I just compiled X 4.3.0 on my Debian 'unstable' system, and it definitely did not take even 10 hours.. i left home, came back a bit around 10 hrs later, and it was all installed.
You shouldn't talk unless you know what you're talking about. RadioShack NiMH AA, 1.2V 1800mAh.
I see that this "Maha" brand name has a 2200mAh and a 2000mAh NiMH battery. Strangely enough, I don't find too many other manufacturers touting that capacity.. so unless they have some new technology behind it, or can fit more mass into the same space, I wouldn't believe that they are higher than 2000mAh at best...
XMMS skips frequently when switching desktops IF THERE IS NOTHING ELSE HAPPENING. It's amazing. The more load I put on the system, the less XMMS skips.:)
Yeah, that's the way it goes, Bruce. I've been telling people that for years, here on Slashdot.. it's always the bandwidth not the servers. My 486sx/25 could handle a slashdotting.. the network traffic would never get there enough to freak it out.
ALSA works great, as far as I can tell, although I am doing everything thru the OSS compatibility modules. Preempt is awesome. If you're having problems with it, I'm guessing you're using Debian, and you need to un-nice your X server.
Not exactly correct. A patent covers a METHOD of DOING something.. and with that being said, if the code is totally different, you might be doing the same thing, but you're definitely doing it in a different way.
Hmm. Well, it's OpenLinux 2.2. I have no idea what kernel version it actually contains, as I don't think I've ever actually used it for anything besides a rescue CD, and now I can't even find the bootable CD from the package.
I really have to wonder when it actually came to pass that SCO's code came to have SMP support - and is it worth anything? I know we've got SCO Xenix floating around here, and it certainly doesn't SEEM to indicate any form of SMP capability. and it is being used on an SMP box... *shrug*
The whole point of filing for Copyright registration, is so that they can USE COPYRIGHT LAW. All it takes to copyright something is to attach a copyright notice to it.
However, to USE the LAW to PROTECT your copyright, requires that you Register your Copyright with the Copyright Office.
This is a REQUIRED step for them to use any Copyright laws in any way shape or form to their advantage.
This is absolutely non-news. This is so non-news, it's pathetic. And there's 652 more comments I haven't read!
All this is is someone saying "Hey, this is mine. I want a legal document to show it's mine, so that I can use the laws that are in place to enforce that it is, in fact, mine."
I guarantee with a good hit, I can out drive anyone that thumbs the ball. The trick a lot of people miss is that it's not the DOWNFORCE that you put on the trackball that gets the ball farther, it's the ROLLING force.. most people just smack the shit out of the ball, but it's mostly downwards into the machine, rather than spinning the ball.
I've been trying to teach myself away from that, and have been popping off anywhere from 330 - 395 yard drives very consistently ever since...
Anyone get a mirror? it's gone gone gone now... ugh!
Quake 4 is a project by Raven? i think.. are they using the Doom 3 engine? not sure.. Anyway, it's supposed to be the sequel to Quake 2.. I think they should change names, though..
Quake 2 wasn't really a sequel to Quake 1.. and Quake 3 wasn't really a sequel to it.. they all had entirely different stories and stuff...
Would just like to point out that in your second article, he says that it's a lot easier to move SCO --LINUX-- stuff to UnitedLinux than it is to say, RedHat. Also mentions that SuSE Enterprise Edition would be easier, too. sincei t is UL based.
Doesn't say anything about ease of transfer from SCO UnixWare/OpenServer/Xenix/whatever else might be SCO branded to anything else.. though it does recommend getting the hell outta Dodge as far as that goes.
So far, all the Stern pinball games have absolutely sucked since Williams and Gottlieb went away, but I do hold out hope that with all the Williams designers on staff (at least contracted in) they will actually get some quality games out sometime... Monopoly blew, the NFL one blew, and the only Simpsons Pinball Party I've seen was completely broken.
But, I do have hope.. as they are the only remaining manufacturer.
I would presume from the post that they likely don't NEED any more software packages. They likely don't NEED more people with experience administering Linux.
What they need is to maintain the existence that their business has, but get their shiny new RAID to work.
What we know:
(1) They currently run SCO, and everything they have runs in SCO
(2) They need support for this shiny new RAID
What we don't know:
- How much the upgrade is going to cost them from SCO
- If there are any gotchas that they will run into trying to run their applications within Linux
- If the staff is capable of administrating Linux reasonably
So, is it worth the money to investigate Linux? I certainly wouldn't change something that Works for a new Unknown, even if it is demonstrably cheaper, without putting in some serious Time and Effort to test the new Unknown, and that's going to eat up a lot of that Demonstrably Cheaper difference.
