Even Japan is moving toward high speed trains that run on their already existing infrastructure rather than specially built track for future expansion of their Shinkansen network. Last I heard they were working on dual guage trains that could run on both normal track and the wider Shinkansen track for extending the Shinkansen service from Fukuoka to Nagasaki and eventually on to Kagoshima.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was REALLY the price per half kilometer, and some journalist just plain got it wrong. The Chinese have a unit of measurement called the "li", which last century was standardized to 500m, or half a kilometer to be easily interchangable with metric units (before that was 576m).
I'm well aware that you can get back to the US website and find the info about the US licensing scheme from there. But I'm looking specifically for advertising materials which would be unquestionably subject to UK law. So far all we have is a press release from a known liar in the Utah.
The Republic of Ireland are not part of the UK, but the barratry and other laws of Republic of Ireland are very important indeed, as SCO's EMEA sales HQ appears to be in Dublin judging by the contact info on their website.
As far as I know they cannot make these claims in the UK either, which is probably why they are making press releases from Utah while their UK website has no mention of them offering licenses. If anyone knows of any SCO advertising material related to this "offer" that is produced specifically for or in the UK, please post details below.
By offering this derivative work of SCO's IP free of charge, Microsoft are deliberately undermining the value of all Unix licensees' products. Any bets on whether Darl & co will start threatening the Borg?
Yes, but isn't it Microsoft's job to renew their certificate with Verisign?
Microsoft's certificate wasn't expired. The problem stems from the fact that Verisign sign third party certificates with a certificate which has an expiry date (for safety, to limit the effects in the unlikely event that the private key is stolen from the secure facility it is kept in). The Verisign certificate is not part of the server certificate (otherwise people could make their own "Verisign" certs), it is distributed with tools and browsers etc.
Now a few years ago, Verisign realised that one of their Root Certificates was about to reach the point where it would expire within the lifetime of the certificates they were issuing. The sensible thing to do would be to create a new Root Certificate, and start using that, but then everyone using existing browsers and other tools would need to install the new certificate to continue working smoothly. Instead, they decided to extend the expiry date of the existing certificate, and reissue it. This meant that existing tools could keep working for a while without installing new certificates, and as newer updates replaced them, the new certificates would filter through.
The problem with this approach is that people became complacent and it was just delaying the problem. Some certificate stores ended up with both new and old certificates, and bugs in software (some MS software from what I've heard) meant that the old certificate was still being used, the new one was ignored. Other software (Java) continued being released with the old certificate and noone noticed until about a month ago. And then there's all the installations of Netscape Enterprise Server, Netscape 4.7, even IE 4 and 5.0 that are still out there with old certificates.
I notice that SCO have stopped saying that their IP has been found in Linux, and are now saying "is being found". Does the change from past to present tense signify that they know they don't have any evidence?
Section 0. They're charging a fee (other that for the physical act of transferring a copy, or for a warranty)
What does section 0 have to do with fees? All section 0 does is define the scope of the license. Nothing in the GPL prohibits you for charging a fee, except the bit in section 3 which refers only to requests for the source if you do not distribute it with the binaries (and only allows media and postage costs for the source under those conditions).
There are many regions in New Zealand, and indeed any country, where a 16:14 ratio of Government spending vs privately generated income would be considered high. If you want a real money sink, look at the Chatham Islands (which are not independant).
BT (Wireless)
11Mbit shared
Similar to their ADSL pricing I believe
BT's wireless pricing is a joke. 6 quid/hour or 15/day for casual use, 85/month for an unlimited subscription. They also have other subscription options with limited minutes then 20p/minute if you go over. They seem to be treating it like a phone line with all that per minute and hourly usage crap.
Reading between the lines, it looks to me like Verisign want to start providing real time DNS updates, in which case there is a reason for change it. Currently they update the database twice a day, which is well within the limits of the current serial number scheme. But with real time updates, they could easily get to 100 updates in a day.
The config for 2.6 is more intelligent, skipping bits that you've already answered "No" to in a meta question instead of showing a screen full of greyed out buttons. At least thats the case for xconfig, but I think the whole config system has been rearranged so *config are just front ends to the same intelligent backend, so menuconfig is probably similarly quicker to get through.
