What a strange legal system....
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My Visit to SCO
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I suggested that SCO should change the NDA to permit the disclosure of information when legally required by a court
How the hell can an NDA be enforced when giving evidence in court. I didn't think the bloody oath had "subject to contract clause", no I thought you just had to tell the truth when asked a question. Witholding information is no different to lying.
There is something seriously wrong here, and I'm not just talking about SCO.
SCO won't let people see the contested source code without signing an outrageous NDA
This SCO thing is really starting to f**k me off. It's all just insubstantial FUD with sod-all solid facts. SCO's even looks like it's aiming it's guns at BSD - which is crazy as there has NEVER EVER been any System V code in any of the BSDs. I'm of the opinion that SCO's strategy is to declare total war on the entire Unix community in the hope that people fold. Criticize SCO and you'll be next....
So my message to SCO has to be put-up or shut-up.
I'm not a Linux user, I don't hack kernels. But I can find my way around source-code. So come on SCO I'll sign your fscking NDA to see what you're carping on about. I'll even check it against the BSD sources too....
Giving pepole the right to reply to published opinion strikes me as prefectly fair. And this bit:
This would mean that you would be required to post the responses as well as authenticate their origin and make the responses available for some period of time
Looks like it'll provide an interesting get-out to stop flippant responses. If you need to authenticate, insist on PGP signed email.... But demand the PGP public-key is sent via registered snail-mail on a CD. Better yet, insist on an SAE too to allow some form of return address validation.
With a bit of effort anyone could come-up with a way to make validation really irksome, and therefore not something to be undertaken litely.
A while back I was involved in head-on collision with another car on a blind bend.
The other driver claimed I was going too fast, whereas they were doing about 20MPH. My insurance company looked at the damage on both cars and determined the speed of impact was in excess of 55MPH. For a while my insurance company believed this other driver's statement, and was blaming me for the accident.
It started to get really hairy when the other driver decided to sue me for causing personal injury.
Then - at my behest - the garage took a look at the black box in my car to determine why the airbag didn't deploy. To discover my speed at the time of impact was 10MPH. When my insurance company was informed they apologised to me, and rang the Police, who threw the book at the other driver.
Scream all you want about privacy, but sometimes big-brother technology has a tangiable benefit.
Maybe somebody subjected you to one of my favorite old tricks. Take one corner off of a solved cube and rotate it so that the colors don't match the rest of the cube. Reassemble in this orientation. Presto: unsolveable cube.
Way back in the mists of time I tried that on my school's Rubik's wizard. I took three pieces and rotated them. Gave it to the wizard and waited. Five minutes later he returned the almost complete cube, pointing out the _one_ piece he was unable to get right as it had been rotated.
While it has very good Word im-/export, it's not yet faultless (and won't be any time soon, because of inherent limitations of OpenOffice). And you NEED that import, because otherwise you can't exchange documents outside of your department.
Would such a limitation not be a good thing? I'm sick of getting Word attachments - then having to mail/phone the sender explaining why I can't read the damn thing. Perhaps if users hit the same snag they'll start to realise plain text is the best way.
Consequently, there must be far more simulations running in future millennia than seconds since you were born
sounds like a non-sequiter to me...
I remember some old kid's book about the future, had a prediction something like this:
"One day technology will enable the human race will be able to grow enough food to ensure nobody starves to death"
Well, afaik, we can do this now. And people are still starving. Obviously they are poor and are actually dying from economics - so it doesn't matter. But it just goes to show predicting future behaviour is impossible.
Okay, for a moment then I started to wonder, then I remembered the old chestnut "I think therefore I am". This made me feel marginally more positive about my actual existance - well, enough to get out of bed and have some breakfast
But now I'm trying to eat my cornflakes, and I'm having massive problems with my spoon. Anyone had any experience councilling nihilistic cutlery?
more often in that company the news was negative or depressing and it requires some mindgames then to keep yourself pouring energy into the work and not slumping in the chair thinking "what's the use?".
Well, I work in an office with a bunch of other sysadmins. And the above mindset describes how we see our jobs 90% of the time. Come 1pm and my mind switches off anway. So being in the office past then is relatively pointless.
I was off ill yesterday, slept until about 11am, then decided to check my mail, whilst watching some TV. Three hours later I realised I'd actually managed to do more work that I had in the preceding week.
