Yes, I agree about that. It really seems like this is something between SCO and IBM. Not SCO and Linux, since they, as far as I can see, don't have much to say about regarding UNIX on its own.
... just wished to add that I agree with what he says in the ComputerWorld article sounds strange. I can't see that they still own Unix System V code, but is taking action for breach of contract instead.
And this was their response to that: (link in the/. article you link to:-)
SCO Statement on Novell's Recent Actions Wednesday May 28, 10:15 am ET
LINDON, Utah, May 28/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The following statement is being issued by SCO (Nasdaq: SCOX - News):
SCO owns the contract rights to the UNIX® operating system. SCO has the contractual right to prevent improper donations of UNIX code, methods or concepts into Linux by any UNIX vendor.
Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights.
SCO's lawsuit against IBM does not involve patents or copyrights. SCO's complaint specifically alleges breach of contract, and SCO intends to protect and enforce all of the contracts that the company has with more than 6,000 licensees.
We formed SCOsource in January 2003 to enforce our UNIX rights and we intend to aggressively continue in this successful path of operation.
.. so what they need is to use a dedicated e-mail address for news post reports that the editors can check? Surely, someone would notice. Doesn't sounds like a big obstacle.
I think that would be a pretty good idea, since apparently the subscribers aren't (always?) catching those even if they get the chance to preview it. Would be nice to have it like this:
1. Subscribers first get the chance to preview a story.
2. If everything is fine, the story is posted, *but* during the first few hours, anyone get the chance to report dupes/fakes or other glaring errors.
3. When the correction period is out, the post turns Slashdot Green(TM) and it's set in stone.
This is to spread files much quicker. I don't see why it should be worse to allow incomplete files to be shared.
Partial support let you share both partial and full files. Full support only does the same job, only slower, since you can't even start downloading from a partial source while waiting for a full source to enter the network. With eMule, you'll be able to download from multiple partial sources while waiting for the full ones. That's better than zero bandwidth usage while waiting for the full ones to me.
A P2P network only allowing full files just makes it harder to get anything. Partial support means that when a rare source with a full file, at least *someone* might be online at the same time and get something, which others can get afterwards. With only full files, you wouldn't even get that. Someone would have to get the *entire* file before *anyone* could start downloading. And the same rule would apply for everyone on the entire network.
I prefer eMule to Kazaa. A SourceForge project and an excellent P2P application with much better functionality than Kazaa. It has pretty speedy update cycles too, they aim for about 1 to 3 weeks between updates and are so far keeping up with that goal well. It's of course free and completely void of spyware.
http://www.emule-project.net/
The current version, 0.28b, is much more mature than one might think from the version number.:)
Ports of eMule (Windows application) are under development: lMule (Linux) and xMule (OSX). See their forums for more information.
I hope you all realize what will happen then. If not, allow me to quote:
"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days."
- from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
I especially fear the blinking tags!:-o
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Windows Update has gone through many incarnations, and I think the last one is pretty good. It's not like it starts installing stuff at random times on the day. *If* you choose the single option available to actually do this, you need to specify a download scheme, so you can auto-install at night, if that's your wish. But I prefer to have it download automatically and just notify me when something is ready to be installed. It's not even an annoying dialog box or anything to inform you, just a small tool tip in the taskbar that doesn't interrupt your work. When I install, I click a little icon and tell it to do so. I can of course also get a list of what's downloaded and only choose to install specific patches.
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1. Click "System" in the Control Panel 2. Select the "Automatic Updates" tab. 3. Make sure Automatic Updates is enabled by checking the box if necessary 4. Select one of:
- Inform me before the updates are downloaded, and inform me again before they're installed.
