Yeah, and the damned leechers were out in such numbers last night, I was unable to play True Combat: Elite because they were having a severe impact on my ping times. I'm only on a small ISP that can be swamped by P2P leeching of large files like this one. The cheap bastards should go to the cinema.
Dvorak is clueless on so many things, I don't know why he ever gets airtime on Slashdot. After all, he thinks the Windows system idle process is somehow making his PC slow by using 98% CPU.
In other parts of the world, there are telcos who realise the handwriting is on the wall for POTS and are also starting to provide inexpensive VOIP. Just because bought politicians will try and put a stop to VOIP in the US, it won't stop progress elsewhere.
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It is very easy to install OpenBSD without any official ISOs.
Method 1: Download the boot ISO (there is a boot ISO available for download), burn to CD, boot, set up your hard disk, then tell it to do an FTP install.
Method 2: Download the boot ISO, and also download all the basic packages (the ones in the form of base37.tgz etc.) Burn the boot ISO to one CD, then create a normal CD containing all the packages. Boot the bootable CD, swap the CDs over, then tell it to install from CD.
Using the two CD method, I can go from a blank computer to a working OpenBSD system in less than 15 minutes.
OpenBSD runs great on Sparc. I have probably the only 64-bit ADSL router for miles - my home firewall/fileserver is a Sun Ultra 5, running OpenBSD 3.6, with a USB-attached ADSL modem that came free with the connection.
Because if you log onto a foreign web site, it says, "Ah, this person is giving me an id which is stored on another server. Let me ask that other server if this person is known to them". If the other server knows this, it returns a token so now you know that the other server authenticated. (You can then associate things with this token for when the user next visits your server).
So basically, if you're logging onto the web site where you are registered, it simply makes a local call to a local database. if you provide an ID registered at another server, instead of the webserver looking in its local database of IDs, it asks the remote server if it knows the user. That way the user doesn't have to register with your site, too.
I think you misunderstand the purpose - this isn't for providing authentication/directory services within an organization, it's for doing something similar to Passport - allowing someone a single sign on to a large number of different web sites.
No, I don't think this means there is an SEC investigation or anything like it. Let's examine the (rather badly and unclearly written) statement:
In addition, regulators or others in the Linux market and some foreign regulators have initiated or in the future may initiate legal actions against us, all of which may negatively impact our operations and future operating performance
I parse this to mean the statement is true if one or more of the conditions are true now or in the future. We know that 'others in the Linux market' are already suing (RHAT, NOVL). However, the statement as it stands doesn't say that SCO are being prosecuted NOW by regulators, but they may in future be prosecuted by regulators.
Therefore, I think the statement refers to the fact they are currently being sued by RHAT and NOVL, and might be prosecuted later by regulators (although this is not yet certain).
However, if you are a small company, and MS decides to sue you over the use of their trivial patent, you may not be able to afford to defend yourself. Even if you independently came up with the same 'invention'. Also you get IP-only firms who use trivial patents to blackmail other firms - if a small firm cannot afford to defend a patent action, they must pay up.
I agree that patents aren't automatically bad, but it says something when the USPTO has to distinguish between non-innovative patents and "pioneer patents" (of which they say only a very small number are - in the single digits percentage wise). Really, only the "pioneer patents" should be granted, the other 95% or so need to be thrown out on grounds of obviousness.
Prior art or not, given the problem it is supposed to solve, the solution is obvious to a practitioner ordinarilly skilled in the art. It should not be patentable because it's obvious.
I've been to Palo Duro canyon and camped in it (the reason I ever spent any time near Amarillo) and been stranded there for a night when the attitude indicator in my plane died and it was solid IFR conditions in Houston (and wound up having to get SouthWest back to HOU). So I've seen the Pantex plant close up, it's inconvieniently located right near the airport with prohibited airspace right around it meaning you have to carefully navigate the approach!
Why drive? Amarillo has an airport served by Southwest Airlines. I dare say they do direct flights to Dallas (they certainly do to Houston).
Actually, I don't know the point of that song. Amarillo is a fairly non-descript town. The only notable thing about it is there is a nuclear weapons storage facility there, plus a Bell-Textron facility where (at least a couple of years ago) they had a couple of Osprey powered-lift aircraft.
