No, what I am saying is general people who are wanting to give to any charity will not like some of the things they do, but will like other parts, the parts people do not like are probably relatively evenly spread. So although on people part of my money WILL go to something I don't like but someonelse money will go to a part they don't like which I do. This will tend to counteract the not liking part, but because I do not like everything they do I choice to give them less.
Its still perference in charities, if someone women comes round for the local dog home, I might give less cos I don't like dogs but I will give something cos I don't like cruelty to animals, and strays need a home, whereas I would give more to the local cat home cos I love cats like any normal person;-)
"The company broke out the number of lines of code that had been directly copied from each. It said, for example, that more than 829,000 lines of SMP code had been duplicated in Linux. "
By my counting
export b=0; find/usr/src/linux-2.4.21 -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h" | while read a; do wc -l "$a"; done | while read c d ; do let b+=c; echo $b $c $d; done
linux has 4467664 lines in it (my kernel does a a coupe of patches from stock) an yes I am being generous and counting all the duplicated arch stuff again, SCO is saying 1/5 th is from UNIX thats alot more than the SMP + the other things they complained about. I am starting to think they are counting a complete file as a "derivative" if just one line matches their comparision. Any sentance with thr typo thr for the is now a derivative work of this message. Becareful were you typo!
Of course they are forgetting that unix may have obtained the same thing from the Public Domain. I know I know its just the SCO FUD gun going.
Sorry but its so wrong, for a long time Plants an animals were put into groups depending on how they looked. When DNA was discovered people started testing and found ALOT of mistakes it seems that the organisms looked similar because that was the right shape for the right job (both trying to fill the same niche). Anyway ALL multi-Cellular life is a derivative work, when the Oxygen content went up on this planet cell found a way to surve by teaming up with another (mytocondrals) which acted as a power house as it could deal with this poisonus gas. Check your Mytrocondral DNA with that of a Fly and you will find it pretty much the same thing, just a few mutations over the many millions of years.
James
So send them less money!
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If you like some of their work but not all of it just send them a cheque for less than you would otherwise have. Say you like 50% of the work and you think a good donation is 100 bucks, so send them 50 bucks. Someone else will not like the 50% you support and can do likewise. If their views slip with time, year on year adjust the percentage. Include a covering letter of why your doing it, up or down, people listen most when their is money in the envelope. Some organisations have ways your can earmark for causes, if they do use it, and support people who give you the option, that way more will offer it in future. For example savefarscape.com has 2 different funds, one for risky stuff one for day to day stuff....
Do you know what a Phase is? As in 3 or 5 Phase Supply.
No? Don't even try to look at the job, do be honest go on a course now and make sure your each line of racks is on the same phase. (Also why power should aways be brought into the every rack and you should never connect a plug from one rack into a socket in another.) Connection across a phase is far worse that between live and neutral:-)
Do you have certification (so if someone sues you because of a wiring mistake you can prove you atleast should have been working on the supply), and Also insurance so when you are sued it does not flush your complete life.
No? Then you should not be doing anything between the supply and socket. Yes sparkies cost alot but they are payed to take the risks for you, and leave the site in a setup that its quite difficult to kill yourself power wise.
Third and final is your company going to pay for 2 people to have these skills, you will probably find it is illegal to work on power or cabling (under the floor) alone. You need a buddy to raise the alarm and who knows what to do when you do have a problem.
In my life I have had a 230 volt shock and a 5KV shock from power supplies, both times it really hurt and I was lucky and I knew what I was doing and still made a mistake. Anyway my point is this is a high current supply system and you don't know what your doing. You accidently connect yourself to it the breakers probably will not even fire and your dead electricity is not a toy, I am suprise they have not banned it yet;-)
If you really do what do to learn how to do this, get yourself on a proper cause, they are not too long, then you will be qualified to do it
But it might be just cheaper to hire someone else to do the work, its the orginal idea behind that of a "contractor" is someone with skills that are difficult to learn or spensive to maintain and you do not need to have access to them all the time. There by you can save money by not having to pay the "full cost" for the skills cos other employers of the contractor will effectively be sharing the price or the skills, and the contractor can change a premium for the short duration of the job finally and most importantly 10 or your man days could be supplied by 10 contractors in 1 day.
