I'm not saying we should do this, but what if we all apply for the position! Afterall, advertising a job on/. which is filled by employed tech workers will get you no responses at all. Send your resume via e-mail or fax it to 801.765.1313. Or even snail mail to: The SCO Group 355 South 520 West, Suite 100 Lindon, Utah 84042
Many companies require full processing of all applicants of a worldwide/nationwide search to check for EEO issues, so expect SCO to have to sort through many applications before they can reply with your new job.
I to am one of the few left handed mousers, with Quake being the reason for the switch from right handed years back. Gaming right handed just didn't cut it. If I have to play right handed I go by "Indigo Montoya".
I admit it. You are better than I am.
"Then why are you smiling?" Because I know something you don't know. "And what is that?" I am not left handed.
OK, so that's not quite right, but you get the point. For some reason, using the 5 key for forward and not the 8 key never occurred to me. Using the 8 key makes it harder as it leaves my fingers struggling to reach the keys below the "5 row". Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try it out.
/. seems to forget that *Slashdot is a blog.* Look for the definition of a blog, and you'll find/. fits. It's one of the most successful, is on steroids, and has gone commercial, but this is really Taco's blog and we are all just guests./.ers not caring about blogs is kind of like a human that doesn't care about oxygen. It shows how pathetic many/.ers are, since they don't know the definition of what they're slamming (standard procedure around here).
I'm surprised the spammers don't hang out here...Oh wait, they just spam the articles instead of the comments.
So how many major companies currently have access to the SYSV source? So far, IBM is standing up to SCO. HP will indemnify it's Linux users, which implies that they don't believe that SCO has a case. (I doubt they did this w/o comparing the sources, plus it's a slap in the face to SCO since you don't need to spend protection money from them, if you bought HP.) Now we had a *third* SYSV code holder, SGI, saying that it's no big deal. How many are required before all the holders of the code except SCO are supporting Linux? Who would like to be the next SYSV code holder to step up to the plate? Is there an educational instution with license?
You're looking for a Whuffie score. Dorks would not get high Whuffies if done right (until a hack is found, but hopefully it will be made solid, as it can be used as a method for identifying hacks/cracks). I'm not sure if this is the human equivalent to a "pagerank" and therefore subject to recursive raising of the score, but I'll let more awake/.ers debate this.
I keep finding this story to be more and more relevant as time goes by.
You can follow a true icon: John Popper of Blues Traveler. All those harmonica pockets can fit more gadgets that I can think of (except maybe filling extra pockets with more harmonicas).
In other news, Chinese developed video games sell poorly in Africa and someone in Tibet eats a pizza for the first time and declares: "What is this s^&t?"
While Babies may actually find the sound of the computer relaxing, I'm guessing the parents may want to set the camera up in different locations, at different times w/o having to lug a PC around to do it!
An old notebook w/ a 802.11b card in it might work, but that's still adding to the number of things that can fail, and the amount of stuff that has to be lugged around the house. Also, when the kid grows, it adds to the number of cords that you have to "Child Proof". (Adult proof is more like it, the kids will still pull on the cords, press all the shiny buttons, etc...)
As a parent with computers around the house, unless your friend is a computer geek, ignore the "get a PC" posts and suggest that he go with as close to an all in one solution that seems reasonable. The line "if your friend is a pilot..." also goes to thet he sould be able to spend the money on an integrated solution. It's money well spent. Simplicity in the lives of new parents is a good thing. The child will make things complex enough.
I'm been running the beta of this client for a couple of months, and I've compared the temperature of the CPU and MB when running it and when idle. I've seen no significant difference in either. I'm running it on an Athlon 2000+, I don't have the MB specs, but it's an Abit, IIRC (I'm on my notebook now). I leave my PC on frequently anyway for convienence, so comparing it to being off is not relevant. If I want to turn it off, I still turn it off. My feelings are the same when running Folding when I'm booted Linux.
Check your CPU temp if your MB has this capability, or just get a thermometer and put it near your computer and compare to see if this is really an issue, or just "hot air". For all I know a P4 may heat the house, since I can't speak for one. Basically, be scientific and test the theory. It's not that hard.
