No. The real $64,000 question is why didn't they have reliable backups and a disaster recovery plan
So wait, now you're telling me that asking the community for backups of my files isn't a disaster recovery plan? Great...now I have to go make one up...
"Microsoft emphasised that products such as Yukon and Exchange Server were undergoing thorough testing -- both internally and via independent third parties -- prior to their release to the market."
Hey, they're TESTING! Wow, they really are taking this trustworthy computing thing seriously.
Probably just a flippant remark, but they actual do test all of their applications and OSes, and they have (you know, all those internal and public beta TESTS and such).
But maybe this time they'll fix the bugs, instead of just making note of them.;)
Why is it K5 gets the credit for posting the link to SCO's linux source? I already did it here on slashdot back in July, and I am sure someone else probably has done it before me even. Sure, the K5 poster put up a short list of instructions, so I guess that'll help some people out who cant do their own research or know it already. Oh well.
With the 35mm disposable camera, the plastic body can be reused, but the film must be processed and discarded. The result is a nasty chemical mess every time you decide to take pictures. The digicam downloads its data to the printer, and is immediately ready to be sent back out to take more pictures.
Just because there isn't film needing to be replaced each time with the digital camera doesn't mean that it's creation doesn't cause pollution. I don't have any numbers available for comparison, but I know that creating all the circuit boards, chips, and other electronic components of the camera isn't exactly environmentally friendly.
Whether the one-time pollution to create a digital camera or the ongoing pollution to replace the film in a disposable camera is worse, I'll leave that for someone who knows the answer...
Sure, it might take them two thousand years to sue every filetrader (assuming the number remains the same) but even if they only sue a hundred or a thousand people, I know that I'll think twice before downloading another song, legitimate (if I have a scratched CD, etc) or not: will they sue me because of it? Is it worth the hassle, and a multi-thousand dollar settlement? You don't have to sue everyone to scare everyone into submission, at least for a while...
Isn't Mr Perens a slashdot regular himself or something?
Wouldn't it rock if Bruce posted a bunch of questions to himself (funny ones of course) that all got moderated to +5 Funny, then the whole interview turns out to be Bruce Perens questionsing Bruce Perens?
"Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day."
Well from the article, it sounds like the whole computer is crashing, but it likely refers to crashing programs. Heck, I just taught a class yesterday and two computers had IE freeze, requiring you to kill the program, which brought up the error reporting thingamajigger.
Everyone should eventually use Mozilla Firebird, but I still come across sites that are either 1) coded specifically to work in IE, or 2) Just plain crash the browser.
I love it, I use it daily, but there's a couple sites where I need to fall back either on Mozilla, or IE. It's not without it's rough edges, at least v 0.6 that I'm using (a latest nightly may be better, who knows).
What about the helpdesk staff whose time is wasted by calls that users have computer with unoptimized connections or that they can't seem to get to this waiting message? I would think they should be able to get in on this lynch mob^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H class action lawsuit.
How many times do you have to read it? It's not stealing, it's copyright infringement. The record labels and artists did not give you permission to re-distribute copies of their work; they retain all "copy rights".
So what I want to know is, for the crowd of your average file swappers, many may not even be aware of the legal issues they've involved themselves in, or even that they're not supposed to by getting these songs for free.
So is it they, or the "distributors" of the songs who should be in trouble? If you buy a bootleg CD from the store, not knowing it wasn't authorized by the band, do you get in trouble, or does the store?
What I think would be a good solution would be a shredder with a built-in printer -- it will print random text over the sheet before shredding it, to make the text unreadable even if reassembled. If anyone hasn't patented it, it's too late now - I hereby declare the idea public domain and knowledge.
Well you never specified double or single-sided printing, or whether it should print horizontal or landscape (and whether that depends on the original text direction).
And what if it just prints random scribbles instead of text? Or shapes?
Even if you declare your idea public domain and unpatentable, unless you cover every variation like this, I'm sure someone will find a way to modify your idea just enough to make it novel enough to get by the patent office. It seems that's not hard to do these days.
Sure, slack is fun to dink around with and it's nice for a sense of history and all that but today as a business about the only distro I can quote out is Linux 9.0.
Last I heard, there was no "Linux 9.0" distribution. So much for your sig of getting it right the first time. Best of luck with your endeavours.
Slashdot Mirror
http://digitalsushi.com/as2/www.afterstep.org/
Don't be a karma whore. Go ahead and remove the mirror, and get modded down -1 Dumb. Bwahahaha!
No. The real $64,000 question is why didn't they have reliable backups and a disaster recovery plan
So wait, now you're telling me that asking the community for backups of my files isn't a disaster recovery plan? Great...now I have to go make one up...
"Microsoft emphasised that products such as Yukon and Exchange Server were undergoing thorough testing -- both internally and via independent third parties -- prior to their release to the market."
;)
Hey, they're TESTING! Wow, they really are taking this trustworthy computing thing seriously.
Probably just a flippant remark, but they actual do test all of their applications and OSes, and they have (you know, all those internal and public beta TESTS and such).
But maybe this time they'll fix the bugs, instead
of just making note of them.
But you can download a version of the 2.4 kernel source from SCO for free. There are no license agreements or anything to sign.
v er/current/SRPMS/
And the obligatory link (download the kernel and all the rest of SCO's linux distro's source) is...
