I tried to post this story about 2 months ago. No dice. Those of us marooned with this chipset had to resort to filing complaints with the BBB in order to get TI to pay attention.
Oh well. Thats the last A) D-Link and B) TI chipset-based product I'll buy. If I buy something that says [b]on the box[/b] that it's supported in Linux, get it home, unwrap it, install it, boot up, and THEN discover it's more like:
This card is supported in Linux!*
* = No...Then I have better companies/places to spend my money.
You'll notice the ones who are crying the loudest in this post are the ones who are most clueless about how to dual boot. Its like they' ll screw it up by their own actions, then blame Microsoft for the fact they cant get their box to boot.
99.9% of the time, the problem with dual booting is user-related, i.e. the user doesn't know what the fuck they're doing and fucks up their MBR. The other 0.01% of the time, it's both user AND hardware related, i.e. they have some sort of fucked up configuration using retarded BIOS tricks to remap drives adresses after POST, a drive has fucked up geometry, etc.
I (heart) my C64.:)...And I miss it dearly. Saw one in a resale shop, thought about buying it, but it was an old brown shoebox model. Mine was a C64c...Sleek.:)
A handheld C64+LCD screen should kick righteous ass. Thats what I'm doing now, incidentally... Got an old Fujitsu Stylistic 1200 tablet off ebay for $120 and have it boot directly into a C64 emulator.:)
" "One of the ways we are currently using Web services is by creating wrappers around legacy systems in our factory environment, which is allowing us to extract information from those systems and deal with the factory environment at a higher level," Scott said."
Apparently, "phase 2" of the.Net plan was to write grep.:)
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That shit should be required by law if you ask me. Not just for safety, but to allow the rest of us to drive without hearing THUM THUM THUM THUM from the nearest bozo who hasn't quite figured out that he's in public.
Kids this this weren't held enough as children.
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God, I sound like a tard. One more time:
Does anyone build/sell small EMP weapons? You know, strong enough to reboot anything electronic, like a CD or a radio, within like 20 feet?
Yeah, thats super. We all need more of this.
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Why doesn't someone build/sell a small EMP weapons? You know, enough to reboot anything electronic CD player/radio within 20 feet?
Hell, i'd camp out at the store the night before to buy one of those.
A sponge is strong enough to stand up on it's own.
SCO's case couldn't be propped up with 50 hydraulic rams bolted to it's ass.
What SCO Really Should Be Concerned With.
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Lets think about the notion of shame for a moment.
Sometimes, you just get tired of something. You get tired of thinking about it, you get tired of dealing with it, and you get tired of having it done to you. Thats about how I feel when it comes to SCO, and i'll tell you why. It comes down to shame, and how SCO should be f*&@^$ing ashamed of themselves for what they're doing to us AND themselves.
SCO has actively and intentionally put some very dark clouds over a group of people who would have gladly extended a hand to help them. A group of people who have absolutely no vested interest in asserting "ownership" over what they make--However, SCO does....and they will continue to do so, even at our expense. They will cast a shadow over the Linux community for the sake of pumping cash into their organization, for as long as they can. Shameful.
The Linux community is largely made up of people who could care less about the concept of "market share" and "trade secrets". We build because it's fun. It's fun to build. It's fun to make stuff work. Yet, SCO wants to derail that, and take part of that away from us. They want to throw a wrench in the gears of open cooperation and the open exchange of ideas. They want to stifle the process that benefits all, and stifle it in a way that only THEY will benefit from. Shameful.
We, as a community, don't go out of our way to step on people's toes, yet, SCO steps on our toes. By their actions, they have shown their true colors, namely,their contempt for the process, for us, and for Linux in all that it represents. This isn't an accident on their part. It's an intentional tug at the carpet underneath the feet of the Linux community. An attempt to beat up on something that has never raised a hand in anger--Not to SCO, or to anyone. Shameful.
Well, SCO can tug all they want, the carpet isn't going to move an inch. They can cast as many clouds as they want, hell, they can make it rain if they want to. Thats fine. We'll just build umbrellas. Openly. And freely. The process of building won't stop, and the process of cooperating won't fail.
That being said, it's important to note that SCO's real enemy isn't a person, or a big blue company full of big blue ideas, or even Linux -- SCO's enemy is itself. By doing what they've done, they have shamed themselves, and the shamed the people who support SCO. They have even shamed their own product, and the people who put in the years of work needed to build it.
