Re:Micro ATX doesn't always require half-height PC
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Micro ATX and Linux?
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Or get an Athenatech A-100-SC Case. They are only around $45, have a 200 watt PSU, have 1 external 5.25", 1 external 3.5", and 2 internal 3.5" spaces all in a 5.75" X 13.5" X 14.5" deep case. Athenatech A-100-SC. Very quiet case too.
Add to that a PC Chips Pro 2000+ powered, M810DLU for around $75. Motherboard.
Then add a CDRW/DVD, HDD, RAM, keyboard, mouse, floppy and last but not least, Linux of your favorite distro. Works well with White Box Linux.:)
"The consensus on rec.video.satellite.dbs seems to be that weather really doesn't affect image quality (though this may not be true for HD content) but that airplanes, helicopters, birds and people falling off of your roof can and do. That said, it supposedly causes only minor artifacting (which you're going to get anyways given the aggressive compression the providers use... watch Star Trek: TNG on Spike TV sometime and watch the signal lose sync everytime somebody fires a phaser.)" Too bad all those people are wrong. If you live in S. Fla or NW Washington state, it is a well known fact that the rain storms we get will knock it out for up to an hour at a time depending on the storm. And as we are in the flight path for MIA, HARB, and Homestead General Aviation airports, the airplane, bird, and helicopter bit should affect us and it does not. 10' dish suffers very few drop outs, has NASA TV, other channels of interest and can get HBO, etc... too but requires a stand alone TiVo or VCR. DirectTiVo units are about the best compromise you can get at present time. We have 3 with 2 more regular DSS receivers and 1 4DTV unit for the 10 footer. Can't watch any local tv unless it is Channel 6 as we are blocked by their tower. (Signal so strong you don't need an antenna at all on channels 4, 5, and 6.) Use the DSS one for the local ones too!
"Florida seems to spawn nothing but scams." We learned it from all the New Yorkers who come here for the winter.:-)
I have nothing to hide from the FDLE, they already have a file, complete with fingerprints, on me. The FBI has had one on me for nearly 49 years. I've always passed when any Federal Agency did a background check. Only those who are paranoid or have something to hide worry about someting like this.
60 pages if done as in a deposition isn't much. I just gave a deposition that lasted 1.5 hours and totaled 78 pages. SCOG is trying the all of the lines from 1- 300,000 bit I would bet.
Simple. They download a copy (1). Make 1 backup as allowed under fair use. Then they did a net install of Linux to all of their servers. 1 original, 1 backup, and no further copies.:-)
Re:Going after HP's customers...
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SCO News Roundup
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First lawsuit against an HP customer will give HP the right to sue SCO for causing a loss in HP's income. HP would most likely join with RH in their lawsuit.
As SCO failed to follow Novell's instructions concerning IBM's AIX, SCO broke the contract and that could be turned on SCO the instant they ( Novell )got sued.
Knoppix LiveCDs can't be beat for testing out new equipment. Latest versions can run on almost any PC equipment and are very good at getting the settings right.
Get a case going in as many places as possible and require them to appear for depositions. (Daryl, etc....) Cost of the travel alone would make them wince.
Except if you live here where it is warm almost year round. Then you can't balance the excess heat vs excess cold.:-(
As far as killing HDDs and CPUs, don't worry about it unless your system is marginal to start with. I have had no failures due to running S@H for the past 4+ years on some of my computers. Lightning strikes and such are a different story ( UPSs, surge strips,...take alot of them here) but a 5 year old Sony P!!! 550 is still chugging along with the original hardware.
Power use is a different story as you will have to cool and run them. 4 of my units on a Belkin 1000va UPS draw 425 watts per hour according to my KILL A WATT unit. Those 4 are PSU, HDD, CPU, RAM, and motherboard only. No monitor, keyboard, floppy, mouse, or extra fans. S@H runs 24/7 and uses a LAN connection to connect to another computer running SetiQueue to get their WUs like the rest of my computers.
"Making modifications to the Materials or creating derivative works based on the Materials is prohibited, as is using the Materials on any networked computer environment or other website."
Works both ways as the defendant might wish you to be there if you support them or the plaintif might if you support them. At times they want informed jurors and as long as you agree to listen to the law as instructed by the judge, you might get on the case.
just doing what the bosses are telling them what they want them to do. The fact that the lawyers may not understand how a line of code got into an OS is not the lawyer's worry. They must do as the client wishes if they wish to get paid. When the case gets to court, it will show how good/bad the GPL is. The article's point being that it would be a good idea for to pay more attention to how code is reused and where it comes from is well taken.
The fact that Linux installs went up instead of down after SCO started making noise indicates that most people/companies don't think SCO has a snowball chance in h... and that the GPL will stand the court test.
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Or get an Athenatech A-100-SC Case. They are only around $45, have a 200 watt PSU, have 1 external 5.25", 1 external 3.5", and 2 internal 3.5" spaces all in a 5.75" X 13.5" X 14.5" deep case. Athenatech A-100-SC. Very quiet case too. Add to that a PC Chips Pro 2000+ powered, M810DLU for around $75. Motherboard. Then add a CDRW/DVD, HDD, RAM, keyboard, mouse, floppy and last but not least, Linux of your favorite distro. Works well with White Box Linux. :)
Not according to this: excerpt.
