I helped a small company in the Chicago area do exactly the same thing that AutoZone did, a few years back, replacing SCO with Linux to run their core business app - compiled and sold as running under SCO Unixware.
Firstly, the emulator program the parent poster is referring to is actually called IBCS, for Intel Binary Compatibility Standard. Intel binaries are the formal name for the SCO system V's executable binary format. Linux now uses the ELF format for the same purposes.
By using the IBCS emulator, Linux can run the older SCO binaries directly, with the addition of a shared library; either taken from the old, licensed SCO distribution, or available for _public download_ from:
Note that the SCO agreements do not prohibit anyone from using SCO's shared libraries under another OS. In fact, SCO themselves allowed the SCO Unixware and Svr4 binary libraries to be posted to MIT's tsx-11 server as early as 1994.
So, other than the publicly-available libraries that are required for this migration, no other part of SCO Unixware is required to make the transition from SCO to Linux, running smoothly, and perfectly.
Points made: 1) SCO's inference that they must have used SCO's code to make the transition work smoothly is patently and blatantly false. The only SCO component used is one they themselves have relinquished to the public domain.
2) My counterpart that did the conversion for AutoZone probably forgot about the core SCO or Svr4 libs required to run IBCS, but since they are publicly available, I can't blame him for not remembering about them (In fact, I had to do a little research to refresh my memory about the shared libs, it's only been about 4-5 years since I did the aforementioned migration).
3) The fact that the original SCO system was licensed for say, 5 users, doesn't restrict the APPLICATION from servicing more users. In the case of my customer, their SCO license limited them to 5 users max, but their application also enforced it's own 5 user limit. After upgrading the underlying OS to RedHat, they gladly paid the addtional licensing fees to their custom software supplier for additional licenses, having been freed from SCO's extortional upgrade pricing.
It's no wonder people were flocking to Linux in droves - the base SCO package for 5 users at the time cost $5000.00. Then, they had the nerve to charge ANOTHER $5000.00 for 5 more users, $2000.00 for the addition of simple TCP/IP services *(Who the HELL ever heard of *NIX with no networking??)* and they actually wanted another $3,000.00 for a graphical desktop at the server (read: X-Windows). Unbeliveable! They wanted $15000.00 U.S. for a system that STILL wasn't as cool as Linux (only 10 users max!). Migration to Linux was the obvious choice, brought on by SCO's ridiculous policy and pricing structures.
At the very dawn of modern civilzation; before there were "Photo ID's", that was actually how banks identified their customers - by their *GASP* signatures!
"11. For all other legal and equitable relief deemed just and proper by this Court."
For wasting all of our (and the court's) time, maybe we'll get to see Darl roasting on a spit, with the fires licking his bum. Chris's punishment will be to stand by and baste him.
For people who commit such barratry, It would be ideal if the court could prescribe some sort of "litigious castration", sort of like we do with sex offenders, taking away your ability to sue anyone ever again.
In fact, the highest road to take here would be to offer to extend (without embracing, thank you) a hand to SCO and MS in helping them "brace for the storm". Maybe too late for SCO, but perhaps MS?
Then, when the FUD flies later, the Open Source community could show some sort of a documented effort to actually reach out and help them, "united together" against the spamming scum that came up with this virus.
At least it could give us some nice anti-FUD publicity to go along with all the rest...
Here's a joke my Dad told me when I was just a little Mad Scientist:
A guy goes into this old-time diner where they yell out the orders back to the grunting cook in the back, has a meal and the waitress is snotty to him. He decides to embarass the waitress, so he orders a piece of dingleberry pie. The waitress, to the amusement of everone eating there, yells out "1 slice, Dingleberry Pie!". The old cook, unperturbed, poked his head out the order window, and says "If he thinks I'm gonna drop 'em for just 1 slice, he's got another think coming!".
No one is trying to "make" you put up with anything. My point, which you seemed to have missed, is that smokers USED to be courteous and would stop if someone like you asked them to.
