Yeah but that is *not* Santa Clause. It is 'Sinterklaas' or 'Sint Nicolaas' (St. Nicholas) (True, his name sounds a lot like Santa Clause)
St. Nicholas is a tall, skinny old man wearing long red robes and a miter while riding a white horse. He represents Bishop Nicholas of Myra, a bishop known for his habit of giving everything he had to the poor, especially children.
Around christmas, we also have Santa Clause here, but he is called 'De Kerstman' (The Christmas Man)
I'm not talking about patents here, but about literal source code. According the press release 'SCO's System V UNIX contract allowed Sequent to prepare derivative works and modifications of System V software "provided the resulting materials were treated as part of the Original [System V] Software." Restrictions on use of the Original System V Software include the requirement of confidentiality, a prohibition against transfer of ownership, and a restriction against use for the benefit of third parties.'
So IBM's patents aren't transferred or licensed to SCO, but if they write code for a System V derivative work (such as AIX) they can't use the code in Linux. The contract basically says 'All your AIX code are belong to SCO'
Also, aren't the NUMA and RCU multi-processor patents owned by IBM? SCO might own some of the code, but since they are licensing IBM's patents IBM could sue them for infringing on their patents. Is this part of the current IBM v SCO lawsuit?
Maybe. As far as I understand the stories, IBM has written NUMA and RCU code for their System V based Unix (AIX) IBM's System V license seems to state that when they add code to their SysV (==AIX) that code has to be treated as the rest of the SCO owned SysV code. So IBM wrote some code, included it in SysV/AIX, and now they can't include the exact same code in Linux, because of their SysV contracts with SCO...
If possible, switch on the machine for a few minutes before removing the heatsink. This will heat the CPU and it will usually melt the thermal paste. It should now be easier to remove the heatsink from the cpu.
Same here in the Netherlands. Fortunately in civilized countries, privacy is more important than the bank-accounts of big businesses:-)
This article states the RIAA is going after p2p *downloaders* (ie, those who download copyrighted files, not specifically sharing them)
Downloading copyrighted music isn't even illegal here, as the law states you are allowed to make copies of copyrighted material for your own personal use. On every blank recording medium I buy, I pay a 'copyright fee' allowing me to put copyrighted material on the media.
However, sharing copyrighted material is indeed illegal here, where sharing means everything ranging from making my mp3's available to p2p users, to viewing a videotaped tv movie in public.
I am a subscriber, and i now see three different colors on the index page: A red one, which is an article from the mysterious future, as i see them often; A *blue* one, being this article; And ofcourse the normal green ones.
Let's hope he disabled logging on the server. (or at least not logging to the flashram but to disk or network) If not, we can be quite sure the device is now permanently slashdotted:)
Since quite a while IBM has some mice featuring a scroll/track-point device. Although not really a 'rotary disc', it *is* a device which can be pushed as a button, and can be pushed/tilted in all directions for scrolling.. (See this one for example)
The XV license you are describing and quoting, is not shareware. It is donateware. Donateware is where you can use the full version of the product, and you are *asked* to pay some money if you like the software.
Shareware means you can download and share a (usually crippled. but sometimes full) copy of the software, and you are *required* to pay for the software after a certain amount of time. (For example Winzip. Download a fully functional version (only showing a nag screen) you can use for 30 days. After that you'll have to pay)
It sounds like an IBM 5250 terminal keyboard to me:) Let me guess, where a PC keyboard has the main enter key, this one features a key marked 'Field exit'?
Never knew you can actually connect those to a PC (never tried it though:))
Absolutely not. The 'installers'* from LinuxFromScratch and Gentoo make the *BSD installers look like UN*X for Dummies.
It's all a matter of choice, so many distros, so many installers. I've always been running SuSE linux, but i think 8.0 will be the last version i've installed. They took out the old Yast1 installer, and now you have to use the new, graphic/X based, Yast2 installer, which i don't like. at all.
So now i installed Gentoo, all the way from stage 1, plain and simple:-)
Again, all a matter of choice.
(* There *are* no real LFS and Gentoo installers, apart from a document or a book telling you what actions to perform to compile and setup your system)
If you bring the system down to runlevel 0, is init still running or is it terminated??
Perhaps it is possible to hack the 'magic sysrq key' code to either tell init to go back to another runlevel or to tell the kernel to start loading/bin/init again, thereby causing a 'reboot' of the system without actually reloading the kernel (and therefore no downtime)
Change the config, and then bring it down to runlevel 0 again.
That would be almost as safe as the original idea, because the sysrq function can only be accessed from the system's console, which is ofcourse located in some secured serverroom:)
They sure do, so it might be a good thing IBM did this, and some startup company that can actually get bought by MSFT.
(I don't see MS buying IBM in the near (or far) future)
I'm watching this live on CNN here in the Netherlands (Europe) and I really do not know what to say.... except for one word: horrible.
My sincere condoleances to all the people in the United States of America.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah but that is *not* Santa Clause. It is 'Sinterklaas' or 'Sint Nicolaas' (St. Nicholas)
(True, his name sounds a lot like Santa Clause)
St. Nicholas is a tall, skinny old man wearing long red robes and a miter while riding a white horse. He represents Bishop Nicholas of Myra, a bishop known for his habit of giving everything he had to the poor, especially children.
