"The first thing anyone did when showing off their Apple was pull off the cover and expose its innards, the pcboard, the expansion slots. "
Which you can still do today. First thing I did when I got my PowerMac home was open it and look at what was inside.
The hardware is still based on standards - standard SCSI & EIDE hard drives and CDROM drives; standard interfaces; standard PCI slots; AGP graphics slots; standard USB & FireWire connectors.
"OS-X has potential, but ONLY if Apple doesn't try to "own" it."
OK, I'll bite - explain exactly what you are on about please?
Clue - they release back to the public all modifications they make to all open source they use. Darwin source is all fully available. Safari? All improvements they made to the rendering engine are returned to the public.
They provide full developer material and tools FoC.
First, it is unlikely that your name is absolutely and utterly unique in the entire world, so what are you gonna do abotu everyione else with the same name?
(Pedantically, you couldn't copyright it anyway, as it was your parents who "created" your name, not you - unless you change your name of couse)
Second, you do not own your address.
Third, you most definitly do not own your telephone number.
Your email address? Possible, but then you woudl have to stop everyone from using your email address unless they have explicit written permission from you in advance so to do.
Finally, you do not own your IP address.
So out of 5 items, you *might* have a tenuous claim to be able to copyright 1, possibly 2, of them, but said copyright woudl be unenforceable (and once you stop trying to protect your copyright, it lapses).
The rest, though, it completely uncopyrightable by you. Although I woudl love to see you try - I could do with a laugh!
Because as we know, all ammo caches are clearly marked "Ammo" on all sides, and nobody would ever think to hide a bomb in an ammo container with the word "geocache" written all over it!
"But for others who don't care, why shouldn't the public get a crack at these?"
Or, to put it another way (and I know this will be unpopular), why SHOULD the public get the works?
The public are not OWED the works at all.
Sure, it might be nice if the works were placed in teh oublic domain, BUT there is no automatic right for that to happen early, and I don't see any justification for such a demand either.
Are you absolutely sure about that? What force is acting upon teh Earth to cause it to accellerate so, pray tell?
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"Anyone contributing code could theoretically copy and paste unattributed commercial code into the system. "
You mean like that time when a whole chunk of BSD code was stolen and added to Linux with the copyright statements removed? You remember - the time where it took ages before it was finally admitted that this had happened, and even then it was dismissed as unimportant?
Erm, you are aware, aren't you, that at the time of the previous Gulf war, Sadam asked Iran if he could hide his airforce there in order to plead that he didn't have one and was being unfairly attacked.
This was the same Iran which he'd perviously been attacking for 10 years in the Iran-Iraq war.
Iran said "yes" and hid his ariforce for him.
(Oh, they then refused to hand any of them back afterwards, though:-D )
It is far from impossible that he woudl have successfully had other nations (who are sympathetic to him and his cause) hide WMDs on his behalf - he had plenty of time to arrange it afterall.
"Now, it would presumably be possible for/. to write some Perl coding to check for dupes - probably by examining the links that two duplicate stories would have in common. The trouble is, unless/until this patent gets killed in court, such coding would fall under this patent."
Erm, how, exactly, woudl that come under this patent?
Do you personally REALLY equate comparing URLs with doing multiple simultaneous DNS lookups?
What, you mean the original point where you completely confused reality with fiction, you mean?
I kinda thought I'd let you slope away from your mistake without embarassing you any further.
I still find it terribly amusing that you are unable to distinguish fiction from fact, AND that you believe implicitly every single wrestling rumour you read on the web, though.
You never watch WWE, do you. Otherwise you woudl have known about the storyline and how it turned out.
And as for believeing the various rumours on the web about them - blimey, if you believe even half of the rumours about what WWE and its cast / crew are up to at any given time, then you are an even bigger idiot than you thought I was!
You are referring to Timothy Zahn's excellent trilogy "Heir To The Empire", "Dark Force Rising", "The Last Command".
They were excellent - easily THE best of all the post-Ep6 books written to date, and the only ones to come up with anything remotely interesting and new (his other pair of SW books toward the end of that timeline are also damned good - actually resolving the Empire thing and pointing things off in a new direction - sadly no other authors had the courage to work with this).