Cutesy slogan, though, but you should amend it:
"Someone admits to being addicted to smoking, they get a HUGE ration of shit from every non-smoker around them, then get invited to a quit-smoking seminar."
Actually, they found that pandering to the whining vocal minority (at the time) was more important than pandering to my toxic addiction.
It gave them better Spin and P.R. Bottom Line. That's why they did it, not some altruistic intentions about people's health. Those were merely side effects, noticed much later on.
First, people in general are rude SOB's that wouldn't know common courtesy if it jumped up and kicked them in the groin. Not just us smokers. So you're making a few generalizations that are a bit overplayed.
That said, back then, a majority of people smoked. It was not considered discourteous to light up, and if you personally objected, you were expected to speak up and say something. Rarely would anyone refuse to put out their cigarettte if asked to do so. Nowadays, people are totally rude and would probably refuse if put into that situation.
Yes, people are sneaking smokes here and there but mostly due to the draconian smoking restrictions that have been put into place.
As for smoking in the non-smoking sections, I believe you are thinking of train cars. Airlines did not allow smoking while the planes were on the ground (fuel, and all, ya know...)
In short, I'm sorry that you think smokers are all rude assholes, but it's the actions of a few that helped get the bans in place. It's probably a better thing in the long run, though.
Thanks. I was gonna make some sort of comment to the same effect, but you did it for me. I think it's on topic. It's about the airline in question, and it states my opinion. Damn the bad luck if you don't share it, but the post _is_ on topic.
First, this was before there were any U.S. restrictions on smoking other than at takeoff/landing time, so it was before all this "politcally correct" bullshit was in place.
Second, If you'll recall, the planes had their designated smoking areas (called "the smoking section" back then) in the rear of the plane. There is a cabin airflow system in the plane, and I'll guarantee you it works from front to back, not the other way around. Those sitting in front had no problems with the smoke from the rear.
If things had progressed differently, the airlines probably would have been able to make a simple partition to ensure no smoke "leakage" occurred, but it was much cheaper and easier just to ban it entirely. Once again many had to suffer due to a vocal few. By now things have changed and the minority is now the majority, so it goes.
Yet one more reason I will never fly on their airline. Those "Body Nazis" were the first to ban smoking on international flights. That's when they lost me as a customer, permanently.
Worse from the standpoint of having two layers of obfuscation to deal withm during conversion. If all you have to do is rip the DRM, then it's one less step in achieiving your goal, an unencumbered file in a standardized format.
Ever hear of CD-RW's? That's how I try DVD masters before I write them to DVD-R's permanently.
Also, there are programs like Nero and Alchohol that allow you to create a "virtual" CD/DVD formatted disc in RAM and you just write/read to that virtual drive. It looks just like a real CD-R to your software, but no wasted disc, and it read/writes MUCH faster than an actual CD/DVD-R.
I think you may have something about recording in MPEG2 format. I have run an AIW 8500 for about a year now, and I have recorded and processed literally TERABYTES of video information, and never had any audio sync problems, even on 6-8 hour captures (yes, I fell asleep recording:) Also, I have a buddy who has the exact same setup and he has had zero problems as well. We're using 900 Mhz PIII based Compaq's as hosts, running Windows 2K.
I HAVE had major audio synch problems using Pitiful (Pinnacle) Video Studio 8 with their AV/DV capture card. Their software stinks. It crashes regularly, and has major audio synch problems. Their best solution from their knowlegebase (and I kid you not here) was to go get a shareware capture utility called scLive (Scenalyzer Live) which works flawlessly. Unbelievable! If I didn't get the Pinnacle suite for free, I'd be MAJORLY PISSED and returning that crapware. I now use Ulead Video/Media Studio, which is nice and easy to use, good for newbies. I also use Virtualdub and tMPGenc for more advanced tricks like logo removal, etc.
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I think the guy just wanted to calibrate the top scale on his ping-o-meter. Set up the net traffic monitors, and then call in/. to do the rest!
