As an adult sufferer of ADD, I have found something that helps - a PDA. After I got one (old, B&W, Palm) it help immeasurably. It forced me to organize and prioritize, such that I got into some good work habits. It also helped me to really consider the individual tasks to complete even the most mundane errands, so that I now can get things done on time, the most important aspect of the working life. Pirsig's gumption traps, Quality, and his concept of rhetoric as the initiator of action seem to be embodied in the structure an organizer can give.
Too bad I figured all of this out in my fifties. Get an early start. davel
IIRC, in the 'sixties, he New York Police Department borrowed one of these massive (horn loaded) speakers to do some crowd control at a demonstration (commie hippie b*st*rds.) Unfortunately, as any one who has built a set of home built speakers knows, sounds with a wavelength longer than the circumference of the radiator are non-directional. I remeber the reports being something to the effect that the everybody evacuated (the area.) davel
As I understood the issue from Unix Systems Labs in the early nineties, MS has always been a Unix source licensee, no real issue there.
The MS code in Unix had to do with the booting of Unix type OSs on the standard IBM PC BIOS - necessary to get the idiot box to do an end run around MS DOS (I/O processes being necessary to get disk I/O, consoles up and running, etc. There were also some bits of PC bus code, but nothing that had much importance.
I think the legal/political benefits to MS are clear, some FUD for the public, (most managers I have worked for did not understand the GPL), and some vague threats for the CxOs' until the case gets resolved. We'll see. I think the GPL is pretty strong, and the timeline history and the source of the Linux code will bear me out.
However, this will be rough. Anyone who has seen a cornered rat fight will note the parallels to a monsterous marketing firm short on innovations for the market, seeing the forecasts for the opposition.
Do not forget that Microsoft had licensed code in the Unix SVR4 kernel, and this may be the real reson that SCO has started this mess. The only way to put this mess behind us all would be to get a court to find that Linux did not infringe upon SCO IP. Proof of that would be showing the source tree of the code, complete with documentation of the origins of the code, such as POSIX standards, Minix code samples for timeline, etc. Anyone around for the eighties Unix wars will remember the BSD squabble. If resonable proof of the cleanliness of Linux code can be presented, the claims will not be upheld. This is an international case, in reality. The onus will be on the plaintiffs to prove violations. Standard IANAL disclaimer.
You may have to put the Apple schema into eDirectory, it's easy. After that, it should work fine. P.S. Run the eDirectory (renamed NDS) on Solaris. Screamin' fast, and only 320 GB for a million users. (All attributes filled.)
Power 4 architecture has an I/O architecture that is WAY too expensive for workstation/low end server use. The PowerPC 64bit, however, would be quite a CPU. To see if Apple is interested, look to see if BSD runs on Power Architectures...
It's already there, been there for some time, and IBM told me that Apple had Darwin and some GUI running. Apple just needs the market to see that it weould be worth the investment in a new mobo/system design.
Unisys was one of the first commercial Unix on Intel houses, when SVR4 was released. Microsoft's usual appeal to CIO's and everybody above is "minimum wage administration." Obviously, most of the managers would rather listen to that line than Reliability, Security, and Manageability. Blame it on Pacioli, the man who invented accounting and couldn't figure out how to differentiate quality.
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As an adult sufferer of ADD, I have found something that helps - a PDA. After I got one (old, B&W, Palm) it help immeasurably. It forced me to organize and prioritize, such that I got into some good work habits. It also helped me to really consider the individual tasks to complete even the most mundane errands, so that I now can get things done on time, the most important aspect of the working life. Pirsig's gumption traps, Quality, and his concept of rhetoric as the initiator of action seem to be embodied in the structure an organizer can give.
Too bad I figured all of this out in my fifties. Get an early start.
davel
IIRC, in the 'sixties, he New York Police Department borrowed one of these massive (horn loaded) speakers to do some crowd control at a demonstration (commie hippie b*st*rds.) Unfortunately, as any one who has built a set of home built speakers knows, sounds with a wavelength longer than the circumference of the radiator are non-directional. I remeber the reports being something to the effect that the everybody evacuated (the area.)
davel
... and just how hard did MS fight the suit?
As I understood the issue from Unix Systems Labs in the early nineties, MS has always been a Unix source licensee, no real issue there.
The MS code in Unix had to do with the booting of Unix type OSs on the standard IBM PC BIOS - necessary to get the idiot box to do an end run around MS DOS (I/O processes being necessary to get disk I/O, consoles up and running, etc. There were also some bits of PC bus code, but nothing that had much importance.
I think the legal/political benefits to MS are clear, some FUD for the public, (most managers I have worked for did not understand the GPL), and some vague threats for the CxOs' until the case gets resolved. We'll see. I think the GPL is pretty strong, and the timeline history and the source of the Linux code will bear me out.
However, this will be rough. Anyone who has seen a cornered rat fight will note the parallels to a monsterous marketing firm short on innovations for the market, seeing the forecasts for the opposition.
Do not forget that Microsoft had licensed code in the Unix SVR4 kernel, and this may be the real reson that SCO has started this mess. The only way to put this mess behind us all would be to get a court to find that Linux did not infringe upon SCO IP. Proof of that would be showing the source tree of the code, complete with documentation of the origins of the code, such as POSIX standards, Minix code samples for timeline, etc. Anyone around for the eighties Unix wars will remember the BSD squabble. If resonable proof of the cleanliness of Linux code can be presented, the claims will not be upheld. This is an international case, in reality. The onus will be on the plaintiffs to prove violations.
Standard IANAL disclaimer.
Go check Apple's patents (maybe Xerox's) for hypertext linking. I think Apple covered this for Hypertext to Quicktime links.
Is this a FP? My first.
You may have to put the Apple schema into eDirectory, it's easy. After that, it should work fine. P.S. Run the eDirectory (renamed NDS) on Solaris. Screamin' fast, and only 320 GB for a million users. (All attributes filled.)
Power 4 architecture has an I/O architecture that is WAY too expensive for workstation/low end server use. The PowerPC 64bit, however, would be quite a CPU. To see if Apple is interested, look to see if BSD runs on Power Architectures ...
It's already there, been there for some time, and IBM told me that Apple had Darwin and some GUI running. Apple just needs the market to see that it weould be worth the investment in a new mobo/system design.
Unisys was one of the first commercial Unix on Intel houses, when SVR4 was released. Microsoft's usual appeal to CIO's and everybody above is "minimum wage administration." Obviously, most of the managers would rather listen to that line than Reliability, Security, and Manageability. Blame it on Pacioli, the man who invented accounting and couldn't figure out how to differentiate quality.