The books are officially sanctioned by GL & Lucasfilm.
They'd be damned good as films too, but who knows? Actually, those 3 plus Zahn's final 2 woudl make for a cracking ending to the SW saga.
Ah yes, that woudl be the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter Hamilton to which you refer (The Reality Dysfunction et al). As you mention, he had them running in vacuum precisely to overcome the air pressure / friction / et al problems to which you refer. They struck me as a pretty neat form of intercontinental travel, far better that aeroplane!
" As for hot swapping CPUs...god luck on a Sun server, technically you could make it work...practically it's useless today. You have to stop your apps (that's great for HA isn't it?) shrink your domain (if it's bigger then 4 CPUs) isolate the faulty CPU, swap it, resize the domain...then (this is the critical part) restart all you apps so that they recognize the newly added CPU and memory...again technically it works, practically speaking just because the OS is still alive doesn't really matter...no 3rd party apps can cope with this fudging with their memory and CPUs... "
Ah, I see a post there from someo0ne who does not know wehat they are talking about and has never EVER done dynamic reconfig on a Sun system.
Allow me to explain how it works, oh clueless coward.
Suppose your machine has, say, 8 CPUs in one domain, and one is knackered. All you do is this.
Map out the board with the fault processor (via a single command). The OS automatically handles everything - ALL apps carry on as normal, completely unaware that there are now only 4 CPUs.
Remove the board, plug in teh new board.
Map the new board in, again with a single command.
The entire system and ALL apps remain up and running completely during this entire process. No stopping or restarting of anny apps whatsoever. ALL apps work under this with zero problems at all.
FACT.
I know because, unlike you oh anonymous liar, I have DONE this on a real live system. And nobody even noticed, even though their apps were running on the machine at the time.
Actually, what I do for any emails some scumbag sends unauthorised through my WLAN is as follows -
If they are obviously spamming (sending email to loads of people), deny access (the first few may get through but the rest would not as soon as spamming was detected).
Otherwise, accept their email and send it on to the destination.
Oh, I forgot to mention that all email sent this way is first run through "pornalizer".
Don't like your emails being pornalized that way (I *DO* hope it is an email to your Mum)? Tough shit. You use my bandwidth, you accept the consequences.
" Uh, you can still buy an AmigaOne from Eyetech. "
No you can't.
They are not for sale yet.
A VERY small number of beta testers have managed to touch one, but they are NOT yett on general release. No non-AOS4 beta tester or developer has ever managed to buy and receive an AmigaOne (not that there is even an AmigaOS to run on it yet either, by the way).
Nice troll, Mr Bouma, but as ever you are completely wrong in everything you say.
First of all, Eyetech do NOT manufacture any PPC motherboards at all. NONE. (They were going to be shipping the Teron board, but they waffled and lied about the various reasons for delay - and now we start to see the real reason they can not ship the board which, it must be stressed, Eyetech do NOT make).
Second, Genisi are still producing PPC motherboards and systems, currently in small numbers pending the launch of the Pegasos2, but the FACT remains that the Pegasos 1 is still being produced.
Crawl back under your bridge, Bouma, where you belong, and leave the discussion of facts to those who know what they are talking about.
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"The first thing anyone did when showing off their Apple was pull off the cover and expose its innards, the pcboard, the expansion slots. "
Which you can still do today. First thing I did when I got my PowerMac home was open it and look at what was inside.
The hardware is still based on standards - standard SCSI & EIDE hard drives and CDROM drives; standard interfaces; standard PCI slots; AGP graphics slots; standard USB & FireWire connectors.
"OS-X has potential, but ONLY if Apple doesn't try to "own" it."
OK, I'll bite - explain exactly what you are on about please?
Clue - they release back to the public all modifications they make to all open source they use. Darwin source is all fully available. Safari? All improvements they made to the rendering engine are returned to the public.
They provide full developer material and tools FoC.
Where's your problem?!
Well let's see.
First, it is unlikely that your name is absolutely and utterly unique in the entire world, so what are you gonna do abotu everyione else with the same name?
(Pedantically, you couldn't copyright it anyway, as it was your parents who "created" your name, not you - unless you change your name of couse)
Second, you do not own your address.
