For customers of SCO Open Server and UnixWare, an unfavorable judgment could cause SCO to cease operations or sell itself. That could harm future support and maintenance. Just in case, prepare a plan for migrating to another platform within two years.
Gee, just what platform would be good to migrate to?
Is a Linux bootup screen considered blue? Maybe a dark shade.
Anyway, I was at a bar, and saw one of those bar-top-touch-screen game things lock up and reboot. It was Linux. I didn't get to see much, the messages scrolled by really quickly before the display program kicked in.
I like your.sig. That's really neat how you used tinyurl to make the URL shorter and easier to manage. And to hide your referral information. That's great, really.
Sorry, but no company owns anything not directly related to the job without prior written contractual agreement (and additional financial compenstation).
Regarding the additional compensation: bullshit. Lots of companies require contracts that give them rights to all of your IP while you under their employ. They don't have to give you a penny, either.
Interesting, how you put words in my mouth and all. I never claimed that the clean rooms were used at all. I was just conveying a mildly humorous story. But good job. I wish you many mod points for your insight.
Reminds me of a funny story. I once worked in support, and a woman had the hard drive on her machine crash. She wanted to send it off for recovery, but it was gonna cost like $500. She was a manager and didn't want to spend the beans. So she told one of my co-workers that she "knows a guy" that said he could do it. He asked her if the "guy" happened to have a level 1 clean room in his basement. She sort of stared back blankly.
Not surprisingly, "the guy" wasn't able to help her out... and fuX0red the drive in the process.
Next, a Microsoft program called System Preparation Tool was run to prepare the system for the end-user
Several have correctly modded you insightful. The article bitches about how they want you to reinstall every time, and that's not even what the policy says. It just says that they won't support you if you don't use their tool to make sure the SID is changed. It's to prevent security issues -- the same ones you could encounter when backing up/restoring a Unix-based system.
Since this runs Linux, and companies that you've done business with are allowed to call your cell phone, can we expect a call from SCO if we buy one of these?
and an OS that's a pleasure to use, I'd say the money was well spent.
This is a fileserver, right? Do you actually "use" it? I would imagine not, if it's a G3/266. OS/X would be downright painful to use on that. And why bother with the GUI overhead for a server anyway?
You mean most people (myself included) knew what he was trying to say. Writing a technology-related article requires mastery of both the technology, and the language in which you are writing. That particular example should have seemed odd to anyone with halfway-decent English.
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Does the primary language of the person who programs your dialog boxes really matter?
I have 7 words for you:
All your base are belong to us.
Um, yeah. Coming soon to a theater near you: the clue train. All aboard!
For customers of SCO Open Server and UnixWare, an unfavorable judgment could cause SCO to cease operations or sell itself. That could harm future support and maintenance. Just in case, prepare a plan for migrating to another platform within two years.
Gee, just what platform would be good to migrate to?
One of my favorite jokes:
Q. What has two teeth and six tits?
A. The night staff at the Waffle House
Is a Linux bootup screen considered blue? Maybe a dark shade.
Anyway, I was at a bar, and saw one of those bar-top-touch-screen game things lock up and reboot. It was Linux. I didn't get to see much, the messages scrolled by really quickly before the display program kicked in.
I like your .sig. That's really neat how you used tinyurl to make the URL shorter and easier to manage. And to hide your referral information. That's great, really.
Sorry, but no company owns anything not directly related to the job without prior written contractual agreement (and additional financial compenstation).
Regarding the additional compensation: bullshit. Lots of companies require contracts that give them rights to all of your IP while you under their employ. They don't have to give you a penny, either.
Interesting, how you put words in my mouth and all. I never claimed that the clean rooms were used at all. I was just conveying a mildly humorous story. But good job. I wish you many mod points for your insight.
like why not to window mod hard drives.
Reminds me of a funny story. I once worked in support, and a woman had the hard drive on her machine crash. She wanted to send it off for recovery, but it was gonna cost like $500. She was a manager and didn't want to spend the beans. So she told one of my co-workers that she "knows a guy" that said he could do it. He asked her if the "guy" happened to have a level 1 clean room in his basement. She sort of stared back blankly.
Not surprisingly, "the guy" wasn't able to help her out... and fuX0red the drive in the process.
This sounds pretty fuzzy to me. It depends on how it was obtained. Could get into the "receiving stolen property" arena.
You were shopping at the wrong places. For the cost of your Bose, you could easily get a Paradigm setup that will trounce it with authority.
Bose does one thing, and they do it VERY will: marketing.
Next, a Microsoft program called System Preparation Tool was run to prepare the system for the end-user
Several have correctly modded you insightful. The article bitches about how they want you to reinstall every time, and that's not even what the policy says. It just says that they won't support you if you don't use their tool to make sure the SID is changed. It's to prevent security issues -- the same ones you could encounter when backing up/restoring a Unix-based system.
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Since this runs Linux, and companies that you've done business with are allowed to call your cell phone, can we expect a call from SCO if we buy one of these?
It had to be said...
2003-11-11 17:34:02
What do you expect? You submitted it 3 hours in the future!
(good, easy software updates)
*cough* Debian *cough*
and an OS that's a pleasure to use, I'd say the money was well spent.
This is a fileserver, right? Do you actually "use" it? I would imagine not, if it's a G3/266. OS/X would be downright painful to use on that. And why bother with the GUI overhead for a server anyway?
You mean most people (myself included) knew what he was trying to say. Writing a technology-related article requires mastery of both the technology, and the language in which you are writing. That particular example should have seemed odd to anyone with halfway-decent English.
So you spent
IDE controller... $20? (being generous here)
Mac OSX.......... $129 (you DID pay for it, right?)
Congratulations. That $159 difference could buy you another whole fileserver. Not one like you built, rather an Intel/AMD running Linux.
Somebody didn't RTFA...
At the same time, we wanted this server to act as a workstation with as much capability as the other systems attached to the storage server.
CDs may self-destruct at sustained speeds of greater than 56x
The author (or the person who wrote the sidebar comment) needs to learn the meaning of self-destruct...
Except that they only support a limited number of phones, and they're all old. I'd love to see a universal one...
In general, I agree, for tech-related books as a whole, not just OS ones. I use them occasionally, but it's ones I know well like the Camel.
I always see people with these nice shiny collections of books. Funny how they're always sitting on the shelves.
Man, sucks to be the author. Put months of time into your book, then have the vendor pull support.
Of course there is another side: since there won't be version 10, this will always be the book on the latest and greatest version of Red Hat Linux!
The person who modded this post as flamebait has clearly never tried to get a Radeon All In Wonder to work under Windows 2000.
+1, Informative
Great for barbecuing! No need for a grill, just hold your food outside for a second!