"HP did a complete buyout of Unix licensing from SCO," HP spokesman Brian Garabedian said. "We have a perpetual license rather than per copy license for HP-UX...We don't believe we have any exposure to the SCO lawsuit."
Sun, too, bought out its Unix license, said John Loiacono, vice president of Sun's operating platforms group.
"We bought our Unix license out....We are unencumbered for all things," including Sun's version of Linux, he said.
And then in the linked article:
IBM did make one argument defending its use of Unix intellectual property, saying it has the "irrevocable, fully paid-up and perpetual right to use the 'proprietary software' that it is alleged to have misappropriated or misused."
It sounds like IBM believes that they have "bought out" its license as well. So...:
1) Did SCO mislead IBM (and possibly HP, Sun, etc) with these license buyouts?
2) Is SCO trying to make everyone forget about the license buyouts?
3) Does SCO consider the buyouts invalid for some reason?
The whole thing is just weird. SCO is done. Even if they win, no one will ever trust them again. They could produce an OS that whipped any commercial or OSS implementation, but no one would buy it. Had they attacked a smaller, but significant target first (Sun?) they might have had a chance at getting bought out. But with IBM, I don't think they will bother, they'll just crush SCO. They have unfathomable resources. IBM could even afford to lose the case. Sun couldn't.
Call me old fashioned but I personally like the idea of 'Albums'.
Me too. Even non-concept albums can have their own cadence and themes. It's nice to hear these play out.
With decent bands you get what the artist wanted...A collection of songs that represents an time/place/idea. As a cohesive whole it sounds better than a single and has a much better listening experience.
But do bands even do this anymore? It seems like a lot of mainstream pop is a collection of singles and filler.
With that in mind I would like to be able to download whole albums off iTunes and while that is happening they ship me the pysical CD/Vinyl as well...
Yup. Give me stacks of shiny discs. In 10-20 years when MP3, Ogg, etc. are memories, I can still listen to the music I've purchased (assuming I can find a CD player...).
BTW- What sort of non-pop artists are available on this? Traditional Jazz, Classical, etc. Not-pop often has much longer and fewer tracks per album. Bitches Brew is, what, 6 tracks on a double CD set? Pharaoh's Dance alone is over 20 min if memory serves. Is that still $.99? Just curious.
So these nefarious thieves never figured out that carrying a pocket full of pennies is a pretty easy work around to the $.99 price anti-theft solution?
If you came away from this article thinking that the big news was Novell 'dissing Linux, then you've missed the bigger point.
...Linux would serve as the migration path for the company's flagship NetWare network operating system. Afterwards, in an exclusive interview, he explained the move.
With Novell planning for NetWare 7 to be a set of services running on both the NetWare kernel and the Linux kernel...
And there you have it. NetWare is giving way to Linux. NetWare 7 will be the migration path to Lin. Will NetWare 8 simply be Novell's Linux distro? So what will those services that run on NW and Lin be? eDirectory, GroupWise, and ZENWorks mainly. Plus newer stuff like iChain, iFolder, Portal Services, DirXML, et. al.
This really isn't a huge surprise. NetWare 6 shipped with Apache/Tomcat and 6.5 will include MySQL. So Novell has been getting tighter with OSS for some time now. And then there is the sad story of SuperNOS from back in the day.
Even if none of you run any of this stuff, this still has to be considered a win for Linux and OSS.
I like the Moroder version also. But the new restoration uses the original score, which is very effective. Many of the VHS, LD, DVD versions have had random background music that really doesn't relate to what's on screen. It's terrific to see the original vision (mostly) brought back.
No, not the worthless anime rip-off, the original '27 silent film. It has just been digitally restored and quite a bit of lost footage has been added. Sadly about a quarter of the film is considered lost (probably for good) but what remains is breathtaking and probably more relevant today than when it was made. Even if you've never seen it, images from the film have permeated pop-culture for decades.
