I hope that they put the boots to SCO. Whatever their contributions to Linux as Caldera, this is flat-out extortion, built on as yet unsubstantiated accusations.
All this to drive up their stock price and extort money from IBM. No matter what the outcome of this, I will never do business with any future incarnation of SCO ( let's hope there are none) nor with any company that their executives end up leading.
I hope that the rest of the community remembers this for a long time to come.
CVS has many limitations. It's because of those that
there are many open source revision control programs
( and a handful of proprietary ones). Check out Subversion, arch, Aegis, OpenCM and others.
Try this link to get started:
http://www.fifthvision.net/open/bin/view/Arch/SubV ersionAndCvsComparison
Ah, the Robin Hood defense. Unless Mr. Gates is planning to relocate to Sherwood Forest, he'll have to do better than that. I applaud anyone philanthropic efforts but wrongdoing is wrongdoing.
In photo 3 of the slideshow. What is he - an honors calligraphy student taking an elective Math course.
I can't be that neat when writing greeting cards, let alone taking notes in class.
Good advice - if you are a full-time employee who's worked beyond the probationary period. Here in Canada, the employer can fire / lay you off without giving a reason within the first 90 days.
Also, if you're under short-term contract, you're equally vulnerable. They can keep renewing the contract until they no longer need you and then show you the door - even if you do the same job as others who are considered headcount. A great many places used to pay the contract workers better than the full-time employees but not give them benefits. In today's market, in IT, anyway, they pay you what they think you're likely to accept and work you how they please. Let's hope that this doesn't last - I've lived through 3 or 4 recessions / downturns in my working life and been unemployed 5 times while my father has never been voluntarily without work.
Thanks for the info - I didn't remember ulimit. The default on Redhat 9 is 2047. I still had control of the system with user processes set to 50 but, of course, the script kept trying to run, giving a perpetual error of "fork, resource temporarily unavailable".
I was able to kill off all invocations of the script by running killall a few times.
A 24% decline in their stock price isn`t enough. I hope that at least some of their stockholders managed ( not upper management, I hope) to make a few bucks but I want to see them hit zero dollars by Monday.
Dawn wasn't one of the potentials so she didn't become blessed with Slayer powers. I was really hoping that this past season would have done something with her being the Key. I was looking forward to that in the finale. And I thought that Buffy was going to die.
The problem is proving unfair dismissal. Companies have many ways of covering their tracks and the burden of proof is on the unfortunate employee.
My former employer, in the course of going bankrupt, lied to me and 30 other people and we ended up out of work and owed months of back wages. In the end, they were able to hide behind the bankruptcy laws and we got screwed. Laws are useless if they can be easily circumvented.
And, truly intelligent programmers try to lead the market, not follow it. The market has momentum, not brains. It takes visionaries to see where the market should be led and smart, hardworking people to get it there.
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I would love to see the penny bite the dust. What can you buy for a penny these days? But, according to an article in the Toronto Star late last summer, eliminating the penny in North America would cost consumers $600 million ( I don't remember if that was US or Canadian dollars).
I once worked for a restaurant whose menu was priced so that the totals would always be a multiple of 5 - this was done specifically so that they would neither have to accept or give out pennies.
And believe me, I want to see you disappear. I don't want IBM to spend a penny buying your worthless asses. I want to see you bankrupted and your assets, including your ancient AT&T source picked up for a dime. IBM has done some underhanded and possibly illegal things over the years but they've also helped lift Linux up - you are just dragging it down
I live in Canada and, on several occasions over the last few years, I've put the wrong amount of postage on my mail.
The reason was that the postal rate for basic lettermail had gone up, typically by 1 or 2 cents, never more than that.
So, what action did they take? If, as is my habit,
my return address was on the letter, they return it to me. If I've not put a return address, it becomes, I imagine, undeliverable.
Now, this cannot be the most economical or customer friendly
way to deal with it but that's their policy.