Since none of this is about actually being in court, and is all a PR battle, then MS is sure to win. On one hand, MS couldn't say this stuff and get away with it, and on the other hand...there is no other hand.
How do you deal with people in the U.K., Russia, China, Austrailia, etc? A contract that's valid in the USA might not be valid anywhere else....and IP in the US might have different owners in different countries - remember patent lengths? A certain encryption library that was only non-distributable in the US comes to mind, but I can't remember which acronym (RSA?). Heck, have you tried to by Macross related merchandise lately?
Part of the process for the lawyers is to figure stuff out like the international implications. I hear some of them even go to school for that. Some are even pretty good at it. Some of *them* even wrote the GPL (which I never actually signed, btw). I hear that's one of those international type agreements, but I'm not too sure. You see, IANAL, just like 99.9%+ of/.
And you're discussing IP and China in the same post? Are you trolling or just haven't heard what China thinks of US IP laws?
We're talking law here. Implied != legal, esp in the minds of many corporations. You think IBM likes the idea of some anonymous developer adding code and saying, it's OK I did it? I'm sure IBM's lawyers had a nightmare over it before they decided that they were safe because they don't actually distribute linux on their machines. They support linux, they contribute, but do not distribute it. IBM has more lawyers than all of non-IBM/. combined. Their decision, and their confidence, is no accident. Distributors could be brought to their knees if real IP was put into the kernel
Remember Kinko's and the college packs they used to sell a ton of a few years back? If not, here's a summary (someone with time could find a link, but I want to go home from work and play with my kids). Professors submit a "course pack" to Kinko's (a copy center) and Kinko's agrees to print a copy for each student that wants to come in and buy one. Kinko's *just did the copying*. They were sued for being a party to copyright infringement and lost. Professors were left responsible for the content. Kinko's *lost*. You're sure I can copy that, right?
This is where the forces of businesses such as IBM, RedHat, SuSE and others (even SCO could have once upon a time, but now couldn't pay anyone yp listen to them now) can work to influence Linus into accepting that IP, weather you agree with it or not, is something that must be dealt with in some fashion in the kernel. One is accepting code only from developers who have agreed that they a legally able to add the code, or some legal junk like that, and that they are solely responsible for it's content (with the express written approval of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball). Throw some kind of submitting requirements on what is accepted, or some kind of agreement that should keep the kernel outside of IP problems. The second is to just keep the kernel into the wind and say this does not comply with any laws, anywhere, so you're on your own. (put it into clase 11. of NO WARRANTY to include IP non-compliance)
"Oh that code? That's john Smith's. We'll take it out, now go sue him and leave us alone to fix something."
(Of course SCO's not doing any part of this since they won't even identify the code outright, so they're not actually trying to do this for any reason other than hype, but that's being redundant.)
I'm exposing my legal ignorance, but isn't the idea of "fess up now and we'll give you amnesy" when the RIAA doesn't actually *own* the copyright, the same as "buy a license now and we won't sue" when they don't own the Linux kernel like another group we know of? The RIAA may as well charge for the amnesty (or someone else may as well offer to give away licenses). If Sony, WB, or the *artists* (who actually matter) who actually own the copyright made this offer, it'd be a different discussion.
For the record, I don't share MP3s, I don't even use them. I use oggs, and I keep them to myself. I load the CD I own to friends.
I could qualify for an unnamed person that is the university saying something, as I work for the university. A quote with no name is worth as much as an AC on/.
A beta OS is what cought my attention, and I can't see anyone putting a cluter running a beta OS on something as visible as this. "The cluster has crashed" would not look good.
To spare redundancy, I have a post in this thread about rumor, but form a better source above. This is one step away form an authoritative source (like one named in the the articles liked in the headline) that I won't name until I can talk to him. No sense in dragging someone's good name through my rumor mongering.
