Comcast On Demand doesn't do any recording at all. It functions more like a PVR that can only play, pause, rewind, and fast forward. So, I don't currently see any competition from Digital Cable providers at the moment. Your point is valid about DirectTV and EchoStar though.
I'm tired of the people that bash things even though they most likely have grievances against many other Unix variants, but admit it because they don't have a clue. There are many places that use and are very happy with both Open Unix (UnixWare) and OpenServer. Just ask the VARs that continue to make money off of installations and custom application development. Ask people in Asia what they think of SCO.
Yes, I worked for SCO for a few years, and yes it was/is dying, but it isn't necessarily because the products they developed were/are crap. Many of the developers up until that past year were from AT&T or USL (Unix System Labs). Therefore the people that worked on everything upto SVR4. Novell screwed up things when they took over the codebase and created UnixWare. They mis-managed the product and they can probably be blamed on the current state of OpenUnix or whatever you want to call it (still UnixWare to me).
All the negative comments I see I could easily say about all the other Unix variants or Linux for that matter. I use Linux everyday and enjoy using it, but not everything is straight forward, nor bullet proof. You need to learn an OS to be able to use it and understand it well.
"Palm Inc. and 3Com have lost a patent lawsuit with Xerox. A judge ruled today that Graffiti does infringe on a patent Xerox holds on a handwriting recognition method, called Unistrokes.
The lawsuit will now move on the the penalty phase. The court will decide if Palm has to pay damages and if it is allowed to continue to use the technology. Xerox will urge the court to either require Palm to stop using Graffiti entirely or pay royalties.
Xerox sued U.S. Robotics, which was later bought by 3Com, back in 1997, claiming that Graffiti infringed a patent Xerox received in 1997. Palm was later spun off from 3Com.
Xerox originally filed for its patent in October of 1993. The first handhelds running the Palm OS, the Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000, were released in April of 1996 by U.S. Robotics. These included Graffiti. A question not yet answered is why Jeff Hawkins didn't file for a patent on Graffiti earlier when he had been developing the idea since the 80s.
In June of last year, a judge dismissed the suit on the grounds that Graffiti wasn't similar enough to Unistrokes. In October, the suit was reinstated and moved to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.
Judge Michael Telesca declared today that Xerox's patent is "valid and enforceable", and that Graffiti does infringe on it.
It is not yet known whether Xerox plans to sue other makers of handheld operating systems, like Microsoft, who also include some form of handwriting recognition.
"Xerox always aggressively defends its patent portfolio -- a valuable corporate asset. Today's ruling vindicates our position that our handwriting-recognition patent was infringed. Either Palm will have to cease production of its hand-held organizer or license the technology from Xerox," said Christina Clayton, Xerox general counsel.
From what I've read around the net and on their website, their players do not have SDMI support at all. These are supposedly the top selling players in Japan. Look here for more information.
This is a RTOS that could use a lot of help for its i386 port. That port is currently still in beta. The other ports for AEB, ARM, MIPS, etc.... are much more stable and usable. Plus, RedHat is introducing the EL/IX layer for Linux application compatibility.
Definitely check it out if you're interested in something that is free and opensource.
I don't think so. If you can say that Solaris x86 supports Hot Plug PCI, Numa architecture, scales well on high end systems, then I might believe you. Plus, there is no clustering solution.
I would have to say that it will probably only take off with McKinley rather than Itanium. With all the problems Intel has had lately I would definitely not be jumping on IA-64 anytime soon. I still think companies will be buying Itanium based systems, but I think a lot that do buy it will only buy a couple for their own porting efforts more so, than intergrating them into their networks as IA-32 replacements.
I can see this being possible, but not for the application they are looking to target it for. I can't say anything about the accuracy, but I would guess that the analysis has to be rather complicated. If they get out an actual product that works I'll be impressed.
Beowulf is a clustering technology but definitely not the same as SCO's NonStop Clustering. NonStop Clustering is a High Availability cluster, where Beowulf is purely for processing power.
Cool, if you can find such a beast
Yes you can find systems with that many processors. Just talk to Unisys as one example.
Oh my god! It sounds like...XWindow!
Nope, a single application for administration. So that you don't have to be executing administrative applications from multiple machines.
Microsoft nor Novell own any part of SCO anymore. Both sold all their stock over the past 2 - 3 years. Neither of them have anyone on the board either.
Microsoft sold off all their shares the beginning of this year if I remember correctly. SCO has not had a Microsoft representative on the board since 1/99.
I thought that it kept the spirit of the original. Many of the animation sequences were impressive with most staying away from computer animation. I would definitely recommend seeing it if you can. If you like classical music you'll definitely appreciate this movie.
