I'm not a doctor and I don't know anyone who could help. What I can do is add you to my prayers and to our prayer chain. We'll pray for your health, your recovery, your comfort, and for your many doctors wisdom, guidance, and team work. I owe the career I have today to your production of Slackware, started learning it back at kernel 0.99pl13.
Something you've not mentioned, is the health care costs. You did state you aren't looking for donations, but let me say this... If you end up using up your insurance or don't have any, tell us. We can not only find people who can help with your condition, but we can also find people (like myself) who are willing to help finance your recovery. Just say the word and let the fund raising begin.
You know Tivo, Inc., when I bought my Tivo, it was for time-shifting the television shows I really wanted to watch, to pause live television, rewind it, and to save shows for as long as I wanted to keep them (The Daily Show, for example). Now, to offer me a new feature, which I didn't purchase the device for, in favor of letting Macrovision and its closely tied entertainment executives tamper with the features I actually did buy it for, is wrong of you.
Sure your Tivo Desktop is cool. Sure I would like to download Tivo recorded content to my PC or laptop. The problem is that's not what I bought a Tivo for and now you are starting to cripple the features that sold me on your product to begin with.
I would prefer you keep my Series 2 Tivo restriction free. Let me record whatever I want and keep it, don't delete it based on some other companies idea of how long I should have it.
Then you could create a separate product that does the Tivo Desktop for those that want it and find the content restrictions livable.
I am afraid, Tivo, Inc., you are going to regret this move you have made, because now hundreds or thousands of other content owners are going to rain down on you like hell fire to get you to add restrictions to their productions as well.
Well damn, I hope Sirius gets something like this soon. I chose Sirius some time ago because *all* it's music channels are commercial free, and I can listen to the music streams over the web.
The main reason they don't sell well here is they make lowsy PDA's. They could have had real potential if they'd pushed on with the development and offered significant software upgrades. Between QTopia being woefully inadequate, poor interoperability between QTopia apps and finally the very poor power management causing batteries to run dry much faster than competing devices, these Linux based PDA's didn't stand a chance. I would have loved for them to have been up to the task, but they just weren't.
You know it's just got to be a honey pot, right? I'm guessing they are trying to bait someone into hacking the new web site in hopes of making the Open Source community look bad to the press and to the courts. Remember, they already claimed Open Source advocates attacked their main web site a while back... but now they'll spin it as us trying to censor free speach. It's a setup to try and identify our Open Source community with the evil dregs of computing, script kiddies.
Check out EastPack.com... my model isn't available anymore, but they have newer improved models. Can't imagine it being any better than it already is. Toured Philly, NYC, & Washington DC all on foot for weeks with this baby, lugging a heavy dell latitude C610 and accessories, food, and other essentials. Bought it the first day of touring when we started out in Philly. Since then it's been great for Disney Land, more trips to NYC, day hiking in Montana, and many trips to Vancouver BC.
Had it 5 years now, doesn't show a sign of aging, still good as new. It was a little more then you mentioned ($65), but probably the best money I've ever spent.
I've often wondered what the destructive force of an anti-hydrogen fusion bomb would be, even since childhood. I wouldn't be surprised if just one could be a world wide doomsday device.
Yes, Sirius has been doing this for at least a year and a half (the length of my membership thus far). Only down side is it require IE and Windows Media Player.
I'd like to recognize Texstar for creating the PCLinuxOS distribution. It's a great Live-CD that also serves as a great installed distro with a complete online software repository... and who does the huge portion of work on getting this distro built and out? Texstar himself. I won't plug the hosting website, as I help maintain the site. Suffice it to say you could google for PCLinuxOS and find it if you are interested.
Could have saved some of this article for after you click on it, the topic doesn't appeal to everyone and yet it's taking up a huge bit of front page realestate.
Yes, it's a fantastic phone. I got mine in the late 90's and still haven't had the battery give up yet. Where do you get your replacements, incase that day comes up for me?
