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  1. Re:We already know..... on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1
    Power used == HEAT.

    Or do you think that each time a bit is flipped it stores up a bit more energy, till one day... KABOOOOM!

    Or maybe the CPU gets heavier with time. I suppose that's possible. Would take quite a while to become measureable.

    Maybe you'd like to check up on the principle of conversion of energy.

  2. Re:We already know..... on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1
    ... 59.8W "thermal design power",which is the max ammount of waste heat the unit generates, so the chip's actuall power consumption is going to be a bit higher.
    So, just where does the extra energy come out? Sound? X-Rays? Slow Tachyons?
  3. Re:Do all those pieces actually exist? on The Star Wars Alphabet Project · · Score: 5, Funny
    And the O-ring is just silly
    If only NASA had thought so.
  4. Re:Having taken one semester of astrophysics... on Oldest Planet Ever Discovered · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The person you're replying to said:
    not only is the release dumbed down to the max, it also provides no link to any additional information.
    This is the web, it's hypertext don't you know. We can shove up a quick and dumb summary and have these link thingies to point to in-depth stuff to people who want to know more.

    Welcome to the 21st century.

  5. Re:Very Neat on High Speed Travelator · · Score: 1

    Fly RyanAir out of Prestwick, it's pretty cheap.

    Doesn't get you to Paris though, you have a 1h30 bus ride from Beauvais when you arrive.

    Come to think of it from most places in Scotland you've probably got up to 5 hours to get to Prestiwick.

    Maybe a good idea to move somewhere civilised. How about Paris?

    (Or, like me, Champigny sur Marne, twinned with lovely Musselburgh).

  6. Re:It was T2 on Review of T3: Rise of the Machines · · Score: 1

    Decides to assasinate a poor defenceless geek....

    Sounds like a good plan to me.

    (sound of GWB thinking, "now who should we attack? North Korea or Iraq, gosh being president is tough").

  7. Re:I loved the IBM model M keyboard key caps... on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Alt-Space N - Agra_N_dir
    Alt-Space X - Does nothing for me

    Maybe you meant

    Alt-Space U - Red_U_ire
    Alt-Space N - Agra_N_dir

    Or did you think all Windows systems use the same shortcuts?

  8. Re:Paying twice? on US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software · · Score: 5, Funny
    Yes, I know /. is slanted. It still irritates me though.
    Well, if it wasn't slanted it'd be |.

  9. Re:There's Cringely too. on RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD · · Score: 1
    The whole article is building up to the point where he can reveal his "irony". That's why he brings up the DBase case.


    But his irony is only ironical if you wern't watching the magic act closely enough.

  10. Re:The SCO Group == Canopy Group != Santa Cruz Op on RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD · · Score: 1
    Canopy are the puppeteers behind The SCO Group (TSG).
    True
    TSG bought Tarantella nee the Santa Cruz Operation AKA SCO.
    Not the case. Roughly what happened is:
    1. Caldera bought the SCO UnixWare and SCO OpenServer software, and the employment contracts of those poor slaves working on the software.
    2. SCO changed its name to Tarentella, the name of it's remaining software product.
    3. Caldera changed it's name to "The SCO Group".
    Caldera never bought Tarentella, or SCO.
  11. Re:There's Cringely too. on RMS Cuts Through Some SCO FUD · · Score: 5, Informative
    But, as usual he gets important details wrong:
    Think about it. Ashton-Tate's claim on dBase was, in many ways, similar to SCO's current claim on derivative UNIX works. They both ignored upstream property rights of others. What is ironic about this is that Fox Software wasn't the only company sued by Ashton-Tate for this supposed copyright violation. Fox's co-defendant was SCO. And having been on the other side of such a similar case, they should know better.
    Yes, SCO was Fox's co-defendant. But it isn't SCO that's suing IBM, it's "The SCO Group", who are not the same people at all. There is no "they" there.
  12. Re:Image Problems? on SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo · · Score: 1

    That'll be Hoist by your own petard maybe?

  13. Re:China and Human Rights Abuse on SMS, SARS, And Censorship · · Score: 1
    You say:
    Here's a story about the media altering photographs to make the U.S. look bad
    But the Guardian story says:
    The Los Angeles Times has sacked a battlefront photographer for altering a photograph which showed a British [my emphasis] soldier telling Iraqi civilians to take cover from Iraqi fire.
    I know some people think that the UK is soon to be the 51st state, but at the moment it still maintains the pretense of being an independant country.
  14. Re:Personal experiences with ADHD, mood swings, et on Working with ADHD? · · Score: 1
    You say:

    Just within the last year have I fully noticed the mood swings, and how low I could get in the winter months, being in Canada around Toronto area -- similar in geographic location to Detroit and Buffalo.