In nature, given time, problems like that tend to "fix" themselves. I'm not worried, and you shouldn't be either. SCO is cartwheeling out of control, and they have no one to blame but themselves. It's not our fault, or IBM's fault, or SGI's fault, or anyone's fault.. Their fate as a company was sealed the instant they decided to fight change rather than embrace it.
It's just a shame they can't figure that out, and a shame they never will.
I don't think he's reckless or insane. I just think he's a titanic idiot.
There's ethics, then theres responsibility to stockholders...But I cant help but imagine how much better his company would have done had they announced they were going to throw in the towel, drop their silly/pointless policy about protecting what amounts to a pile of largely obsolete code, and put their support behind Linux along with IBM.
But they're not doing that.
They're so damn stuck in their way of doing business that they're completely blind to their own demise. Linux made SCO irrelevant. Thats what history will record, that, and SCO went out kicking and screaming even after a helping hand was extended for 11 years.
Alot of companies, news outlets, tech writers...they all take their cues at least in part, from us. If we don't like SCO, they're going to tend to not like them either.
The Linux community is split --- Split between deciding to laugh hysterically at SCO, or wish them a speedy trip to the grave. That cant help but rub off on the others outside the community.
"All these and more SCO statements have been competely reversed now. Why should we listen to this never-ending story of lies from SCO. If they can't say something and stick to it, they do not deserve attention, only contempt."
I don't even think Mr. Smith even needs to exist. I think SCO is painfully aware that they're on their last legs, AND the fact they're in violation of so many patents that it would be completely ridiculous to even go down that path with IBM.
IBM files what, 20,000 patents a year? I'd give it a week before IBM had a list of at least a hundred patents SCO sits in violation of.. The only thing stopping them is the reluctance to come off looking like a bully.
Besides, IBM isn't the boogy-man.. They're actually a fairly friendly company, i'd say. Why would they bother to resort to scare-tactics unless they were legitimately threatened?:)
"IBM is going to string this out as long as possible, and won't settle. Why? Because SCO's continued existence as a company depends upon revenue from this case (....) They don't have the money to carry on this long litigation."
Well said, sir.
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Kind of an odd strategy, isn't it...To be the thorn in the side of the company you're trying to entice into purchasing you?
Personally, I don't think it's gonna happen. SCO has made itself a pariah, and no company is stupid enough to fall for the scam. That goes for IBM, Sun, Microsoft, you name it -- At the end of the day, no one needs SCO.
It's hard for me to look at SCO's CEO as anything but a cock-jerker. He himself knows for a fact that making such allegations puts a question mark on alot of things..And alot of good work...Honest work that honest people did.
The world is filled with assholes, and this guy apparently has no problem counting himself among the ranks. Thats the most disturbing part of all.
Perhaps. I wish I remembered more about that conversation -- Every day I'd hear shit like that.:) The read/write head, the armature it sat on, were all atomic-scale structures, only a few angstroms across.
Totally different subject: I remember coming into work one day, and there was a huuuge pile of old guys standing around one of the workstations researchers used for doing visualization..Big honkin' SGI boxes. Anyway, seems that one of them had built a "proton motor"..Literally, a little mechanical motor, made out of a collection of atoms, that would turn a "crank" if given a hydrogen ion. It was sort of cup-shaped at one end with a tail at the other, sort of like the butt-end of a sperm. It was explained to me that if you dropped a hydrogen ion into the cup, the tail would turn 360' in the socket...and would propel the thing (presumably) toward more hydrogen ions.
Atomic scale ion propulsion, layed out in a simulator. I dunno if they ever built one.
..When I used to work for the Chemistry Department here at the local U, I got to listen in on alot of the conversations the chem geeks had about emerging technologies. One of them was a new form of electron microscopy..err, well maybe not *electron* microscopy specifically, but, a device for visualizing atomic-scale structures, and "printing" them.
The "head" of this thing (a nanoprinter?) used the vibrations of nearby atoms to move...The vibrations were tracked by a controller of some sort, and if the head was bouncing around at just the right angle, they'd "print" an atom onto a surface. I was told this was how they made those famous pictures where individual atoms could be precisely lined up on a surface to show letters or numbers.. I remember IBM doing this sort of thing with Xenon atoms back in the late 80's or early 90's.
So, nyah. WOrld's smallest printer my ass!:) I've seen atomic printers, baby!
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I tried to post this story about 2 months ago. No dice. Those of us marooned with this chipset had to resort to filing complaints with the BBB in order to get TI to pay attention.