I discovered this today, as a SOAP application I was working on stopped connecting. The strange thing was, both Mozilla and IE 6 could connect fine. So why did this only affect older versions of IE, and not newer ones? Why not Mozilla? Were these "fixed" to ignore expiry dates on CA certificates? It doesn't seem like a sensible thing to fix to me.
Even better than tab comletion, KDE shows a list of matching names. The top one can be chosen by pressing enter. The arrow keys and subsequent enter choose another matching name.
No, that's not better than tab completion. Attitudes like "the text box is a very legacy feature and should be deprecated and removed in future" (see alternative GTK selector) are going to lead to the downfall of Gnome. As the original poster said, it is often faster to start typing an absolute path (Windows allows this, but its not clear that the new GTK dialogs do) preferably with tab completion. Arrow keys don't count, because I have to reach all the way over the other side of the keyboard to select them, then press enter, which usually is the equivalent of hitting "OK", but I might not be finished yet. Oh shit I hit the arrow key one too many times, too late now I've just overwritten an important file. Tab completion is much less prone to that kind of error.
Bench's annual report filed on Dec 15th doesn't seem to match with his activity over the last year. It only lists 7000 shares sold, when he sold that many in some months alone. I count 38,900 shares sold and 4000 acquired during the year (net 34900). SEC needs to review these filings IMHO.
This White Paper is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY,
AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT.
No warranties? Where's Laura Didio when you need her?
Oh, and don't use so many caps Microsoft, it's lame.
You could of course go to savannah.gnu.org, and read for yourself what happened and what has been done about it. But instead you stupidly stick your head in the sand and critisize the FSF from a position of ignorance. But I guess if it wasn't posted on slashdot it didn't happen in your sad world.
It's not so much the newbie questions, everyone goes through that phase, its the "I asked this question 2 hours ago, why does nobody tell me the answer?" followups that make me less likely to give my time to helping newbies in future.
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What does speed (physics, not pharmaceuticals) have to do with bombs, weapons etc?
Even Japan is moving toward high speed trains that run on their already existing infrastructure rather than specially built track for future expansion of their Shinkansen network. Last I heard they were working on dual guage trains that could run on both normal track and the wider Shinkansen track for extending the Shinkansen service from Fukuoka to Nagasaki and eventually on to Kagoshima.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was REALLY the price per half kilometer, and some journalist just plain got it wrong. The Chinese have a unit of measurement called the "li", which last century was standardized to 500m, or half a kilometer to be easily interchangable with metric units (before that was 576m).
I'm well aware that you can get back to the US website and find the info about the US licensing scheme from there. But I'm looking specifically for advertising materials which would be unquestionably subject to UK law. So far all we have is a press release from a known liar in the Utah.
The Republic of Ireland are not part of the UK, but the barratry and other laws of Republic of Ireland are very important indeed, as SCO's EMEA sales HQ appears to be in Dublin judging by the contact info on their website.
As far as I know they cannot make these claims in the UK either, which is probably why they are making press releases from Utah while their UK website has no mention of them offering licenses. If anyone knows of any SCO advertising material related to this "offer" that is produced specifically for or in the UK, please post details below.
By offering this derivative work of SCO's IP free of charge, Microsoft are deliberately undermining the value of all Unix licensees' products. Any bets on whether Darl & co will start threatening the Borg?
Titan Court
3 Bishop Square
Hatfield
Herts AL10 9NA
I don't know if they own their building or are renting, but surely there are some assets in it.
Microsoft's certificate wasn't expired. The problem stems from the fact that Verisign sign third party certificates with a certificate which has an expiry date (for safety, to limit the effects in the unlikely event that the private key is stolen from the secure facility it is kept in). The Verisign certificate is not part of the server certificate (otherwise people could make their own "Verisign" certs), it is distributed with tools and browsers etc.
Now a few years ago, Verisign realised that one of their Root Certificates was about to reach the point where it would expire within the lifetime of the certificates they were issuing. The sensible thing to do would be to create a new Root Certificate, and start using that, but then everyone using existing browsers and other tools would need to install the new certificate to continue working smoothly. Instead, they decided to extend the expiry date of the existing certificate, and reissue it. This meant that existing tools could keep working for a while without installing new certificates, and as newer updates replaced them, the new certificates would filter through.
