From Micro Cornucopia, Nov-Dec 1989, p.40: "Many years ago, IBM purchased a licence to System V.2 and has independently developed it into AIX.." (bolding mine)
IBM already had a licence to SysV.2, it would be interesting to see what the licence IBM signed with Novell covered. (And did they pass any AIX code back? Can SCO still use that code if so?)
That would be nice. I've worked at far too many companies that operated in continuous "burn mode". I don't mind a big push for a few months to get something out the door, peaking in a couple weeks of insanity. But when it drags on over years, and anyone leaving at 7pm gets funny looks, well... They need to fix their project management.
I've only ever worked at one place that had good project management, and we still went over deadline and had our two weeks of insanity. Ah well, it's a funny old business.
I dunno about flying. More likely it'll taxi around in circles on the runway until it runs out of fuel or accidently takes off. In the event of a take off, the crew will have the option selling out to another airline and bailing for large amounts of money. In the event of a dot.bomb on board, all passengers will be abruptly fired off the plane.
With a name like Dreamliner, I would expect, maybe, a good sleep on my next trip. Then again, I may also expect "dreamlike" services, being able to browse the Internet for no extra cost, or maybe even being able to use a cellphone on takeoff.
Microsoft doesn't recommend Java. I had a look in the Office EULA to see what legal weasel clause they had. Nothing specific except this piece (their damned caps):
NOTE ON JAVA SUPPORT. THE SOFTWARE PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN SUPPORT FOR PROGRAMS WRITTEN IN JAVA. JAVA TECHNOLOGY IS NOT FAULT TOLERANT AND IS NOT DESIGNED, MANUFACTURED, OR INTENDED FOR USE OR RESALE AS [snip of shouting FUD], DIRECT LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES, OR WEAPONS SYSTEMS, IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF JAVA TECHNOLOGY COULD LEAD DIRECTLY TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.
For damages.NET offers you what you paid or $5, which ever is greater. Whee! (Great Microsoft's yelling set off the lameness filter. *sigh*, I am not going to fix it for them. Hopefully if I type a little more, it'll get past, otherwise you'll never see this. Nope, this is indeed a disapointment. This makes me very angry, very angry indeed!)
* Starting Laser
! Garbage collection interrupt
! Garbage collection complete
* Now where was I...
I'm not saying WinCE couldn't do it, mostly, but Microsoft usually hangs too much stuff in the OS for me to trust it. (There's a reason for that "not to be used in medical uses" legal weasel disclaimer on lots of software.)
Yes, I think that was the point. Normally it would be a full two weeks, but the deadline got messed up and now it just has to get done on time no matter what. Sorry.
This feature was available at least a year before, I'm not exactly sure when version 1.1 came out, but it was the fist version of Apache to support it.
WebSite had it in 1996 or before. (It is yet another HTTPD descendant.)
There are other projects that could use a lot of spare CPU time. If the humanitarian ones don't excite, how about pissing off Bill Gates? (Click on my sig.)
They might mandate which software. Just like a company might mandate that MS Word is the standard document format, they could mandate OpenOffice.
It's about organizational standards, not some vague "nature of open software". You want worker X to be able to use workstation Y or department A to be able to give a report to office B.
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So I guess plugging my software into the cassette port of an old micro is unlikely to work right?
it's that army of lawyers that is the only thing that scares me about this case It's not unlike the zergling rush from Hell. Sounds like it too.
I swear, one day I'm going to learn to preview posts that can't posssibly go wrong go wrong go wrong... Imagine a [/b] after "Many".
IBM already had a licence to SysV.2, it would be interesting to see what the licence IBM signed with Novell covered. (And did they pass any AIX code back? Can SCO still use that code if so?)
This is going to be fun.
I've only ever worked at one place that had good project management, and we still went over deadline and had our two weeks of insanity. Ah well, it's a funny old business.
Caller: The cockpit windscreen blew away and all the crew was sucked out. What are we going to do? .. re-install Windows ...
Tech: Okay, first
I dunno about flying. More likely it'll taxi around in circles on the runway until it runs out of fuel or accidently takes off. In the event of a take off, the crew will have the option selling out to another airline and bailing for large amounts of money. In the event of a dot.bomb on board, all passengers will be abruptly fired off the plane.
I can just imagine the next airplane thriller movie: "Mid-Air Tech-Support Call".
You're dreaming.
For damages .NET offers you what you paid or $5, which ever is greater. Whee! (Great Microsoft's yelling set off the lameness filter. *sigh*, I am not going to fix it for them. Hopefully if I type a little more, it'll get past, otherwise you'll never see this. Nope, this is indeed a disapointment. This makes me very angry, very angry indeed!)
! Garbage collection interrupt
! Garbage collection complete
* Now where was I...
I'm not saying WinCE couldn't do it, mostly, but Microsoft usually hangs too much stuff in the OS for me to trust it. (There's a reason for that "not to be used in medical uses" legal weasel disclaimer on lots of software.)
Yes, I think that was the point. Normally it would be a full two weeks, but the deadline got messed up and now it just has to get done on time no matter what. Sorry.
Is it really safe to assume this for real-time control applications?
Damn, 80 working hours of course.
Make sure you give them the full and proper 80 hours notice. ;^P
WebSite had it in 1996 or before. (It is yet another HTTPD descendant.)
IBM BLOWS OFF SCOX
(I could say something more about bulls and bears, but I think that's enough...)
Either that or the code in question will also be found in some older work that SCO doesn't control like 386BSD.
Well, you would want a family tree that's been cut and dried, now would you? Unless you wanted to have a bonfire.
*Ow*! Okay, I'm going... :^P
"I'm a reasonable man. Give me the map, and you might walk out of here on human limbs..."
Nope. ObSimp "Does anyone remember the movie TRON?"
Isn't this unreasonable search and seizure? This isn't just taking someone's butt-print.
There are other projects that could use a lot of spare CPU time. If the humanitarian ones don't excite, how about pissing off Bill Gates? (Click on my sig.)
Into the Brazilian government and government owned corporations. Can you sell much to the US government without being ISO 9000 compliant?
It's about organizational standards, not some vague "nature of open software". You want worker X to be able to use workstation Y or department A to be able to give a report to office B.
Usually tapping magnetic fields for power costs momentum, but Jupiter's environment is pretty complex. Perhaps something clever could be done.