Oh well. Thats the last A) D-Link and B) TI chipset-based product I'll buy. If I buy something that says [b]on the box[/b] that it's supported in Linux, get it home, unwrap it, install it, boot up, and THEN discover it's more like:
This card is supported in Linux!*
* = No.
USB floppy.
No kidding.
You'll notice the ones who are crying the loudest in this post are the ones who are most clueless about how to dual boot. Its like they'
ll screw it up by their own actions, then blame Microsoft for the fact they cant get their box to boot.
99.9% of the time, the problem with dual booting is user-related, i.e. the user doesn't know what the fuck they're doing and fucks up their MBR. The other 0.01% of the time, it's both user AND hardware related, i.e. they have some sort of fucked up configuration using retarded BIOS tricks to remap drives adresses after POST, a drive has fucked up geometry, etc.
If you've got a floppy, or any sort of bootable removable media whatsoever, dual-booting into Linux is possible.
Whats so hard about putting a floppy in this dreaded oh-so-evil laptop, and leaving it there? I mean, how often do *you* use floppies anymore?
Pointless article.
I (heart) my C64.
A handheld C64+LCD screen should kick righteous ass. Thats what I'm doing now, incidentally... Got an old Fujitsu Stylistic 1200 tablet off ebay for $120 and have it boot directly into a C64 emulator.
Hmm..
.Net plan was to write grep . :)
" "One of the ways we are currently using Web services is by creating wrappers around legacy systems in our factory environment, which is allowing us to extract information from those systems and deal with the factory environment at a higher level," Scott said."
Apparently, "phase 2" of the
That shit should be required by law if you ask me. Not just for safety, but to allow the rest of us to drive without hearing THUM THUM THUM THUM from the nearest bozo who hasn't quite figured out that he's in public.
Kids this this weren't held enough as children.
God, I sound like a tard. One more time:
Does anyone build/sell small EMP weapons? You know, strong enough to reboot anything electronic, like a CD or a radio, within like 20 feet?
Why doesn't someone build/sell a small EMP weapons? You know, enough to reboot anything electronic CD player/radio within 20 feet?
Hell, i'd camp out at the store the night before to buy one of those.
*snicker*
Durrrrr...Where do I send my money MR. DARL MCBRIDE?
I would disagree.
A sponge is strong enough to stand up on it's own.
SCO's case couldn't be propped up with 50 hydraulic rams bolted to it's ass.
Lets think about the notion of shame for a moment.
Sometimes, you just get tired of something. You get tired of thinking about it, you get tired of dealing with it, and you get tired of having it done to you. Thats about how I feel when it comes to SCO, and i'll tell you why. It comes down to shame, and how SCO should be f*&@^$ing ashamed of themselves for what they're doing to us AND themselves.
SCO has actively and intentionally put some very dark clouds over a group of people who would have gladly extended a hand to help them. A group of people who have absolutely no vested interest in asserting "ownership" over what they make--However, SCO does....and they will continue to do so, even at our expense. They will cast a shadow over the Linux community for the sake of pumping cash into their organization, for as long as they can. Shameful.
The Linux community is largely made up of people who could care less about the concept of "market share" and "trade secrets". We build because it's fun. It's fun to build. It's fun to make stuff work. Yet, SCO wants to derail that, and take part of that away from us. They want to throw a wrench in the gears of open cooperation and the open exchange of ideas. They want to stifle the process that benefits all, and stifle it in a way that only THEY will benefit from. Shameful.
We, as a community, don't go out of our way to step on people's toes, yet, SCO steps on our toes.
By their actions, they have shown their true colors, namely,their contempt for the process, for us, and for Linux in all that it represents. This isn't an accident on their part. It's an intentional tug at the carpet underneath the feet of the Linux community. An attempt to beat up on something that has never raised a hand in anger--Not to SCO, or to anyone. Shameful.
Well, SCO can tug all they want, the carpet isn't going to move an inch. They can cast as many clouds as they want, hell, they can make it rain if they want to. Thats fine. We'll just build umbrellas. Openly. And freely. The process of building won't stop, and the process of cooperating won't fail.
That being said, it's important to note that SCO's real enemy isn't a person, or a big blue company full of big blue ideas, or even Linux -- SCO's enemy is itself. By doing what they've done, they have shamed themselves, and the shamed the people who support SCO. They have even shamed their own product, and the people who put in the years of work needed to build it.
