All humor aside, I agree wholeheartedly. If you haven't tried KDE 3.4 yet, you don't know what you're missing. I couldn't believe the speed improvement I was seeing, but I'm not going to complain....
What did I miss. Who said M$ used stolen code? Is this just some scare tactic for people who use Linux, to say "see... you could get sued an nobody will protect you"??
You didn't see that "documentary" movie called Antitrust?
I've been getting a large quantity of those since the beginning of August with a steady increase and from many different IPs. Setting the stage for a DDoS attack?
I have a Nextel phone, and I also work for the local police department who, like many others, are using Motorola's Astro (APCO 25) trunked radio system. I've had more problems with the Nextel phone interfering with OTHER equipment in the patrol car than I've had with the radio. I do know that the frequencies we use are close to Nextel's. I often have the phone and radio on my belt side-by-side, and I have not had any problems to date, luckily.
Ultimately the cheapest/easiest way to resolve this seems to be to pay to move the public safety systems to another part of the 800MHz band. There are fewer public safety radios than there are Nextel cell phones by far, and updating the public safety systems isn't that bad. Most trunked systems only use 20 specific frequencies for the whole group (police,fire,public works,etc). With Motorola being one of the most popular public safety systems provider, and the exclusive Nextel iDEN phone manufacturer, I am sure they can find a reasonable solution without having to worry about massively shifting what band Nextel uses or even the public safety systems. Just leave the politics out of it.
Well, the "MAJOR smackdown" would be IBM, RedHat, et al. suing SCO over the lost revenue, legal fees, and so forth incurred over the lifetime of the FUD campaign and lawsuit.
Perhaps even that *1* Fortune 1000 company who "bought" a SYS V license will sue... oh wait, M$ doesn't want everyone to know how much they bought into the whole thing.:)
It is only fitting that SCOX stock is finally as unstable as the CEO.
I still hold out the hope that the SEC will start a full-scale investigation into SCO soon. Once stockholders start to lose big money, they will get verbal, demand the SEC get involved, and then sue what's left of SCO/McBride over the monetary loss.
No, please! Don't end it! With the dramatic increase of SCO stories as of late, it would be worse than caffeine withdrawal if we didn't have at LEAST 3 SCO stories a day here.
I am running 2.2.13 plain vanilla on a Asus K7M with an Athlon 600 with absolutely no problems. This is the first I have heard at all of any problems.
I have been using an Athlon-based server for a fairly critical server for awhile now, and there have been no bumps in the road. Perhaps the users experiencing problems are actually having hardware problems with a bad batch of motherboard chipsets or improper Athlon cooling. I have noticed that some third party coolers for the Athlon look flimsy and extremely cheap.
The main challenge for my colleagues and me is really the same - for your interests and ours are not separate, they are closely, inextricably linked.
This statement alone emphasizes how ill-informed big executives are these days. When will they ever realize the obvious? Our interests are not the same as theirs.
They rationalize what they do with a disingenuous appeal to utopianism: Everything on the Internet should be free.
Other than the gifts of God and Nature, that which is free is free only because someone else has paid for it. What of the extraordinary gifts of software and whole operating systems of which we sometimes read?
Maybe I missed something here, but using Linux/FreeBSD/etc. and other free software didn't require that I pay for anything. There was labor involved with its creation, but it was a gift to the world. The only way you could consider it "paid" would be the satisfaction the creator(s) would receive seeing that the creation was benefitting society.
As a society, I strongly think we are slowly moving towards a "Star Trek" model these days. Everything is done to the benefit of everyone - where everyone works together with no central wealth. Everything wants to be free.
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All humor aside, I agree wholeheartedly. If you haven't tried KDE 3.4 yet, you don't know what you're missing. I couldn't believe the speed improvement I was seeing, but I'm not going to complain....
Here's a link to ZDnet's updated coverage of the Vonage port-blocking fiasco.
The ISP is identified, and apparently the FCC did get involved with fines.