Hard drive!? I had to use audio tapes and a tape recorder for my first computer's mass storage! The computer (a Sinclair ZX-81) had 1K of RAM which was shared between video memory and main memory.
We have some FOSS tools for Windows being packaged and pushed out through SMS/Active Directory etc. (I'm not in charge of that bit, so I'm only peripherally aware on what goes on). Generally, anything with an MSI is easy to package (for example, ActiveState Perl). We also use OpenSSH and Putty etc. which the IS department have packaged.
It's Just Another Package as far as all that stuff is concerned.
I'm surprised they are patenting this - after all, a publically available patent tells the P2P software writers how to defeat the patented methods by revealing them all!
Try BBC Radio 4 if you want talk radio (you'll obviously need to get it over the Internet). Of course it will be rather British-centric for news reporting, but there's a lot more on Radio 4 than news.
"If I have seen so far, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" -- Isaac Newton.
Microsoft only have got where they are today by standing on the shoulders of giants - people who were free with their (highly insightful) thoughts. Don't they remember this?
I shudder to think how progress would get held back if each individual jealously guarded their thoughts from each other. This campaign sends entirely the wrong message.
Ah, so now we know your 3GB space an 100GB of transfer advertised in your sig aren't binary gigabytes, but decimal, just like the hard drive manufacturers:-)
I dunno. We have 70 desktop systems (HPaq d530) with Maxtor 40GB drives. We've had 8 hard drives fail in these machines in the last 12 months - that's >10% failure rate. We've also had a 35GB SCSI drive (less than 1 year old) fail in one of the HP dl380 servers we have (we have 20 of these disks).
OSS would exist. OSS (or specifically, Free software) really got going with the GNU project in the mid 1980s, and happened in the UNIX world, not the PC world. It'd have happened regardless of what IBM and Microsoft did back then.
At 19in, it's not a friggin' notebook! The paper note books that most people use are A4 sized and smaller.
There is something wrong with a portable this size: it has all the disadvantages of a laptop and most of the disadvantages of a desktop, with few of the advantages.
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Yeah, and the damned leechers were out in such numbers last night, I was unable to play True Combat: Elite because they were having a severe impact on my ping times. I'm only on a small ISP that can be swamped by P2P leeching of large files like this one. The cheap bastards should go to the cinema.
Dvorak is clueless on so many things, I don't know why he ever gets airtime on Slashdot. After all, he thinks the Windows system idle process is somehow making his PC slow by using 98% CPU.
In other parts of the world, there are telcos who realise the handwriting is on the wall for POTS and are also starting to provide inexpensive VOIP. Just because bought politicians will try and put a stop to VOIP in the US, it won't stop progress elsewhere.
It is very easy to install OpenBSD without any official ISOs.
Method 1:
Download the boot ISO (there is a boot ISO available for download), burn to CD, boot, set up your hard disk, then tell it to do an FTP install.
Method 2:
Download the boot ISO, and also download all the basic packages (the ones in the form of base37.tgz etc.) Burn the boot ISO to one CD, then create a normal CD containing all the packages.
Boot the bootable CD, swap the CDs over, then tell it to install from CD.
Using the two CD method, I can go from a blank computer to a working OpenBSD system in less than 15 minutes.
OpenBSD runs great on Sparc. I have probably the only 64-bit ADSL router for miles - my home firewall/fileserver is a Sun Ultra 5, running OpenBSD 3.6, with a USB-attached ADSL modem that came free with the connection.
Say-Tay? Eugh.
I call it Sahtah (ah as in the a sound in 'cat'). And Squil instead of Sequel.
Because if you log onto a foreign web site, it says, "Ah, this person is giving me an id which is stored on another server. Let me ask that other server if this person is known to them". If the other server knows this, it returns a token so now you know that the other server authenticated. (You can then associate things with this token for when the user next visits your server).
So basically, if you're logging onto the web site where you are registered, it simply makes a local call to a local database. if you provide an ID registered at another server, instead of the webserver looking in its local database of IDs, it asks the remote server if it knows the user. That way the user doesn't have to register with your site, too.
I think you misunderstand the purpose - this isn't for providing authentication/directory services within an organization, it's for doing something similar to Passport - allowing someone a single sign on to a large number of different web sites.