There's a difference - South Park "airs" on cable, while Fox will air Family Guy (and did previously) on the _actual_ "air". Broadcast TV is still subject to heavier censorship than the cable channels, each of which enforces their own version of "morality" the way they see fit, with their own code or "S&P" (Standards (hah!) and Practices).
This was a superb series! I enjoyed it thoroughly, as did most of my colleagues.
I snagged the 3 episodes on my hand-dandy video capture box and mastered a DVD from them, compressing the 3 hours onto 1 DVD.
I'm glad they're making the whole thing available online; it makes me feel better about giving my buddy a copy of my DVD...
He missed the second episode - the series had such a loooong (2:48) introduction, he thought they were re-airing the 1st episode again and turned it off! I told him no - there were 2 different episodes aired back-to-back:)
All-in-all, while I agree it was a bit "lay" (non-technical) in nature, it did explain a few things I hadn't known about previously, so I did enjoy watching it.
An old high school buddy called me about 2 weeks ago. His voice was all hushed, and he asked me if I knew anything about getting a bank account set up in a fake name.
Well, I thought about it for about 3 seconds, and started snickering. I said to him, is this, by any chance, for someone wanting to bring funds into the U.S.? He said yes...
I started to laugh out loud. I said to him, guess what, guy... You've got scam! I explained the 419 scam to him, and started to quote one (approximately) from memory. "Sound Familiar?" I asked him. Sheepishly, he said yes.
I have received about 50 of these so far, and I forward them to the FTC, with "No Financial Loss" heading up a copy of the email. They won't reply, but they will add it to their gallery of rogues. I hope this guy was one of the ones I turned in...
But I didn't see any reference at all to "Windy City" in the link you provided. Although interesting, it only once mentioned "brisk lake wind" and did not attribute that to being the source of the moniker. Got anything else?
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I helped a small company in the Chicago area do exactly the same thing that AutoZone did, a few years back, replacing SCO with Linux to run their core business app - compiled and sold as running under SCO Unixware.
Firstly, the emulator program the parent poster is referring to is actually called IBCS, for Intel Binary Compatibility Standard. Intel binaries are the formal name for the SCO system V's executable binary format. Linux now uses the ELF format for the same purposes.
By using the IBCS emulator, Linux can run the older SCO binaries directly, with the addition of a shared library; either taken from the old, licensed SCO distribution, or available for _public download_ from:
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/BETA/ibcs2
Note that the SCO agreements do not prohibit anyone from using SCO's shared libraries under another OS. In fact, SCO themselves allowed the SCO Unixware and Svr4 binary libraries to be posted to MIT's tsx-11 server as early as 1994.
So, other than the publicly-available libraries that are required for this migration, no other part of SCO Unixware is required to make the transition from SCO to Linux, running smoothly, and perfectly.
Points made: 1) SCO's inference that they must have used SCO's code to make the transition work smoothly is patently and blatantly false. The only SCO component used is one they themselves have relinquished to the public domain.
2) My counterpart that did the conversion for AutoZone probably forgot about the core SCO or Svr4 libs required to run IBCS, but since they are publicly available, I can't blame him for not remembering about them (In fact, I had to do a little research to refresh my memory about the shared libs, it's only been about 4-5 years since I did the aforementioned migration).
3) The fact that the original SCO system was licensed for say, 5 users, doesn't restrict the APPLICATION from servicing more users. In the case of my customer, their SCO license limited them to 5 users max, but their application also enforced it's own 5 user limit. After upgrading the underlying OS to RedHat, they gladly paid the addtional licensing fees to their custom software supplier for additional licenses, having been freed from SCO's extortional upgrade pricing.
It's no wonder people were flocking to Linux in droves - the base SCO package for 5 users at the time cost $5000.00. Then, they had the nerve to charge ANOTHER $5000.00 for 5 more users, $2000.00 for the addition of simple TCP/IP services *(Who the HELL ever heard of *NIX with no networking??)* and they actually wanted another $3,000.00 for a graphical desktop at the server (read: X-Windows). Unbeliveable! They wanted $15000.00 U.S. for a system that STILL wasn't as cool as Linux (only 10 users max!). Migration to Linux was the obvious choice, brought on by SCO's ridiculous policy and pricing structures.
of Beavis and Butthead:
"The more things change, the more they suck!"
