I've witnessed a gang of kids being herded in to a Police van after being arrested for dropping concrete blocks on to a busy motorway. You've never seen a more angry bunch; they were livid that the Police had put an end to their little game. Their complaints alternated between "You can't do this!" and, comically, "I've got rights!". Sadly, despite attempting to murder a number of motorists, they were probably released with a caution.
Is it just me, or did anyone else flash back to Clockwork Orange when reading this? I had thought all these years that it was just a strongly exaggerated work of fiction, but now I'm not so sure...
Yes, and for this reason I will look at rebates offered by Staples before looking anywhere else. I can fill in a transaction id and rebate offer number online and get a confirmation almost immediately. The alternative is to fill in a form, cut out a UPC code, make copies, address an envelope, mail it, then hope that it gets received, only finding out 2 - 4 weeks later that "yes", the rebate request has been received and is accurate or "no", there was some problem.
From my perspective, Staples has eliminated all of the drawbacks of mail-in rebates. And no, I don't work for Stapes or have any other direct or indirect affiliation with them.
-- And on the 7th day, God said "It's been a week already? No wait, just a couple more modifications..."
On real Unix hardware, you can usually do this by sending a hardware break and typing "reboot" (or similar). This will work even if the OS is crashed or thrashing or whatever. On a PC, no dice, because it's purely the software which handles the serial connection. So you have to hit the reset button...
For a Datacenter environment, you should look into HP, IBM and possibly other brands that have network remote console (text and graphical), remote media (network-mapped floppy and CD), and power/reset capabilities. The iLo/Riloe on HP's and the RSA-2 on IBM's are very capable. Both only require a web browser with Java (haven't tested with Mozilla or Firefox, only IE...) If you're remote and the network is up you're all set, even if the server is down (hung or powered down; you can reset or power up) If you're local, you're laptop and a crossover cable are all you need. It doesn't give you the ability to capture a serial console log like a Sun, but you get BIOS-level access.
"That was Eric Stratton, and he was damned glad to meet you."
So now you're probably wondering about the details: just where does all of that electricity and natural gas go in the typical house? What insights can we gain from teasing this question apart?
If EA, ID, or anyone ever publishes a Pulp Fiction game, I'm in!!!
"If I'm curt with you, it's because time is a factor here. I think fast, I talk fast, and I need you guys to act fast if you want to get out of this. So, pretty please - with sugar on top... clean the f***in' car." The Wolf
You're missing one of the basic premises of marketing. The message here is that if you buy the products that the models are promoting, not only will you look and be as cool as they are, they and other highly attractive females will want to have sex with you!
Except that they only need one or two of the cases to settle in SCO's favor (or god forbid get a ruling in their favor) and they become ammo to help win the remaining cases. If the govt. just gives in and pays SCO some amount of money to go away, SCO can take this to the other cases and say, "Look, the US Govt. recognizes that our claim is legitimate!" Then it's all over.
This is significant because this is Forbes that is re-spinning CA's situation as if CA had explicitly licensed Linux from SCO, and that they did so under legal duress. By spinning these details only, and conveniently omiting the fact that CA licensed Unixware, which just happens to cover Linux servers, Forbes is blatently using this to spew pro-sco propoganda. Note that they also omit CA's previous statement that the Unixware licenses that they did purchase as a result of the Canopy settlement do not cover all of their Linux servers
"When the going gets tough, the weak get screwed."
According to the story, the commission will reach a decision "by June of 2004", after which it may go to court. By then the pc-media-player wars will be over and MS will have destroyed another category of software.
"Daryl McJagger, a spokesthing for SCO, summed up SCO's current situation, coining the phrase, 'Can't get no SCOtisfaction.' He further stated today that SCO has received a significant amount of negative feedback regarding the strict requirement of signing an extraordinarily restrictive NDA prior to being shown the proof that SCO intellectual property is present in current Linux code. According to Daryl, 'We impose this requirement because if we simply revealed the proof to the general public, a number of important intelligence sources would be compromised. We simply cannot allow the stockholders' interests to be put into jeopardy by allowing this proof to fall into any unsanctioned hands. The proof is on a need-to-know basis, and so far, no one needs to know."
In the story about Laura Didio's review, it quotes a SCO spokesman as saying that there are "hundreds of thousands of derivitave lines of code" (derivitive of original SCO code.) So there are kernel developers around the world that all congregated at IBM during the SCO/IBM collaboration and then took various pieces of it away, derived about half of the Linux kernel, then snuck it all in... right?
Oh, that and none of the Apollo missions actually landed on the moon; it was all staged in special government studios in Arizona.