No, HP has nothing to do with Project Monterey. HP has been working with Intel on the design of Merced processor and has been doing a lot of work on the next 64-bit processor, McKinley. HP is working on a 64-bit HP-UX for Merced. More info about Monterey can be found here. More info on Intel and HP partnership here
No SCO is not Microsoft. There have been numerous times that this has been said and it has always been incorrect. Microsoft does own stock in SCO, but in no way steers the direction of the company. Wouldn't you think Microsoft would have killed off SCO a long time ago if it did own it?
You're correct and I'm sorry for forgetting about VNC. I have tried VNC and it does do the job very well. It still requires software to be installed on a client though.
All deals with working with HP fell through a few years ago. The original plan was for SCO and HP to develop and 64-bit Unix for Itanium (Merced). I don't know why the deal fell through, but now SCO and IBM are working together to make this happen.
They are both using different technology for their implementation. SCO's is Java based and therefore more portable. That's why it is available for so many platforms such as OpenServer 5.x, UnixWare 2.x and 7.x, Solaris, AIX, Tru64, HP-UX, and soon Linux. It allows for any application server to serve applications to any client through a Java capable browser. MetaFrame is purely for serving Windows applications, but Tarantella allows you to run Mainframe apps, Linux apps, Unix apps, Windows Apps, etc... on any client. It provides a much better solution as an ASP than MetaFrame ever could. It's flexibility and robustness is not easily matched by any other solution.
I have seen a piece of the technology used for Tarantella in a tool provided in UnixWare 7.1.x called Webtop. It allows a administrator to adminstrate the system from any browser. It also allows clients to execute X applications in a browser. One of the coolest things I saw was a full X desktop in a browser. This can be done in any client. I know for windows you would need an X emulator, but this solution now does away with that for windows clients.
It is a very cool product that I see being a very good addition to the applications available for Linux. You can also look at it as another way to attack Microsoft dominance.
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Comcast On Demand doesn't do any recording at all. It functions more like a PVR that can only play, pause, rewind, and fast forward. So, I don't currently see any competition from Digital Cable providers at the moment. Your point is valid about DirectTV and EchoStar though.
I'm tired of the people that bash things even though they most likely have grievances against many other Unix variants, but admit it because they don't have a clue. There are many places that use and are very happy with both Open Unix (UnixWare) and OpenServer. Just ask the VARs that continue to make money off of installations and custom application development. Ask people in Asia what they think of SCO.
Yes, I worked for SCO for a few years, and yes it was/is dying, but it isn't necessarily because the products they developed were/are crap. Many of the developers up until that past year were from AT&T or USL (Unix System Labs). Therefore the people that worked on everything upto SVR4. Novell screwed up things when they took over the codebase and created UnixWare. They mis-managed the product and they can probably be blamed on the current state of OpenUnix or whatever you want to call it (still UnixWare to me).
All the negative comments I see I could easily say about all the other Unix variants or Linux for that matter. I use Linux everyday and enjoy using it, but not everything is straight forward, nor bullet proof. You need to learn an OS to be able to use it and understand it well.
Other choices are EMC IP4700 and Celerra products for midrange to enterprise level NAS storage.
The lawsuit will now move on the the penalty phase. The court will decide if Palm has to pay damages and if it is allowed to continue to use the technology. Xerox will urge the court to either require Palm to stop using Graffiti entirely or pay royalties.
Xerox sued U.S. Robotics, which was later bought by 3Com, back in 1997, claiming that Graffiti infringed a patent Xerox received in 1997. Palm was later spun off from 3Com.
Xerox originally filed for its patent in October of 1993. The first handhelds running the Palm OS, the Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000, were released in April of 1996 by U.S. Robotics. These included Graffiti. A question not yet answered is why Jeff Hawkins didn't file for a patent on Graffiti earlier when he had been developing the idea since the 80s.
In June of last year, a judge dismissed the suit on the grounds that Graffiti wasn't similar enough to Unistrokes. In October, the suit was reinstated and moved to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.
Judge Michael Telesca declared today that Xerox's patent is "valid and enforceable", and that Graffiti does infringe on it.
It is not yet known whether Xerox plans to sue other makers of handheld operating systems, like Microsoft, who also include some form of handwriting recognition.
"Xerox always aggressively defends its patent portfolio -- a valuable corporate asset. Today's ruling vindicates our position that our handwriting-recognition patent was infringed. Either Palm will have to cease production of its hand-held organizer or license the technology from Xerox," said Christina Clayton, Xerox general counsel.