In talking to the person who is recruiting me to help lug the computers around when they arrive, the OS is to be OS X 10.2.7 on arrival, with plans to upgrade to Panther upon it's release. Straight out-of the box releases, with NetBoot planned to be used to distribute the images to each computer. This contradicts the rumors I've heard before, but is closer to a source who is on the planning team, who is too damn busy to talk to a luser like me.
Those who are possible volunteer recruits, there is an info session in Andrews ISB in the Corp. Research Center at 7:30 tonight and tomonrrow night (same presentation both nights). You *cannot* be on wage for VT to be elegible. I'm not sure if GAs count as this, since I'm not one, I didn't check.
OK moderators, read the story he just linked to. The only OS mentioned in it is mentioned by "Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner" who has no stated connection to VT. I'm not saying that you should take my comments as correct (since I haven't bothered to track down a difinitve source on the OS, they are difinitive rumor at this point), but you can certainly check his source out.
With technologies like Rendezvous on top of Mach/BSD, it could mean beowulf style supercomputers that are both fast and easy to maintain.
I'm writing this from an OS X box, but that collection of words sounce like more marketing than anything else.
"Slow Down Cowboy" And now I'm typing to wait on/. to let me post this post that is something that might be relevant and on topic so others can post noise.
This isn't really a dupe, as this is a mention of the first official words form the school on the subject. Officials are finally speaking (and in some cases backing off) of the cluster in public.
Dell and HP were considered, and Apple won based to a large degree on delivery date. There are more issues to computing than benchmarks, and in the issue of deliverability, Apple won. If you RTFA on the CT, they say it was on the speed and memory of the G5, but the geek grape vine, and hints from the Roanoke times article said availability to get it up in time to make the next top 500 comuter listing we big factors.
Both Dell and HP have recently announced large clusters, so that may be why they were unable to deliver in time.
I'll feed this troll enough to point to this definition of samba which includes the program Samba. I've always associated it with the dance beat samba.
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I'm not saying we should do this, but what if we all apply for the position! Afterall, advertising a job on /. which is filled by employed tech workers will get you no responses at all. Send your resume via e-mail or fax it to 801.765.1313. Or even snail mail to:
The SCO Group
355 South 520 West, Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042
Many companies require full processing of all applicants of a worldwide/nationwide search to check for EEO issues, so expect SCO to have to sort through many applications before they can reply with your new job.
OK, so that's not quite right, but you get the point.
For some reason, using the 5 key for forward and not the 8 key never occurred to me. Using the 8 key makes it harder as it leaves my fingers struggling to reach the keys below the "5 row". Thanks for the tip, I'll have to try it out.
/. seems to forget that *Slashdot is a blog.* Look for the definition of a blog, and you'll find /. fits. It's one of the most successful, is on steroids, and has gone commercial, but this is really Taco's blog and we are all just guests. /.ers not caring about blogs is kind of like a human that doesn't care about oxygen. It shows how pathetic many /.ers are, since they don't know the definition of what they're slamming (standard procedure around here).
I'm surprised the spammers don't hang out here...Oh wait, they just spam the articles instead of the comments.
So how many major companies currently have access to the SYSV source? So far, IBM is standing up to SCO. HP will indemnify it's Linux users, which implies that they don't believe that SCO has a case. (I doubt they did this w/o comparing the sources, plus it's a slap in the face to SCO since you don't need to spend protection money from them, if you bought HP.) Now we had a *third* SYSV code holder, SGI, saying that it's no big deal. How many are required before all the holders of the code except SCO are supporting Linux? Who would like to be the next SYSV code holder to step up to the plate? Is there an educational instution with license?
You're looking for a Whuffie score. Dorks would not get high Whuffies if done right (until a hack is found, but hopefully it will be made solid, as it can be used as a method for identifying hacks/cracks). I'm not sure if this is the human equivalent to a "pagerank" and therefore subject to recursive raising of the score, but I'll let more awake /.ers debate this.
I keep finding this story to be more and more relevant as time goes by.
You can follow a true icon: John Popper of Blues Traveler. All those harmonica pockets can fit more gadgets that I can think of (except maybe filling extra pockets with more harmonicas).