"The consensus on rec.video.satellite.dbs seems to be that weather really doesn't affect image quality (though this may not be true for HD content) but that airplanes, helicopters, birds and people falling off of your roof can and do. That said, it supposedly causes only minor artifacting (which you're going to get anyways given the aggressive compression the providers use... watch Star Trek: TNG on Spike TV sometime and watch the signal lose sync everytime somebody fires a phaser.)"
Too bad all those people are wrong. If you live in S. Fla or NW Washington state, it is a well known fact that the rain storms we get will knock it out for up to an hour at a time depending on the storm. And as we are in the flight path for MIA, HARB, and Homestead General Aviation airports, the airplane, bird, and helicopter bit should affect us and it does not.
10' dish suffers very few drop outs, has NASA TV, other channels of interest and can get HBO, etc... too but requires a stand alone TiVo or VCR. DirectTiVo units are about the best compromise you can get at present time. We have 3 with 2 more regular DSS receivers and 1 4DTV unit for the 10 footer. Can't watch any local tv unless it is Channel 6 as we are blocked by their tower. (Signal so strong you don't need an antenna at all on channels 4, 5, and 6.) Use the DSS one for the local ones too!
"Florida seems to spawn nothing but scams." :-)
We learned it from all the New Yorkers who come here for the winter.
I have nothing to hide from the FDLE, they already have a file, complete with fingerprints, on me. The FBI has had one on me for nearly 49 years. I've always passed when any Federal Agency did a background check. Only those who are paranoid or have something to hide worry about someting like this.
Now where did I put that tin-foil hat?
60 pages if done as in a deposition isn't much. I just gave a deposition that lasted 1.5 hours and totaled 78 pages. SCOG is trying the all of the lines from 1- 300,000 bit I would bet.
of Global Warming, we have to worry about Global Cooling. Is that why it is 45F out in S. Florida? :-)
Guess you never've heard of a cutting torch? ;-)
Some of us just got their copies on this side of the pond. :-(
Simple. They download a copy (1). Make 1 backup as allowed under fair use. Then they did a net install of Linux to all of their servers. 1 original, 1 backup, and no further copies. :-)
First lawsuit against an HP customer will give HP the right to sue SCO for causing a loss in HP's income. HP would most likely join with RH in their lawsuit.
As SCO failed to follow Novell's instructions concerning IBM's AIX, SCO broke the contract and that could be turned on SCO the instant they ( Novell )got sued.
Whistle Blower's act would protect them if they say something to the Gov't if MS was breaking the law.
Knoppix LiveCDs can't be beat for testing out new equipment. Latest versions can run on almost any PC equipment and are very good at getting the settings right.
Call the cops. It looks like SCO is smoking something again.
Message to Boise:
20% of nothing still = nothing.
Get a case going in as many places as possible and require them to appear for depositions. (Daryl, etc....) Cost of the travel alone would make them wince.
Easy. Code in the molecular sequence for a replicator so it couldn't replicate another replicator.
That bonus article is one long article worth reading.
Except if you live here where it is warm almost year round. Then you can't balance the excess heat vs excess cold. :-(
...take alot of them here) but a 5 year old Sony P!!! 550 is still chugging along with the original hardware.
As far as killing HDDs and CPUs, don't worry about it unless your system is marginal to start with. I have had no failures due to running S@H for the past 4+ years on some of my computers. Lightning strikes and such are a different story ( UPSs, surge strips,
Power use is a different story as you will have to cool and run them. 4 of my units on a Belkin 1000va UPS draw 425 watts per hour according to my KILL A WATT unit. Those 4 are PSU, HDD, CPU, RAM, and motherboard only. No monitor, keyboard, floppy, mouse, or extra fans. S@H runs 24/7 and uses a LAN connection to connect to another computer running SetiQueue to get their WUs like the rest of my computers.
What is this DOS you speak of? CP/M all the way. :-)
the whole thing smells of government involvement.
DofHS
NSA
FBI
CIA
DARPA
GCHQ
Take your pick but most likely one of the above is into it. Or monitoring it.
What he said.^
The true test will be when the 180 day free trial period runs out. Then we'll see if there is an exodus from 2003.
"Making modifications to the Materials or creating derivative works based on the Materials is prohibited, as is using the Materials on any networked computer environment or other website."
Huh? Then how the heck can you use it?
And Open Linux 2.2 had a 2.2.5 kernel. Can't find my 2.3 but it was somewhere in between.
You can have an oppinion and still sit on a jury.
Works both ways as the defendant might wish you to be there if you support them or the plaintif might if you support them. At times they want informed jurors and as long as you agree to listen to the law as instructed by the judge, you might get on the case.
Been there, done that. Several times.
just doing what the bosses are telling them what they want them to do. The fact that the lawyers may not understand how a line of code got into an OS is not the lawyer's worry. They must do as the client wishes if they wish to get paid. When the case gets to court, it will show how good/bad the GPL is. The article's point being that it would be a good idea for to pay more attention to how code is reused and where it comes from is well taken.
The fact that Linux installs went up instead of down after SCO started making noise indicates that most people/companies don't think SCO has a snowball chance in h... and that the GPL will stand the court test.