"SCO picked a big fight and it flowed over to the Linux environment and we found ourselves in an awkward position," he said. "For better or for worse it's one of the cautions and dangers and flaws for the model. It happened to Lineo and has happened to several others."
Shite! Utter gobshite! "It flowed over". The mercenary, spineless, immoral sister fuckers have relentlessly saught to scare users away from linux by threatening law suits and charging for their binary only licences, under false pretence and hitherto baseless accusations, for the sole purposes of artificially inflating their own stock prices, and then have the audacity to go on record in the popular press and say that they never really meant for any of this to happen. And worst still, the casual reader might actually buy into this tripe.
I can't wait to see these excuses of human beings get stamped out like the vile, repugnant, disease ridden cockroaches they are!
I'd have thought that the intelligent readers of slashdot would have been above such stereotyping, but as they say, you live and learn.
I for one hope the rumors about Eddie Izzard landing the part are true. I'm a huge fan of Izzard, and I think his surrealist views and dry delivery would make for an excellent Doctor Who.
Having said that, Richard E Grant or Alan Davies would both suit the part well, although Izzard is still my favourite. Not only is he a very funny guy, but he's also quite good as an actor.
Because the javascript has to be executed in order for the address to be rendered in a readable format. Most if not all harvesters will not execute javascript, and hence will be unable to read the email address.
Refusing to provide the information required by remote attestation won't work, Schoen said, because such a refusal is still giving something away. "In criminal cases, you can take the Fifth Amendment," he said. "While the jury is not supposed to infer anything from that, the general public certainly infers that the person is guilty or has something to hide."
I think this will work, and this would be a feature that I would love to have. You can infer whatever you want about the contents of my hard disk. I remain innocent until proven otherwise, or is that not the way things work anymore?
The difference between ESR's comparator and any similar tool that SCO may produce, is that ESR's version would be infintely more trustworthy as it is open source and cou8ld be scrutinized by anybody.
Would SCO be so willing to divulge their methods for ascertaing the similarities between codebases?
IANAL, but as I understand it, reselling your entire iTunes collection would be legal under the Right of First Sale. Apple have said as much.
However, in order to do so you would have to circumvent the measures that Apple have put in place to protect their products. This would certainly land you in trouble under the DMCA.
The difference between copying a book and copying an mp3 is the ease of copying. Because an mp3 is in digital format already, copying it is simply a matter of drag and drop. Copying a book, however will either cost you x per sheet for the photocopier, or x an hour while you scan it into your computer. It's this difference that is what makes the recording industries so very nervous about digital media.
So what's to stop the Linux community as a whole from drawing a line in the sand and saying 'this is linux'. They can then turn to each of the Big Distribution Vendors and say, 'Redhat is not linux, it is linux-based. Mandrake is not linux...'. After all, linux is owned by the linux community isn't it. it's ours.
By drawing that line in the stand we effectively creating a standard that hardware manufacturers can shoot towards, instead of trying to work with lots of different derived versions.
Who knows, the big distributors might even have to contribute towards this standardisation, financially and technically.
There is actually already an operating system called XINU.
"Xinu is a small, elegant, multitasking Operating System supporting the following features: Concurrent Processing Message Passing Ports Semaphores Memory Management Buffer Pools Uniform Device I/O Shell Tcl TCP/IP Xinu was originally designed as a vehicle for teaching Operating System design concepts and is used by many educational institutions for this purpose. Later versions supported TCP/IP, these versions are often used in Data Communications courses."
More info at http://public.ise.canberra.edu.au/~chrisc/xinu.htm l
Haven't played with it myself, but I thought I remembered seeign it before.
More than a year ago, we reported a hack which you can apply to current Athlon XP processors to enable them to operate as Athlon MP processors. The hack was fairly simple and it involved connecting a certain trace on the Athlon XP processor to allow motherboards to recognize them as an Athlon MP. The trace has been cut in the factory so it's just a matter of connecting them via soldering (if you're brave enough), or just putting conductive paint on them.