- Get the updates automatically and inform me when they're ready to be installed. <--- this one is what I use at work. Very convenient -- just a small tool tip at the task bar appears when something is downloaded, no dialog box or anything intrusive like that. Then select if you wish to install them, otherwise just don't do anything
- Get the updates automatically and install them using this scheme: (a customizable install scheme, i.e. every night)
This is using Windows XP btw.. Hmm, the second option just seem to be less verbose than the first to me (not telling you "I'm gonna get something" every time)
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I can't really see the point. Teaching about how to access undocumented code that can have unpredictable behavior when you run it from your own app? They were designed private for a reason, and the reason being they were not developed to be used by your application. I doubt a programmer would do that just to annoy others, even if it was a Microsoft programmer.:-)
Using this programming practice seem like a perfect way to break your application when that-API-you-access is updated.
Can't you configure it to look like in Opera 6? Unfortunately, I can't upload a screenshot right now, but my Opera 7.11 GUI doesn't resemble the default at all, and I find it much less "weird" than the Opera 7 GUI.
Opera also support yet another innovative feature. If the feature is enabled, it analyzes web pages to present a navigation bar where possible. For example, when I browse this Slashdot topic, I have a small navigation bar with these links:
Home (goes to news page) Search (goes to search page) Previous (goes to previous topic) Next (goes to next topic) Author (goest to all Slashdot stories written by Timothy; i.e. the author of this topic)
Pretty cool, and the user can furhter customize the bar if necessary to have more buttons.
Slashdot Mirror
Mere mortals. So weak and proud, yet they don't even understand their purpose. Suckers.
:-)
And so ends the speech God made at Slashdot.
Yes, I agree about that. It really seems like this is something between SCO and IBM. Not SCO and Linux, since they, as far as I can see, don't have much to say about regarding UNIX on its own.
... just wished to add that I agree with what he says in the ComputerWorld article sounds strange. I can't see that they still own Unix System V code, but is taking action for breach of contract instead.
And this was their response to that: (link in the /. article you link to :-)
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The following statement is being issued by SCO (Nasdaq: SCOX - News):
SCO Statement on Novell's Recent Actions
Wednesday May 28, 10:15 am ET
LINDON, Utah, May 28
SCO owns the contract rights to the UNIX® operating system. SCO has the contractual right to prevent improper donations of UNIX code, methods or concepts into Linux by any UNIX vendor.
Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights.
SCO's lawsuit against IBM does not involve patents or copyrights. SCO's complaint specifically alleges breach of contract, and SCO intends to protect and enforce all of the contracts that the company has with more than 6,000 licensees.
We formed SCOsource in January 2003 to enforce our UNIX rights and we intend to aggressively continue in this successful path of operation.
.. so what they need is to use a dedicated e-mail address for news post reports that the editors can check? Surely, someone would notice. Doesn't sounds like a big obstacle.
I think that would be a pretty good idea, since apparently the subscribers aren't (always?) catching those even if they get the chance to preview it. Would be nice to have it like this:
1. Subscribers first get the chance to preview a story.
2. If everything is fine, the story is posted, *but* during the first few hours, anyone get the chance to report dupes/fakes or other glaring errors.
3. When the correction period is out, the post turns Slashdot Green(TM) and it's set in stone.
It's there for me now, and it's not from a previous cache since this is my first visit today.
I'm btw speaking of:
"Google US Puzzle Championship"
I don't wanna e-mail someone called daddy pants. :)
Oops. :)
/. at work. :)
I used Opera so I didn't even know that site had popups. Well, serves the IE losers right. Especially if you're an IE loser browsing
The problem is that people think guns are more cool than gums. :P
But... eMule use file hashes.
;-)
How can you possible pick a fake release?
Oh, it was a JOKE!
This is to spread files much quicker. I don't see why it should be worse to allow incomplete files to be shared.
Partial support let you share both partial and full files. Full support only does the same job, only slower, since you can't even start downloading from a partial source while waiting for a full source to enter the network. With eMule, you'll be able to download from multiple partial sources while waiting for the full ones. That's better than zero bandwidth usage while waiting for the full ones to me.
A P2P network only allowing full files just makes it harder to get anything. Partial support means that when a rare source with a full file, at least *someone* might be online at the same time and get something, which others can get afterwards. With only full files, you wouldn't even get that. Someone would have to get the *entire* file before *anyone* could start downloading. And the same rule would apply for everyone on the entire network.