I wasn't even going to bring up Metropolis. I figured a bunch of people would post it (thus proving it really isn't underappreciated at all). But some 800 +1 or better posts later, no mention.
And as an aside, if you haven't seen a Zatoichi ("The Blind Swordsman") film, check out IFC's "Samurai Saturdays". They're great fun.
Last week I saw Bugsy Malone (...) a prohibition-era gangster musical with an all kids cast
The one with Chachi as the ring-leader? Where they shoot cream-pies at each other? With Jodie Foster as the moll? Ouch. I must have seen that a dozen times when I was a kid. I doubt that I could sit through the whole thing now, though.
Oh, and The Filthy Critic rocks. When he isn't going on and on about the harelip, at least.
Not sure about other countries but last Tuesday (4th) was Shrove Tuesday in the UK when we all make pancakes.
Heh. In a large chunk of Catholic-dominated societies last Tuesday was Fat Tuesday / Mardi Gras / Carnival, celebrated by:
Drinking copious amounts of alcohol
Watching nubile young women disrobe
Dancing in the streets
Throwing / catching small trinkets (such as strings of beads) for good luck
You Brits need to get with it!
I've had the good fun of being on a float in one of St. Louis' Mardi Gras parades for several years now. This year my wife was queen of the float (yes, she found the baby in the king cake). So guess who got to ride up front with her? I'm still hoarse!:^)
Really, the parallels are striking. Secrecy leading up to release that caused rampant speculation. Overhyped to the point that the public really thought that something revolutionary was in the offing. Released at the beginning of an economic downturn.
And then the let-down. "Oh, it's just a car/scooter." Then people stay away in droves.
There are many overviews of the history of Edsel. Read this one or dig up another and see if you agree.
"We are going to use Unix and Linux as the evaluation platforms for our products in the future, and not Windows, because the customer demand for Windows is not there," she said. "Frankly, there is a fair amount of disenchantment with Microsoft products because of security problems."... said Mary-Ann Davidson, chief security officer for Oracle.
Wow. I knew Larry hated Bill and MS, but I sure wouldn't have expected this! Or is he just conceding the Windows server database market to Bill and trying to grow the Linux market on the low end + the UNIX market at the higher end?
At least Galeon has "Open folder in tabs" feature, which conveniently opens every bookmark in a bookmark folder in tabs. Very nice. I wish Mozilla would implement it too
Moz has had something similar for awhile. It's referred to as a "group of tabs" and can be set via the regular bookmarks interface. Even better, in Moz you can set one of these groups as your home page. When I open Moz, it automatically launches 9 "home pages" plus a couple of blanks.
With raidtools, at least,/boot must be RAID1, but / can most assuredly be RAID 5 (or, I presume, any of the other RAID levels). I have this running on an ol' RedHat 7.0 box:
In himmel das ist keine beir
Ja ja wir trinken hier
Und wann wer sind nicht hier
Unsere freundinen trinken alles bier
or
In heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
And when we are gone from here
All our friends will be drinking all the beer
Not a big deal
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Baked Apple
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· Score: 4, Informative
A few months ago, one of my clients suffered a house fire. His Dell notebook suffered similar damage, but booted with an external keyboard and monitor. We were able to transfer the data from it, and stored it on our server until the replacement arrived.
So this is a big deal? Wish I'd know. I could have had a story on Slashdot!
www.uspto.gov returns 2 patents for the Santa Cruz Operation as the Assignee Name: 6,362,836 and 6,104,392. Both are related to SCOs Tarantella (terminal serverish) product. I guess either or both might broadly cover the use of a Linux box as an X or VNC server, I have only skimmed them.
I looked a bit at patents listed for Novell and American Telephone and Telegraph, but I don't see anything obvious. Caldera comes up empty. I also don't see an obvious way to transfer a patent to a new Assignee, but I'm sure that there must be some method.
I'd sure like to see what patent numbers they intend to exploit....