The response we received from fellow users were phenomenal and from what we know, many have tried the hack. Although most were successful, some were not that lucky. Here are a few reasons which we can offer at this point in time:-
# You'll need to ensure both processors are properly modded so that the motherboard can successfully detect and operate the processors in SMP mode. Clean the contacts with acetone or isopropyl alcohol before applying the conductive paint.
# Certain motherboards would only work with the hack since certain users reported that they were unable to get their SMP setup running even though the processors have been properly modded.
# Only certain BIOS versions would allow the board to run in SMP mode. For example, we tested the hack on MSI's K7D Master which had no problems working with BIOS version 1.3 and 1.4B3. Newer BIOS versions somehow did not allow us to run the processors in dual mode even though the processors have already been physically modified.
After our first article, a lot of emails came pouring in and most users were asking if the hack could be achieved with a Thoroughbred core since our initial article was based on the Palomino core. Well, of course it would and we'll be showing some results with a dual Thoroughbred-B core in the later pages. What we've done here is taking another step further with the Barton core. What's interesting with the Barton is that it's now featuring a huge 512KB L2 cache running at full speed. Get a pair of that running in SMP mode, and you'll get a pretty decent workstation-class system going at a really affordable price.
Now, I'm sure most of you are interested to get your hands on a dual processor system based on two Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton). Find out how you can do that in the next few pages. Modding the Barton Core
The process in modding the Barton core is just about the same as what we've done with the Palomino in previous articles. All you need to do is just to connect the rightmost bridge in the L5 row. That should probably get the processor detected and running in dual mode. However, that's not the end of the story yet as you'll still need to modify a couple of things on the processor to get it running up to speed.
We know that all the Barton cores are made for 333MHz FSB systems and their multipliers were set to run at its predefined frequency. If you put a Barton processor in older motherboards supporting up to 266MHz FSB, you'll probably get a severely underclocked processor and that's probably what will happen if you have the Barton XP running in an AMD 760MPX motherboard.
Naturally, the next logical step is to modify the Barton XP's multiplier. Since most server boards based on the AMD 760MPX chipset has no multiplier adjustments for anything more than 12.5x (at least for the MSI K7D Master), we'll have no choice but to hardwire the multipliers ourselves. OK, here are a few rules which we should observe:-
# The default frequency of the Barton XP 2800+ is only 2.083GHz (12.5 x 166MHz), so we should try to target a multiplier with a lower resulting frequency at 133MHz (266MHz DDR) FSB. It should at least ensure that your processor will boot-up after the modification. Since there aren't any 15.5x multiplier allocated for the Athlon XP/MP core, we have chosen to hardwire the multiplier to 15x on both the chips.
# Since the Barton cores come with more transistors allocated for the larger 512KB L2 cache, we should see an increase in power consum
I actually think that DRM might work and potentially be a valuable contribution if it's done right. My concern is whether MS will do it right.
Who decides on what is a trustworthy source? If it's Bill, then he can take a walk. But I don't think that Microsoft could get away with that given how little trust the world has in them.
If Palladium needs some sort of certificate to verify the source of an application, then who issues the certificates? I might be missing the point somewhat, but I would still prefer to trust an application where I can scrutinise the source code, than to trust some propriety legalized form of spyware. I dont have anything to hide, I just value my privacy, and if palladium helps me protect my files and my systems from unscrupulous sorts (including those in Redmond) then I'm all up for it.
No! Wait! It was just a midnight snack. I only had a little bit, and my wife said I could eat it because she didn't want it. Please don't tell the RIAA
Slashdot Mirror
SCO now own the world, and hence UNIX as long as it falls under terrestrial jurisdiction
Rather than let microsoft dictate what .Net and mono should do, the open source community could embrace and extend the specification
"SCO picked a big fight and it flowed over to the Linux environment and we found ourselves in an awkward position," he said. "For better or for worse it's one of the cautions and dangers and flaws for the model. It happened to Lineo and has happened to several others."