That's right. Stick with your 900mhz phones. Stores here in the Seattle area still carry several models in the 900mhz range. Do you really *need* the higher frequency for your phone? Save your money and buy these older phones.
Can we please dub the new "Napster" as something else? This isn't the original / real napster, this is big biz cashing in on an old popular (and more respectable) name. At least call them "Napster II" or something. Let's not let them tarnish a once noble name.
You folks can't really believe they are doing this to encourage sleepy drivers to pull over, can you? Let me spell it out for you plain and simple...
They want to track your travel habbits, that's it. Most folks aren't going to change wireless cards at every stop... so they'll be able to see where your mac address stops, for how long, and how often. Hello?!? Folks, this is more obvious than the RFID tag monitoring... and probably far more effective.
all that pseudo science. In years past when I'd fall asleep to Art Bell and watch too much X-Files, those things seemed plausable to me. After ridding myself of those inputs, the fake science and the paranoia revolving around it have vanished. Not letting a radio show fill my subconscious sleeping mind every night was probably the number one way to de-program that garbage from myself.
I have been curious as to weather the existance of Wine and various other methods of running Windows apps on Linux have hindered the progress of native Linux ports of those applications. I remain undecided, but what is your take on the matter as you are directly involved in this scenario.
They knowingly stayed with a company commiting widely publicised fraud. They are complicit. That being the case, they have no ethics another employer can stake a reputation on, so why hire them? I wouldn't even trust them to be janiters, they'd steal things when the lights are out.
May they never work again.
As for their families, I agree that the families shouldn't suffer. I propose setting up a fund for the families, but to be eligable, the spouse must divorce the former or current SCO employee. We could help them get the house, the kids, and the car. Once they've demonstrated the former SCO employee has completely lost his entire family, let the aid money flow to that family.
I'd like to know if companies are required to list anywhere public the names of the people they've laid off. It could be a good start to a hiring blacklist. I'd also like to add to all companies some new hiring practices. Make the applicant sign a legal document stating they've never worked for, invested in, or in any way outside of the GPL assisted SCO after learning of the companies fraudulent behavior. That way if you find out later that they did work for SCO, you could basicly hang them out to dry.
The only ones who deserve refuge would be the ones who left, say, in the first 90 days or so. That's plenty of time to read up and find your company is committing fraud and to resign over it to preserve ones principles. That'd be a person I would hire.
They explicitly prevent other distributions or private parties from selling Yast. So why bother? This is how they repay those that created all that software for them that they can use because of the GPL? Lowzy.
Try Gentoo, RedHat, Mandrake, Xandros or some other distro that embraces your freedoms.
A co-worker who used to be involved with palm had recently purchased a Sony clie (that spelled right?). Anyway, I asked if it was upgradable to Palm OS 4... He filled me in on a bit of details as to why the answer was no. Apparently licensees of Palm OS must agree to produce non-upgradable clones if they want to run the OS. This provides an incentive for consumers to buy true Palm devices, as it is the only software upgrade path.
Just wanted to say that the recent repetative statements that this or that site belong to OSDN combined with statements that are supposed to be funny is getting old quick.
I could see saying 'such-in-such is a member OSDN' and leaving it at that. But constantly reminding us that that Slashdot is also, and so are this that and the other isn't necessary. We know of OSDN, and we know what sites are a part of OSDN... so please stop going to such lengths to tell us.
Sun is offering for as low as $25 per copy for large orders. That's plenty less than the $60 I paid Mandrake. $100 is the individual license price, Mandrake most assuredly is getting a bulk license. It would be stupid not too.
So my $60 had darn better cover a license for me for StarOffice, or Mandrake's business folks that made whatever deal with Sun deserve to be fired for incompetance.
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I'm not a doctor and I don't know anyone who could help. What I can do is add you to my prayers and to our prayer chain. We'll pray for your health, your recovery, your comfort, and for your many doctors wisdom, guidance, and team work. I owe the career I have today to your production of Slackware, started learning it back at kernel 0.99pl13.