Unfortuately, as with most places I've worked, management assume "bums in seats" equates to "getting stuff done". Particularly when management don't have a clue about what you actually do.
So, I've come to the conclusion that I'm actually paid to sit in an office and get bored. Sysadmining is what I do, for free, to occupy my time.
The article mentions that some things have been fixed in 5.0. Which could make some feel that upgrading to 5.0 would be a smart idea. However, FreeBSD hackers, being a conservative bunch, would disagree.
Thankfully, any worthwhile fixes in CURRENT will usually be backported to the STABLE. For example:
From the article: The problem of MySQL occasionally thinking that all databases had vanished resulted from FreeBSD's non-threadsafe implementation of realpath().
CVS log for src/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c MFC: make realpath thread-safe.
So personally me thinks a make world would be an idea sometime soon.
There must be a course somewhere for developers - how to piss-off sysadmins. Highlights:
1. Make changes last thing on a Friday. 2. Or before a 2 week holiday 3. Change Management does not apply to developers 4. CVS is for wimps 5. And if you must use CVS, wait a week before committing fixed code. 5. Don't bump version numbers 6. Don't update init scripts 7. Ecept if they are correct 8. If anyome is aware of what you are upto... go to lunch.
Some day in the future, the 5.x series will be considered stable and ready for use on production systems, but that's still a while off.
I'm actually running FreeBSD on a production system already. Not a mission critical box I admit, but it's still a production system.
I know FreeBSD 5.0 is not rated for this sort of use, but I really wanted to try out SMPng and UFS2. Can't give any benchmarks, but my subjective opinion is that the dual PIII 400 wipes the floor with the single PIII 800 box it replaced.
I had a couple of niggles, but nothing major - no show-stoppers. Of them niggles, most have been solved by a cvsup and make kernel, followed by a reboot.
So as long as you have half a clue (i.e. you know which errors you can safely ignore) I'd certainly recommend 5.0 for all but the most crucial applications.
Ah yes. Voter apathy. So everyone who doesn't vote is apathetic? I could be wrong but IMHO voter apathy is nothing but an attempt of the elected to claim a mandate to govern when the clear majority didn't vote for them (or for anybody).
My personal solution for curing so called voter apathy would be threefold.
1. Make voting COMPULSORY as it is in Australia. 2. Make polling day a public holiday. 3. Include a NO VOTE option at the bottom for those who truly don't want to vote.
Then perhaps we'll see just how much confidence the electorate has in the arseholes in power.
Anyway, I've got my ballot paper sitting infont of me. I can vote for any of 5 people. None of which I want to vote for. So what do I do?
Suggestions welcome.
At the moment I'm considering scrawling "NO VOTE" in the area they've marked "LEAVE BLANK"
But so what? What's this mean? All the news programs tell me how this is going to bring an end to disease a longer life for all of us etc., etc. But nobody ever tells how. And everybody is supposed to have unique DNA, so whose DNA have they decoded? Not mine. So how does this help me?
It seems to me there is an awful lot of hype surrounding the Human Genome Project.
I can print my kernel on A4 as 1's and 0's - Does this mean an end to security vunerablilities an better use of memory?
Colossus: The Forbin Project - Two AI's join forces to take over the world.
Terminator - AI sent back in time to destroy the folks who stopped Mummy AI from taking over the world.
The Matrix - AI's have taken over, humans object.
2001 - Humans 1, AI 4
Seems to be a bit of a scary trend here.
But we all really know that if we do crack AI it'll be more like Red Dwarfs' Talky Toaster whose whole purpose in life is to make toast and argue with other appliances.
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I suggested that SCO should change the NDA to permit the disclosure of information when legally required by a court
How the hell can an NDA be enforced when giving evidence in court. I didn't think the bloody oath had "subject to contract clause", no I thought you just had to tell the truth when asked a question.
Witholding information is no different to lying.
There is something seriously wrong here, and I'm not just talking about SCO.
1984
Indeed. So how soon before we see a charge of thought-crime because that film you remember watching lastnight is copyrighted material?
SCO won't let people see the contested source code without signing an outrageous NDA
This SCO thing is really starting to f**k me off. It's all just insubstantial FUD with sod-all solid facts. SCO's even looks like it's aiming it's guns at BSD - which is crazy as there has NEVER EVER been any System V code in any of the BSDs. I'm of the opinion that SCO's strategy is to declare total war on the entire Unix community in the hope that people fold. Criticize SCO and you'll be next....