    Ever thought of moving to sunnier climes?
  15. Re:Chemistry in ADHD on Working with ADHD? · · Score: 1
    Chemistry?
    Ritalin is the most popular. It is used mostly for treating children. Its generic form is methylphenidate or MPH. Studies have shown that MPH is up to 30% less effective than the brand name drug, Ritalin. It can cause tics in children. Those who take Ritalin do not develop tics.
    and
    Dexedrine is second most common to Ritalin in use for treating ADD. It is used mostly for treating adolescents and adults. The generic form of Dexedrine, dextroamphetamine sulfate, is considered inferior to the name brand, and not as long-lasting.
    Looks more like homeopathy to me.
  16. Re:SMP? RCU? on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1
    Here's source for UnixWare being based on SVR4 ES and SVR4 ES/MP:

    Re: Q: Info on SVR4 ES -- Enhanced Security

    Here's source for Sequent input into SVR4 ES/MP:

    Re: sco, mpx, multi processor and Re: YES!!! - SCO Group Slaps IBM with $1B Suit

    It's a big gif; where are Sequent on it?
    Sequent (dynix) is the line right underneath the SYSV (3, 4, 4.2, 5) yellow line. It forks from BSD in 1984 and merges stuff from SYSV in 1985, and 1988.
  17. Re:Revealed! Whole programs copied in Linux!! on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1

    Who moderated this funny? I was hoping for Insightful. Even I wouldn't claim it's Interesting though.

  18. Re:SMP? RCU? on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1

    Then again, they're trying to make a fast buck, rather than sitting down with IBM and going over the facts to everyone's satisfaction.

    According to SCO/Caldera they did try talking to IBM at first, but IBM told them to get lost.
  19. Re:SMP? RCU? on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1
    certainly any shred of hope that SCO would have would have to rest on the agreements between SCO (pre-Caldera, *probably* post-Novell) and Sequent
    Nope, SVR4.? ES/MP was merged into UnixWare 2.0, i.e. when Novell were in charge. I'd guess that the actual work was done for USL, i.e. AT&T. Things were moving fast in those days.
  20. Re:you're a moron on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1

    You don't have to be a lawyer to understant that SOME of the claims made by SCO are outright lies.

    For example?
  21. Re:How does SCO know AIX infringes?!?! on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 2, Interesting
    caveat: dunno when Veritas entered the fray as a third-party vendor).
    UnixWare 1.0 had vxfs, it was released Nov 2 1992.
  22. Re:SMP? RCU? on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1
    And of course the questions nobody here has yet asked are:

    Under what terms did Sequent write the SVR4 ES/MP stuff? Who owns it? How did AT&T/NOVELL/SCO et al get hold of it?

  23. Re:Revealed! Whole programs copied in Linux!! on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1
    Yup, SVR4 has /usr/bin/sh which uses shared libc and /sbin/sh which is staticly linked.

    Note that on SVR4 systems /bin is just a symlink to /usr/bin.

    # ls -l /bin /sbin/sh /usr/bin/sh
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 8 Jan 4 2002 /bin -> /usr/bin
    -r-xr-xr-x 2 root sys 113108 Jan 7 2002 /sbin/sh
    -r-xr-xr-x 5 root sys 74260 Jan 7 2002 /usr/bin/sh
  24. Re:SMP? RCU? on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 1

    UnixWare has had SMP since they merged the Sequent written SVR4 ES/MP stuff to make UnixWare 2, released January 1995 according to Ãric Lévénez.

  25. Re:Revealed! Whole programs copied in Linux!! on SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages · · Score: 2, Funny
    How amusing, from the comments above it seems that Solaris has a more advanced version of /usr/bin/true than UnixWare.

    It might be that the UnixWare version is faster however as it, unlike the Solaris version, doesn't need a shared library.

    However the Solaris version might use less memory (as /usr/bin/sh is more likely to be loaded than /sbin/sh).

    Ah, it's so difficult working out which performance tradeoffs to make.

    I wonder how many people have spent time working on /usr/bin/true between the 1.1 version in V5.4es to 1.4 in UnixWare, to 1.6 in Solaris?