Except that they learned their lesson on those protocols. Going forward, everything will be encrypted to make packet sniffing for reverse-engineering nigh impossible. Nevermind that decrypting the packets to reverse-engineer the protocol would violate the DMCA and get whoever was involved litigated into oblivion.
However... What M$ didn't learn is that the internet grew as much as it did because of robust, efficient and OPEN protocols like TCP/IP. There were other protocols, to be sure, but most of them have fallen by the wayside. The best thing that the open source community can do is provide equal or better functionality and performance using open protocols and make implementations available on the widest possible variety of platforms (yes, including Windows.)
- Uses AAA batteries instead of a chargeable system.
I see this as a feature. If I'm somewhere and don't have a charger handy (picture a road trip or vacation), then I can stop at any convenience store, gas station, drug store, etc. and get more power. Not so with a proprietary charging system.
This would have been great last year when I had 2 broken wrists due to a snowboarding accident, except for the cost. I looked into a couple of alternatives like the Twiddler, a one-handed keyboard alternative, but even for $220 couldn't the cost for a 4 - 6 week typing replacement. For someone with a more permanent condition, this looks like a fascinating alternative.
This just in: NabiSCO to sue SCO for trademark violation
6. I've worked on a volunteer basis for organizations that had donated software from MS. The software was: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional and Office 2000. The license provided had absolutely no strings, it was "FPP" software (aka, full packaged product, aka retail boxed stuff).
If my understanding of the whole line of XP software is even close to correct, then Windows 2000, Office 2000, etc. are the last of the MS products for which this scenario would be possible. Aren't users now required to register the software online and accept an ongoing upgrade schedule as part of the system license? Is this free also? And if the NPO grows in the next year and adds another 10 workstations, is it still $0? Or if the NPO is led to understand that MS is willing to donate pretty much anything they need, only to come back in a couple of years and threaten to audit every system for illegal copies? Check out what happened in Philadelphia. Or the piracy truce [news.com] from a couple of years ago. Each illegal piece of software brings a max fine of $150,000. Not to mention that in 3 years MS will attempt to force you to upgrade to Longhorn, which doesn't have a prayer of running on the eBay'd hardware you already have. They realized in the last few years that people were deciding not to move to a newer Windows unless there was a compelling reason, which for a large number of shops there wasn't. Hence the Licensing 6.0.
Bottom line is that yes, the labor and ongoing support costs are going to be comparable for a MS or Linux shop, but you've got to look at the long haul. So look at the out-of-pocket for the initial acquisition, but also look at operating, maintenance and other costs in 3 - 5 years.
This would be like bitching about Ford trying to increase their market share if they donated trucks to organizations that brought meals to the elderly that couldn't get out of the house.
NO!!!! Because you can get parts for a Ford in any of THOUSANDS of auto parts stores around the country. Also, the Ford vehicles are tangible objects that have resellable, and more importantly, TRANSFERRABLE value. This would be a donation that actually cost the Ford Motor Company an amount that was reasonably proportional to the appraised value of the vehicle(s) in question. Not to mention that the donation of Ford vehicles would in no way lock the recipient into Licensing v6.0 that would insure a revenue stream to Ford down the road.
This is just a bad analogy on so many levels. BTW, I am in no way connected with or advocating Ford.
When in doubt, go with the one that has the most chocolate.
If they gave away the software with a certificate that said "This software is now and in perpetuity free for organization X with full access to hotfixes, service packs, and other updates without further license fees for as long as the organization chooses to run the software", then it MIGHT be considered a Good Thing. As it is, this is just viewed as another low-cost, high-tax-deduction, self-serving, future-revenue-guaranteeing action, that is in no way motivated by charity or compassion. Greed, pure and simple.
These days, it's amazing that good guys finish at all.
Because with Microsoft, "free" now means "free until we feel we've got our hooks in you and now we can charge you outrageous license fees or sick the BSA on you". With open source, on the other hand, "Free" means "Free"; period.
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... The same concept was used in the 1960s for Basic Combined Programming Language (BCPL), an ancestor of the C language.
And here I thought BCPL stood for Bitchin' Camaro Propulsion Language...
I've witnessed a gang of kids being herded in to a Police van after being arrested for dropping concrete blocks on to a busy motorway. You've never seen a more angry bunch; they were livid that the Police had put an end to their little game. Their complaints alternated between "You can't do this!" and, comically, "I've got rights!". Sadly, despite attempting to murder a number of motorists, they were probably released with a caution.
Is it just me, or did anyone else flash back to Clockwork Orange when reading this? I had thought all these years that it was just a strongly exaggerated work of fiction, but now I'm not so sure...