Shite! Utter gobshite! "It flowed over". The mercenary, spineless, immoral sister fuckers have relentlessly saught to scare users away from linux by threatening law suits and charging for their binary only licences, under false pretence and hitherto baseless accusations, for the sole purposes of artificially inflating their own stock prices, and then have the audacity to go on record in the popular press and say that they never really meant for any of this to happen. And worst still, the casual reader might actually buy into this tripe.
I can't wait to see these excuses of human beings get stamped out like the vile, repugnant, disease ridden cockroaches they are!
Do I detect a hint of bitterness?
I'd have thought that the intelligent readers of slashdot would have been above such stereotyping, but as they say, you live and learn.
I for one hope the rumors about Eddie Izzard landing the part are true. I'm a huge fan of Izzard, and I think his surrealist views and dry delivery would make for an excellent Doctor Who.
Having said that, Richard E Grant or Alan Davies would both suit the part well, although Izzard is still my favourite. Not only is he a very funny guy, but he's also quite good as an actor.
Roll on 2005!
Because the javascript has to be executed in order for the address to be rendered in a readable format. Most if not all harvesters will not execute javascript, and hence will be unable to read the email address.
From the article:
Refusing to provide the information required by remote attestation won't work, Schoen said, because such a refusal is still giving something away. "In criminal cases, you can take the Fifth Amendment," he said. "While the jury is not supposed to infer anything from that, the general public certainly infers that the person is guilty or has something to hide."
I think this will work, and this would be a feature that I would love to have. You can infer whatever you want about the contents of my hard disk. I remain innocent until proven otherwise, or is that not the way things work anymore?
isn't cloning illegal too?
The difference between ESR's comparator and any similar tool that SCO may produce, is that ESR's version would be infintely more trustworthy as it is open source and cou8ld be scrutinized by anybody.
Would SCO be so willing to divulge their methods for ascertaing the similarities between codebases?
IANAL, but as I understand it, reselling your entire iTunes collection would be legal under the Right of First Sale. Apple have said as much.
However, in order to do so you would have to circumvent the measures that Apple have put in place to protect their products. This would certainly land you in trouble under the DMCA.
The difference between copying a book and copying an mp3 is the ease of copying. Because an mp3 is in digital format already, copying it is simply a matter of drag and drop.
Copying a book, however will either cost you x per sheet for the photocopier, or x an hour while you scan it into your computer.
It's this difference that is what makes the recording industries so very nervous about digital media.
If "The Road Ahead" is anything to go by, I'd much rather be running around the country-side slaying dragons and rescuing fair maidens.
Does anybody have a copy of the current license agreement, perhaps to be posted here for future reference?
It might make an interesting before and after
not forgetting the stream slingshot used on every aircraft carrier the world over
And most speed boats are also convertables
Is that a record?
Does anybody have the text of the article?
isn't that why OSS projects get forked?
can it still fetch my beer after I've kicked it's head in?
Surely this is extortion. It would be nice to see SCO brought to justice for it.
So what's to stop the Linux community as a whole from drawing a line in the sand and saying 'this is linux'. They can then turn to each of the Big Distribution Vendors and say, 'Redhat is not linux, it is linux-based. Mandrake is not linux...'. After all, linux is owned by the linux community isn't it. it's ours.
By drawing that line in the stand we effectively creating a standard that hardware manufacturers can shoot towards, instead of trying to work with lots of different derived versions.
Who knows, the big distributors might even have to contribute towards this standardisation, financially and technically.
just my 2p's worth
Could this mean the end of the Karaoke bar?
There is actually already an operating system called XINU.
m l
"Xinu is a small, elegant, multitasking Operating System supporting the following features:
Concurrent Processing
Message Passing
Ports
Semaphores
Memory Management
Buffer Pools
Uniform Device I/O
Shell
Tcl
TCP/IP
Xinu was originally designed as a vehicle for teaching Operating System design concepts and is used by many educational institutions for this purpose. Later versions supported TCP/IP, these versions are often used in Data Communications courses."
More info at http://public.ise.canberra.edu.au/~chrisc/xinu.ht
Haven't played with it myself, but I thought I remembered seeign it before.