So my message to SCO has to be put-up or shut-up.
I'm not a Linux user, I don't hack kernels. But I can find my way around source-code. So come on SCO I'll sign your fscking NDA to see what you're carping on about. I'll even check it against the BSD sources too....
It was your decision to look at the black box. That's cool. Not an invasion of privacy at all
Excellent point. I was merely attempting to make a point that this technology can be useful to protect us.
Up to the accident I never realised that sort of data was monitored. Which - on reflection - is a tad worrying.
What's the problem?
Giving pepole the right to reply to published opinion strikes me as prefectly fair. And this bit:
This would mean that you would be required to post the responses as well as authenticate their origin and make the responses available for some period of time
Looks like it'll provide an interesting get-out to stop flippant responses. If you need to authenticate, insist on PGP signed email.... But demand the PGP public-key is sent via registered snail-mail on a CD. Better yet, insist on an SAE too to allow some form of return address validation.
With a bit of effort anyone could come-up with a way to make validation really irksome, and therefore not something to be undertaken litely.
A while back I was involved in head-on collision with another car on a blind bend.
The other driver claimed I was going too fast, whereas they were doing about 20MPH. My insurance company looked at the damage on both cars and determined the speed of impact was in excess of 55MPH. For a while my insurance company believed this other driver's statement, and was blaming me for the accident.
It started to get really hairy when the other driver decided to sue me for causing personal injury.
Then - at my behest - the garage took a look at the black box in my car to determine why the airbag didn't deploy. To discover my speed at the time of impact was 10MPH. When my insurance company was informed they apologised to me, and rang the Police, who threw the book at the other driver.
Scream all you want about privacy, but sometimes big-brother technology has a tangiable benefit.
Forsooth methinks I spy a troll.
Daemon of goodness castout this vile cur forthwith.
Avast ye evil fiend and trouble these good people no longer.
Maybe somebody subjected you to one of my favorite old tricks. Take one corner off of a solved cube and rotate it so that the colors don't match the rest of the cube. Reassemble in this orientation. Presto: unsolveable cube.
Way back in the mists of time I tried that on my school's Rubik's wizard. I took three pieces and rotated them. Gave it to the wizard and waited. Five minutes later he returned the almost complete cube, pointing out the _one_ piece he was unable to get right as it had been rotated.
While it has very good Word im-/export, it's not yet faultless (and won't be any time soon, because of inherent limitations of OpenOffice). And you NEED that import, because otherwise you can't exchange documents outside of your department.
Would such a limitation not be a good thing? I'm sick of getting Word attachments - then having to mail/phone the sender explaining why I can't read the damn thing. Perhaps if users hit the same snag they'll start to realise plain text is the best way.
So from MS we get Trusted Computing where "trusted" means trusted by big corporations who want to sell you stuff without any chance of copying.
From these guys we get Trusted Computing where trusted means trusted by the guys building the network.
So, which would you choose?
Then you decide to browse at -1 for some entertainment.
Indeed. The BSD Trolls can be particulary amusing.
But there is a rumor they are dying....
Oh come on Moderators, my parent is FUNNY!
Consequently, there must be far more simulations running in future millennia than seconds since you were born
sounds like a non-sequiter to me...
I remember some old kid's book about the future, had a prediction something like this:
"One day technology will enable the human race will be able to grow enough food to ensure nobody starves to death"
Well, afaik, we can do this now. And people are still starving. Obviously they are poor and are actually dying from economics - so it doesn't matter. But it just goes to show predicting future behaviour is impossible.
Okay, for a moment then I started to wonder, then I remembered the old chestnut "I think therefore I am". This made me feel marginally more positive about my actual existance - well, enough to get out of bed and have some breakfast
But now I'm trying to eat my cornflakes, and I'm having massive problems with my spoon. Anyone had any experience councilling nihilistic cutlery?
more often in that company the news was negative or depressing and it requires some mindgames then to keep yourself pouring energy into the work and not slumping in the chair thinking "what's the use?".
Well, I work in an office with a bunch of other sysadmins. And the above mindset describes how we see our jobs 90% of the time. Come 1pm and my mind switches off anway. So being in the office past then is relatively pointless.
