Oh, it certainly slowed down the net yesterday. Telia was hit by this -- probably meaning "their customers" -- and between 00.00 and 03.30 at the least DNS was fubared. Basically getting anything resolved took 5-20 tries.
I thought it was my setup first, re-dug the root-cache, but of course... I should have known.
The deal is not with Microsoft Corp. or Sun Microsystems Inc., two prominent companies that have already signed other licensing agreements with SCO to cover their commercial products, Stowell said.
Soon we'll have McBride swearing there never were any kind of linux license(s) sold... That PR was just... an accident. Yes. Some secretary released it by mistake. Oh, yes.
Oh well, it's interesting to follow, I'll give you that. I've learned a lot about the stockmarket the last few days.
My hotmail account gets relentlessly spammed even though I _never_ follow any links from spam or let it load any images. Even before Hotmail introduced the "don't load inline images" feature I always disabled javascript + images before opening any suspected spam.
Basically, can it get worse? They never seem to remove inactive accounts anyway.
I have a domain registered which I've owned for three years, and it's still getting spam for accounts related to the previous owner of said domain. My mailer says "no such account" over and over and over again.
Spammers don't care whether the account exists, is inactive, filtered or whatever. They try to spam it anyway.
How many collect and how many simply buy and throw away?
Also, Where I live comics are freaking expensive! Especially so the marvel ones of which there are _plenty_ coming out each week AFAIK (I don't read or buy comics any more).
They're still "story-hopping" between comics? If they "force" people to buy four magz a week just to get to read the whole story, then yes, I think that some people will see huge savings in downloading.
Not only books, but comics too. Already I've seen complete archives of all X-Men, Spiderman, etc. I think that might actually become a bigger problem, because comics are easy to scan and distribute, and their readers probably fit very well the profile of your typical "downloader".
I'm #85934. I think I saw that Slackware reminder to register a thousand times (certainly three different installs) until I finally gave in and registered.
Too bad, for some weird reason I really wonder how low a # I'd gotten if I'd registered ASAP
Oh, well. At least I got #24 of 1283 in the 2.4 kernel pool. But I truly digress
That this is the actual, full kernel that SCO is still distributing, "someone" went through the trouble of checking the cryptographic signature against the one available at kernel.org. It checks out.
I'd post the log, but the lameness filter says "Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."
Someone please ask the question "How much in licensing are you expecting to make from the German market, say over the next two quarters"
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It's odd how back then the demos on the C64 and Amiga pushed the hardware and often had very interesting designs (personally I was very sorry to see the scroll text all but disappear), and today when they have such incredible raw hardware that they don't need to push it (yes, I understand that that's some of the point, but go with me here), they seem to spend much less time on design! Really, newer demos should be more interesting than older, but that's not how I find it. At least not in the full demo, the 64KB'ers are more interesting.
Disclaimer: I haven't really been following the PC scene or any scene since I gave up on the amiga in the mid 90s. I downloaded demos, pictures and mods from TG03 a couple of days ago and while one of the demos was kind of okay (mostly funny because of the music and the fat "diss"), the pictures really was a letdown. No Arancia or Peachy (check those out if you're reading this and you've never seen a "pixeled" pic) there...
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I've never understod this fachination for 2nd Reality. It was good, but the design wasn't that good IMHO. For me the highpoint was the Amiga Scene. With the PC everything turned into boring 3D-shows.
I mean.. what's there for SCO to counter-sue for? Remember, the do not want to have to display code in court, so they can't very well turn around and sue for the very thing RedHat disputing, namely infringement.
Or maybe they could, but to a layman that doesn't make any sense. Maybe good for one final pump of the stock though, so I guess there's some logic to that line of thought... yeah, we'll probably see a counter-suit in order for the insiders to pump the stock for another round of sell, sell, sell.
I can't see any registered sales for a while now. I wonder if maybe they know the earnings report is so very depressing that no insider dares to sell this close to it. Might look suspicious to sell just before announcing ten figure income and large overall losses... nah, they don't care -- The SEC is toothless.
We most certainly have "touched upon" and known about the late date for some time. I myself noted and knew of the date from an eweek article that I cited almost three weeks ago.
No big mystery there. What we're all wondering is how the SCO-shell game is supposed to survive for so long. I expect a couple of more hysteric announcements; MS licensing linux for their labs and updated prices when kernel 2.6.0 is released first and foremost.
But after that, what crack induced pronouncements can we expect from crackhead Darl?
