Sounds crazy to me. Got three LCD panels at work that basically sit around displaying the same thing for 12 hrs a day (when we are not there).. I wasn't aware that it was -possible- for an LCD to burn...
Oddly enough, just YESTERDAY, one of my employees and I were considering building a race track for office chairs, in the non-level portion of our basement, to get some extra momentum going.
This really cracked me up to see this.
Is this on the front page? I have my account set to show -all- articles, but if this made front page, that's kinda sad.
High-profile attorney David Boies and his firm still are handling SCO's Unix legal action, SCO said. Boeis' firm is being paid with a contingency agreement, under which lawyers typically are paid not by the hour, but with a percentage of whatever money they can win for their clients in the case.
Actually, and I've been on the unfortunate business end of this (and lost not because of the merits of his claims against me, but simply lost because he was personally a multi-millionaire, and I had a total of $50 to my name at the time he sued me), one MUST register with the USCO before you can take legal action upon a Copyright. You do NOT have to have pre-registered with USCO beforehand to make the Copyright -exist-... but you cannot sue someone for copyright infringement until after you have registered with USCO.
Hmm. But did AT&T purchase those enhancements off of the Xenix group?
Otherwise, why wouldn't SCO just have merged together all the Unices (unixes? unixii? unicii? unixen?) and have some sort of Uber-Unix that's capable of running on anything that any Unix can, with all the features that they all have?
No, really, I read that in several different places.. i'm just too tired to think of where they are.. hell, I can't even think of the word for that.. oh yeah, he's doing it on contingency. i think that's the word. lol
Not only are they trying to encourage people to not use AIX or Linux.. but.. now that they've supposedly revoked ALL AIX licensees ability to use AIX legally...
Anyone expecting in the next couple weeks,t hey are going to send subpoenas to all companies known to use AIX?
Hell, it could be coming from Linux itself -- The 60 days that IBM asked for time to file their response, SCO could -very- well have been tainting their own source code with things from Linux!
And why the hell not?
What I want to know is, is why does SCO also have rights to look at the source code of AIX? I've seen several claims that they spent time "comparing Linux to (AIX & SCO)'s source".. I can't imagine that the Unix source code license requires IBM or Sequent to give back their enhancements to the code! *boggle*
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that could well be. US and VW might have been the slackers.
I do know Ford just had their 100th anniversary celebration here in Dearborn, MI, and I had people just -crawling- over my place of business tryng to find 12-volt to 6-volt adapters so they could power stuff from their --really-- old vehicles.
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nah, I just ran into a gentleman with a 1950 something or other, that used a real 6V electrical system. If you read the article, it mentions that GM and some other U.S. based manufacturers switched to 12V in about 1955, with VW being the last holdout until 1960-something..
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Actually, at RadioShack, they start at $39.99, for a lower power one. Sure, you can get them cheaper, but they are a lot less reliable.
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I bet people said the exact same thing in the 50's and 60's when they went from 6v to 12v.
Well, similar things, anyway.
I've got a 1985 pickup that still runs like a champ, althogh it's got a lot of not-right parts mounted to it, and several pieces on the engine are outright broken. lol.
I've got a 1993 dodge daytona, that i just put a junkyard engine in, and it runs like a champ, too. actually, it runs better than it did new.
Well, I was 5 when I started pecking away in BASIC. Most of my friends that did any coding, their parents had bought them or their older siblings computers when they were in the 5-8 range..
My dad bought our TRS-80 Color Computer to keep my brother occupied, but my brother wasn't interested.. he preferred to read Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and draw really awful space alien lizards with no feet. (he actually is a really good sketch artist these days, but still can't draw feet on anything, 20 years later.. lol)
So, the computer sort of fell into my hands. I played around with the Breakout clone cartridge that we had for it, and doodled with some other cartridge that I don't even remember, and got bored pretty quickly.. and that's when i pulled out the manual and started dinkin around. My parents got me a couple of whatever the TRS-80 magazines were, and that's how I started.
My brother got into it a few months later, and we talked the parents into buying us a VIC-20 (we wanted a C= 64, but they just bought whatever Commodore machine was on the shelf), and then my brother sold half of his comic book collection to buy us a C= 64 and a 1541. I think I was 6 or 7 when that happened.
From there, as they say, is history. I was writing little blah programs, and mostly typing things in from magazines and then doing hardcore changes to them.. did lots of enhancements to the games and stuff that they had in those.. and then I got my first modem, when I was 11. (1987) Used Q-Link for a while.. modem died. For my 12th birthday, I got another modem, and got into BBS's. By the time I was 13, I had written several additions for C-Net BBS, and had a BBS that was virtually unrecognizeable from the original C-Net it was based on except for the command structure. I even wrote a primitive form of Networking protocol, somewhat loosely based on UUCP to network messages between C-Net BBS's in that time.
When I was 14, I started writing the first DOS based IRC client, and had been using Unix systems for at least 2 years.. based my client on ircII for Unix.
I guess I thought that most of our experiences from the people in my age range (I'm 27 now) were pretty similar, but I guess maybe I'm a bit of an anomaly.
Everyone's saying "if there's an interest".. the idea is to make the interest.