I was off ill yesterday, slept until about 11am, then decided to check my mail, whilst watching some TV. Three hours later I realised I'd actually managed to do more work that I had in the preceding week.
Unfortuately, as with most places I've worked, management assume "bums in seats" equates to "getting stuff done". Particularly when management don't have a clue about what you actually do.
So, I've come to the conclusion that I'm actually paid to sit in an office and get bored. Sysadmining is what I do, for free, to occupy my time.
The article mentions that some things have been fixed in 5.0. Which could make some feel that upgrading to 5.0 would be a smart idea. However, FreeBSD hackers, being a conservative bunch, would disagree.
Thankfully, any worthwhile fixes in CURRENT will usually be backported to the STABLE. For example:
From the article:
The problem of MySQL occasionally thinking that all databases had vanished resulted from FreeBSD's non-threadsafe implementation of realpath().
CVS log for src/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.c
MFC: make realpath thread-safe.
So personally me thinks a make world would be an idea sometime soon.
First ost...
sorry, couldn't resist
There must be a course somewhere for developers - how to piss-off sysadmins. Highlights:
1. Make changes last thing on a Friday.
2. Or before a 2 week holiday
3. Change Management does not apply to developers
4. CVS is for wimps
5. And if you must use CVS, wait a week before committing fixed code.
5. Don't bump version numbers
6. Don't update init scripts
7. Ecept if they are correct
8. If anyome is aware of what you are upto... go to lunch.
Some day in the future, the 5.x series will be considered stable and ready for use on production systems, but that's still a while off.
I'm actually running FreeBSD on a production system already. Not a mission critical box I admit, but it's still a production system.
I know FreeBSD 5.0 is not rated for this sort of use, but I really wanted to try out SMPng and UFS2. Can't give any benchmarks, but my subjective opinion is that the dual PIII 400 wipes the floor with the single PIII 800 box it replaced.
I had a couple of niggles, but nothing major - no show-stoppers. Of them niggles, most have been solved by a cvsup and make kernel, followed by a reboot.
So as long as you have half a clue (i.e. you know which errors you can safely ignore) I'd certainly recommend 5.0 for all but the most crucial applications.
> cure voter apathy
Ah yes. Voter apathy. So everyone who doesn't vote is apathetic? I could be wrong but IMHO voter apathy is nothing but an attempt of the elected to claim a mandate to govern when the clear majority didn't vote for them (or for anybody).
My personal solution for curing so called voter apathy would be threefold.
1. Make voting COMPULSORY as it is in Australia.
2. Make polling day a public holiday.
3. Include a NO VOTE option at the bottom for those who truly don't want to vote.
Then perhaps we'll see just how much confidence the electorate has in the arseholes in power.
Anyway, I've got my ballot paper sitting infont of me. I can vote for any of 5 people. None of which I want to vote for. So what do I do?
Suggestions welcome.
At the moment I'm considering scrawling "NO VOTE" in the area they've marked "LEAVE BLANK"
But so what? What's this mean? All the news programs tell me how this is going to bring an end to disease a longer life for all of us etc., etc. But nobody ever tells how. And everybody is supposed to have unique DNA, so whose DNA have they decoded? Not mine. So how does this help me?
It seems to me there is an awful lot of hype surrounding the Human Genome Project.
I can print my kernel on A4 as 1's and 0's - Does this mean an end to security vunerablilities an better use of memory?
Our government only wants to protect us
No they don't.
They want to control us and they want power.
If you ask me, in government circles George Orwell's 1984 is a story about a utopian dream.
obviously fake
But everyday I read stuff and think "It's not April 1st, so it MUST be true".
All day I've been reading stuff and thinking "Oh Fuck, I hope this isn't true". For the next week these things are going to really worry me.
So I'm all in favour of obviously fake.
well put.
Colossus: The Forbin Project - Two AI's join forces to take over the world.
Terminator - AI sent back in time to destroy the folks who stopped Mummy AI from taking over the world.
The Matrix - AI's have taken over, humans object.
2001 - Humans 1, AI 4
Seems to be a bit of a scary trend here.
But we all really know that if we do crack AI it'll be more like Red Dwarfs' Talky Toaster whose whole purpose in life is to make toast and argue with other appliances.