I hope their next earnings are bad, even with them minting new shares to lower the apparent loss/share, which I'm sure is a fact they'll spin, spin, spin.
SCO: We know who you are! We hear you have been adding code to Linux and have even used it in house. We have a large bill for you that you have to pay or we will sue you.
NSA: Ah, yes. You do of course realize that this would force us to turn over to the courts our tapes of you and the whole SCO-leadership plotting and then implementing your pump'n'dump scheme? Just happened to overhear...
There is one very obvious reason for them to not talk about linux 2.6 now, and that is... they want to save some powder for later.
If they talked about all linux kernels today, then there would be one less outlandish cracksmokin' PR-release to put out later. One less tool for them to manipulate their stock again.
Now watch those fuckers sell, sell, sell, and just wait. As soon as linux 2.6.0 is official, SCO will be there, press-release in hand.
Contrary to what I first thought, SuSe might get deeper into the game after all. I thought that they'd almost certainly would stay out since they've already shut SCO up in Germany, their primary arena of business I'd presume.
"We applaud their (RedHat -- eddy anm.) efforts to restrict the rhetoric of the SCO group -- and the FUD they are trying to instill -- and will determine quickly what actions SuSE can take to support Red Hat in their efforts. " -- SuSe Press-release
Yes, now we see the real reason that info about MS running linux in their labs to "compare" the cost with their own offering "leaked". Soon we'll see the resulting whitepaper, with "SCO Licenses" prominently written across the checklist for "Linux Costs"
Pure humor. WTF is going on here? I mean, it's just PR to pump stock we all get that, but doesn't requesting outlandish sums of money put SCO at risk with regards to "extortion"?
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Oh, it certainly slowed down the net yesterday. Telia was hit by this -- probably meaning "their customers" -- and between 00.00 and 03.30 at the least DNS was fubared. Basically getting anything resolved took 5-20 tries.
I thought it was my setup first, re-dug the root-cache, but of course... I should have known.
The deal is not with Microsoft Corp. or Sun Microsystems Inc., two prominent companies that have already signed other licensing agreements with SCO to cover their commercial products, Stowell said.
Soon we'll have McBride swearing there never were any kind of linux license(s) sold... That PR was just... an accident. Yes. Some secretary released it by mistake. Oh, yes.
Oh well, it's interesting to follow, I'll give you that. I've learned a lot about the stockmarket the last few days.
My hotmail account gets relentlessly spammed even though I _never_ follow any links from spam or let it load any images. Even before Hotmail introduced the "don't load inline images" feature I always disabled javascript + images before opening any suspected spam.
Basically, can it get worse? They never seem to remove inactive accounts anyway.
I have a domain registered which I've owned for three years, and it's still getting spam for accounts related to the previous owner of said domain. My mailer says "no such account" over and over and over again.
Spammers don't care whether the account exists, is inactive, filtered or whatever. They try to spam it anyway.
How many collect and how many simply buy and throw away?
Also, Where I live comics are freaking expensive! Especially so the marvel ones of which there are _plenty_ coming out each week AFAIK (I don't read or buy comics any more).
They're still "story-hopping" between comics? If they "force" people to buy four magz a week just to get to read the whole story, then yes, I think that some people will see huge savings in downloading.
Not only books, but comics too. Already I've seen complete archives of all X-Men, Spiderman, etc. I think that might actually become a bigger problem, because comics are easy to scan and distribute, and their readers probably fit very well the profile of your typical "downloader".
That press-release was pathetic. Probably Darl "Mangina-to-be" McBride wrote it himself, since the money to pay the lawyers are running out.
Check the stock today BTW, someone's manipulating it.
I'm #85934. I think I saw that Slackware reminder to register a thousand times (certainly three different installs) until I finally gave in and registered.
Too bad, for some weird reason I really wonder how low a # I'd gotten if I'd registered ASAP
Oh, well. At least I got #24 of 1283 in the 2.4 kernel pool. But I truly digress
That this is the actual, full kernel that SCO is still distributing, "someone" went through the trouble of checking the cryptographic signature against the one available at kernel.org. It checks out.
I'd post the log, but the lameness filter says "Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters."
Someone please ask the question "How much in licensing are you expecting to make from the German market, say over the next two quarters"
It's odd how back then the demos on the C64 and Amiga pushed the hardware and often had very interesting designs (personally I was very sorry to see the scroll text all but disappear), and today when they have such incredible raw hardware that they don't need to push it (yes, I understand that that's some of the point, but go with me here), they seem to spend much less time on design! Really, newer demos should be more interesting than older, but that's not how I find it. At least not in the full demo, the 64KB'ers are more interesting.