In other news, Chinese developed video games sell poorly in Africa and someone in Tibet eats a pizza for the first time and declares: "What is this s^&t?"
While Babies may actually find the sound of the computer relaxing, I'm guessing the parents may want to set the camera up in different locations, at different times w/o having to lug a PC around to do it!
An old notebook w/ a 802.11b card in it might work, but that's still adding to the number of things that can fail, and the amount of stuff that has to be lugged around the house. Also, when the kid grows, it adds to the number of cords that you have to "Child Proof". (Adult proof is more like it, the kids will still pull on the cords, press all the shiny buttons, etc...)
As a parent with computers around the house, unless your friend is a computer geek, ignore the "get a PC" posts and suggest that he go with as close to an all in one solution that seems reasonable. The line "if your friend is a pilot..." also goes to thet he sould be able to spend the money on an integrated solution. It's money well spent. Simplicity in the lives of new parents is a good thing. The child will make things complex enough.
Glad I'm not the only one who had to look this up
I'm been running the beta of this client for a couple of months, and I've compared the temperature of the CPU and MB when running it and when idle. I've seen no significant difference in either. I'm running it on an Athlon 2000+, I don't have the MB specs, but it's an Abit, IIRC (I'm on my notebook now). I leave my PC on frequently anyway for convienence, so comparing it to being off is not relevant. If I want to turn it off, I still turn it off. My feelings are the same when running Folding when I'm booted Linux.
Check your CPU temp if your MB has this capability, or just get a thermometer and put it near your computer and compare to see if this is really an issue, or just "hot air". For all I know a P4 may heat the house, since I can't speak for one. Basically, be scientific and test the theory. It's not that hard.
Now I finally know why I borrowed that book from the library - so I can understand the phophet's Darl's true message. Where are my SCO press releases?
Since none of this is about actually being in court, and is all a PR battle, then MS is sure to win. On one hand, MS couldn't say this stuff and get away with it, and on the other hand...there is no other hand.
How do you deal with people in the U.K., Russia, China, Austrailia, etc? A contract that's valid in the USA might not be valid anywhere else. ...and IP in the US might have different owners in different countries - remember patent lengths? A certain encryption library that was only non-distributable in the US comes to mind, but I can't remember which acronym (RSA?). Heck, have you tried to by Macross related merchandise lately?
/.
Part of the process for the lawyers is to figure stuff out like the international implications. I hear some of them even go to school for that. Some are even pretty good at it. Some of *them* even wrote the GPL (which I never actually signed, btw). I hear that's one of those international type agreements, but I'm not too sure. You see, IANAL, just like 99.9%+ of
And you're discussing IP and China in the same post? Are you trolling or just haven't heard what China thinks of US IP laws?
We're talking law here. Implied != legal, esp in the minds of many corporations. You think IBM likes the idea of some anonymous developer adding code and saying, it's OK I did it? I'm sure IBM's lawyers had a nightmare over it before they decided that they were safe because they don't actually distribute linux on their machines. They support linux, they contribute, but do not distribute it. IBM has more lawyers than all of non-IBM /. combined. Their decision, and their confidence, is no accident. Distributors could be brought to their knees if real IP was put into the kernel
Remember Kinko's and the college packs they used to sell a ton of a few years back? If not, here's a summary (someone with time could find a link, but I want to go home from work and play with my kids). Professors submit a "course pack" to Kinko's (a copy center) and Kinko's agrees to print a copy for each student that wants to come in and buy one. Kinko's *just did the copying*. They were sued for being a party to copyright infringement and lost. Professors were left responsible for the content. Kinko's *lost*. You're sure I can copy that, right?
