Since when did IBM have anything to do with SMP in the kernel?
And RCU is clearly a technology that Sequent designed for DYNIX/ptx. Sequent, as the link to RCU states, is now owned by IBM, so I suppose they'd have clear rights to this, no problem. RCU is also notoriously absent from SCO's product, so how they can claim ownership of the technology is beyond me.
I'm starting to think that the folks at SCO are on SERIOUS crack and they AREN'T SHARING. There's reason enough to hate them right there, forget all this Linux stuff.;)
From CompTIA's website (yes, http://softwarechoice.org is a pointer to CompTIA):
Protects and advances the interests of the information and communications technology industries before foreign governments, federal and state legislatures and agencies, including regulators. CompTIA's public policy staff is located in Washington, DC and Brussels with advocacy capabilities in Canada and several states.
'Information and communications technology industries' are the keywords. The usual suspects. 15,000 member companies according to their website. Who's interests do you think they represent?
Obviously I can't tell you for a fact that he never existed. That would be stupid and arrogant on my part. None of us really know because none of us were around to prove or disprove that Jesus bin Miriam existed at all.
I think it's entirely possible that Jesus Christ existed. It's just not likely that this Jesus fellow was nearly as important as the gospel writers would have you believe.
You meet this guy. He can walk on water. He can heal the sick. He can turn water into wine. Wow, that's pretty frickin' amazing stuff. But you waited *50* years after he was NAILED TO A CROSS AND DIED to tell the world about him? Does this even sound reasonable? If this happened today, you'd say the guy who wrote that stuff lost his flippin' mind!
A common legal tactic when a loudmouth smaller company sues a bigger company is for the bigger company to sit and wait. The smaller company will use up all its legal resources before the big fight and IBM will knock them down with one swipe of it's mighty legal paw...errr...arm.
The National Weather Service is using AIX for some of their weather modeling. What do they do, just cease operations for a few months while they port their software..... to WHAT? None of the other commercial UNIXen are safe, you can bet they aren't stupid enough to try porting to a rack of Dells running NT.
Personally, I'd go with either OpenBSD or Linux. OpenBSD is proven to have rock solid stability, and recent Linux kernels are pretty good. And Solaris has good stability on the right hardware -- say, an Enterprise 10k.
If you write for 1 *nix, porting to other *nixes isn't that hard as long as you write your code in something portable, like ANSI C.
Yeah, I think they're forgetting that IBM is a *big* company. They took in like $80 billion last year, they've got about $4 billion just sitting around in cash, and their market cap:sales ratio is something like 27:1. Plus, unlike some other legal battles they've been in, the court of public opinion is on their side. Yeah, I don't think IBM has ANY TROUBLE affording an *extended* legal battle at all.;)
Right on the money. Because they're loss leaders, the car companies cut costs anyway they can. They spend as little money as possible, cutting corners everyway they can. Unfortunately, they're not always very smart about it, and the result is that quality control suffers. Not only that, but they cut engineering time, which means that the cars aren't engineered optimally to begin with.
Finally, note that the *good* small cars are the ones that are actually made by the Japanese. For instance, back when they made the GEO Prizm, this is actually a Toyota Corolla. Note that you'll still see many Prizms out on the road; though their bodies are falling apart, their engines still run, because Japanese engines totally rock.
(Reasons for the bodies falling apart are entirely due to the generally lower quality metal the Japanese make car bodies out of)
Gentoo, baby! Yeah! Gentoo makes a great firewall distro, because you only install what you need, it's very tuneable -- AND -- it's easy to keep up-to-date. And most importantly (and more on-topic), you could easily install it on any of those Lindows boxes because it meets all the basic requirements, particularly NIC cards that work with well with Linux out of the box.;)
CAFE standards are part of the reason they still stick with the profit model, yes, very insightful. I'd mod you up if I could.;) But it's not the only reason for the model, and the model preexisted CAFE standards to be sure. Look at the 1964 Ford Mustang. It was priced to move and was considered a small car for its time. That's why baby boomers bought them in droves.
Most OSes can do most of those. Mozilla runs on a mind-numbing amount of platforms, and Ogg, well, if it's not on your OS, there's source code, so port it!;)
Wouldn't work where I work. We regularly post files that are several hundred megabytes in size on our FTP server for download or upload them to other servers. You would have to somehow determine *what* wa saturating that uplink for more than 5 minutes and make sure it wasn't a legit connection. That might be a bit more complicated than it sounds, too.