:)
Something you've not mentioned, is the health care costs. You did state you aren't looking for donations, but let me say this... If you end up using up your insurance or don't have any, tell us. We can not only find people who can help with your condition, but we can also find people (like myself) who are willing to help finance your recovery. Just say the word and let the fund raising begin.
God bless, Pat.
*Brandon Darbro
You know Tivo, Inc., when I bought my Tivo, it was for time-shifting the television shows I really wanted to watch, to pause live television, rewind it, and to save shows for as long as I wanted to keep them (The Daily Show, for example). Now, to offer me a new feature, which I didn't purchase the device for, in favor of letting Macrovision and its closely tied entertainment executives tamper with the features I actually did buy it for, is wrong of you.
Sure your Tivo Desktop is cool. Sure I would like to download Tivo recorded content to my PC or laptop. The problem is that's not what I bought a Tivo for and now you are starting to cripple the features that sold me on your product to begin with.
I would prefer you keep my Series 2 Tivo restriction free. Let me record whatever I want and keep it, don't delete it based on some other companies idea of how long I should have it.
Then you could create a separate product that does the Tivo Desktop for those that want it and find the content restrictions livable.
I am afraid, Tivo, Inc., you are going to regret this move you have made, because now hundreds or thousands of other content owners are going to rain down on you like hell fire to get you to add restrictions to their productions as well.
*TheDarb
It's inbreeding. All kinds of mutations can come about from several generations of inbreeding.
No big mystery here.
*TheDarb
Well damn, I hope Sirius gets something like this soon. I chose Sirius some time ago because *all* it's music channels are commercial free, and I can listen to the music streams over the web.
*TheDarb
The main reason they don't sell well here is they make lowsy PDA's. They could have had real potential if they'd pushed on with the development and offered significant software upgrades. Between QTopia being woefully inadequate, poor interoperability between QTopia apps and finally the very poor power management causing batteries to run dry much faster than competing devices, these Linux based PDA's didn't stand a chance. I would have loved for them to have been up to the task, but they just weren't.
*TheDarb
You know it's just got to be a honey pot, right? I'm guessing they are trying to bait someone into hacking the new web site in hopes of making the Open Source community look bad to the press and to the courts. Remember, they already claimed Open Source advocates attacked their main web site a while back... but now they'll spin it as us trying to censor free speach. It's a setup to try and identify our Open Source community with the evil dregs of computing, script kiddies.
If something can go wrong with something going wrong, it goes right?
Check out EastPack.com... my model isn't available anymore, but they have newer improved models. Can't imagine it being any better than it already is. Toured Philly, NYC, & Washington DC all on foot for weeks with this baby, lugging a heavy dell latitude C610 and accessories, food, and other essentials. Bought it the first day of touring when we started out in Philly. Since then it's been great for Disney Land, more trips to NYC, day hiking in Montana, and many trips to Vancouver BC.
Had it 5 years now, doesn't show a sign of aging, still good as new. It was a little more then you mentioned ($65), but probably the best money I've ever spent.
*TheDarb
I've often wondered what the destructive force of an anti-hydrogen fusion bomb would be, even since childhood. I wouldn't be surprised if just one could be a world wide doomsday device.
*TheDarb
Yes, Sirius has been doing this for at least a year and a half (the length of my membership thus far). Only down side is it require IE and Windows Media Player.
That's right, electrify the body of the car. Much like an electric fence, but with more serious of a kick. With any luck, you'll kill the bastard. :)
I'd like to recognize Texstar for creating the PCLinuxOS distribution. It's a great Live-CD that also serves as a great installed distro with a complete online software repository... and who does the huge portion of work on getting this distro built and out? Texstar himself. I won't plug the hosting website, as I help maintain the site. Suffice it to say you could google for PCLinuxOS and find it if you are interested.
*TheDarb
Could have saved some of this article for after you click on it, the topic doesn't appeal to everyone and yet it's taking up a huge bit of front page realestate.