Around christmas, we also have Santa Clause here, but he is called 'De Kerstman' (The Christmas Man)
I'm not talking about patents here, but about literal source code.
According the press release 'SCO's System V UNIX contract allowed Sequent to prepare derivative works and modifications of System V software "provided the resulting materials were treated as part of the Original [System V] Software." Restrictions on use of the Original System V Software include the requirement of confidentiality, a prohibition against transfer of ownership, and a restriction against use for the benefit of third parties.'
So IBM's patents aren't transferred or licensed to SCO, but if they write code for a System V derivative work (such as AIX) they can't use the code in Linux. The contract basically says 'All your AIX code are belong to SCO'
Also, aren't the NUMA and RCU multi-processor patents owned by IBM? SCO might own some of the code, but since they are licensing IBM's patents IBM could sue them for infringing on their patents. Is this part of the current IBM v SCO lawsuit?
Maybe. As far as I understand the stories, IBM has written NUMA and RCU code for their System V based Unix (AIX)
IBM's System V license seems to state that when they add code to their SysV (==AIX) that code has to be treated as the rest of the SCO owned SysV code. So IBM wrote some code, included it in SysV/AIX, and now they can't include the exact same code in Linux, because of their SysV contracts with SCO...
If possible, switch on the machine for a few minutes before removing the heatsink.
This will heat the CPU and it will usually melt the thermal paste. It should now be easier to remove the heatsink from the cpu.
Well, being Dutch myself, I can say for sure this does *not* look like dutch :)
Same here in the Netherlands. :-)
Fortunately in civilized countries, privacy is more important than the bank-accounts of big businesses
This article states the RIAA is going after p2p *downloaders* (ie, those who download copyrighted files, not specifically sharing them)
Downloading copyrighted music isn't even illegal here, as the law states you are allowed to make copies of copyrighted material for your own personal use.
On every blank recording medium I buy, I pay a 'copyright fee' allowing me to put copyrighted material on the media.
However, sharing copyrighted material is indeed illegal here, where sharing means everything ranging from making my mp3's available to p2p users, to viewing a videotaped tv movie in public.
I am a subscriber, and i now see three different colors on the index page:
A red one, which is an article from the mysterious future, as i see them often;
A *blue* one, being this article;
And ofcourse the normal green ones.
Let's hope he disabled logging on the server. (or :)
at least not logging to the flashram but to disk or network)
If not, we can be quite sure the device is now permanently slashdotted
Since quite a while IBM has some mice featuring a scroll/track-point device.
Although not really a 'rotary disc', it *is* a device which can be pushed as a button, and can be pushed/tilted in all directions for scrolling..
(See this one for example)
Sorry Apple, too late....
Is seems to me Slashdot and usenet make a fine public volume-license-key infrastructure?? ;-)
The XV license you are describing and quoting, is not shareware. It is donateware.
Donateware is where you can use the full version of the product, and you are *asked* to pay some money if you like the software.
Shareware means you can download and share a (usually crippled. but sometimes full) copy of the software, and you are *required* to pay for the software after a certain amount of time.
(For example Winzip. Download a fully functional version (only showing a nag screen) you can use for 30 days. After that you'll have to pay)
Isn't there a gesture for that procedure? ;)
It sounds like an IBM 5250 terminal keyboard to me :)
:))
Let me guess, where a PC keyboard has the main enter key, this one features a key marked 'Field exit'?
Never knew you can actually connect those to a PC (never tried it though
...and the availability of duplicators that can create multiple cd's in one run, you can have a cd in under half a minute each.
Well, with the Hurd, it seems to be more like the microkernel lies in the future
I think he meant handwriting recognition, not hardware recognition :)
Yes, but those corporate folks invented those popups in the first place, so they don't even deserve a popup blocker.
There's a mirror right here
clickety-click
Are you using a 386?
Considering the fact gnome will take 8 hours to compile on his system, he probably is...
Absolutely not.
:-)
The 'installers'* from LinuxFromScratch and Gentoo make the *BSD installers look like UN*X for Dummies.
It's all a matter of choice, so many distros, so many installers.
I've always been running SuSE linux, but i think 8.0 will be the last version i've installed.
They took out the old Yast1 installer, and now you have to use the new, graphic/X based, Yast2 installer, which i don't like. at all.
So now i installed Gentoo, all the way from stage 1, plain and simple
Again, all a matter of choice.
(* There *are* no real LFS and Gentoo installers, apart from a document or a book telling you what actions to perform to compile and setup your system)
If you bring the system down to runlevel 0, is init still running or is it terminated??
/bin/init again, thereby causing a 'reboot' of the system without actually reloading the kernel (and therefore no downtime)
:)
Perhaps it is possible to hack the 'magic sysrq key' code to either tell init to go back to another runlevel or to tell the kernel to start loading
Change the config, and then bring it down to runlevel 0 again.
That would be almost as safe as the original idea, because the sysrq function can only be accessed from the system's console, which is ofcourse located in some secured serverroom
They sure do, so it might be a good thing IBM did this, and some startup company that can actually get bought by MSFT.
(I don't see MS buying IBM in the near (or far) future)
I'm watching this live on CNN here in the Netherlands (Europe) and I really do not know what to say.... except for one word: horrible.
My sincere condoleances to all the people in the United States of America.
Broadcast message from aed (pts/2) Sun Feb 25 22:38:48 2001...
The internet is going down for system halt NOW !!