Interesting :)
:)
Btw, in related multi-network client news, the Shareaza team is working on support for the eDonkey network.
Perhaps this is a trend -- joining forces against RIAA
I prefer eMule to Kazaa. A SourceForge project and an excellent P2P application with much better functionality than Kazaa. It has pretty speedy update cycles too, they aim for about 1 to 3 weeks between updates and are so far keeping up with that goal well. It's of course free and completely void of spyware.
:)
http://www.emule-project.net/
The current version, 0.28b, is much more mature than one might think from the version number.
Ports of eMule (Windows application) are under development: lMule (Linux) and xMule (OSX). See their forums for more information.
Just wait until Mozilla becomes self aware...
:-o
I hope you all realize what will happen then. If not, allow me to quote:
"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days."
- from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
I especially fear the blinking tags!
Windows Update has gone through many incarnations, and I think the last one is pretty good. It's not like it starts installing stuff at random times on the day. *If* you choose the single option available to actually do this, you need to specify a download scheme, so you can auto-install at night, if that's your wish. But I prefer to have it download automatically and just notify me when something is ready to be installed. It's not even an annoying dialog box or anything to inform you, just a small tool tip in the taskbar that doesn't interrupt your work. When I install, I click a little icon and tell it to do so. I can of course also get a list of what's downloaded and only choose to install specific patches.
1. Click "System" in the Control Panel
2. Select the "Automatic Updates" tab.
3. Make sure Automatic Updates is enabled by checking the box if necessary
4. Select one of:
- Inform me before the updates are downloaded, and inform me again before they're installed.
- Get the updates automatically and inform me when they're ready to be installed. <--- this one is what I use at work. Very convenient -- just a small tool tip at the task bar appears when something is downloaded, no dialog box or anything intrusive like that. Then select if you wish to install them, otherwise just don't do anything
- Get the updates automatically and install them using this scheme: (a customizable install scheme, i.e. every night)
This is using Windows XP btw.. Hmm, the second option just seem to be less verbose than the first to me (not telling you "I'm gonna get something" every time)
I can't really see the point. Teaching about how to access undocumented code that can have unpredictable behavior when you run it from your own app? They were designed private for a reason, and the reason being they were not developed to be used by your application. I doubt a programmer would do that just to annoy others, even if it was a Microsoft programmer. :-)
Using this programming practice seem like a perfect way to break your application when that-API-you-access is updated.
Ah, must've missed it then since it was never part of Firebird or Mozilla, but just as a downloadable plugin.
we are simply another version of an already successful line of monkeys.
:-)
Yeah, code monkeys!
I don't like the new UI.
Can't you configure it to look like in Opera 6? Unfortunately, I can't upload a screenshot right now, but my Opera 7.11 GUI doesn't resemble the default at all, and I find it much less "weird" than the Opera 7 GUI.
Opera also support yet another innovative feature. If the feature is enabled, it analyzes web pages to present a navigation bar where possible. For example, when I browse this Slashdot topic, I have a small navigation bar with these links:
Home (goes to news page)
Search (goes to search page)
Previous (goes to previous topic)
Next (goes to next topic)
Author (goest to all Slashdot stories written by Timothy; i.e. the author of this topic)
Pretty cool, and the user can furhter customize the bar if necessary to have more buttons.
So my question is, have you gotten Flash to run correctly under the new Opera
:-)
:-(
It has always worked for me after downloading the plugin?
and more importantly, why are there so many problems with these fringe browsers and Flash?
I dunno.
But I deactivated Flash since it's only web designers gone insane or advertisements who use ads.
Wait for a DVD-rip to be released, cut that scene out with Virtual Dub and play it on repeat!
:-)
That should more than make up for the "loss".
evil computers are running Unix?!
... perhaps that should then be ...
:-)
+
you should be saying is, "choosy computers chose Unix."
Evil geniuses choose Unix.