I used to work as an engineer on the Caldera server and desktop teams. I was part of the many layoffs which reduced the engineering forces there to nothing. It was sas seeing friends go and everyone knew it was only a matter of time before it was their turn.
However, also being a founding trustee memeber of the Salt Lake Linux Users Group and a Linux and OpenSource advocate for years, I am very grateful that I was able to leave before the name change to SCO and the "direction change" - I would have had to quit anyway.
I still have a couple friends there. The amazing thing is that I ran into one of them (Walt Hammond) yesterday (Fri. March 4, 2005) at lunch. I was amazed at his comments. The feeling inside the company is very positive! I couldn't beleive it. It seems that (from my stand point) that the co-workers are completely blind to what is really happening. Not only with reguard to what is happening but also related to the morality (or lack thereof IMO) of their actions. He was completely positive saying that (parapharasing) "things looks so good for us right now but if you read the press, you'd think we were a sinking ship" and (again, paraphrasing) "the press says we've had major set backs but if you look, we've been winning".
I don't know if it's the blind leading the blind or if he really believes what he told me. Of course, being at the director level or above, I'd think you'd have to tote the company line or you wouldn't be around very long at SCO. So, who knows what he really believes.
They (friendster) really could _really_ use the horse power google has. It can be _very slow_ sometimes and I constanly get messages that my network cannot be traced from me to someone in my network. Hmmmm. I really like Friendster but Orkut may have the backend power to make social networking a more friendly experience.
When you think of it, the windmills are producing energy, which kills birds, which other animals eat, which turn into fossil fuels, which can be turned into other power sources. They should be subsidizing them!
or rather:
"When you think of it, the windmills are producing energy, which kills birds, which other animals eat, which turn into fertilizer, which then helps plants grow which then turn into fossil fuels, which can be turned into other power sources. They should be subsidizing them!"
...it's not quite as bad as burning old animals (fossel fuels).
Of course I'm sure you ment to say "...it's not quite as bad as burning old plants (fossel fuels)" as everyone knows that fossel fuels are the remains of plants (tropical), not animals. 8^)
Thanks for the pointer. For playing my music via software on a computer, there are several solutions for all the OSes I use. So, as far as listening to my music collecion, I am doing fine. I have a 40gig USB HD that I use for holding my collection as well as storing other data. This has proven to be a fairly good solution for me since it can be moutned under most OSes and there are players for every OS I use, it's portable and convenient. I am either at work or at home for 60-80% of the time anyway so when I want to listen to music other than CDs or the radio, I am near a computer.
Yea, maybe you're right to some point. I won't get one until I can afford it. But when I do I plan one getting one that meets my needs. While I don't think your comment was very objective, thanks for speaking your mind.
I have a buget that I try to stick to. I have mortgage payments, utilites, insurance, and other things which come before my toys. I try not to go into debt for toys. When I've saved enough for the things I want, after taking care of the things I need, I'll get one. Thanks for asking so kindly without any snide or rhetorical sland to your question.
There is a market for Ogg support. Other smaller players are filling the demand right now. Just like APEX and other smaller DVD players were first to support jpeg, ogg, mp3 playback in their DVD players long before major manufacturers did.
There are several good players on the market now. Please see Vorbis Hardware. My personal favorite being the Rio Karma which sports phone out, RCA out (much better than 1/8" out for hokup to external amps, ethernet with DHCP client for automaticaly grabbing an address for networking, 5 band parametric EQ (by far the most advanced eq in a portable player). Pretty nice product. 20 gigs are out now with 40 gigs coming shortly.
I just can't justify buying one until it natively supports Ogg Vorbis. I have encoded my entire collection of CDs in ogg by choice and have been waiting until good hardware players for ogg were available before I purchased one. Now with several on the market (the Rio Karma being my top choice curently) it looks like Apple will not be getting my business.