Third, you most definitly do not own your telephone number.
Your email address? Possible, but then you woudl have to stop everyone from using your email address unless they have explicit written permission from you in advance so to do.
Finally, you do not own your IP address.
So out of 5 items, you *might* have a tenuous claim to be able to copyright 1, possibly 2, of them, but said copyright woudl be unenforceable (and once you stop trying to protect your copyright, it lapses).
The rest, though, it completely uncopyrightable by you. Although I woudl love to see you try - I could do with a laugh!
I wouldn't bet on it.
Even with your overwriting the disk 3 times, the original dat are still recoverable.
Oh sure, not by Joe sixpack, but professional data recovery people can still retrieve the original data.
The ONLY way to make it impossible is to physically detroy the disk beyond all possible repair.
That's OK then.
Because as we know, all ammo caches are clearly marked "Ammo" on all sides, and nobody would ever think to hide a bomb in an ammo container with the word "geocache" written all over it!
"But for others who don't care, why shouldn't the public get a crack at these?"
Or, to put it another way (and I know this will be unpopular), why SHOULD the public get the works?
The public are not OWED the works at all.
Sure, it might be nice if the works were placed in teh oublic domain, BUT there is no automatic right for that to happen early, and I don't see any justification for such a demand either.
What?
The Earth is ACELLERATING at 1,500 kmh^2?
Are you absolutely sure about that? What force is acting upon teh Earth to cause it to accellerate so, pray tell?
"Anyone contributing code could theoretically copy and paste unattributed commercial code into the system. "
You mean like that time when a whole chunk of BSD code was stolen and added to Linux with the copyright statements removed? You remember - the time where it took ages before it was finally admitted that this had happened, and even then it was dismissed as unimportant?
" We are on watch lists with the FBI because of that also."
Liar. No you are NOT on the FBI's watch list, nor have you been for 30 years.
Stop lying.
Erm, you are aware, aren't you, that at the time of the previous Gulf war, Sadam asked Iran if he could hide his airforce there in order to plead that he didn't have one and was being unfairly attacked.
:-D )
This was the same Iran which he'd perviously been attacking for 10 years in the Iran-Iraq war.
Iran said "yes" and hid his ariforce for him.
(Oh, they then refused to hand any of them back afterwards, though
It is far from impossible that he woudl have successfully had other nations (who are sympathetic to him and his cause) hide WMDs on his behalf - he had plenty of time to arrange it afterall.
"Do you think a judge would be able to tell the difference?
"
Yes. The defense merely has to present an "expert" who explains the vast difference between the two, and the case is dismissed.
"Now, it would presumably be possible for /. to write some Perl coding to check for dupes - probably by examining the links that two duplicate stories would have in common. The trouble is, unless/until this patent gets killed in court, such coding would fall under this patent."
Erm, how, exactly, woudl that come under this patent?
Do you personally REALLY equate comparing URLs with doing multiple simultaneous DNS lookups?
*shakes head in disbelief*
What, you mean the original point where you completely confused reality with fiction, you mean?
I kinda thought I'd let you slope away from your mistake without embarassing you any further.
I still find it terribly amusing that you are unable to distinguish fiction from fact, AND that you believe implicitly every single wrestling rumour you read on the web, though.
xactly.
That is ALL he needs -
NFS
autofs
NIS (or NIS+)
Oh, and use netgroups to secure access to your mountpoints to authorised machines only.
And there you have it. Everything he needs, nice and secure and extremely easy to do.
LOL!
:)
I do have sympathy for you - I have a similar aversion to Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2 for similar reasons...
Hmmm. With what to replace it, though?
Yeah, right.
You never watch WWE, do you. Otherwise you woudl have known about the storyline and how it turned out.
And as for believeing the various rumours on the web about them - blimey, if you believe even half of the rumours about what WWE and its cast / crew are up to at any given time, then you are an even bigger idiot than you thought I was!
Sorry to disappoint you, but Michael Paul LeVesque and Stephanie McMahon are not engaged.
They are not even dating.
That was merely part of the storyline. Do try to pay attention and to differentiate fact from fiction if you are going to come up with this stuff!