At the very dawn of modern civilzation; before there were "Photo ID's", that was actually how banks identified their customers - by their *GASP* signatures!
From the article, they are seeking:
"11. For all other legal and equitable relief deemed just and proper by this Court."
For wasting all of our (and the court's) time, maybe we'll get to see Darl roasting on a spit, with the fires licking his bum. Chris's punishment will be to stand by and baste him.
For people who commit such barratry, It would be ideal if the court could prescribe some sort of "litigious castration", sort of like we do with sex offenders, taking away your ability to sue anyone ever again.
In fact, the highest road to take here would be to offer to extend (without embracing, thank you) a hand to SCO and MS in helping them "brace for the storm". Maybe too late for SCO, but perhaps MS?
Then, when the FUD flies later, the Open Source community could show some sort of a documented effort to actually reach out and help them, "united together" against the spamming scum that came up with this virus.
At least it could give us some nice anti-FUD publicity to go along with all the rest...
Here's a joke my Dad told me when I was just a little Mad Scientist:
A guy goes into this old-time diner where they yell out the orders back to the grunting cook in the back, has a meal and the waitress is snotty to him. He decides to embarass the waitress, so he orders a piece of dingleberry pie. The waitress, to the amusement of everone eating there, yells out "1 slice, Dingleberry Pie!". The old cook, unperturbed, poked his head out the order window, and says "If he thinks I'm gonna drop 'em for just 1 slice, he's got another think coming!".
Thank, you. Try the Veal.
This Bagel won't get through my Lox!
No one is trying to "make" you put up with anything. My point, which you seemed to have missed, is that smokers USED to be courteous and would stop if someone like you asked them to.
Cutesy slogan, though, but you should amend it:
"Someone admits to being addicted to smoking, they get a HUGE ration of shit from every non-smoker around them, then get invited to a quit-smoking seminar."
Actually, they found that pandering to the whining vocal minority (at the time) was more important than pandering to my toxic addiction.
It gave them better Spin and P.R. Bottom Line. That's why they did it, not some altruistic intentions about people's health. Those were merely side effects, noticed much later on.
First, people in general are rude SOB's that wouldn't know common courtesy if it jumped up and kicked them in the groin. Not just us smokers.
So you're making a few generalizations that are a bit overplayed.
That said, back then, a majority of people smoked. It was not considered discourteous to light up, and if you personally objected, you were expected to speak up and say something. Rarely would anyone refuse to put out their cigarettte if asked to do so. Nowadays, people are totally rude and would probably refuse if put into that situation.
Yes, people are sneaking smokes here and there but mostly due to the draconian smoking restrictions that have been put into place.
As for smoking in the non-smoking sections, I believe you are thinking of train cars. Airlines did not allow smoking while the planes were on the ground (fuel, and all, ya know...)
In short, I'm sorry that you think smokers are all rude assholes, but it's the actions of a few that helped get the bans in place. It's probably a better thing in the long run, though.
Thanks. I was gonna make some sort of comment to the same effect, but you did it for me. I think it's on topic. It's about the airline in question, and it states my opinion. Damn the bad luck if you don't share it, but the post _is_ on topic.
First, this was before there were any U.S. restrictions on smoking other than at takeoff/landing time, so it was before all this
"politcally correct" bullshit was in place.
Second, If you'll recall, the planes had their designated smoking areas (called "the smoking section" back then) in the rear of the plane. There is a cabin airflow system in the plane, and I'll guarantee you it works from front to back, not the other way around. Those sitting in front had no problems with the smoke from the rear.
If things had progressed differently, the airlines probably would have been able to make a simple partition to ensure no smoke "leakage" occurred, but it was much cheaper and easier just to ban it entirely. Once again many had to suffer due to a vocal few. By now things have changed and the minority is now the majority, so it goes.