Above the kernel, a large portion, but still a minority of the tools/apps in the typical Linux [kernel based] system are actualy signed over to the FSF or FSF original works.
The things that are actualy owned (FSF copyright assigned or FSF original works) are the only thing RMS can claim.
Agreed, there are some big ones...glibc and gcc are the huge. Many other's tools/apps may use the GPL but that is a choice of license, not a political/religious alignment or assingment of copyright.
I do agree that the GPL is brilliant and has made OSS/FreeSoftware possible. However, the majority of apps and code in the typical Linux [kernel based] system are _not_ owned by or have copyrights assinged to the FSF | RMS, nor are they original works of the FSF or RMS. There are also _several_ other OpenSource Licenses (if it's not (L)GPLed, it's not "FreeSoftware" - right) in use on the typical Linux [kernel based] system as well as many commercial applications in use by both people and businesses.
There are other OSes which ship with gcc, glib, and several other FSF owned/assinged FreeSoftware. Apples's OS X, many of the BSD's use gcc, you can get gcc for most UNIXs - gasp! even SCO's UNIXs! (hopefully that support gets pulled shortly). Are they all to be called GNU/<whateverOS>? When cigwin is installed on a Microsoft product, is it then GNU/Microsoft? Is that Linux is so popular that RMS has chosen to call it GNU/Linux?
Does the Freedom that he professes to be such a nessasery part of life and happiness (and that I appreciate greatly) not extended to speech (particulary in this case, the naming of a system - a group of programs)? Is St. IGNUcious worried that his works (which are great, and include the writing of a unique license has fostered a movement which is completely original in all of history) will not stand on their own and mark his place in history?
Quoth RMS: "I am concerned about long-term entrenched confusions such as referring to a version of our GNU OS as 'Linux' and thinking that our work on free software was motivated by the ideas associated with 'open source.' These confusions lead users away from the basic issue: their freedom. By comparison, the events involving SCO are transitory and almost trivial,".
Aparently RMS no longer is seeking to have "Linux" refered to as "GNU/Linux" but rather the "GNU OS"...Oh my! How things have changed...
Lets see here...Linux becomes more popular than my project...force others to associate me with the success of another...Linux becomes a target...run away, run away!!!!
I feel that RPN is so much more liberating once you get used to it. It really is flexable an having a stack and a complete programming language at your fingertips is sooooo much a plus.
I find it hard and annoying to use "regular" calculators now. I have been using my HP 48SX for almost ten years now and it still runs like a charm!!!! BTW, HP has revived their calc division. See www.hpcalc.org for details. They have a line of new calculators on the way too!!!
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This should really be considered "Public Domain" law rather then OpenSource. OpenSource, by definition is copyrighted material. While material in the public domain is without copyright.
The offending code will be replaced and/or removed
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The sooner the "offending" code is known, the better for the Linux communuity. If the code is revealed, it will be removed as soon as possible and patches/replacement code can be worked on immediately. The OpenSource kernel can be cleaned as soon as possible.
One of the many things that has bugged me is that by not doing this, SCO has been forcing infringment. By allowing people to know what needs to be changed, we can move on.
If IBM really did contribute code they shouldn't have, then SCO's issues are with IBM, not the rest of the community.
Small PCs are just too cool. However, while working on the engineering team at Caldera, we had one from Fujitsu (marketed as the "PathNavigator" or "PathNavi") that we as engineers were able to play with.
The cool thing is that it had two ethernet jacks. This made it a great DHCP/NIS/Samba/auth/firewall/gw/whatever appliance.
I've been searchnig for a small x86 based unit like this for a long time for personal use. I've seen OpenBrick (which has a PCMCIA slot which can be used for an additional ethernet), and the units mentioned in this article but they all have only one built-in ethernet. Anyone know of something similar with two ethernet interfaces?
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I"ll scratch it for you...first I need to make a screen for it.
I used to work as an engineer on the Caldera server and desktop teams. I was part of the many layoffs which reduced the engineering forces there to nothing. It was sas seeing friends go and everyone knew it was only a matter of time before it was their turn.