Disclaimer: I haven't really been following the PC scene or any scene since I gave up on the amiga in the mid 90s. I downloaded demos, pictures and mods from TG03 a couple of days ago and while one of the demos was kind of okay (mostly funny because of the music and the fat "diss"), the pictures really was a letdown. No Arancia or Peachy (check those out if you're reading this and you've never seen a "pixeled" pic) there...
I've never understod this fachination for 2nd Reality. It was good, but the design wasn't that good IMHO. For me the highpoint was the Amiga Scene. With the PC everything turned into boring 3D-shows.
Actual opinion of mine. YMMV.
Let me be the first to coin that phrase.
I mean.. what's there for SCO to counter-sue for? Remember, the do not want to have to display code in court, so they can't very well turn around and sue for the very thing RedHat disputing, namely infringement.
Or maybe they could, but to a layman that doesn't make any sense. Maybe good for one final pump of the stock though, so I guess there's some logic to that line of thought... yeah, we'll probably see a counter-suit in order for the insiders to pump the stock for another round of sell, sell, sell.
I can't see any registered sales for a while now. I wonder if maybe they know the earnings report is so very depressing that no insider dares to sell this close to it. Might look suspicious to sell just before announcing ten figure income and large overall losses... nah, they don't care -- The SEC is toothless.
Do you mean the Microsoft "Lab" only runs a single machine?!
Ah.. I get it.. the rest is 2.2-kernels, just to make sure that no "accidents" happen during benchmark[et]ing.
We most certainly have "touched upon" and known about the late date for some time. I myself noted and knew of the date from an eweek article that I cited almost three weeks ago.
No big mystery there. What we're all wondering is how the SCO-shell game is supposed to survive for so long. I expect a couple of more hysteric announcements; MS licensing linux for their labs and updated prices when kernel 2.6.0 is released first and foremost.
But after that, what crack induced pronouncements can we expect from crackhead Darl?
I hope their next earnings are bad, even with them minting new shares to lower the apparent loss/share, which I'm sure is a fact they'll spin, spin, spin.
Until they produce some kind of output, jokes is all there is to this news.
Can't blame me for the moderators, I still wish there were a max-mod limiter for posters to set, but alas nobody's listening to me.
I see into... the future... I see this "lab" only producing... whitepapers where Microsoft.... wins!
Whoa. There's a surprise.
NSA: How my I direct your call.
SCO: We know who you are! We hear you have been adding code to Linux and have even used it in house. We have a large bill for you that you have to pay or we will sue you.
NSA: Ah, yes. You do of course realize that this would force us to turn over to the courts our tapes of you and the whole SCO-leadership plotting and then implementing your pump'n'dump scheme? Just happened to overhear...
...
CLICK!
NSA: Hello? Mr McBride? Are you there?
There is one very obvious reason for them to not talk about linux 2.6 now, and that is... they want to save some powder for later.
If they talked about all linux kernels today, then there would be one less outlandish cracksmokin' PR-release to put out later. One less tool for them to manipulate their stock again.
Now watch those fuckers sell, sell, sell, and just wait. As soon as linux 2.6.0 is official, SCO will be there, press-release in hand.
And on that note, the german SCO site is back. Let's hope they fuck up and post some anti-linux propaganda.
Contrary to what I first thought, SuSe might get deeper into the game after all. I thought that they'd almost certainly would stay out since they've already shut SCO up in Germany, their primary arena of business I'd presume.
"We applaud their (RedHat -- eddy anm.) efforts to restrict the rhetoric of the SCO group -- and the FUD they are trying to instill -- and will determine quickly what actions SuSE can take to support Red Hat in their efforts. " -- SuSe Press-release
Yes, now we see the real reason that info about MS running linux in their labs to "compare" the cost with their own offering "leaked". Soon we'll see the resulting whitepaper, with "SCO Licenses" prominently written across the checklist for "Linux Costs"
Pure humor. WTF is going on here? I mean, it's just PR to pump stock we all get that, but doesn't requesting outlandish sums of money put SCO at risk with regards to "extortion"?
A single processor server license will jump to $1,399 after Oct. 15, Stowell said. Pure humor. WTF is going on here? I mean, it's just PR to pump stock we all get that, but doesn't requesting outlandish sums of money put SCO at risk with regards to "extortion"?