I parse this to mean the statement is true if one or more of the conditions are true now or in the future. We know that 'others in the Linux market' are already suing (RHAT, NOVL). However, the statement as it stands doesn't say that SCO are being prosecuted NOW by regulators, but they may in future be prosecuted by regulators.
Therefore, I think the statement refers to the fact they are currently being sued by RHAT and NOVL, and might be prosecuted later by regulators (although this is not yet certain).
However, if you are a small company, and MS decides to sue you over the use of their trivial patent, you may not be able to afford to defend yourself. Even if you independently came up with the same 'invention'. Also you get IP-only firms who use trivial patents to blackmail other firms - if a small firm cannot afford to defend a patent action, they must pay up.
I agree that patents aren't automatically bad, but it says something when the USPTO has to distinguish between non-innovative patents and "pioneer patents" (of which they say only a very small number are - in the single digits percentage wise). Really, only the "pioneer patents" should be granted, the other 95% or so need to be thrown out on grounds of obviousness.
Prior art or not, given the problem it is supposed to solve, the solution is obvious to a practitioner ordinarilly skilled in the art. It should not be patentable because it's obvious.
I've been to Palo Duro canyon and camped in it (the reason I ever spent any time near Amarillo) and been stranded there for a night when the attitude indicator in my plane died and it was solid IFR conditions in Houston (and wound up having to get SouthWest back to HOU). So I've seen the Pantex plant close up, it's inconvieniently located right near the airport with prohibited airspace right around it meaning you have to carefully navigate the approach!
Why drive? Amarillo has an airport served by Southwest Airlines. I dare say they do direct flights to Dallas (they certainly do to Houston).
Actually, I don't know the point of that song. Amarillo is a fairly non-descript town. The only notable thing about it is there is a nuclear weapons storage facility there, plus a Bell-Textron facility where (at least a couple of years ago) they had a couple of Osprey powered-lift aircraft.
Hard drive!? I had to use audio tapes and a tape recorder for my first computer's mass storage! The computer (a Sinclair ZX-81) had 1K of RAM which was shared between video memory and main memory.
And I had to walk uphill to school both ways.
Urgh. Don't call it the "blogosphere". That's a *horrible* word.
We have some FOSS tools for Windows being packaged and pushed out through SMS/Active Directory etc. (I'm not in charge of that bit, so I'm only peripherally aware on what goes on). Generally, anything with an MSI is easy to package (for example, ActiveState Perl). We also use OpenSSH and Putty etc. which the IS department have packaged.
It's Just Another Package as far as all that stuff is concerned.
I'm surprised they are patenting this - after all, a publically available patent tells the P2P software writers how to defeat the patented methods by revealing them all!
Try BBC Radio 4 if you want talk radio (you'll obviously need to get it over the Internet). Of course it will be rather British-centric for news reporting, but there's a lot more on Radio 4 than news.
"If I have seen so far, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" -- Isaac Newton.
Microsoft only have got where they are today by standing on the shoulders of giants - people who were free with their (highly insightful) thoughts. Don't they remember this?
I shudder to think how progress would get held back if each individual jealously guarded their thoughts from each other. This campaign sends entirely the wrong message.
Not if you have a WAM fetish!
Ah, so now we know your 3GB space an 100GB of transfer advertised in your sig aren't binary gigabytes, but decimal, just like the hard drive manufacturers :-)
I dunno. We have 70 desktop systems (HPaq d530) with Maxtor 40GB drives. We've had 8 hard drives fail in these machines in the last 12 months - that's >10% failure rate. We've also had a 35GB SCSI drive (less than 1 year old) fail in one of the HP dl380 servers we have (we have 20 of these disks).
OSS would exist. OSS (or specifically, Free software) really got going with the GNU project in the mid 1980s, and happened in the UNIX world, not the PC world. It'd have happened regardless of what IBM and Microsoft did back then.
I was running OpenOffice on a 64 bit SPARC system years ago. I suspect you're having other problems.
At 19in, it's not a friggin' notebook! The paper note books that most people use are A4 sized and smaller.
There is something wrong with a portable this size: it has all the disadvantages of a laptop and most of the disadvantages of a desktop, with few of the advantages.
It's *intents* and purposes, not intensive purposes.