Third, the council's plan is unenforceable. Even today, Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom have not enacted a right of reply for traditional media, and it's a good bet that they won't for the Internet, either. A Euroblogger who wished to cloak his identity could set up an account in one of those countries--or in the United States.
So I'd say you would probably have no problems with your Slashdot journal, since Slashdot is psuedonymous. But IANAL, and I'm also not entirely familiar with European laws except for where they match U.S. law (U.S. law is, after all, based on English common law.)
If you're in the U.K., then you might not have a problem at all. THe article says above that the U.K. doesn't even have right of reply for traditional media.
Exactly. Even for a geek like me, they might be useful. For instance, I'm thinking about throwing a PC in my kitchen to view receipes online whilest cooking.;) For $200 (incl. shipping), I can put a similarly equipped system together myself [from new or reman parts], or $240-280 (incl. shipping) I can have it shipped to me already put together.
So I'm paying an extra $40-$80 to have someone put it together (about the cost of the shipping for the Lindows PC actually). It might take me 30 minutes to an hour to put together the machine, it might actually be WORTH it to buy one of these for that purpose actually.
I know that in the auto industry, they have dramatically shortened the vehicle development process from 40+ months to about 18 months by doing more steps in parallel and reusing existing deisgns as much as possible. (Note that when I say 'reusing existing designs' this doesn't mean necessarily the whole design of the car, but of various pieces of the car, and manfacturing tools and fixtures and stuff.)
I suspect that you could do similar things in the airline business. After all, the company I work for makes fixtures for both automotive and aerospace, so there are some overlaps.
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Since when did IBM have anything to do with SMP in the kernel?
And RCU is clearly a technology that Sequent designed for DYNIX/ptx. Sequent, as the link to RCU states, is now owned by IBM, so I suppose they'd have clear rights to this, no problem. RCU is also notoriously absent from SCO's product, so how they can claim ownership of the technology is beyond me.
I'm starting to think that the folks at SCO are on SERIOUS crack and they AREN'T SHARING. There's reason enough to hate them right there, forget all this Linux stuff.
Nice work. :)
Linus Torvalds has very recently stated that spam filtering -- right in the kernel -- is now a slated feature for Linux 2.6.
There's also another site that talks about the same thing and gives a bit more detailed instructions (like wearing gloves ;).
From CompTIA's website (yes, http://softwarechoice.org is a pointer to CompTIA):
Protects and advances the interests of the information and communications technology industries before foreign governments, federal and state legislatures and agencies, including regulators. CompTIA's public policy staff is located in Washington, DC and Brussels with advocacy capabilities in Canada and several states.
'Information and communications technology industries' are the keywords. The usual suspects. 15,000 member companies according to their website. Who's interests do you think they represent?
Obviously I can't tell you for a fact that he never existed. That would be stupid and arrogant on my part. None of us really know because none of us were around to prove or disprove that Jesus bin Miriam existed at all.
I think it's entirely possible that Jesus Christ existed. It's just not likely that this Jesus fellow was nearly as important as the gospel writers would have you believe.
You meet this guy. He can walk on water. He can heal the sick. He can turn water into wine. Wow, that's pretty frickin' amazing stuff. But you waited *50* years after he was NAILED TO A CROSS AND DIED to tell the world about him? Does this even sound reasonable? If this happened today, you'd say the guy who wrote that stuff lost his flippin' mind!
A common legal tactic when a loudmouth smaller company sues a bigger company is for the bigger company to sit and wait. The smaller company will use up all its legal resources before the big fight and IBM will knock them down with one swipe of it's mighty legal paw...errr...arm.
I'm sure they'll at least be a couple of dupes, no worry. ;)
SCO isn't right. Anyone with half a brain *cough*Cringely*cough* has figured this out by now.
;)
However, let's suppose SCO is right...no, IBM shouldn't get away with it. Would they? Probably.
And would you be okay? Might wanna go back and read the Cringely article I linked to.
The National Weather Service is using AIX for some of their weather modeling. What do they do, just cease operations for a few months while they port their software..... to WHAT? None of the other commercial UNIXen are safe, you can bet they aren't stupid enough to try porting to a rack of Dells running NT.
Personally, I'd go with either OpenBSD or Linux. OpenBSD is proven to have rock solid stability, and recent Linux kernels are pretty good. And Solaris has good stability on the right hardware -- say, an Enterprise 10k.