I'm sure part of the reason we HAD the interest was because of the expense of software (no way a 5-10 year old kid was buying $100 pieces of software!), the scarcity of software (many programs just plain hadn't been thought of yet i'm sure), or a program you DID have didn't do what you WANTED it to. (I learned programming by fixing bugs and enhancing features..that's how I learn all new languages. Take a program that is flawed that is in that language, and fix it.)
We started programming because it was RIGHT THERE. It was the only way to interface to most machines! It was an EASY, INTERPRETED language, where the results came back INSTANTLY. We were all ADD children, as they all are now, too, so if we didn't get results after only a few lines of code, we would've gone outside and rode bikes or something instead.
I don't think it's possible to go back to that. The interfaces are too complex, the youngsters expect too much.
But, given my doubts that it's possible to go back, here's what I think would have to be done:
The way to interface with the machine is through the programming language (even if it is just direct commands, ala 'LOAD "boggle",8').
The manual for the machine gives BEGINNER'S INSTRUCTIONS TO the programming language.
The language itself is interpreted, and can get quick results in a few lines of code.
The language does not use excessive pieces of punctuation, and is designed in a fashion that is easy to grasp. Really, "PRINT" or "WRITE" make more sense to a n00b than "ECHO" does. Think about it. You start going to a Python, Rexx, JavaScript, something, you're going to send the person into punctuation mark heart failures.
Funny, where I'm at, in 1988, every student that I had ever met had an id on either the Unix or VAX clusters at all the universities.
There were TONS of Internet games. Internet chat was the big deal at the time.
The Internet hasn't changed all that much, except for the advent of the WWW. Everything else that's out here fairly well existed (the WWW including the media facilities...) before then.
Instant Messaging didn't exist, but IRC did, so that was sort of the Universal Instant Messenger (oh, and TALK.. )
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JFS came packaged with OS/2 Warp Server .. I'm not sure about other editions.. I know it wasn't in the original Warp or Warp v4 packaging..
I might be kinda foggy, but since JFS was developed by IBM, and is not part of SCO, I don't think they can go on that one.
I'm not familiar with XFS at all.
I'm totally impressed. I think that's the first article i've ever seen that did not come across with RMS as being a blathering, zealous idiot.
Which is amusing, because he's not, he just has the social skills of a louse.
Pretty sure they are ok, since they look totally normal when I am using them during the day.. like right now...
Sounds crazy to me. Got three LCD panels at work that basically sit around displaying the same thing for 12 hrs a day (when we are not there).. I wasn't aware that it was -possible- for an LCD to burn...
Oddly enough, just YESTERDAY, one of my employees and I were considering building a race track for office chairs, in the non-level portion of our basement, to get some extra momentum going.
This really cracked me up to see this.
Is this on the front page? I have my account set to show -all- articles, but if this made front page, that's kinda sad.
grr.. ok, i'll go digging. heh
From CNet:
High-profile attorney David Boies and his firm still are handling SCO's Unix legal action, SCO said. Boeis' firm is being paid with a contingency agreement, under which lawyers typically are paid not by the hour, but with a percentage of whatever money they can win for their clients in the case.
Oh, certainly. I'm just trying to put out lots of questions, and maybe suggest a few answers. Isn't that what discussion is about? :)
I'm a firm believer so far that -if- there's duplications of code between SCO and Linux, it's because SCO took it from Linux.
Actually, and I've been on the unfortunate business end of this (and lost not because of the merits of his claims against me, but simply lost because he was personally a multi-millionaire, and I had a total of $50 to my name at the time he sued me), one MUST register with the USCO before you can take legal action upon a Copyright. You do NOT have to have pre-registered with USCO beforehand to make the Copyright -exist-... but you cannot sue someone for copyright infringement until after you have registered with USCO.
Hmm. But did AT&T purchase those enhancements off of the Xenix group?
Otherwise, why wouldn't SCO just have merged together all the Unices (unixes? unixii? unicii? unixen?) and have some sort of Uber-Unix that's capable of running on anything that any Unix can, with all the features that they all have?
No, really, I read that in several different places.. i'm just too tired to think of where they are.. hell, I can't even think of the word for that .. oh yeah, he's doing it on contingency. i think that's the word. lol
Not only are they trying to encourage people to not use AIX or Linux.. but.. now that they've supposedly revoked ALL AIX licensees ability to use AIX legally...
Anyone expecting in the next couple weeks,t hey are going to send subpoenas to all companies known to use AIX?
Mr. Boies is doing the "only get paid if he wins the case" deal...
Hell, it could be coming from Linux itself -- The 60 days that IBM asked for time to file their response, SCO could -very- well have been tainting their own source code with things from Linux!
.. I can't imagine that the Unix source code license requires IBM or Sequent to give back their enhancements to the code! *boggle*
And why the hell not?
What I want to know is, is why does SCO also have rights to look at the source code of AIX? I've seen several claims that they spent time "comparing Linux to (AIX & SCO)'s source"
that could well be. US and VW might have been the slackers.