This is where the forces of businesses such as IBM, RedHat, SuSE and others (even SCO could have once upon a time, but now couldn't pay anyone yp listen to them now) can work to influence Linus into accepting that IP, weather you agree with it or not, is something that must be dealt with in some fashion in the kernel. One is accepting code only from developers who have agreed that they a legally able to add the code, or some legal junk like that, and that they are solely responsible for it's content (with the express written approval of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball). Throw some kind of submitting requirements on what is accepted, or some kind of agreement that should keep the kernel outside of IP problems. The second is to just keep the kernel into the wind and say this does not comply with any laws, anywhere, so you're on your own. (put it into clase 11. of NO WARRANTY to include IP non-compliance)
"Oh that code? That's john Smith's. We'll take it out, now go sue him and leave us alone to fix something."
(Of course SCO's not doing any part of this since they won't even identify the code outright, so they're not actually trying to do this for any reason other than hype, but that's being redundant.)
I'm exposing my legal ignorance, but isn't the idea of "fess up now and we'll give you amnesy" when the RIAA doesn't actually *own* the copyright, the same as "buy a license now and we won't sue" when they don't own the Linux kernel like another group we know of? The RIAA may as well charge for the amnesty (or someone else may as well offer to give away licenses). If Sony, WB, or the *artists* (who actually matter) who actually own the copyright made this offer, it'd be a different discussion.
For the record, I don't share MP3s, I don't even use them. I use oggs, and I keep them to myself. I load the CD I own to friends.
replying to myself (sigh). The website has an incorrect URL. The demo is at: ftp://ftp.empireftp.com/eidemo/totd/tod-demo.zip
This I've got to try. Quick Google came up with a new web site with a demo. http://www.empireinteractive.com/TTOD/
Maybe I'll finally get the motivation to stick to touch typing. I'm an OK typist if I've got command line completion.
Thanks for the tip.
I could qualify for an unnamed person that is the university saying something, as I work for the university. A quote with no name is worth as much as an AC on /.
A beta OS is what cought my attention, and I can't see anyone putting a cluter running a beta OS on something as visible as this. "The cluster has crashed" would not look good.
To spare redundancy, I have a post in this thread about rumor, but form a better source above. This is one step away form an authoritative source (like one named in the the articles liked in the headline) that I won't name until I can talk to him. No sense in dragging someone's good name through my rumor mongering.
In talking to the person who is recruiting me to help lug the computers around when they arrive, the OS is to be OS X 10.2.7 on arrival, with plans to upgrade to Panther upon it's release. Straight out-of the box releases, with NetBoot planned to be used to distribute the images to each computer. This contradicts the rumors I've heard before, but is closer to a source who is on the planning team, who is too damn busy to talk to a luser like me.
Those who are possible volunteer recruits, there is an info session in Andrews ISB in the Corp. Research Center at 7:30 tonight and tomonrrow night (same presentation both nights). You *cannot* be on wage for VT to be elegible. I'm not sure if GAs count as this, since I'm not one, I didn't check.
OK moderators, read the story he just linked to. The only OS mentioned in it is mentioned by "Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner" who has no stated connection to VT. I'm not saying that you should take my comments as correct (since I haven't bothered to track down a difinitve source on the OS, they are difinitive rumor at this point), but you can certainly check his source out.
With technologies like Rendezvous on top of Mach/BSD, it could mean beowulf style supercomputers that are both fast and easy to maintain.
I'm writing this from an OS X box, but that collection of words sounce like more marketing than anything else.
OS is SuSE as it supports Infiniband.
/. to let me post this post that is something that might be relevant and on topic so others can post noise.
"Slow Down Cowboy"
And now I'm typing to wait on
This isn't really a dupe, as this is a mention of the first official words form the school on the subject. Officials are finally speaking (and in some cases backing off) of the cluster in public.
Dell and HP were considered, and Apple won based to a large degree on delivery date. There are more issues to computing than benchmarks, and in the issue of deliverability, Apple won. If you RTFA on the CT, they say it was on the speed and memory of the G5, but the geek grape vine, and hints from the Roanoke times article said availability to get it up in time to make the next top 500 comuter listing we big factors.
Both Dell and HP have recently announced large clusters, so that may be why they were unable to deliver in time.
I'll feed this troll enough to point to this definition of samba which includes the program Samba. I've always associated it with the dance beat samba.
Please move on, nothing to see here.