You really wanna save money, learn what the job should require, then collect estimates and then question the pricing and reasoning for it or pay one company to vet the bids from others for a fee but not allow them to bid for the contract themselves, you can even get the to check the safety of the work afterwards.
That was exactly my thought, there was me hoping to see how they waterproofed the mother board then used the heat (with liquid cooling) to run a tropical aquarium. But it was just a flat panel fake fish tank oh well next!
One question is, do we know exactly what licence sequent had? If I were IBM I would be keeping that one close to my chest till there day in court, because it would be so useful for damages. IBM went to alot of trouble to get its AIX licence, IBM has an army of lawers when it bought sequent I feel sure it worked out ownership of code, otherwise its purchase is useless, and where required clean room implementions would be used before integrating code. I also feel sure IBM will be able to prove this. Perhaps even have videotape of people entering it;-)
The thing I find amusing is that the complaint about GPL has aways been its "viral" natural, but here we have SCO claiming the UNIX code has exactly this nature and worse cos with UNIX SCO believes you cannot donate your own code twice.
James
She who writes the code picks the word
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Flavor vs. Flavour
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if you want to right a major amount of code you can pick if words have a U in them or not, and others should respect your choice in that section, and where they have done major work they can make the convention. Lets face it its pretty easy, names and comments could be required in finnish or even worse french.... don't like color or colour #define it....
#define colour coloXXr #define color coloXXr
repeat for others.... but best not mention sulphur to me, I just think the amercian smelling looks ugly, but I am english just #define me;-)
The answer is yes it should when in the monopoly situtation what microsoft currently finds itself in, until that point it can do as it wishes. There is a big difference a monopoly player and a "new entrant" (low market share) player are expected to behave. This is also all to do with bundling things with the OS. KDE is only part of a system. A better example would be Red Hat, this offers several difference desktops (unlike windows), LSB systems are also making for binary interoperability with other flavours like Suse etc which is produced by a different company, again something that microsoft does not do.
Infact the maximum fine the EU can impose is 10% of world [not just EU] turnover. The reason it is world turn over is to stop some companies saying they have no turn over in the EU yet still trade there and cause offence (AOL up to a month ago was an exanmple of a company who claimed no EU turnover (A VAT dodge)).
Don't Metallica own there own label? Is so the RIAA may not have he right to sue on their behalf. After all the RIAA is a big boys/girls club. Metallica is just small fry.
James
Re:on second thought, pass the lead gloves please.
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The main problem with (pure) plutonium and why I would not handle it is because its very poisonus. However if you put it in a nice thin steel jacket, its not much problem at all. However don't leave in on the shelf to long as the many of the decay daughers like amerisium are nasty gamma emmitters and you don't wanna be arround those.
It doesn't matter if you don't, so long as they have enough samples from the population. This can then be used to extrapolate the missing samples. So Uncle Fred who just got arrested for being drunk, just them sample for a family line. Think it cannot be done? They can use the parts that only get passed on though the mothers side and changes very slowing to get a nice family grouping. Here in the UK, they are taking the DNA of anyone arrested, (and keeping it even if they were innocent) Someone has already been caught here based on DNA given by a family member.
They could but I doubt they would for the simple reason, they are competing against rechargable batteries if they do not offer a product that works better for a similar price they will not get anyone to switch from the status quo, after all rechargables are good enough that we don't use one time batteries. Refilling does not have to be free, electric seems free, just cos you get the bill all in one go and forget about it. Refilling just has to be convenient [going to a shop each time is not convenient unless like your car you can do it once a week] and cost effective [comparied to the status quo], 10-20 cent refil would be my guess.
Working better does not just mean extended life is the only thing that might be improved. Other options are, better shelf life (i.e sitting idle for 6 months on 3/4 full and still be 3/4 full on use). Still providing 5 hours of unconnected usage after 2 years of product use.
Depends really, if you could design a casing that when ruptured neturalising all the methanol that would be one option. Another option would be to allow them to be flown "empty", and allow people to plugin laptops (A much more useful thing for long haul anyway) also then they could sell you more methanol at the other end... It was not long ago people where not allowed to use computers at all on planes, if the business customers (high value) demands it, it will be made to happen some how. If this is the only way to get a "battery" that still works to anything like its full lifetime 3 months after purchance, it will happen.