The problem with this approach is that people became complacent and it was just delaying the problem. Some certificate stores ended up with both new and old certificates, and bugs in software (some MS software from what I've heard) meant that the old certificate was still being used, the new one was ignored. Other software (Java) continued being released with the old certificate and noone noticed until about a month ago. And then there's all the installations of Netscape Enterprise Server, Netscape 4.7, even IE 4 and 5.0 that are still out there with old certificates.
I notice that SCO have stopped saying that their IP has been found in Linux, and are now saying "is being found". Does the change from past to present tense signify that they know they don't have any evidence?
What does section 0 have to do with fees? All section 0 does is define the scope of the license. Nothing in the GPL prohibits you for charging a fee, except the bit in section 3 which refers only to requests for the source if you do not distribute it with the binaries (and only allows media and postage costs for the source under those conditions).
There are many regions in New Zealand, and indeed any country, where a 16:14 ratio of Government spending vs privately generated income would be considered high. If you want a real money sink, look at the Chatham Islands (which are not independant).
11Mbit shared
Similar to their ADSL pricing I believe
BT's wireless pricing is a joke. 6 quid/hour or 15/day for casual use, 85/month for an unlimited subscription. They also have other subscription options with limited minutes then 20p/minute if you go over. They seem to be treating it like a phone line with all that per minute and hourly usage crap.
Reading between the lines, it looks to me like Verisign want to start providing real time DNS updates, in which case there is a reason for change it. Currently they update the database twice a day, which is well within the limits of the current serial number scheme. But with real time updates, they could easily get to 100 updates in a day.
Where in ISO-8601 does the NN fit in? It doesn't.
The config for 2.6 is more intelligent, skipping bits that you've already answered "No" to in a meta question instead of showing a screen full of greyed out buttons. At least thats the case for xconfig, but I think the whole config system has been rearranged so *config are just front ends to the same intelligent backend, so menuconfig is probably similarly quicker to get through.
1.3.1 didn't ship with CA certs. But they probably haven't updated JSSE either.
I discovered this today, as a SOAP application I was working on stopped connecting. The strange thing was, both Mozilla and IE 6 could connect fine. So why did this only affect older versions of IE, and not newer ones? Why not Mozilla? Were these "fixed" to ignore expiry dates on CA certificates? It doesn't seem like a sensible thing to fix to me.
No, that's not better than tab completion. Attitudes like "the text box is a very legacy feature and should be deprecated and removed in future" (see alternative GTK selector) are going to lead to the downfall of Gnome. As the original poster said, it is often faster to start typing an absolute path (Windows allows this, but its not clear that the new GTK dialogs do) preferably with tab completion. Arrow keys don't count, because I have to reach all the way over the other side of the keyboard to select them, then press enter, which usually is the equivalent of hitting "OK", but I might not be finished yet. Oh shit I hit the arrow key one too many times, too late now I've just overwritten an important file. Tab completion is much less prone to that kind of error.
Personally, I leave HTML switched off in my spam folder, so all I see is a bunch of tags.
I know, all legal documents feel the need to shout at you. It was only because the lameness filter wouldn't let me post that I added that comment.
Bench's annual report filed on Dec 15th doesn't seem to match with his activity over the last year. It only lists 7000 shares sold, when he sold that many in some months alone. I count 38,900 shares sold and 4000 acquired during the year (net 34900). SEC needs to review these filings IMHO.
No warranties? Where's Laura Didio when you need her?
Oh, and don't use so many caps Microsoft, it's lame.
You could of course go to savannah.gnu.org, and read for yourself what happened and what has been done about it. But instead you stupidly stick your head in the sand and critisize the FSF from a position of ignorance. But I guess if it wasn't posted on slashdot it didn't happen in your sad world.
It's not so much the newbie questions, everyone goes through that phase, its the "I asked this question 2 hours ago, why does nobody tell me the answer?" followups that make me less likely to give my time to helping newbies in future.