The same rules should apply to e-mail - policies are chosen for the greater good and then they must be adhered to. Unfortunately, there will always be someone who is either mildly or severely inconvenienced by the rules. C'est la vie.
Microsoft has thousands of skilled programmers and there are possibly tens or hundred of thousands of Windows programmers worldwide who'd love to give Linux or BSD a black eye. So, while I don't doubt the existence of (possibly severe ) bugs in OSS Unix, why have we seen so few?
I tried out Remote Desktop and being able to redirect audio is a cool feature. But it's not as fast as you think - give TightVNC a try ( www.tightvnc.com). Also, VNC can be tunneled over SSH and it can disable the remote keyboard and mouse to prevent interference - http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshwin.html so there is no need to worry about the weakness of "homebrewed" security.
Switch to President's Choice instead.
You don't have to worry about minimum monthly balances and you can use any CIBC bank machine at no charge. Also, they pay Interest on Savings accounts that matches ING Direct. I switched 2 years ago and I've never been happier.
Maybe you should spend less time overreacting and more time thinking and learning english.
Here is an excerpt of the meanings of eclipse from dictionary.com
To obscure or diminish in importance, fame, or reputation.
To surpass; outshine: an outstanding performance that eclipsed the previous record.
My former employer, AT&T Canada, who has over 150,000 home users and several thousand business clients, dumped their Sendmail-on-Solaris servers in favor of Postfix-on-FreeBSD and have never been happier.
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Ah, the Robin Hood defense. Unless Mr. Gates is planning to relocate to Sherwood Forest, he'll have to do better than that.
I applaud anyone philanthropic efforts but wrongdoing is wrongdoing.
Just how robust is Cyclone? I`ve heard of it before but don`t know of anyone or any project that uses it.
I tried this and it locked up my Redhat 9 box promptly, running as a normal user. What does this script do and how do you prevent this from happening.
At least in the case of Netscape and Mozilla, it's something visible and can easily be disabled.
A 24% decline in their stock price isn`t enough.
I hope that at least some of their stockholders managed ( not upper management, I hope) to make a few bucks but I want to see them hit zero dollars by Monday.
Dawn wasn't one of the potentials so she didn't become blessed with Slayer powers. I was really hoping that this past season would have done something with her being the Key. I was looking forward to that in the finale. And I thought that Buffy was going to die.
And, truly intelligent programmers try to lead the market, not follow it. The market has momentum, not brains. It takes visionaries to see where the market should be led and smart, hardworking people to get it there.
And believe me, I want to see you disappear. I don't want IBM to spend a penny buying your worthless asses. I want to see you bankrupted and your assets, including your ancient AT&T source picked up for a dime.
IBM has done some underhanded and possibly illegal
things over the years but they've also helped lift Linux up - you are just dragging it down
The Linux community will be well rid of you.
Microsoft has thousands of skilled programmers and there are possibly tens or hundred of thousands of Windows programmers worldwide who'd love to give Linux or BSD a black eye.
So, while I don't doubt the existence of (possibly severe ) bugs in OSS Unix, why have we seen so few?
I tried out Remote Desktop and being able to redirect audio is a cool feature. But it's not as fast as you think - give TightVNC a try ( www.tightvnc.com).
Also, VNC can be tunneled over SSH and it can disable the remote keyboard and mouse to prevent interference - http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshwin.html so there is no need to worry about the weakness of "homebrewed" security.
I agree with you about the Centurian but he makes the point that the Prius' MPG can easily be equalled by previously available cars.
Maybe you should spend less time overreacting and more time thinking and learning english. Here is an excerpt of the meanings of eclipse from dictionary.com To obscure or diminish in importance, fame, or reputation. To surpass; outshine: an outstanding performance that eclipsed the previous record.
My former employer, AT&T Canada, who has over 150,000 home users and several thousand business
clients, dumped their Sendmail-on-Solaris servers in favor of Postfix-on-FreeBSD and have never been happier.