However, also being a founding trustee memeber of the Salt Lake Linux Users Group and a Linux and OpenSource advocate for years, I am very grateful that I was able to leave before the name change to SCO and the "direction change" - I would have had to quit anyway.
I still have a couple friends there. The amazing thing is that I ran into one of them (Walt Hammond) yesterday (Fri. March 4, 2005) at lunch. I was amazed at his comments. The feeling inside the company is very positive! I couldn't beleive it. It seems that (from my stand point) that the co-workers are completely blind to what is really happening. Not only with reguard to what is happening but also related to the morality (or lack thereof IMO) of their actions. He was completely positive saying that (parapharasing) "things looks so good for us right now but if you read the press, you'd think we were a sinking ship" and (again, paraphrasing) "the press says we've had major set backs but if you look, we've been winning".
I don't know if it's the blind leading the blind or if he really believes what he told me. Of course, being at the director level or above, I'd think you'd have to tote the company line or you wouldn't be around very long at SCO. So, who knows what he really believes.
So, I wonder if these drives could be used to upgrade the Rio Karma....Anyone have an idea?
It looks as if the crack is for barrel=key type locks, not the combination type. Can anyone confirm this?
They (friendster) really could _really_ use the horse power google has. It can be _very slow_ sometimes and I constanly get messages that my network cannot be traced from me to someone in my network. Hmmmm. I really like Friendster but Orkut may have the backend power to make social networking a more friendly experience.
When you think of it, the windmills are producing energy, which kills birds, which other animals eat, which turn into fossil fuels, which can be turned into other power sources. They should be subsidizing them!
or rather:
"When you think of it, the windmills are producing energy, which kills birds, which other animals eat, which turn into fertilizer, which then helps plants grow which then turn into fossil fuels, which can be turned into other power sources. They should be subsidizing them!"
as everyone knows that fossel fuels are the remains of plants (tropical), not animals. 8^)
...it's not quite as bad as burning old animals (fossel fuels).
Of course I'm sure you ment to say "...it's not quite as bad as burning old plants (fossel fuels)" as everyone knows that fossel fuels are the remains of plants (tropical), not animals. 8^)
BTW, IMHO, slashdot is neither the place for confessions or therapy however, I do wish you the best of luck with your issues.
http://www.sidespace.com/products/oggs
For more information on Ogg, here's the Ogg Vorbis General FAQ
Also here is a page that describes the quality of Ogg Vorbis encoding with comparison samples to listen to. Sound quality is subjective so listen for yourself.
Thanks for the pointer. For playing my music via software on a computer, there are several solutions for all the OSes I use. So, as far as listening to my music collecion, I am doing fine. I have a 40gig USB HD that I use for holding my collection as well as storing other data. This has proven to be a fairly good solution for me since it can be moutned under most OSes and there are players for every OS I use, it's portable and convenient. I am either at work or at home for 60-80% of the time anyway so when I want to listen to music other than CDs or the radio, I am near a computer.
Yea, maybe you're right to some point. I won't get one until I can afford it. But when I do I plan one getting one that meets my needs. While I don't think your comment was very objective, thanks for speaking your mind.
I have a buget that I try to stick to. I have mortgage payments, utilites, insurance, and other things which come before my toys. I try not to go into debt for toys. When I've saved enough for the things I want, after taking care of the things I need, I'll get one. Thanks for asking so kindly without any snide or rhetorical sland to your question.
There is a market for Ogg support. Other smaller players are filling the demand right now. Just like APEX and other smaller DVD players were first to support jpeg, ogg, mp3 playback in their DVD players long before major manufacturers did.
There are several good players on the market now. Please see Vorbis Hardware. My personal favorite being the Rio Karma which sports phone out, RCA out (much better than 1/8" out for hokup to external amps, ethernet with DHCP client for automaticaly grabbing an address for networking, 5 band parametric EQ (by far the most advanced eq in a portable player). Pretty nice product. 20 gigs are out now with 40 gigs coming shortly.
