Mule is dead, at least as a seperate Emacs-based editor. It was integrated into GNU Emacs in version 20.1 back in September 1997, and into XEmacs a few months later.
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When do they come back? I wouldn't want to keep checking a website just in case there was something new there this week. If I an genuinely interested in something, then I don't mind signing up to hear that there is an update.
Maybe you college students have time to go looking for new things every day, but I don't.
However you are misinterpreting the meaning of CDATA - CDATA includes character entities.
I am not misinterpreting the meaning of CDATA, you are. "may include character entities" does not mean the same as "The ampersand (&) is a special character in HTML, and needs to be encoded properly (as &)". Encoding is optional in a CDATA block.
The ampersand (&) is a special character in HTML, and needs to be encoded properly (as &). If you don't do so, then you run the risk of having links break in browsers.
Only if the browser itself is broken. The SGML definition of HTML 3.2 declares attributes as CDATA.
The biggest problem I have with trade shows is that they ask you to pay to be marketed at. Why aren't the booth holders and keynote speakers paying to have a captive audience? Oh, they are? Someone is getting rich off this scheme.
You left out the government. They are always at the head of the queue to recover unpaid tax, statutory payments to employees (possibly non-existant in US) etc.
Standardization with what? If they were worried about standardization, they would have used 900MHz so everyone that already has triband phones can keep using them, and not have to upgrade to quad-band phones to get decent coverage everywhere.
For those who haven't heard of Ubix (I assumed it was a global brand, but apparently not), it is the same company as Konica/Minolta/QMS. Apparently the Ubix brand is now only used for the services arm of the company (and for paper) but they used to rebadge printers in some markets as well.
Of course, this means that whenever a repair technician comes out, they will invariably diagnose the fault to be the cause of the third-party component
At a company I used to work for, we had a high-volume Ubix laser, which kept having problems with paper jams. Eventually the Ubix engineer blamed it on the fact that we were not using Ubix branded paper. We reluctantly switched to the overpriced paper, and the jams continued, but Ubix continued to refuse to honour the warrantee if we switched back to non-Ubix paper.
I actually downloaded the code last month after discussing the ramifications of the SCO fiaSCO with one of my customers. The solution we came up with is that once I downloaded the code and distributed my "derivative work" of said code to the customer, we were both covered and could no longer be the targets of any SCO lawsuit(s).
Provided you don't sign any contract with SCO. Contracts are what they use against their customers.
It is like McDonalds was selling licenses to eat Subway sandwiches and strongly implying it was illegal to eat at Subway without one of these licenses and doing absolutely everything possible to convey this impression without actually saying the exact words "it is illegal to eat at subway without one of these licenses" (which would open them up to a preliminary injunction).
... Then McDonalds makes lots of noise about suing a Subway customer, and when it comes down to it sues a McDonalds customer for putting sachets of McDonalds salt on their Subway sandwich.
in the unlikely event that SCO wins out, they would certainly be required to pay for licenses. Their refusal (and everyone else's) would be an act of civil disobedience.
But until that is not true until said unlikely event occurs. So refusing now is not civil disobedience by any stretch of the imagination. The choice that faced EV1 was not between civil disobedience and paying SCO.
Civil Disobedience? Where did that come from. I know what isn't a good business model - rolling over and paying up to the first moron who threatens you with baseless legal action. How many other morons are waiting to join the queue and get free money out of EV1 (and ultimately out of the pockets of EV1's customers)?
As other have pointed out, EV1 can't comply with SCO's linux license and still get Redhat patches
Not just get RedHat patches, EV1 also has obligations to their customers under the GPL. They have to break one of those licenses. So would they rather break the GPL and hope that the court upholds SCO's version of it, or break SCO's license and admit they only bought it for the publicity in the first place?
Well they were stupid enough to sign a contract for a BINARY ONLY LICENSE while at least some of their customers are busy customizing the kernels on EV1's machines they lease. EV1 can't stop their customers doing this under the GPL, so they've pretty much asked to be sued by somebody.
A lot of lift controllers seem to be buggy these days. In the office building I used to work in there were 3 lift shafts. Two of the lifts would close immediately and proceed to the floor when you pressed the floor button, the other one would sit there for 10 seconds with the doors open first, unless you double-clicked the button, or pressed it seperately three times.
The lift in my apartment building often goes straight past my floor and cancels the request. The first couple of times, I thought I was daydreaming and had forgotten to call it. It does it when I'm inside the lift too, it can be quite confusing to get into a lift on ground, feel it move, then find yourself on ground again when it stops. I usually take the stairs now.
You forgot to mention - usually the buttons to make the Underground lifts work are small and unlabelled. Actually I think the more touristy stations like Earls Court and Covent Garden just run the lifts off a timer, since they always expect to have passengers in them, and the passengers are less likely to be familiar with the unlabelled buttons.
The buttons on the carriage doors used to be used in Winter at outdoor stations, but I haven't seen them used the last couple of years at all.
Sure they work more or less and using a seperate workspace/desktop helps keeping track too, but it still just an ugly hack, necessary due to the lack of proper[1] MDI.
Or rather, MDI was an ugly hack necessary due to the lack of proper Window management in Windows 3.1. Its well past its sell by date, but Microsoft just keeps on hawking it.
Of course this doesn't apply to all software products, but, what's the incentive to create a clever software product anymore
Anti-virus software isn't particularly clever, the only thing that has changed since the early 90's is the size of the virus list. I will be glad to see the end of their bait and switch tactics to get users of new PCs to buy overpriced subscriptions after the antivirus software that came pre-installed on their PC suddenly declares that it was only a trial version after all.