I do know Ford just had their 100th anniversary celebration here in Dearborn, MI, and I had people just -crawling- over my place of business tryng to find 12-volt to 6-volt adapters so they could power stuff from their --really-- old vehicles.
nah, I just ran into a gentleman with a 1950 something or other, that used a real 6V electrical system. If you read the article, it mentions that GM and some other U.S. based manufacturers switched to 12V in about 1955, with VW being the last holdout until 1960-something..
Actually, at RadioShack, they start at $39.99, for a lower power one. Sure, you can get them cheaper, but they are a lot less reliable.
I bet people said the exact same thing in the 50's and 60's when they went from 6v to 12v.
Well, similar things, anyway.
I've got a 1985 pickup that still runs like a champ, althogh it's got a lot of not-right parts mounted to it, and several pieces on the engine are outright broken. lol.
I've got a 1993 dodge daytona, that i just put a junkyard engine in, and it runs like a champ, too. actually, it runs better than it did new.
Or, "if you do what you did, then you get what you got." If you got failure, then you want to know what you did so you don't do it again.
That is rather amusing. I wish I had mod points.
Well, I suppose it is proof positive that IBM is in two business: Support, and Hardware.
Well, I was 5 when I started pecking away in BASIC. Most of my friends that did any coding, their parents had bought them or their older siblings computers when they were in the 5-8 range..
My dad bought our TRS-80 Color Computer to keep my brother occupied, but my brother wasn't interested.. he preferred to read Sci-Fi and Fantasy, and draw really awful space alien lizards with no feet. (he actually is a really good sketch artist these days, but still can't draw feet on anything, 20 years later.. lol)
So, the computer sort of fell into my hands. I played around with the Breakout clone cartridge that we had for it, and doodled with some other cartridge that I don't even remember, and got bored pretty quickly.. and that's when i pulled out the manual and started dinkin around. My parents got me a couple of whatever the TRS-80 magazines were, and that's how I started.
My brother got into it a few months later, and we talked the parents into buying us a VIC-20 (we wanted a C= 64, but they just bought whatever Commodore machine was on the shelf), and then my brother sold half of his comic book collection to buy us a C= 64 and a 1541. I think I was 6 or 7 when that happened.
From there, as they say, is history. I was writing little blah programs, and mostly typing things in from magazines and then doing hardcore changes to them.. did lots of enhancements to the games and stuff that they had in those.. and then I got my first modem, when I was 11. (1987) Used Q-Link for a while.. modem died. For my 12th birthday, I got another modem, and got into BBS's. By the time I was 13, I had written several additions for C-Net BBS, and had a BBS that was virtually unrecognizeable from the original C-Net it was based on except for the command structure. I even wrote a primitive form of Networking protocol, somewhat loosely based on UUCP to network messages between C-Net BBS's in that time.
When I was 14, I started writing the first DOS based IRC client, and had been using Unix systems for at least 2 years.. based my client on ircII for Unix.
I guess I thought that most of our experiences from the people in my age range (I'm 27 now) were pretty similar, but I guess maybe I'm a bit of an anomaly.
Anyone else get into coding when they were 5-7??
I just want to see a 5-7 year old pick up "vi". LOL.
Scripting just doesn't get it.
Everyone's saying "if there's an interest".. the idea is to make the interest.
I'm sure part of the reason we HAD the interest was because of the expense of software (no way a 5-10 year old kid was buying $100 pieces of software!), the scarcity of software (many programs just plain hadn't been thought of yet i'm sure), or a program you DID have didn't do what you WANTED it to. (I learned programming by fixing bugs and enhancing features..that's how I learn all new languages. Take a program that is flawed that is in that language, and fix it.)
We started programming because it was RIGHT THERE. It was the only way to interface to most machines! It was an EASY, INTERPRETED language, where the results came back INSTANTLY. We were all ADD children, as they all are now, too, so if we didn't get results after only a few lines of code, we would've gone outside and rode bikes or something instead.
I don't think it's possible to go back to that. The interfaces are too complex, the youngsters expect too much.
But, given my doubts that it's possible to go back, here's what I think would have to be done:
The way to interface with the machine is through the programming language (even if it is just direct commands, ala 'LOAD "boggle",8').
The manual for the machine gives BEGINNER'S INSTRUCTIONS TO the programming language.
The language itself is interpreted, and can get quick results in a few lines of code.
The language does not use excessive pieces of punctuation, and is designed in a fashion that is easy to grasp. Really, "PRINT" or "WRITE" make more sense to a n00b than "ECHO" does. Think about it. You start going to a Python, Rexx, JavaScript, something, you're going to send the person into punctuation mark heart failures.
There really is no Step 5 there. Caldera/SCO's plan is to Profit directly from #5, I'm sure.
Funny, where I'm at, in 1988, every student that I had ever met had an id on either the Unix or VAX clusters at all the universities.
There were TONS of Internet games.
Internet chat was the big deal at the time.
The Internet hasn't changed all that much, except for the advent of the WWW. Everything else that's out here fairly well existed (the WWW including the media facilities...) before then.
Instant Messaging didn't exist, but IRC did, so that was sort of the Universal Instant Messenger (oh, and TALK.. )
Anyone notice that this thing has been out for months already? What happened to NEWs being NEW?