Yet one more reason I will never fly on their airline. Those "Body Nazis" were the first to ban smoking on international flights. That's when they lost me as a customer, permanently.
Worse from the standpoint of having two layers of obfuscation to deal withm during conversion. If all you have to do is rip the DRM, then it's one less step in achieiving your goal, an unencumbered file in a standardized format.
Ever hear of CD-RW's? That's how I try DVD masters before I write them to DVD-R's permanently.
Also, there are programs like Nero and Alchohol that allow you to create a "virtual" CD/DVD formatted disc in RAM and you just write/read to that virtual drive. It looks just like a real CD-R to your software, but no wasted disc, and it read/writes MUCH faster than an actual CD/DVD-R.
No, WMA is even worse. It's a proprietary standard wrapped with proprietary DRM. That's one worse than an open standard wrapped with proprietary DRM.
I think you may have something about recording in MPEG2 format. I have run an AIW 8500 for about a year now, and I have recorded and processed literally TERABYTES of video information, and never had any audio sync problems, even on 6-8 hour captures (yes, I fell asleep recording :) Also, I have a buddy who has the exact same setup and he has had zero problems as well. We're using 900 Mhz PIII based Compaq's as hosts, running Windows 2K.
I HAVE had major audio synch problems using Pitiful (Pinnacle) Video Studio 8 with their AV/DV capture card. Their software stinks. It crashes regularly, and has major audio synch problems. Their best solution from their knowlegebase (and I kid you not here) was to go get a shareware capture utility called scLive (Scenalyzer Live) which works flawlessly. Unbelievable! If I didn't get the Pinnacle suite for free, I'd be MAJORLY PISSED and returning that crapware.
I now use Ulead Video/Media Studio, which is nice and easy to use, good for newbies. I also use Virtualdub and tMPGenc for more advanced tricks like logo removal, etc.
I think the guy just wanted to calibrate the top scale on his ping-o-meter. Set up the net traffic monitors, and then call in /. to do the rest!
It really is what you hear the Burger King employee whisper into that gooseneck microphone:
"WOPR, large Fries"
There's a difference - South Park "airs" on cable, while Fox will air Family Guy (and did previously) on the _actual_ "air". Broadcast TV is still subject to heavier censorship than the cable channels, each of which enforces their own version of "morality" the way they see fit, with their own code or "S&P" (Standards (hah!) and Practices).
This was a superb series! I enjoyed it thoroughly, as did most of my colleagues.
:)
I snagged the 3 episodes on my hand-dandy video capture box and mastered a DVD from them, compressing the 3 hours onto 1 DVD.
I'm glad they're making the whole thing available online; it makes me feel better about giving my buddy a copy of my DVD...
He missed the second episode - the series had such a loooong (2:48) introduction, he thought they were re-airing the 1st episode again and turned it off! I told him no - there were 2 different episodes aired back-to-back
All-in-all, while I agree it was a bit "lay" (non-technical) in nature, it did explain a few things I hadn't known about previously, so I did enjoy watching it.
What is this, some kind of new pain reliever? Take two linux-based tablets and call me in the morning!
An old high school buddy called me about 2 weeks ago. His voice was all hushed, and he asked me if I knew anything about getting a bank account set up in a fake name.
Well, I thought about it for about 3 seconds, and started snickering. I said to him, is this, by any chance, for someone wanting to bring funds into the U.S.? He said yes...
I started to laugh out loud. I said to him, guess what, guy... You've got scam! I explained the 419 scam to him, and started to quote one (approximately) from memory. "Sound Familiar?" I asked him. Sheepishly, he said yes.
I have received about 50 of these so far, and I forward them to the FTC, with "No Financial Loss" heading up a copy of the email. They won't reply, but they will add it to their gallery of rogues. I hope this guy was one of the ones I turned in...
But I didn't see any reference at all to "Windy City" in the link you provided. Although interesting, it only once mentioned "brisk lake wind" and did not attribute that to being the source of the moniker. Got anything else?
I DONT WANT TO BE ANY SMALLER!!!!
I'm very happy the way I am now, thank you...