I was curious about the author, so I started Googling a bit. Many of his newsgroup posts are in relation to Microsoft's UNIX products (like Outlook Express for HP-UX and IE for Solaris) and his.sig is ususally "Test Lead, Microsoft Corp." Here he mentions being an ex-employee of OSF and The Open Group.
While AST's page would still probably be considered "official" he hasn't really been involved with Minix development for some time. Al Woodhull and Kees Bot are the flag bearers for Minix now. Any real news or updates for Minix are usually found at http://minix1.hampshire.edu/. FWIW, this host actually runs an httpd on Minix.
Re:Minix is NOT dead.
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The End Of Minix?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Yeah, we're still out here. From what I can gather from the MINIX-L list, it has more of a following outside the US. There seem to be few folks in the Middle East and Southeast Asia using it. Still not a large number in any case.
It may not be Linux, but what the hell else am I gonna run on an IBM 5150? Besides, I keep telling myself that "someday" I'll learn how to code, then hack around with it.
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From a different CNet article about the lawsuit:
...:
"HP did a complete buyout of Unix licensing from SCO," HP spokesman Brian Garabedian said. "We have a perpetual license rather than per copy license for HP-UX...We don't believe we have any exposure to the SCO lawsuit."
Sun, too, bought out its Unix license, said John Loiacono, vice president of Sun's operating platforms group.
"We bought our Unix license out....We are unencumbered for all things," including Sun's version of Linux, he said.
And then in the linked article:
IBM did make one argument defending its use of Unix intellectual property, saying it has the "irrevocable, fully paid-up and perpetual right to use the 'proprietary software' that it is alleged to have misappropriated or misused."
It sounds like IBM believes that they have "bought out" its license as well. So
1) Did SCO mislead IBM (and possibly HP, Sun, etc) with these license buyouts?
2) Is SCO trying to make everyone forget about the license buyouts?
3) Does SCO consider the buyouts invalid for some reason?
The whole thing is just weird. SCO is done. Even if they win, no one will ever trust them again. They could produce an OS that whipped any commercial or OSS implementation, but no one would buy it. Had they attacked a smaller, but significant target first (Sun?) they might have had a chance at getting bought out. But with IBM, I don't think they will bother, they'll just crush SCO. They have unfathomable resources. IBM could even afford to lose the case. Sun couldn't.
Call me old fashioned but I personally like the idea of 'Albums'.
Me too. Even non-concept albums can have their own cadence and themes. It's nice to hear these play out.
With decent bands you get what the artist wanted...A collection of songs that represents an time/place/idea. As a cohesive whole it sounds better than a single and has a much better listening experience.
But do bands even do this anymore? It seems like a lot of mainstream pop is a collection of singles and filler.
With that in mind I would like to be able to download whole albums off iTunes and while that is happening they ship me the pysical CD/Vinyl as well...
Yup. Give me stacks of shiny discs. In 10-20 years when MP3, Ogg, etc. are memories, I can still listen to the music I've purchased (assuming I can find a CD player...).
BTW- What sort of non-pop artists are available on this? Traditional Jazz, Classical, etc. Not-pop often has much longer and fewer tracks per album. Bitches Brew is, what, 6 tracks on a double CD set? Pharaoh's Dance alone is over 20 min if memory serves. Is that still $.99? Just curious.
So these nefarious thieves never figured out that carrying a pocket full of pennies is a pretty easy work around to the $.99 price anti-theft solution?
Weird.
System V is the basis for all operating systems outside of Redmond
Huh? What rock has this guy been living under?
OS/360, VM/CMS, MVS, Z/OS, OS/400, OS/2(...)
We could make a game out of this...
NetWare
The OS for any computer built before MS incorporated (C64, Apple II, etc.).
Multics
Amoeba (ok, it isn't much more than a research project...)
PalmOS
Symbian/EPOC
Anymore? C'Mon, I know there's gotta be a huge list!
