SCO execs really have been dumping stock since the lawsuit was filed according to this article.
Some highlights, since the lawsuit was filed SCO's stock has quadrupled. The insider sales since March were the first such sales in more than a year. So far they've taken in U.S. $1.2 million.
I used a Palm III for several years. I took it to every meeting, scheduled all my appointments with it. Used the To Do lists extensively and exported the completed tasks to a web app I wrote so managers could keep tabs on what I was getting accomplished.
It was awesome really. Having all the information at my fingertips made me much more productive especially for those problems that come up once in a while but not often enough to remember exactly how it was solved the previous time. A few taps of the syllus and there's the solution from six months ago.
Then one day, I bought a laptop and started carrying it everywhere. I haven't touched my Palm Pilot much since then, except for digging out some contact information stored in the address book.
The Palm was much more compact than the laptop, but it's hard to code on a Palm.
Is this a prelude to Microsoft losing one of it's security chiefs to the Bush administration? I've read a story or two about some security exec. at MS leaving to become an advisor to the president or some such.
If MS loses this guy, perhaps they're planning to bring in someone who actually knows something about security.
I think it's great that MS wants to focus more on security. It's about time.
What's scary is that someone who influenced the security of MS' products in the past is now going to influence the president.
Next, we'll put Little Boy Blue in charge of the security of our nation's livestock.
In my experience, The University of Kansas was not a "tough nut to crack for OSS." I was first introduced to Linux while attending school here. I actually downloaded Slackware to diskettes from the computer lab there.
Within weeks, I'd met a handful of students on campus using Linux. Each of them knew others who were using it.
The math department at KU use(s/d) Linux on nearly all their systems. The Engineering school uses Linux to some extent. I did practically all of my programming for class on Linux.
I'll grant that the overwhelming majority of users at KU are Windows or Mac users, but among the majority of the Computer Science students Linux is king.
Miller doesn't get Free software. He like so many other suits doesn't understand that Free doesn't equal free. If he would have reviewed The Free Software Definition before answering these questions he would have seen that developers of Free software can charge as much or as little as they want for the products they create.
I charge for Free software that I develop and my customers understand and appreciate the freedom aspect even though they may never understand the code themselves at least they know that they can hire someone else who will and can make necessary modifications.
It's too bad Miller harped so much on Linux never attracting good developers because they can't get paid because he's wrong.
Microsoft's biggest downfall will most likely be due to the fact that countries like Mexico, Brazil, China and others are using Linux in the classroom becuase they can't afford MS' products. When a generation of developers comes out of these countries they will most likely produce software for the platform they grew up with.
If you tried the patch and got the message, "This update does not need to be installed on this system," you may need to upgrade your IE and re-patch.
This is typical MS. We used to be able to take a phrase like "This update does not need to be installed on this system," at face value, but now because of MS' practice of embracing and extending we can't be sure what it means.
I think it was in an Abbie Hoffman book (maybe Steal This Book) where he suggested taking the postage paid subscription cards and pasting them onto boxes of bricks and then mailing them.
I've never tried it, but it made me chuckle when I read it.
The article says that developers can download the source and develop for the platform while at the same time have their precious code protected from comptetitors, "So QSSL offers prime advantages of both the open-source and commercial worlds! !"
No matter how you slice it, the system is not Free (as in speech) nor is it Open Source. I have read that QNX is big in the embedded market, but I seriously doubt any developers who really care about the issues of Freedom and Open Source are going to dive into developing for the platform.
"You install system software day in, day out, so there is little question you're best equipped to do it well."
No mention of the fact that the user is going to have to install it "day in, day out" becuase it doesn't shutdown properly, forcing said user to kill the power resulting in corrupted system files.
This is one of the many reasons why I've installed Windows(tm) in the winblows directory on my machine.
I don't think this guy was going after these people because they were sending spam. He was doing it because they were using his domain name and he was getting thousands of emails from people pissed off about receiving spam from his domain.
I have copies of both O'Reilly's mSQL/MySQL book and the New Riders' MySQL book. Had I not acquired them in that order, I would have never purchased the former.
The latter is much more comprehensive than the first especially with regard to examples. I consider it the essential reference for MySQL while the O'Reilly book is more of an introduction to MySQL. My O'Reilly book is now a loaner for folks in my department who have a passing interest in MySQL, however, I keep a short leash on the New Riders' book because it is an indispensable resource.
Hmm, the only thing I see in the speech about digitizing or not digitizing books is this:
We are not digitizing books, but bringing hitherto little used, specially formatted materials like maps and recordings, into the world of books where the fullest answers can be found to questions raised by a picture, cartoon, or old movie clip. The new, multi-medial electronic library is not replacing our traditional print library. The national library of America, like democratic America itself, adds without subtracting. A new immigrant does not evict an old resident, nor does a new technology supplant an older form of expression. Our virtual library does not replace our 28-million-item print collection any more than our published books replace our 53-million-item manuscript collection.
I agree with previous posters that eventually a librarian will come up, one that has used computers extensively and is comfortable reading online and who sees the need for digitizing books en masse. The only thing that will prevent it will be copyright laws, but older texts with expired copyrights will be available online eventually.
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SCO execs really have been dumping stock since the lawsuit was filed according to this article.
Some highlights, since the lawsuit was filed SCO's stock has quadrupled. The insider sales since March were the first such sales in more than a year. So far they've taken in U.S. $1.2 million.
