATA can pay extra for it. Those that don't need or even want it can save money on the initial system price.
I've heard great things about OS X and I've been dying to switch for a while now, but then I hear this...
I'm supposed to switch from an OS that is relatively stable (Linux) and seems to handle NFS and SMB mounts just fine, and never requires a reboot, to this? And, I'm supposed to buy ~$2000 worth of hardware just to do it? And it will run half as fast as my PIV at home for 3 times the price...
No thanks... I'll wait until they figure out how to do a Unix workalike OS properly before I spend my hard-earned dollars on a pretty GUI.
And, in other news...
Microsoft has agreed to play fair...
Apple is dying!!!
SCO now owns the Linux kernel...
and Sun is dying!!!
In all seriousness, any company with 5.5 billion in the bank that is not bleeding money will not be dying any time soon.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program.
I don't know about the embedded G4s, but I do know that the most recent MDD PowerMacs and the 17" PowerBook all use 167 mhz. FSB. 12" and 15" Powerbooks and older PowerMacs are stuck with 133 mhz. FSB.
It's funny because even though the memory in the newer PowerMacs and PowerBooks is DDR memory at 266 or 333, the processor can't even utilize it because the FSB is so slow. I think they put the DDR memory in there just as a marketing gimick so that people wouldn't think they were as slow.
I will be glad when the 970 finally hits... God knows Apple needs it right now.
During the transition from 68000 to PowerPC, Apple bent over backwards to give developers access to emulators, test labs, and even loaned machines to big developers. But they didn't start commercially selling anything until eight or nine months after the WWDC announcements.
I'd like to remind you that the PPC970 is binary compatible with PowerPC. It will run all existing 32-bit PowerPC applications without the need to port them.
Yes, but you aren't taking into account the FSB speed of the processor which is really choking the G4 right now. 167 mhz. is just not fast enough to feed the processor as fast as the Altivec unit can process instructions.
The 1.8 ghz. PPC 970 should have a 900 mhz. FSB, fed by dual bank DDR400 (PC3200) memory it will really cook!
Hate to break it to you, but /16 is a class B, not a class C...
In other news... Ebay prices of the older 4000 series Replay units skyrocketd...
100% agreed.
:-(
I just bought a new Dell and for only an extra $110 on the system price I got a Radeon 9800 128MB (not the Pro, but it's the same card, just clocked 50mhz. slower).
This card rocks! I was looking at the benchmarks on the site linked to in this article and my mid-budget $110 Radeon 9800 is outperforming the GeForce FX 5800 by about 200 in the 3dmark scores...
I would highly recommend the 9800, not the 9800 pro, which is just too expensive.
Nvidia released their next generation of cards a day late and a dollar short, and now they are having to cheat just to make it look like they can keep up with ATI. This ATI card only has a small fan on it and makes practically 0 noise. It is one great card and I will probably not buy an Nvidia again. I had a GeForce 4ti4200 in my last system and it was a good card, but the capacitors started to leak and the card went bad after about 6 months...
I'm not sure how much I would trust a review of a widescreen television from someone that doesn't even know how to enable 16:9 widescreen mode on their DVD player...
My god, if you look at the picture of the Monster's Inc. screenshot you can tell he is running it in standard 4:3 letterboxed mode from his DVD player, which is further stretching the image to 16:9 dimensions... Ugh!!!
Also, why not run the PC in 1280x768 mode as well? LCDs do not perform very well unless you run them in their native resolution. It would have been nice if he ran DScaler and scaled up some 480i sources as well.
Half of the benefit of one of these TV's is their ability to properly display the full picture information on 16:9 anamorphic DVDs.
This is great, the first tax that favors stoners:
"We're also looking at variable pricing and congestion pricing," he said, "and we could even do different time-of-day rates." For example, the state could make it more expensive to drive downtown during rush hour than it would be to cover the same ground during a midnight munchie run when the streets are deserted.
Hehehe... you made me laugh...
Thanks.
Yes, you're correct... Sometimes I forget there are actually other countries out there besides the U.S... :P
Just kidding.
I was reading the article just fine until I got to this point:
When that final address is used up in a couple of years, the online world will grind to a halt.
Obviously this is totally incorrect. When we run out of IPv4 addresses the Internet will still keep routing packets happily just as it always has. He makes it sound as if the entire Internet will just meltdown or something...
It will force network administrators that can no longer receive IP address blocks from ARIN to be more creative and possibly start to use NAT devices and reallocate IP addresses that are not being effectively utilized.
I work for one of the largest Unix vendors out there (hint, we used to put the . in .bomb).
Anyway, I can tell you that in one of my many Unix classes when we were learning how to configure IPv6 the instructor mentioned that the reason why IPv6 had been added by default to our new versions of Unix was that we were getting a tremendous amount of pressure from our customers overseas, primarily in Asian markets, who were unable to get IPv4 address blocks from their ISPs, and were therefore deploying IPv6 exclusively.
I believe currently a lot of Asia is running IPv6 with IPv4 gateways at main NAPs.
-obdisclaimer, the opinions expressed are not those of my employer.
Thanks for the info... That's pretty cool... Too bad I can't view the model since I'm running Linux. Oh well.
Considering that I have some systems with uptimes in YEARS, a few going on a DECADE,...
Any black hats out there want to know about a system that hasn't seen any security patches in the last 10 years?
You, my friend, are a fool. There is one school of thought that says "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." There is another school of thought out there that says "stay up to date on your patches." Somewhere in the middle there is a happy medium. I myself prefer to wait a couple of months for the general public to test my patches first, then roll them out to test environment, then roll them out to production. That way I have the necessary security patches, but I'm not on the bleeding edge.
It would seem to me that not taking down a system to install patches for 10 years borders on criminal negligence...