You are referring to Timothy Zahn's excellent trilogy "Heir To The Empire", "Dark Force Rising", "The Last Command".
They were excellent - easily THE best of all the post-Ep6 books written to date, and the only ones to come up with anything remotely interesting and new (his other pair of SW books toward the end of that timeline are also damned good - actually resolving the Empire thing and pointing things off in a new direction - sadly no other authors had the courage to work with this).
The books are officially sanctioned by GL & Lucasfilm.
They'd be damned good as films too, but who knows? Actually, those 3 plus Zahn's final 2 woudl make for a cracking ending to the SW saga.
"Cray? Guess who Sun purchased the E10k from?
"
Erm, the E10k is a Sun designed and Sun manufactured system.
What may be confusing you is that Sun acquired some of Cray's technology in teh past, some of which found its way into the E10k.
However, fact remains, the E10k is Sun, not "bought from Cray".
Ah yes, that woudl be the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter Hamilton to which you refer (The Reality Dysfunction et al). As you mention, he had them running in vacuum precisely to overcome the air pressure / friction / et al problems to which you refer. They struck me as a pretty neat form of intercontinental travel, far better that aeroplane!
:)
One day...
"it would be interesting to apply similar principles to blogs"
No it wouldn't, it would be tediously boring and utterly pointless.
Unless you care to explain exactly HOW you believe it would be interesting? No? Thought not...
" As for hot swapping CPUs...god luck on a Sun server, technically you could make it work...practically it's useless today. You have to stop your apps (that's great for HA isn't it?) shrink your domain (if it's bigger then 4 CPUs) isolate the faulty CPU, swap it, resize the domain...then (this is the critical part) restart all you apps so that they recognize the newly added CPU and memory...again technically it works, practically speaking just because the OS is still alive doesn't really matter...no 3rd party apps can cope with this fudging with their memory and CPUs... "
Ah, I see a post there from someo0ne who does not know wehat they are talking about and has never EVER done dynamic reconfig on a Sun system.
Allow me to explain how it works, oh clueless coward.
Suppose your machine has, say, 8 CPUs in one domain, and one is knackered. All you do is this.
Map out the board with the fault processor (via a single command). The OS automatically handles everything - ALL apps carry on as normal, completely unaware that there are now only 4 CPUs.
Remove the board, plug in teh new board.
Map the new board in, again with a single command.
The entire system and ALL apps remain up and running completely during this entire process. No stopping or restarting of anny apps whatsoever. ALL apps work under this with zero problems at all.
FACT.
I know because, unlike you oh anonymous liar, I have DONE this on a real live system. And nobody even noticed, even though their apps were running on the machine at the time.
Actually, what I do for any emails some scumbag sends unauthorised through my WLAN is as follows -
If they are obviously spamming (sending email to loads of people), deny access (the first few may get through but the rest would not as soon as spamming was detected).
Otherwise, accept their email and send it on to the destination.
Oh, I forgot to mention that all email sent this way is first run through "pornalizer".
Don't like your emails being pornalized that way (I *DO* hope it is an email to your Mum)? Tough shit. You use my bandwidth, you accept the consequences.
" Uh, you can still buy an AmigaOne from Eyetech. "
No you can't.
They are not for sale yet.
A VERY small number of beta testers have managed to touch one, but they are NOT yett on general release. No non-AOS4 beta tester or developer has ever managed to buy and receive an AmigaOne (not that there is even an AmigaOS to run on it yet either, by the way).
Nice troll, Mr Bouma, but as ever you are completely wrong in everything you say.
First of all, Eyetech do NOT manufacture any PPC motherboards at all. NONE. (They were going to be shipping the Teron board, but they waffled and lied about the various reasons for delay - and now we start to see the real reason they can not ship the board which, it must be stressed, Eyetech do NOT make).
Second, Genisi are still producing PPC motherboards and systems, currently in small numbers pending the launch of the Pegasos2, but the FACT remains that the Pegasos 1 is still being produced.
Crawl back under your bridge, Bouma, where you belong, and leave the discussion of facts to those who know what they are talking about.
Nice try, but the Exchange connector is NOT open and NOT free (either as in speech or beer).
So, the original question still stands.