What We Know Thus Far
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More than a year ago, we reported a hack which you can apply to current Athlon XP processors to enable them to operate as Athlon MP processors. The hack was fairly simple and it involved connecting a certain trace on the Athlon XP processor to allow motherboards to recognize them as an Athlon MP. The trace has been cut in the factory so it's just a matter of connecting them via soldering (if you're brave enough), or just putting conductive paint on them.
The response we received from fellow users were phenomenal and from what we know, many have tried the hack. Although most were successful, some were not that lucky. Here are a few reasons which we can offer at this point in time
# You'll need to ensure both processors are properly modded so that the motherboard can successfully detect and operate the processors in SMP mode. Clean the contacts with acetone or isopropyl alcohol before applying the conductive paint.
# Certain motherboards would only work with the hack since certain users reported that they were unable to get their SMP setup running even though the processors have been properly modded.
# Only certain BIOS versions would allow the board to run in SMP mode. For example, we tested the hack on MSI's K7D Master which had no problems working with BIOS version 1.3 and 1.4B3. Newer BIOS versions somehow did not allow us to run the processors in dual mode even though the processors have already been physically modified.
After our first article, a lot of emails came pouring in and most users were asking if the hack could be achieved with a Thoroughbred core since our initial article was based on the Palomino core. Well, of course it would and we'll be showing some results with a dual Thoroughbred-B core in the later pages. What we've done here is taking another step further with the Barton core. What's interesting with the Barton is that it's now featuring a huge 512KB L2 cache running at full speed. Get a pair of that running in SMP mode, and you'll get a pretty decent workstation-class system going at a really affordable price.
Now, I'm sure most of you are interested to get your hands on a dual processor system based on two Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton). Find out how you can do that in the next few pages.
Modding the Barton Core
The process in modding the Barton core is just about the same as what we've done with the Palomino in previous articles. All you need to do is just to connect the rightmost bridge in the L5 row. That should probably get the processor detected and running in dual mode. However, that's not the end of the story yet as you'll still need to modify a couple of things on the processor to get it running up to speed.
We know that all the Barton cores are made for 333MHz FSB systems and their multipliers were set to run at its predefined frequency. If you put a Barton processor in older motherboards supporting up to 266MHz FSB, you'll probably get a severely underclocked processor and that's probably what will happen if you have the Barton XP running in an AMD 760MPX motherboard.
Naturally, the next logical step is to modify the Barton XP's multiplier. Since most server boards based on the AMD 760MPX chipset has no multiplier adjustments for anything more than 12.5x (at least for the MSI K7D Master), we'll have no choice but to hardwire the multipliers ourselves. OK, here are a few rules which we should observe
# The default frequency of the Barton XP 2800+ is only 2.083GHz (12.5 x 166MHz), so we should try to target a multiplier with a lower resulting frequency at 133MHz (266MHz DDR) FSB. It should at least ensure that your processor will boot-up after the modification. Since there aren't any 15.5x multiplier allocated for the Athlon XP/MP core, we have chosen to hardwire the multiplier to 15x on both the chips.
# Since the Barton cores come with more transistors allocated for the larger 512KB L2 cache, we should see an increase in power consum
I actually think that DRM might work and potentially be a valuable contribution if it's done right. My concern is whether MS will do it right.
Who decides on what is a trustworthy source? If it's Bill, then he can take a walk. But I don't think that Microsoft could get away with that given how little trust the world has in them.
If Palladium needs some sort of certificate to verify the source of an application, then who issues the certificates? I might be missing the point somewhat, but I would still prefer to trust an application where I can scrutinise the source code, than to trust some propriety legalized form of spyware. I dont have anything to hide, I just value my privacy, and if palladium helps me protect my files and my systems from unscrupulous sorts (including those in Redmond) then I'm all up for it.
just my 2p
No! Wait! It was just a midnight snack. I only had a little bit, and my wife said I could eat it because she didn't want it. Please don't tell the RIAA