What did I miss. Who said M$ used stolen code? Is this just some scare tactic for people who use Linux, to say "see... you could get sued an nobody will protect you"??
You didn't see that "documentary" movie called Antitrust?
I've been getting a large quantity of those since the beginning of August with a steady increase and from many different IPs. Setting the stage for a DDoS attack?
I have to disagree. I know quite a few Slackware junkies, and I've personally used Slackware on at least 50 installs.
Slackware is alive and well, and reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
I can speak with a degree of experience here.
I have a Nextel phone, and I also work for the local police department who, like many others, are using Motorola's Astro (APCO 25) trunked radio system. I've had more problems with the Nextel phone interfering with OTHER equipment in the patrol car than I've had with the radio. I do know that the frequencies we use are close to Nextel's. I often have the phone and radio on my belt side-by-side, and I have not had any problems to date, luckily.
Ultimately the cheapest/easiest way to resolve this seems to be to pay to move the public safety systems to another part of the 800MHz band. There are fewer public safety radios than there are Nextel cell phones by far, and updating the public safety systems isn't that bad. Most trunked systems only use 20 specific frequencies for the whole group (police,fire,public works,etc). With Motorola being one of the most popular public safety systems provider, and the exclusive Nextel iDEN phone manufacturer, I am sure they can find a reasonable solution without having to worry about massively shifting what band Nextel uses or even the public safety systems. Just leave the politics out of it.
Now VI, VII, and VII. Star Wars - teaching Roman numerals to whole new generation.
Apparently they have a LONG way go, too.
Nope. Nothing original about me here, now move along....
Well, the "MAJOR smackdown" would be IBM, RedHat, et al. suing SCO over the lost revenue, legal fees, and so forth incurred over the lifetime of the FUD campaign and lawsuit.
:)
Perhaps even that *1* Fortune 1000 company who "bought" a SYS V license will sue... oh wait, M$ doesn't want everyone to know how much they bought into the whole thing.
It is only fitting that SCOX stock is finally as unstable as the CEO.
I still hold out the hope that the SEC will start a full-scale investigation into SCO soon. Once stockholders start to lose big money, they will get verbal, demand the SEC get involved, and then sue what's left of SCO/McBride over the monetary loss.
No, please! Don't end it! With the dramatic increase of SCO stories as of late, it would be worse than caffeine withdrawal if we didn't have at LEAST 3 SCO stories a day here.
There's relatively inexpensive package called PDF Capture by Doculux. It works, but the interface is a little crummy. (Windoze only, though)
I'd love to hear from people who have successfully used Vividata's software for Linux though, as all servers at my employer are running Linux.
I am running 2.2.13 plain vanilla on a Asus K7M with an Athlon 600 with absolutely no problems. This is the first I have heard at all of any problems.
I have been using an Athlon-based server for a fairly critical server for awhile now, and there have been no bumps in the road. Perhaps the users experiencing problems are actually having hardware problems with a bad batch of motherboard chipsets or improper Athlon cooling. I have noticed that some third party coolers for the Athlon look flimsy and extremely cheap.
The main challenge for my colleagues and me is really the same - for your interests and ours are not separate, they are closely, inextricably linked.
This statement alone emphasizes how ill-informed big executives are these days. When will they ever realize the obvious? Our interests are not the same as theirs.
They rationalize what they do with a disingenuous appeal to utopianism:
Everything on the Internet should be free.
Other than the gifts of God and Nature, that which is free is free only because someone else has paid for it. What of the extraordinary gifts of software and whole operating systems of which we sometimes read?
Maybe I missed something here, but using Linux/FreeBSD/etc. and other free software didn't require that I pay for anything. There was labor involved with its creation, but it was a gift to the world. The only way you could consider it "paid" would be the satisfaction the creator(s) would receive seeing that the creation was benefitting society.
As a society, I strongly think we are slowly moving towards a "Star Trek" model these days. Everything is done to the benefit of everyone - where everyone works together with no central wealth. Everything wants to be free.