Thanks to montyburns for the tip. -Ed"
Blatanly ripped from Palminfocenter.com
Unistrokes picture - Unistroke.gif
It's available for sale at the following sites:
Innogear.com
MP3 Factory Direct
DGN Depot
Yes, there's a color version of Sim City. Check it out here.
ATRAC is the compression used for MD (MiniDisc). You can read more here at www.minidisc.org.
eCos Product Page.
eCos Development Page
Currently working with it for a NAS solution. Have also used QNX Neutrino and WindRiver VxWorks.
This is a RTOS that could use a lot of help for its i386 port. That port is currently still in beta. The other ports for AEB, ARM, MIPS, etc.... are much more stable and usable. Plus, RedHat is introducing the EL/IX layer for Linux application compatibility.
Definitely check it out if you're interested in something that is free and opensource.
eCos RTOS Project Page
Red Hat eCos Product Page
I don't think so. If you can say that Solaris x86 supports Hot Plug PCI, Numa architecture, scales well on high end systems, then I might believe you. Plus, there is no clustering solution.
Ok, didn't mean to offend you. Calm down.
I would have to say that it will probably only take off with McKinley rather than Itanium. With all the problems Intel has had lately I would definitely not be jumping on IA-64 anytime soon. I still think companies will be buying Itanium based systems, but I think a lot that do buy it will only buy a couple for their own porting efforts more so, than intergrating them into their networks as IA-32 replacements.
Well you could at least try to enlighten the first posters, unless you are one of them of course.
HP - Hewlett Packard
IA - Intel Architecture
SDK - Software Development Kit
I can see this being possible, but not for the application they are looking to target it for. I can't say anything about the accuracy, but I would guess that the analysis has to be rather complicated. If they get out an actual product that works I'll be impressed.
Beowulf anyone?
Beowulf is a clustering technology but definitely not the same as SCO's NonStop Clustering. NonStop Clustering is a High Availability cluster, where Beowulf is purely for processing power.
Cool, if you can find such a beast
Yes you can find systems with that many processors. Just talk to Unisys as one example.
Oh my god! It sounds like...XWindow!
Nope, a single application for administration. So that you don't have to be executing administrative applications from multiple machines.
Microsoft nor Novell own any part of SCO anymore. Both sold all their stock over the past 2 - 3 years. Neither of them have anyone on the board either.
Microsoft sold off all their shares the beginning of this year if I remember correctly. SCO has not had a Microsoft representative on the board since 1/99.
I thought that it kept the spirit of the original. Many of the animation sequences were impressive with most staying away from computer animation. I would definitely recommend seeing it if you can. If you like classical music you'll definitely appreciate this movie.
No, HP has nothing to do with Project Monterey. HP has been working with Intel on the design of Merced processor and has been doing a lot of work on the next 64-bit processor, McKinley. HP is working on a 64-bit HP-UX for Merced. More info about Monterey can be found here. More info on Intel and HP partnership here
They own 15% in stock and don't have anyone on the board. Therefore no real power to steer the direction of the company.
No SCO is not Microsoft. There have been numerous times that this has been said and it has always been incorrect. Microsoft does own stock in SCO, but in no way steers the direction of the company. Wouldn't you think Microsoft would have killed off SCO a long time ago if it did own it?
Yes it's correct. I'm just stating facts and nothing more.
You're correct and I'm sorry for forgetting about VNC. I have tried VNC and it does do the job very well. It still requires software to be installed on a client though.
Thanks for the correction.
All deals with working with HP fell through a few years ago. The original plan was for SCO and HP to develop and 64-bit Unix for Itanium (Merced). I don't know why the deal fell through, but now SCO and IBM are working together to make this happen.
They are both using different technology for their implementation. SCO's is Java based and therefore more portable. That's why it is available for so many platforms such as OpenServer 5.x, UnixWare 2.x and 7.x, Solaris, AIX, Tru64, HP-UX, and soon Linux. It allows for any application server to serve applications to any client through a Java capable browser. MetaFrame is purely for serving Windows applications, but Tarantella allows you to run Mainframe apps, Linux apps, Unix apps, Windows Apps, etc... on any client. It provides a much better solution as an ASP than MetaFrame ever could. It's flexibility and robustness is not easily matched by any other solution.
I have seen a piece of the technology used for Tarantella in a tool provided in UnixWare 7.1.x called Webtop. It allows a administrator to adminstrate the system from any browser. It also allows clients to execute X applications in a browser. One of the coolest things I saw was a full X desktop in a browser. This can be done in any client. I know for windows you would need an X emulator, but this solution now does away with that for windows clients.
It is a very cool product that I see being a very good addition to the applications available for Linux. You can also look at it as another way to attack Microsoft dominance.