If you write for 1 *nix, porting to other *nixes isn't that hard as long as you write your code in something portable, like ANSI C.
Yeah, I think they're forgetting that IBM is a *big* company. They took in like $80 billion last year, they've got about $4 billion just sitting around in cash, and their market cap:sales ratio is something like 27:1. Plus, unlike some other legal battles they've been in, the court of public opinion is on their side. Yeah, I don't think IBM has ANY TROUBLE affording an *extended* legal battle at all. ;)
Yeah, but *my* time is worth about that. ;)
Right on the money. Because they're loss leaders, the car companies cut costs anyway they can. They spend as little money as possible, cutting corners everyway they can. Unfortunately, they're not always very smart about it, and the result is that quality control suffers. Not only that, but they cut engineering time, which means that the cars aren't engineered optimally to begin with.
Finally, note that the *good* small cars are the ones that are actually made by the Japanese. For instance, back when they made the GEO Prizm, this is actually a Toyota Corolla. Note that you'll still see many Prizms out on the road; though their bodies are falling apart, their engines still run, because Japanese engines totally rock.
(Reasons for the bodies falling apart are entirely due to the generally lower quality metal the Japanese make car bodies out of)
Gentoo, baby! Yeah! Gentoo makes a great firewall distro, because you only install what you need, it's very tuneable -- AND -- it's easy to keep up-to-date. And most importantly (and more on-topic), you could easily install it on any of those Lindows boxes because it meets all the basic requirements, particularly NIC cards that work with well with Linux out of the box. ;)
I'm a computer geek, remember? $10 for some index cards a pen and a box, while just as effective, wouldn't be NEARLY as COOL! ;)
CAFE standards are part of the reason they still stick with the profit model, yes, very insightful. I'd mod you up if I could. ;) But it's not the only reason for the model, and the model preexisted CAFE standards to be sure. Look at the 1964 Ford Mustang. It was priced to move and was considered a small car for its time. That's why baby boomers bought them in droves.
Most OSes can do most of those. Mozilla runs on a mind-numbing amount of platforms, and Ogg, well, if it's not on your OS, there's source code, so port it! ;)
Only two? Heck, MS-DOS has at least 2 features. ;)
'whoami' has only one feature, but somehow it's managed to stay in *nix for sometime. ;)
Wouldn't work where I work. We regularly post files that are several hundred megabytes in size on our FTP server for download or upload them to other servers. You would have to somehow determine *what* wa saturating that uplink for more than 5 minutes and make sure it wasn't a legit connection. That might be a bit more complicated than it sounds, too.
From the article:
Third, the council's plan is unenforceable. Even today, Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom have not enacted a right of reply for traditional media, and it's a good bet that they won't for the Internet, either. A Euroblogger who wished to cloak his identity could set up an account in one of those countries--or in the United States.
So I'd say you would probably have no problems with your Slashdot journal, since Slashdot is psuedonymous. But IANAL, and I'm also not entirely familiar with European laws except for where they match U.S. law (U.S. law is, after all, based on English common law.)
If you're in the U.K., then you might not have a problem at all. THe article says above that the U.K. doesn't even have right of reply for traditional media.
Surak is a KNOWN TROLL -- Mods read histroy and mod approatly. thank you
Um, yeah. Read my journal. Also, RTFAQ . Funny mods don't get you karma anymore.
Exactly. Even for a geek like me, they might be useful. For instance, I'm thinking about throwing a PC in my kitchen to view receipes online whilest cooking. ;) For $200 (incl. shipping), I can put a similarly equipped system together myself [from new or reman parts], or $240-280 (incl. shipping) I can have it shipped to me already put together.
So I'm paying an extra $40-$80 to have someone put it together (about the cost of the shipping for the Lindows PC actually). It might take me 30 minutes to an hour to put together the machine, it might actually be WORTH it to buy one of these for that purpose actually.
I know that in the auto industry, they have dramatically shortened the vehicle development process from 40+ months to about 18 months by doing more steps in parallel and reusing existing deisgns as much as possible. (Note that when I say 'reusing existing designs' this doesn't mean necessarily the whole design of the car, but of various pieces of the car, and manfacturing tools and fixtures and stuff.)
I suspect that you could do similar things in the airline business. After all, the company I work for makes fixtures for both automotive and aerospace, so there are some overlaps.
Heh. My initial thought was: "Did Wil Wheaton change his domain to wilwheaton-dot-com?" ;)