Apparently they are now "SCO Software (UK) Limited", a subsidary of "SCO Software (Ireland) Limited". "The SCO Group (UK) Limited", which was a direct subsidary of "The SCO Group, Inc. (Utah)", is being wound up. Both companies appear at on the register at Companies House, The SCO Group was put into administration on 26 March last year, and SCO Software was formed 3 weeks later.
At first this all looked very suspicious to me, but given the change in control from Utah to Ireland, there is probably nothing funny going on there.
Interesting, they're in Receivership in the UK, no wonder they've been so quiet. I think that confirms a lot of theories about SCO being on their last legs.
I have asked on Slashdot before if anyone has any UK produced or UK distributed material about SCO's licenses. Without that, I think it would be difficult to get Trading Standards or any other organisation to take up the case. So far all I've seen are press releases originating in Utah.
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He did say: postfix and squid (presumably using iptables or similar to do the rerouting to a local machine).
Mule is dead, at least as a seperate Emacs-based editor. It was integrated into GNU Emacs in version 20.1 back in September 1997, and into XEmacs a few months later.
When do they come back? I wouldn't want to keep checking a website just in case there was something new there this week. If I an genuinely interested in something, then I don't mind signing up to hear that there is an update. Maybe you college students have time to go looking for new things every day, but I don't.
They don't have to be. href attributes are defined as CDATA, where such encoding is optional.
I am not misinterpreting the meaning of CDATA, you are. "may include character entities" does not mean the same as "The ampersand (&) is a special character in HTML, and needs to be encoded properly (as &)". Encoding is optional in a CDATA block.
Only if the browser itself is broken. The SGML definition of HTML 3.2 declares attributes as CDATA.
The biggest problem I have with trade shows is that they ask you to pay to be marketed at. Why aren't the booth holders and keynote speakers paying to have a captive audience? Oh, they are? Someone is getting rich off this scheme.
You left out the government. They are always at the head of the queue to recover unpaid tax, statutory payments to employees (possibly non-existant in US) etc.
Standardization with what? If they were worried about standardization, they would have used 900MHz so everyone that already has triband phones can keep using them, and not have to upgrade to quad-band phones to get decent coverage everywhere.
For those who haven't heard of Ubix (I assumed it was a global brand, but apparently not), it is the same company as Konica/Minolta/QMS. Apparently the Ubix brand is now only used for the services arm of the company (and for paper) but they used to rebadge printers in some markets as well.
At a company I used to work for, we had a high-volume Ubix laser, which kept having problems with paper jams. Eventually the Ubix engineer blamed it on the fact that we were not using Ubix branded paper. We reluctantly switched to the overpriced paper, and the jams continued, but Ubix continued to refuse to honour the warrantee if we switched back to non-Ubix paper.
Provided you don't sign any contract with SCO. Contracts are what they use against their customers.
But until that is not true until said unlikely event occurs. So refusing now is not civil disobedience by any stretch of the imagination. The choice that faced EV1 was not between civil disobedience and paying SCO.
Civil Disobedience? Where did that come from. I know what isn't a good business model - rolling over and paying up to the first moron who threatens you with baseless legal action. How many other morons are waiting to join the queue and get free money out of EV1 (and ultimately out of the pockets of EV1's customers)?
Not just get RedHat patches, EV1 also has obligations to their customers under the GPL. They have to break one of those licenses. So would they rather break the GPL and hope that the court upholds SCO's version of it, or break SCO's license and admit they only bought it for the publicity in the first place?
Well they were stupid enough to sign a contract for a BINARY ONLY LICENSE while at least some of their customers are busy customizing the kernels on EV1's machines they lease. EV1 can't stop their customers doing this under the GPL, so they've pretty much asked to be sued by somebody.
The lift in my apartment building often goes straight past my floor and cancels the request. The first couple of times, I thought I was daydreaming and had forgotten to call it. It does it when I'm inside the lift too, it can be quite confusing to get into a lift on ground, feel it move, then find yourself on ground again when it stops. I usually take the stairs now.
You forgot to mention - usually the buttons to make the Underground lifts work are small and unlabelled. Actually I think the more touristy stations like Earls Court and Covent Garden just run the lifts off a timer, since they always expect to have passengers in them, and the passengers are less likely to be familiar with the unlabelled buttons. The buttons on the carriage doors used to be used in Winter at outdoor stations, but I haven't seen them used the last couple of years at all.
Or rather, MDI was an ugly hack necessary due to the lack of proper Window management in Windows 3.1. Its well past its sell by date, but Microsoft just keeps on hawking it.
Anti-virus software isn't particularly clever, the only thing that has changed since the early 90's is the size of the virus list. I will be glad to see the end of their bait and switch tactics to get users of new PCs to buy overpriced subscriptions after the antivirus software that came pre-installed on their PC suddenly declares that it was only a trial version after all.
Of course you can, the BSD license explicitly allows that. You don't have to relicense it to include it in your proprietary software.
At first this all looked very suspicious to me, but given the change in control from Utah to Ireland, there is probably nothing funny going on there.
Interesting, they're in Receivership in the UK, no wonder they've been so quiet. I think that confirms a lot of theories about SCO being on their last legs.
I have asked on Slashdot before if anyone has any UK produced or UK distributed material about SCO's licenses. Without that, I think it would be difficult to get Trading Standards or any other organisation to take up the case. So far all I've seen are press releases originating in Utah.