"I flipped out years ago, I only look sane."
Yes, and for this reason I will look at rebates offered by Staples before looking anywhere else. I can fill in a transaction id and rebate offer number online and get a confirmation almost immediately. The alternative is to fill in a form, cut out a UPC code, make copies, address an envelope, mail it, then hope that it gets received, only finding out 2 - 4 weeks later that "yes", the rebate request has been received and is accurate or "no", there was some problem.
From my perspective, Staples has eliminated all of the drawbacks of mail-in rebates. And no, I don't work for Stapes or have any other direct or indirect affiliation with them.
--
And on the 7th day, God said "It's been a week already? No wait, just a couple more modifications..."
On real Unix hardware, you can usually do this by sending a hardware break and typing "reboot" (or similar). This will work even if the OS is crashed or thrashing or whatever. On a PC, no dice, because it's purely the software which handles the serial connection. So you have to hit the reset button...
For a Datacenter environment, you should look into HP, IBM and possibly other brands that have network remote console (text and graphical), remote media (network-mapped floppy and CD), and power/reset capabilities. The iLo/Riloe on HP's and the RSA-2 on IBM's are very capable. Both only require a web browser with Java (haven't tested with Mozilla or Firefox, only IE...) If you're remote and the network is up you're all set, even if the server is down (hung or powered down; you can reset or power up) If you're local, you're laptop and a crossover cable are all you need. It doesn't give you the ability to capture a serial console log like a Sun, but you get BIOS-level access.
"That was Eric Stratton, and he was damned glad to meet you."
My favorite quote is:
Gates: We're big believers in interoperability.
Apparently hell has frozen over.
So now you're probably wondering about the details: just where does all of that
electricity and natural gas go in the typical house? What insights can we gain
from teasing this question apart?
Maybe it is most applicable to hair dryers?
Nah nah - nah nah nah!!!
If EA, ID, or anyone ever publishes a Pulp Fiction game, I'm in!!!
"If I'm curt with you, it's because time is a factor here. I think fast, I talk fast, and I need you guys to act fast if you want to get out of this. So, pretty please - with sugar on top... clean the f***in' car." The Wolf
"So we help youj and Prince HumperGates suffers?"
"Humiliations galore!"
"Let's go!"
(yes, I know these aren't the exact words... work with me here)
You're missing one of the basic premises of marketing. The message here is that if you buy the products that the models are promoting, not only will you look and be as cool as they are, they and other highly attractive females will want to have sex with you!
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Except that they only need one or two of the cases to settle in SCO's favor (or god forbid get a ruling in their favor) and they become ammo to help win the remaining cases. If the govt. just gives in and pays SCO some amount of money to go away, SCO can take this to the other cases and say, "Look, the US Govt. recognizes that our claim is legitimate!" Then it's all over.
"That Hansel, he's so hot right now."
This is significant because this is Forbes that is re-spinning CA's situation as if CA had explicitly licensed Linux from SCO, and that they did so under legal duress. By spinning these details only, and conveniently omiting the fact that CA licensed Unixware, which just happens to cover Linux servers, Forbes is blatently using this to spew pro-sco propoganda. Note that they also omit CA's previous statement that the Unixware licenses that they did purchase as a result of the Canopy settlement do not cover all of their Linux servers
"When the going gets tough, the weak get screwed."
According to the story, the commission will reach a decision "by June of 2004", after which it may go to court. By then the pc-media-player wars will be over and MS will have destroyed another category of software.
To sleep, perchance to dream
is that when I went to read the article, I got a classmates.com pop-under. Are they being sued, too?
When the going gets tough, use Johnson's Going Tenderizer
Look for the release that includes Firebird, Thunderbird and others, called BigBird.
I think you mean Nietzche market. (That which does not kill -9 me, makes me stronger?)
"Daryl McJagger, a spokesthing for SCO, summed up SCO's current situation, coining the phrase, 'Can't get no SCOtisfaction.' He further stated today that SCO has received a significant amount of negative feedback regarding the strict requirement of signing an extraordinarily restrictive NDA prior to being shown the proof that SCO intellectual property is present in current Linux code. According to Daryl, 'We impose this requirement because if we simply revealed the proof to the general public, a number of important intelligence sources would be compromised. We simply cannot allow the stockholders' interests to be put into jeopardy by allowing this proof to fall into any unsanctioned hands. The proof is on a need-to-know basis, and so far, no one needs to know."
Mick Jagger was unavailable for comment.