As the article says, the programmers have demonstrated that Linux can process their information much faster, but do they need much faster? I mean really.. do I need a 2.5GHz P4 to word process, or can I continue using my P5/100 laptop? I highly doubt I would notice any difference except that the load time for OO.ORG would decrease from about Forever to about Half of Forever.
I would say to start testing Linux. Make sure that Linux can do what needs to be done. But if you need it up and running --now-- with the new hardware, you're gonna have to go with SCO for now.. but I would definitely say get into the Linux testing right now, because as everyone else here points out, SCO may not be around when the lawsuits involving Linux are done!
Trust me, I have no love for SCO, but look at things realistically with your mind, and not with just your heart.
Obvious idea seems to me, if it's a massively multiplatform thing, that runs on all sorts of different things from Windows to *nixes to every other thing under the sun:
Include a script / batch file / EXE / binary / whatever along with a compressed archive inside the main archive:
ie:
CoolSoftware-1.0.zip
contains:
package.tar.bz2
setup.exe (windows)
setup.sh (unix)
INSTALL.EXE (vms)... so on so forth for each OS...
then your install program figures out what the heck to do with the archived files, depending on what the host system is.
And if you read the law rather than just the general synopsis, and a few other slashdot reader's posts, you'd see that it didn't actually outlaw NAT of any kind or in any way shape or form. Moron.
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That was the WHOLE POINT in case you missed it: not to test identical machines with virtually identical software.
:-)
The idea was to test flat out time it takes to do something, on mostly stock versions of the varying distributions!
It's meant to test how unfair the difference would be between distributions!!!! Therefore, it is fair.
Get a grip, people.
can I have those patches to Xscreensaver???
Oh, I need to mention.. PIII/600 MHz 128MB ram..
I just compiled X 4.3.0 on my Debian 'unstable' system, and it definitely did not take even 10 hours.. i left home, came back a bit around 10 hrs later, and it was all installed.
Three days for X to build? only took about 8 hours on my P3/600 with 128MB ram, and about 10 hrs on my AMD K6-2/450 with 288MB...
You shouldn't talk unless you know what you're talking about. RadioShack NiMH AA, 1.2V 1800mAh.
I see that this "Maha" brand name has a 2200mAh and a 2000mAh NiMH battery. Strangely enough, I don't find too many other manufacturers touting that capacity.. so unless they have some new technology behind it, or can fit more mass into the same space, I wouldn't believe that they are higher than 2000mAh at best...
XMMS skips frequently when switching desktops IF THERE IS NOTHING ELSE HAPPENING. It's amazing. The more load I put on the system, the less XMMS skips. :)
Yeah, that's the way it goes, Bruce. I've been telling people that for years, here on Slashdot.. it's always the bandwidth not the servers. My 486sx/25 could handle a slashdotting.. the network traffic would never get there enough to freak it out.
ALSA works great, as far as I can tell, although I am doing everything thru the OSS compatibility modules. Preempt is awesome. If you're having problems with it, I'm guessing you're using Debian, and you need to un-nice your X server.
Not exactly correct. A patent covers a METHOD of DOING something .. and with that being said, if the code is totally different, you might be doing the same thing, but you're definitely doing it in a different way.
I heard the other day, that the Eiffel Tower, in France, was on fire.
I then heard a few minutes later, that France was "prepared to surrender" to "whomever is at fault".
Hmm. Well, it's OpenLinux 2.2. I have no idea what kernel version it actually contains, as I don't think I've ever actually used it for anything besides a rescue CD, and now I can't even find the bootable CD from the package.
I really have to wonder when it actually came to pass that SCO's code came to have SMP support - and is it worth anything? I know we've got SCO Xenix floating around here, and it certainly doesn't SEEM to indicate any form of SMP capability. and it is being used on an SMP box... *shrug*
At home, I have the "Source Code CD" for "Open Linux 2.2" ... from Caldera... :-)
hmm.
Hey, we know they own Unix System V. Duh.
The whole point of filing for Copyright registration, is so that they can USE COPYRIGHT LAW. All it takes to copyright something is to attach a copyright notice to it.
However, to USE the LAW to PROTECT your copyright, requires that you Register your Copyright with the Copyright Office.
This is a REQUIRED step for them to use any Copyright laws in any way shape or form to their advantage.