If you came away from this article thinking that the big news was Novell 'dissing Linux, then you've missed the bigger point.
...Linux would serve as the migration path for the company's flagship NetWare network operating system. Afterwards, in an exclusive interview, he explained the move.
With Novell planning for NetWare 7 to be a set of services running on both the NetWare kernel and the Linux kernel...
And there you have it. NetWare is giving way to Linux. NetWare 7 will be the migration path to Lin. Will NetWare 8 simply be Novell's Linux distro? So what will those services that run on NW and Lin be? eDirectory, GroupWise, and ZENWorks mainly. Plus newer stuff like iChain, iFolder, Portal Services, DirXML, et. al.
This really isn't a huge surprise. NetWare 6 shipped with Apache/Tomcat and 6.5 will include MySQL. So Novell has been getting tighter with OSS for some time now. And then there is the sad story of SuperNOS from back in the day.
Even if none of you run any of this stuff, this still has to be considered a win for Linux and OSS.
Nope. Never mind. That advisory is for the previous bug. Looks like we're still waiting for RH errata for this one.
Is this the same as the vuln reported in Red Hat RHSA-2003-095? The links in the article to the vuln info are down right now.
If it is, RH has had this licked since April Fool's. At least someone was being productive that day.
I like the Moroder version also. But the new restoration uses the original score, which is very effective. Many of the VHS, LD, DVD versions have had random background music that really doesn't relate to what's on screen. It's terrific to see the original vision (mostly) brought back.
No, not the worthless anime rip-off, the original '27 silent film. It has just been digitally restored and quite a bit of lost footage has been added. Sadly about a quarter of the film is considered lost (probably for good) but what remains is breathtaking and probably more relevant today than when it was made. Even if you've never seen it, images from the film have permeated pop-culture for decades.
I wasn't even going to bring up Metropolis. I figured a bunch of people would post it (thus proving it really isn't underappreciated at all). But some 800 +1 or better posts later, no mention.
And as an aside, if you haven't seen a Zatoichi ("The Blind Swordsman") film, check out IFC's "Samurai Saturdays". They're great fun.
Last week I saw Bugsy Malone (...) a prohibition-era gangster musical with an all kids cast
The one with Chachi as the ring-leader? Where they shoot cream-pies at each other? With Jodie Foster as the moll? Ouch. I must have seen that a dozen times when I was a kid. I doubt that I could sit through the whole thing now, though.
Oh, and The Filthy Critic rocks. When he isn't going on and on about the harelip, at least.
Not sure about other countries but last Tuesday (4th) was Shrove Tuesday in the UK when we all make pancakes.
:^)
Heh. In a large chunk of Catholic-dominated societies last Tuesday was Fat Tuesday / Mardi Gras / Carnival, celebrated by:
Drinking copious amounts of alcohol
Watching nubile young women disrobe
Dancing in the streets
Throwing / catching small trinkets (such as strings of beads) for good luck
You Brits need to get with it!
I've had the good fun of being on a float in one of St. Louis' Mardi Gras parades for several years now. This year my wife was queen of the float (yes, she found the baby in the king cake). So guess who got to ride up front with her? I'm still hoarse!
Really, the parallels are striking. Secrecy leading up to release that caused rampant speculation. Overhyped to the point that the public really thought that something revolutionary was in the offing. Released at the beginning of an economic downturn.
And then the let-down. "Oh, it's just a car/scooter." Then people stay away in droves.
There are many overviews of the history of Edsel. Read this one or dig up another and see if you agree.
"We are going to use Unix and Linux as the evaluation platforms for our products in the future, and not Windows, because the customer demand for Windows is not there," she said. "Frankly, there is a fair amount of disenchantment with Microsoft products because of security problems." ... said Mary-Ann Davidson, chief security officer for Oracle.