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Ser
To stick it to SCO, avoid the Yahoo Finance Mirror and go straight to the SCO press release:
9 95
http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=115
It's not like K5 is getting a Noble Prise for it.
Not getting a Nobel prize either. Such is life.
Well that would have worked if slashdot didn't take out the slashes....d'oh!
For those too lazy to type it for themselves...
/usr/bin/false
Why is it K5 gets the credit for posting the link to SCO's linux source? I already did it here on slashdot back in July, and I am sure someone else probably has done it before me even. Sure, the K5 poster put up a short list of instructions, so I guess that'll help some people out who cant do their own research or know it already. Oh well.
With the 35mm disposable camera, the plastic body can be reused, but the film must be processed and discarded. The result is a nasty chemical mess every time you decide to take pictures. The digicam downloads its data to the printer, and is immediately ready to be sent back out to take more pictures.
Just because there isn't film needing to be replaced each time with the digital camera doesn't mean that it's creation doesn't cause pollution. I don't have any numbers available for comparison, but I know that creating all the circuit boards, chips, and other electronic components of the camera isn't exactly environmentally friendly.
Whether the one-time pollution to create a digital camera or the ongoing pollution to replace the film in a disposable camera is worse, I'll leave that for someone who knows the answer...
Google reports that it's searching 3,083,324,652 web pages. Alltheweb is reporting "Currently searching 2,142,833,819 web pages".
Now which is bigger?
Sure, it might take them two thousand years to sue every filetrader (assuming the number remains the same) but even if they only sue a hundred or a thousand people, I know that I'll think twice before downloading another song, legitimate (if I have a scratched CD, etc) or not: will they sue me because of it? Is it worth the hassle, and a multi-thousand dollar settlement? You don't have to sue everyone to scare everyone into submission, at least for a while...
Isn't Mr Perens a slashdot regular himself or something?
Wouldn't it rock if Bruce posted a bunch of questions to himself (funny ones of course) that all got moderated to +5 Funny, then the whole interview turns out to be Bruce Perens questionsing Bruce Perens?
"Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day."
Well from the article, it sounds like the whole computer is crashing, but it likely refers to crashing programs. Heck, I just taught a class yesterday and two computers had IE freeze, requiring you to kill the program, which brought up the error reporting thingamajigger.
I guess the real question is, "Is there enough idiots out there to support all the 'geeks'?"
Idiots supporting the geeks? I thought the geeks would be getting the support jobs..
Well anyway, how much does an idiot charge me for some help tweaking some shell scripts, or a little bit of perl programming?
That said, everyone should use Moz Firebird.
Everyone should eventually use Mozilla Firebird, but I still come across sites that are either 1) coded specifically to work in IE, or 2) Just plain crash the browser.
I love it, I use it daily, but there's a couple sites where I need to fall back either on Mozilla, or IE. It's not without it's rough edges, at least v 0.6 that I'm using (a latest nightly may be better, who knows).
I thought all our fast food workers already were robots.
Maybe at your local McDonald's, but not mine...
McDonald's Hiring Practices
Download your source RPMs here:
v er/current/SRPMS
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Ser
Now, no one needs to fear censorship, nor do they need to fear the government shoving them into a database.
Well, except maybe a database of suspected terrorists (i.e. Freenet users).
What about the helpdesk staff whose time is wasted by calls that users have computer with unoptimized connections or that they can't seem to get to this waiting message? I would think they should be able to get in on this lynch mob^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H class action lawsuit.
How many times do you have to read it? It's not stealing, it's copyright infringement. The record labels and artists did not give you permission to re-distribute copies of their work; they retain all "copy rights".
So what I want to know is, for the crowd of your average file swappers, many may not even be aware of the legal issues they've involved themselves in, or even that they're not supposed to by getting these songs for free.
So is it they, or the "distributors" of the songs who should be in trouble? If you buy a bootleg CD from the store, not knowing it wasn't authorized by the band, do you get in trouble, or does the store?
How long can it take someone working full-time to do the job by hand?
Well, if you've got $10,000 on hand...do you want to take the time to find out, or pay up to retrieve that vital information from the shredded pages?
If the info on the papers is (or potentially is) worth more than the $10,000 to retrieve it...I'd say pony up the cash and let them do the work.
What I think would be a good solution would be a shredder with a built-in printer -- it will print random text over the sheet before shredding it, to make the text unreadable even if reassembled.
If anyone hasn't patented it, it's too late now - I hereby declare the idea public domain and knowledge.
Well you never specified double or single-sided printing, or whether it should print horizontal or landscape (and whether that depends on the original text direction).
And what if it just prints random scribbles instead of text? Or shapes?
Even if you declare your idea public domain and unpatentable, unless you cover every variation like this, I'm sure someone will find a way to modify your idea just enough to make it novel enough to get by the patent office. It seems that's not hard to do these days.
it actually has 65,000 screens, each of which is visible in an alternate universe, a la quantum physics.
Sure, slack is fun to dink around with and it's nice for a sense of history and all that but today as a business about the only distro I can quote out is Linux 9.0.
Last I heard, there was no "Linux 9.0" distribution. So much for your sig of getting it right the first time. Best of luck with your endeavours.