*TheDarb
Yes, it's a fantastic phone. I got mine in the late 90's and still haven't had the battery give up yet. Where do you get your replacements, incase that day comes up for me?
That's right. Stick with your 900mhz phones. Stores here in the Seattle area still carry several models in the 900mhz range. Do you really *need* the higher frequency for your phone? Save your money and buy these older phones.
*TheDarb
Can we please dub the new "Napster" as something else? This isn't the original / real napster, this is big biz cashing in on an old popular (and more respectable) name. At least call them "Napster II" or something. Let's not let them tarnish a once noble name.
You folks can't really believe they are doing this to encourage sleepy drivers to pull over, can you? Let me spell it out for you plain and simple...
They want to track your travel habbits, that's it. Most folks aren't going to change wireless cards at every stop... so they'll be able to see where your mac address stops, for how long, and how often. Hello?!? Folks, this is more obvious than the RFID tag monitoring... and probably far more effective.
all that pseudo science. In years past when I'd fall asleep to Art Bell and watch too much X-Files, those things seemed plausable to me. After ridding myself of those inputs, the fake science and the paranoia revolving around it have vanished. Not letting a radio show fill my subconscious sleeping mind every night was probably the number one way to de-program that garbage from myself.
*TheDarb
I have been curious as to weather the existance of Wine and various other methods of running Windows apps on Linux have hindered the progress of native Linux ports of those applications. I remain undecided, but what is your take on the matter as you are directly involved in this scenario.
*TheDarb
They knowingly stayed with a company commiting widely publicised fraud. They are complicit. That being the case, they have no ethics another employer can stake a reputation on, so why hire them? I wouldn't even trust them to be janiters, they'd steal things when the lights are out.
May they never work again.
As for their families, I agree that the families shouldn't suffer. I propose setting up a fund for the families, but to be eligable, the spouse must divorce the former or current SCO employee. We could help them get the house, the kids, and the car. Once they've demonstrated the former SCO employee has completely lost his entire family, let the aid money flow to that family.
I'd like to know if companies are required to list anywhere public the names of the people they've laid off. It could be a good start to a hiring blacklist. I'd also like to add to all companies some new hiring practices. Make the applicant sign a legal document stating they've never worked for, invested in, or in any way outside of the GPL assisted SCO after learning of the companies fraudulent behavior. That way if you find out later that they did work for SCO, you could basicly hang them out to dry.
The only ones who deserve refuge would be the ones who left, say, in the first 90 days or so. That's plenty of time to read up and find your company is committing fraud and to resign over it to preserve ones principles. That'd be a person I would hire.
*TheDarb
SCO would love to hire this guy!
They explicitly prevent other distributions or private parties from selling Yast. So why bother? This is how they repay those that created all that software for them that they can use because of the GPL? Lowzy.
Try Gentoo, RedHat, Mandrake, Xandros or some other distro that embraces your freedoms.
A co-worker who used to be involved with palm had recently purchased a Sony clie (that spelled right?). Anyway, I asked if it was upgradable to Palm OS 4... He filled me in on a bit of details as to why the answer was no. Apparently licensees of Palm OS must agree to produce non-upgradable clones if they want to run the OS. This provides an incentive for consumers to buy true Palm devices, as it is the only software upgrade path.
*TheDarb
Just wanted to say that the recent repetative statements that this or that site belong to OSDN combined with statements that are supposed to be funny is getting old quick.
I could see saying 'such-in-such is a member OSDN' and leaving it at that. But constantly reminding us that that Slashdot is also, and so are this that and the other isn't necessary. We know of OSDN, and we know what sites are a part of OSDN... so please stop going to such lengths to tell us.
*TheDarb
Sun is offering for as low as $25 per copy for large orders. That's plenty less than the $60 I paid Mandrake. $100 is the individual license price, Mandrake most assuredly is getting a bulk license. It would be stupid not too.
So my $60 had darn better cover a license for me for StarOffice, or Mandrake's business folks that made whatever deal with Sun deserve to be fired for incompetance.
*TheDarb