In nature, given time, problems like that tend to "fix" themselves. I'm not worried, and you shouldn't be either. SCO is cartwheeling out of control, and they have no one to blame but themselves. It's not our fault, or IBM's fault, or SGI's fault, or anyone's fault.. Their fate as a company was sealed the instant they decided to fight change rather than embrace it.
It's just a shame they can't figure that out, and a shame they never will.
I don't think he's reckless or insane. I just think he's a titanic idiot.
There's ethics, then theres responsibility to stockholders...But I cant help but imagine how much better his company would have done had they announced they were going to throw in the towel, drop their silly/pointless policy about protecting what amounts to a pile of largely obsolete code, and put their support behind Linux along with IBM.
But they're not doing that.
They're so damn stuck in their way of doing business that they're completely blind to their own demise. Linux made SCO irrelevant. Thats what history will record, that, and SCO went out kicking and screaming even after a helping hand was extended for 11 years.
They already ARE falling hard.
Alot of companies, news outlets, tech writers...they all take their cues at least in part, from us. If we don't like SCO, they're going to tend to not like them either.
The Linux community is split --- Split between deciding to laugh hysterically at SCO, or wish them a speedy trip to the grave. That cant help but rub off on the others outside the community.
"All these and more SCO statements have been competely reversed now. Why should we listen to this never-ending story of lies from SCO. If they can't say something and stick to it, they do not deserve attention, only contempt."
Amen.
I don't even think Mr. Smith even needs to exist. I think SCO is painfully aware that they're on their last legs, AND the fact they're in violation of so many patents that it would be completely ridiculous to even go down that path with IBM.
IBM files what, 20,000 patents a year? I'd give it a week before IBM had a list of at least a hundred patents SCO sits in violation of.. The only thing stopping them is the reluctance to come off looking like a bully.
Besides, IBM isn't the boogy-man.. They're actually a fairly friendly company, i'd say. Why would they bother to resort to scare-tactics unless they were legitimately threatened?
"IBM is going to string this out as long as possible, and won't settle. Why? Because SCO's continued existence as a company depends upon revenue from this case (....) They don't have the money to carry on this long litigation."
Well said, sir.
Kind of an odd strategy, isn't it...To be the thorn in the side of the company you're trying to entice into purchasing you?
Personally, I don't think it's gonna happen. SCO has made itself a pariah, and no company is stupid enough to fall for the scam. That goes for IBM, Sun, Microsoft, you name it -- At the end of the day, no one needs SCO.
Nice legacy. Heh.
...But the guilty have everything to hide.
It's hard for me to look at SCO's CEO as anything but a cock-jerker. He himself knows for a fact that making such allegations puts a question mark on alot of things..And alot of good work...Honest work that honest people did.
The world is filled with assholes, and this guy apparently has no problem counting himself among the ranks. Thats the most disturbing part of all.
"sentient computing systems are likely to be everywhere within five years -- listening and watching, and ready to anticipate their users' every need."
Yes -- and followed directly by a wave of pigs flying out of my ass!
Hey, rad... thanks for the link. :)
Perhaps. I wish I remembered more about that conversation -- Every day I'd hear shit like that. :) The read/write head, the armature it sat on, were all atomic-scale structures, only a few angstroms across.
Totally different subject: I remember coming into work one day, and there was a huuuge pile of old guys standing around one of the workstations researchers used for doing visualization..Big honkin' SGI boxes. Anyway, seems that one of them had built a "proton motor"..Literally, a little mechanical motor, made out of a collection of atoms, that would turn a "crank" if given a hydrogen ion. It was sort of cup-shaped at one end with a tail at the other, sort of like the butt-end of a sperm. It was explained to me that if you dropped a hydrogen ion into the cup, the tail would turn 360' in the socket...and would propel the thing (presumably) toward more hydrogen ions.
Atomic scale ion propulsion, layed out in a simulator. I dunno if they ever built one.
The "head" of this thing (a nanoprinter?) used the vibrations of nearby atoms to move...The vibrations were tracked by a controller of some sort, and if the head was bouncing around at just the right angle, they'd "print" an atom onto a surface. I was told this was how they made those famous pictures where individual atoms could be precisely lined up on a surface to show letters or numbers.. I remember IBM doing this sort of thing with Xenon atoms back in the late 80's or early 90's.
So, nyah. WOrld's smallest printer my ass!
Right here, down at the bottom of the page.
Don'tcha just love it when marketing people make engineering decisions?
Java 1.1...Java 1.2.. *NO* wait, that'll never work! Lets call it "Java 2"! That will clear everything up!
Jesus..