In the story about Laura Didio's review, it quotes a SCO spokesman as saying that there are "hundreds of thousands of derivitave lines of code" (derivitive of original SCO code.) So there are kernel developers around the world that all congregated at IBM during the SCO/IBM collaboration and then took various pieces of it away, derived about half of the Linux kernel, then snuck it all in... right?
Oh, that and none of the Apollo missions actually landed on the moon; it was all staged in special government studios in Arizona.
And about that tinfoil helmet...
Please.
Except that they learned their lesson on those protocols. Going forward, everything will be encrypted to make packet sniffing for reverse-engineering nigh impossible. Nevermind that decrypting the packets to reverse-engineer the protocol would violate the DMCA and get whoever was involved litigated into oblivion.
However... What M$ didn't learn is that the internet grew as much as it did because of robust, efficient and OPEN protocols like TCP/IP. There were other protocols, to be sure, but most of them have fallen by the wayside. The best thing that the open source community can do is provide equal or better functionality and performance using open protocols and make implementations available on the widest possible variety of platforms (yes, including Windows.)
"There once was a man from Poughkipsie..."
- Uses AAA batteries instead of a chargeable system.
I see this as a feature. If I'm somewhere and don't have a charger handy (picture a road trip or vacation), then I can stop at any convenience store, gas station, drug store, etc. and get more power. Not so with a proprietary charging system.
Ronco Karma-matic! It slices, it dices, it mod's
This would have been great last year when I had 2 broken wrists due to a snowboarding accident, except for the cost. I looked into a couple of alternatives like the Twiddler, a one-handed keyboard alternative, but even for $220 couldn't the cost for a 4 - 6 week typing replacement. For someone with a more permanent condition, this looks like a fascinating alternative.
This just in: NabiSCO to sue SCO for trademark violation
6. I've worked on a volunteer basis for organizations that had donated software from MS. The software was: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional and Office 2000. The license provided had absolutely no strings, it was "FPP" software (aka, full packaged product, aka retail boxed stuff).
If my understanding of the whole line of XP software is even close to correct, then Windows 2000, Office 2000, etc. are the last of the MS products for which this scenario would be possible. Aren't users now required to register the software online and accept an ongoing upgrade schedule as part of the system license? Is this free also? And if the NPO grows in the next year and adds another 10 workstations, is it still $0? Or if the NPO is led to understand that MS is willing to donate pretty much anything they need, only to come back in a couple of years and threaten to audit every system for illegal copies? Check out what happened in Philadelphia. Or the piracy truce [news.com] from a couple of years ago. Each illegal piece of software brings a max fine of $150,000. Not to mention that in 3 years MS will attempt to force you to upgrade to Longhorn, which doesn't have a prayer of running on the eBay'd hardware you already have. They realized in the last few years that people were deciding not to move to a newer Windows unless there was a compelling reason, which for a large number of shops there wasn't. Hence the Licensing 6.0.
Bottom line is that yes, the labor and ongoing support costs are going to be comparable for a MS or Linux shop, but you've got to look at the long haul. So look at the out-of-pocket for the initial acquisition, but also look at operating, maintenance and other costs in 3 - 5 years.
This would be like bitching about Ford trying to increase their market share if they donated trucks to organizations that brought meals to the elderly that couldn't get out of the house.
NO!!!! Because you can get parts for a Ford in any of THOUSANDS of auto parts stores around the country. Also, the Ford vehicles are tangible objects that have resellable, and more importantly, TRANSFERRABLE value. This would be a donation that actually cost the Ford Motor Company an amount that was reasonably proportional to the appraised value of the vehicle(s) in question. Not to mention that the donation of Ford vehicles would in no way lock the recipient into Licensing v6.0 that would insure a revenue stream to Ford down the road.
This is just a bad analogy on so many levels. BTW, I am in no way connected with or advocating Ford.
When in doubt, go with the one that has the most chocolate.
If they gave away the software with a certificate that said "This software is now and in perpetuity free for organization X with full access to hotfixes, service packs, and other updates without further license fees for as long as the organization chooses to run the software", then it MIGHT be considered a Good Thing. As it is, this is just viewed as another low-cost, high-tax-deduction, self-serving, future-revenue-guaranteeing action, that is in no way motivated by charity or compassion. Greed, pure and simple.
These days, it's amazing that good guys finish at all.
Because with Microsoft, "free" now means "free until we feel we've got our hooks in you and now we can charge you outrageous license fees or sick the BSA on you". With open source, on the other hand, "Free" means "Free"; period.
Linux helps those who help themselves.
That's where the TCP offload engines come in. It's in the same ballpark as the prestoserv NFS cards that offloaded some of that overhead from the OS.
Land of the free, void where prohibited.