Wow. I knew Larry hated Bill and MS, but I sure wouldn't have expected this! Or is he just conceding the Windows server database market to Bill and trying to grow the Linux market on the low end + the UNIX market at the higher end?
Hmm...
Doesn't look like Mozilla does *that* yet!
It'll be in soon, I'm sure.
At least Galeon has "Open folder in tabs" feature, which conveniently opens every bookmark in a bookmark folder in tabs. Very nice. I wish Mozilla would implement it too
Moz has had something similar for awhile. It's referred to as a "group of tabs" and can be set via the regular bookmarks interface. Even better, in Moz you can set one of these groups as your home page. When I open Moz, it automatically launches 9 "home pages" plus a couple of blanks.
"all /boot and / partitions must be on a RAID-1."
/boot must be RAID1, but / can most assuredly be RAID 5 (or, I presume, any of the other RAID levels). I have this running on an ol' RedHat 7.0 box:
/dev/md1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/md0 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1
/dev/md1 /dev/sda6 /dev/sdb6 /dev/sdc5
With raidtools, at least,
Hunk 'o fstab:
Similar hunk 'o raidtab
raiddev
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
#nr-spare-disks 0
device
raid-disk 0
device
raid-disk 1
raiddev
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 3
chunk-size 64k
persistent-superblock 1
#nr-spare-disks 0
device
raid-disk 0
device
raid-disk 1
device
raid-disk 2
*Shrug* Wonder what the context of that quote was within the book?
LinuxBierWanderung! A computer-controlled beer-brewing washing machine? Just try to keep the Linux geeks away!
In himmel das ist keine beir
Ja ja wir trinken hier
Und wann wer sind nicht hier
Unsere freundinen trinken alles bier
or
In heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
And when we are gone from here
All our friends will be drinking all the beer
A few months ago, one of my clients suffered a house fire. His Dell notebook suffered similar damage, but booted with an external keyboard and monitor. We were able to transfer the data from it, and stored it on our server until the replacement arrived.
So this is a big deal? Wish I'd know. I could have had a story on Slashdot!
www.uspto.gov returns 2 patents for the Santa Cruz Operation as the Assignee Name: 6,362,836 and 6,104,392. Both are related to SCOs Tarantella (terminal serverish) product. I guess either or both might broadly cover the use of a Linux box as an X or VNC server, I have only skimmed them.
I looked a bit at patents listed for Novell and American Telephone and Telegraph, but I don't see anything obvious. Caldera comes up empty. I also don't see an obvious way to transfer a patent to a new Assignee, but I'm sure that there must be some method.
I'd sure like to see what patent numbers they intend to exploit....
Is this the same as Activeworlds, which is like 10 years old yet has better graphics?
Or like WorldsAway/VZones, which is like 10 years old yet has better graphics? Seems like this is a tired old idea, indeed.
...your poor Tivo is constantly recording 24 hours a day...
Can't you just turn the damned things off? I don't own one, so I don't know. It would seem odd to let that thing run 24/7, though.
I was curious about the author, so I started Googling a bit. Many of his newsgroup posts are in relation to Microsoft's UNIX products (like Outlook Express for HP-UX and IE for Solaris) and his .sig is ususally "Test Lead, Microsoft Corp." Here he mentions being an ex-employee of OSF and The Open Group.
Enquiring minds and all that.
While AST's page would still probably be considered "official" he hasn't really been involved with Minix development for some time. Al Woodhull and Kees Bot are the flag bearers for Minix now. Any real news or updates for Minix are usually found at http://minix1.hampshire.edu/. FWIW, this host actually runs an httpd on Minix.
Yeah, we're still out here. From what I can gather from the MINIX-L list, it has more of a following outside the US. There seem to be few folks in the Middle East and Southeast Asia using it. Still not a large number in any case.
It may not be Linux, but what the hell else am I gonna run on an IBM 5150? Besides, I keep telling myself that "someday" I'll learn how to code, then hack around with it.