I just can't justify buying one until it natively supports Ogg Vorbis. I have encoded my entire collection of CDs in ogg by choice and have been waiting until good hardware players for ogg were available before I purchased one. Now with several on the market (the Rio Karma being my top choice curently) it looks like Apple will not be getting my business.
stupid sumbiches....
Above the kernel, a large portion, but still a minority of the tools/apps in the typical Linux [kernel based] system are actualy signed over to the FSF or FSF original works.
The things that are actualy owned (FSF copyright assigned or FSF original works) are the only thing RMS can claim.
Agreed, there are some big ones...glibc and gcc are the huge. Many other's tools/apps may use the GPL but that is a choice of license, not a political/religious alignment or assingment of copyright.
I do agree that the GPL is brilliant and has made OSS/FreeSoftware possible. However, the majority of apps and code in the typical Linux [kernel based] system are _not_ owned by or have copyrights assinged to the FSF | RMS, nor are they original works of the FSF or RMS. There are also _several_ other OpenSource Licenses (if it's not (L)GPLed, it's not "FreeSoftware" - right) in use on the typical Linux [kernel based] system as well as many commercial applications in use by both people and businesses.
There are other OSes which ship with gcc, glib, and several other FSF owned/assinged FreeSoftware. Apples's OS X, many of the BSD's use gcc, you can get gcc for most UNIXs - gasp! even SCO's UNIXs! (hopefully that support gets pulled shortly). Are they all to be called GNU/<whateverOS>? When cigwin is installed on a Microsoft product, is it then GNU/Microsoft? Is that Linux is so popular that RMS has chosen to call it GNU/Linux?
Does the Freedom that he professes to be such a nessasery part of life and happiness (and that I appreciate greatly) not extended to speech (particulary in this case, the naming of a system - a group of programs)? Is St. IGNUcious worried that his works (which are great, and include the writing of a unique license has fostered a movement which is completely original in all of history) will not stand on their own and mark his place in history?
Quoth RMS: "I am concerned about long-term entrenched confusions such as referring to a version of our GNU OS as 'Linux' and thinking that our work on free software was motivated by the ideas associated with 'open source.' These confusions lead users away from the basic issue: their freedom. By comparison, the events involving SCO are transitory and almost trivial,".
Aparently RMS no longer is seeking to have "Linux" refered to as "GNU/Linux" but rather the "GNU OS"...Oh my! How things have changed...
Lets see here...Linux becomes more popular than my project...force others to associate me with the success of another...Linux becomes a target...run away, run away!!!!
Any bets on how long till Linux's first boot on an HP49g+?
I find it hard and annoying to use "regular" calculators now. I have been using my HP 48SX for almost ten years now and it still runs like a charm!!!! BTW, HP has revived their calc division. See www.hpcalc.org for details. They have a line of new calculators on the way too!!!
This should really be considered "Public Domain" law rather then OpenSource. OpenSource, by definition is copyrighted material. While material in the public domain is without copyright.
One of the many things that has bugged me is that by not doing this, SCO has been forcing infringment. By allowing people to know what needs to be changed, we can move on.
If IBM really did contribute code they shouldn't have, then SCO's issues are with IBM, not the rest of the community.
It seems to be the same technology as a joystick with the added function of making the downward (z) motion of the stick activate a switch.
The cool thing is that it had two ethernet jacks. This made it a great DHCP/NIS/Samba/auth/firewall/gw/whatever appliance.
I've been searchnig for a small x86 based unit like this for a long time for personal use. I've seen OpenBrick (which has a PCMCIA slot which can be used for an additional ethernet), and the units mentioned in this article but they all have only one built-in ethernet. Anyone know of something similar with two ethernet interfaces?
Thanks for clearifying. I understand completly...