This is absolutely non-news. This is so non-news, it's pathetic. And there's 652 more comments I haven't read!
All this is is someone saying "Hey, this is mine. I want a legal document to show it's mine, so that I can use the laws that are in place to enforce that it is, in fact, mine."
Get a grip. Please?
Oh lord Jesus, that is really funny.
(this message left here so I can find it again from home.. thanks for your time)
I guarantee with a good hit, I can out drive anyone that thumbs the ball. The trick a lot of people miss is that it's not the DOWNFORCE that you put on the trackball that gets the ball farther, it's the ROLLING force.. most people just smack the shit out of the ball, but it's mostly downwards into the machine, rather than spinning the ball.
I've been trying to teach myself away from that, and have been popping off anywhere from 330 - 395 yard drives very consistently ever since...
Anyone get a mirror? it's gone gone gone now... ugh!
.. I think they should change names, though..
Quake 4 is a project by Raven? i think.. are they using the Doom 3 engine? not sure.. Anyway, it's supposed to be the sequel to Quake 2
Quake 2 wasn't really a sequel to Quake 1.. and Quake 3 wasn't really a sequel to it.. they all had entirely different stories and stuff...
oh well.
i'm just mindlessly babbling now
Would just like to point out that in your second article, he says that it's a lot easier to move SCO --LINUX-- stuff to UnitedLinux than it is to say, RedHat. Also mentions that SuSE Enterprise Edition would be easier, too. sincei t is UL based.
Doesn't say anything about ease of transfer from SCO UnixWare/OpenServer/Xenix/whatever else might be SCO branded to anything else.. though it does recommend getting the hell outta Dodge as far as that goes.
Anyone seen one of these in Michigan? Or nearby?
So far, all the Stern pinball games have absolutely sucked since Williams and Gottlieb went away, but I do hold out hope that with all the Williams designers on staff (at least contracted in) they will actually get some quality games out sometime... Monopoly blew, the NFL one blew, and the only Simpsons Pinball Party I've seen was completely broken.
But, I do have hope.. as they are the only remaining manufacturer.
I suppose just to play Devil's Advocate:
I would presume from the post that they likely don't NEED any more software packages. They likely don't NEED more people with experience administering Linux.
What they need is to maintain the existence that their business has, but get their shiny new RAID to work.
What we know:
(1) They currently run SCO, and everything they have runs in SCO
(2) They need support for this shiny new RAID
What we don't know:
- How much the upgrade is going to cost them from SCO
- If there are any gotchas that they will run into trying to run their applications within Linux
- If the staff is capable of administrating Linux reasonably
So, is it worth the money to investigate Linux? I certainly wouldn't change something that Works for a new Unknown, even if it is demonstrably cheaper, without putting in some serious Time and Effort to test the new Unknown, and that's going to eat up a lot of that Demonstrably Cheaper difference.
As the article says, the programmers have demonstrated that Linux can process their information much faster, but do they need much faster? I mean really.. do I need a 2.5GHz P4 to word process, or can I continue using my P5/100 laptop? I highly doubt I would notice any difference except that the load time for OO.ORG would decrease from about Forever to about Half of Forever.
I would say to start testing Linux. Make sure that Linux can do what needs to be done. But if you need it up and running --now-- with the new hardware, you're gonna have to go with SCO for now.. but I would definitely say get into the Linux testing right now, because as everyone else here points out, SCO may not be around when the lawsuits involving Linux are done!
Trust me, I have no love for SCO, but look at things realistically with your mind, and not with just your heart.
Obvious idea seems to me, if it's a massively multiplatform thing, that runs on all sorts of different things from Windows to *nixes to every other thing under the sun:
... so on so forth for each OS ...
Include a script / batch file / EXE / binary / whatever along with a compressed archive inside the main archive:
ie:
CoolSoftware-1.0.zip
contains:
package.tar.bz2
setup.exe (windows)
setup.sh (unix)
INSTALL.EXE (vms)
then your install program figures out what the heck to do with the archived files, depending on what the host system is.
Seems obvious to me. Am I wrong?
And if you read the law rather than just the general synopsis, and a few other slashdot reader's posts, you'd see that it didn't actually outlaw NAT of any kind or in any way shape or form. Moron.
Freedom of speech does NOT cover traffic that is passed on AT OTHER PEOPLE'S EXPENSE through email systems...
I would need something that would be a bit more complete.. like being able to control text-mode and OS's that do not have VNC servers currently .. :-S
OK.. slight correction to what I said.. thanks :)
:p
though i think most did get the idea..