I used a Palm III for several years. I took it to every meeting, scheduled all my appointments with it. Used the To Do lists extensively and exported the completed tasks to a web app I wrote so managers could keep tabs on what I was getting accomplished.
It was awesome really. Having all the information at my fingertips made me much more productive especially for those problems that come up once in a while but not often enough to remember exactly how it was solved the previous time. A few taps of the syllus and there's the solution from six months ago.
Then one day, I bought a laptop and started carrying it everywhere. I haven't touched my Palm Pilot much since then, except for digging out some contact information stored in the address book.
The Palm was much more compact than the laptop, but it's hard to code on a Palm.
Pure speculation:
Is this a prelude to Microsoft losing one of it's security chiefs to the Bush administration? I've read a story or two about some security exec. at MS leaving to become an advisor to the president or some such.
If MS loses this guy, perhaps they're planning to bring in someone who actually knows something about security.
I think it's great that MS wants to focus more on security. It's about time.
What's scary is that someone who influenced the security of MS' products in the past is now going to influence the president.
Next, we'll put Little Boy Blue in charge of the security of our nation's livestock.
In my experience, The University of Kansas was not a "tough nut to crack for OSS." I was first introduced to Linux while attending school here. I actually downloaded Slackware to diskettes from the computer lab there.
Within weeks, I'd met a handful of students on campus using Linux. Each of them knew others who were using it.
The math department at KU use(s/d) Linux on nearly all their systems. The Engineering school uses Linux to some extent. I did practically all of my programming for class on Linux.
I'll grant that the overwhelming majority of users at KU are Windows or Mac users, but among the majority of the Computer Science students Linux is king.
Miller doesn't get Free software. He like so many other suits doesn't understand that Free doesn't equal free. If he would have reviewed The Free Software Definition before answering these questions he would have seen that developers of Free software can charge as much or as little as they want for the products they create.
I charge for Free software that I develop and my customers understand and appreciate the freedom aspect even though they may never understand the code themselves at least they know that they can hire someone else who will and can make necessary modifications.
It's too bad Miller harped so much on Linux never attracting good developers because they can't get paid because he's wrong.
Microsoft's biggest downfall will most likely be due to the fact that countries like Mexico, Brazil, China and others are using Linux in the classroom becuase they can't afford MS' products. When a generation of developers comes out of these countries they will most likely produce software for the platform they grew up with.
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If you tried the patch and got the message, "This update does not need to be installed on this system," you may need to upgrade your IE and re-patch.
This is typical MS. We used to be able to take a phrase like "This update does not need to be installed on this system," at face value, but now because of MS' practice of embracing and extending we can't be sure what it means.
dp
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I think it was in an Abbie Hoffman book (maybe Steal This Book) where he suggested taking the postage paid subscription cards and pasting them onto boxes of bricks and then mailing them.
I've never tried it, but it made me chuckle when I read it.
dp
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The article says that developers can download the source and develop for the platform while at the same time have their precious code protected from comptetitors, "So QSSL offers prime advantages of both the open-source and commercial worlds! !"
No matter how you slice it, the system is not Free (as in speech) nor is it Open Source. I have read that QNX is big in the embedded market, but I seriously doubt any developers who really care about the issues of Freedom and Open Source are going to dive into developing for the platform.
I know I won't.
dp
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"You install system software day in, day out, so there is little question you're best equipped to do it well."
No mention of the fact that the user is going to have to install it "day in, day out" becuase it doesn't shutdown properly, forcing said user to kill the power resulting in corrupted system files.
This is one of the many reasons why I've installed Windows(tm) in the winblows directory on my machine.
dp
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I don't think this guy was going after these people because they were sending spam. He was doing it because they were using his domain name and he was getting thousands of emails from people pissed off about receiving spam from his domain.
I think that's perfectly understandable.
How about using hax0r instead of cracker d00dz.
Hax0r sp3a| is so K3wl.
Good point, but if you check MySQL's download page, you will see that they do have a GPL version, albeit an older release.
What? Do you not realize that slashdot uses MySQL? Is this not a "real" website?
I have copies of both O'Reilly's mSQL/MySQL book and the New Riders' MySQL book. Had I not acquired them in that order, I would have never purchased the former.
The latter is much more comprehensive than the first especially with regard to examples. I consider it the essential reference for MySQL while the O'Reilly book is more of an introduction to MySQL. My O'Reilly book is now a loaner for folks in my department who have a passing interest in MySQL, however, I keep a short leash on the New Riders' book because it is an indispensable resource.
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Hmm, the only thing I see in the speech about digitizing or not digitizing books is this:
We are not digitizing books, but bringing hitherto little used, specially formatted materials like maps and recordings, into the world of books where the fullest answers can be found to questions raised by a picture, cartoon, or old movie clip. The new, multi-medial electronic library is not replacing our traditional print library. The national library of America, like democratic America itself, adds without subtracting. A new immigrant does not evict an old resident, nor does a new technology supplant an older form of expression. Our virtual library does not replace our 28-million-item print collection any more than our published books replace our 53-million-item manuscript collection.
I agree with previous posters that eventually a librarian will come up, one that has used computers extensively and is comfortable reading online and who sees the need for digitizing books en masse. The only thing that will prevent it will be copyright laws, but older texts with expired copyrights will be available online eventually.
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