It says it the article that your be able to refil it, (hay you gas your car without thinking about it). Methanol is very cheap you will be able to buy a bottle of it from a Home Improvement (DIY) shop for 2 bucks and the size bottles they sell I will expect that will be 10-20 or so charges. Which compares quite favourably with electric. As to flying on planes and such, they are making sure the are approved before releasing them to the public.
The RSA patent is perhaps not the right one to talk about, one of the problems the "europians" had with the patent was the fact that GCHQ in the UK had already worked out all the logic behind prime number pairs prior to the patent. They just (normal for the UK) wanted to keep it secret so they could use it. If they had infact gone public it probably would not be called RSA.
Not to mention the fact that criminals are now car cloning, they find someone with the same car and copy the number plate and all the fines go to that person and the police does not give a damn, "it looks the same in the picture", the bbc has a article about someone who spent weeks tracking down the cloner themselves.
I was not thinking of using a secure transport I was thinking that the messaged would be signed with the public key so the reserving server know it orginated from a server that was allowed to send email for that domain even though it might have been though a number of relays before it got to it. Yup everyone could have signing in there clients, but that means end users have to be educated rather than System admins.
This is why the RMX should actually be a public key, authorised servers to post for that domain have a copy of thatr public key, infact, there is no reason why every server could not have a different one which could be published in the DNS. If a private key is stolen you just revoke it and generate a new one. Relays could relay but would not be able to change the content. The problem with a key system is its far more difficult to get everyone to agree to what they key format and encryption should be, there is no debate with the IP system.
You can setup an SSL-Authenicating posting SMTP server that allows relaying from you. It being authenicating means it only works from your laptop. Its also a good thing TM, cos it will queue any messages for you, so you can disconnect from the network and it will worry about delayed messages.
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No, what I am saying is general people who are wanting to give to any charity will not like some of the things they do, but will like other parts, the parts people do not like are probably relatively evenly spread. So although on people part of my money WILL go to something I don't like but someonelse money will go to a part they don't like which I do. This will tend to counteract the not liking part, but because I do not like everything they do I choice to give them less.
;-)
Its still perference in charities, if someone women comes round for the local dog home, I might give less cos I don't like dogs but I will give something cos I don't like cruelty to animals, and strays need a home, whereas I would give more to the local cat home cos I love cats like any normal person
James
"The company broke out the number of lines of code that had been directly copied from each. It said, for example, that more than 829,000 lines of SMP code had been duplicated in Linux. "
/usr/src/linux-2.4.21 -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h" | while read a; do wc -l "$a"; done | while read c d ; do let b+=c; echo $b $c $d; done
By my counting
export b=0; find
linux has 4467664 lines in it (my kernel does a a coupe of patches from stock) an yes I am being generous and counting all the duplicated arch stuff again, SCO is saying 1/5 th is from UNIX thats alot more than the SMP + the other things they complained about. I am starting to think they are counting a complete file as a "derivative" if just one line matches their comparision. Any sentance with thr typo thr for the is now a derivative work of this message. Becareful were you typo!
Of course they are forgetting that unix may have obtained the same thing from the Public Domain. I know I know its just the SCO FUD gun going.
James
Sorry but its so wrong, for a long time Plants an animals were put into groups depending on how they looked. When DNA was discovered people started testing and found ALOT of mistakes it seems that the organisms looked similar because that was the right shape for the right job (both trying to fill the same niche). Anyway ALL multi-Cellular life is a derivative work, when the Oxygen content went up on this planet cell found a way to surve by teaming up with another (mytocondrals) which acted as a power house as it could deal with this poisonus gas. Check your Mytrocondral DNA with that of a Fly and you will find it pretty much the same thing, just a few mutations over the many millions of years.
James
If you like some of their work but not all of it just send them a cheque for less than you would otherwise have. Say you like 50% of the work and you think a good donation is 100 bucks, so send them 50 bucks. Someone else will not like the 50% you support and can do likewise. If their views slip with time, year on year adjust the percentage. Include a covering letter of why your doing it, up or down, people listen most when their is money in the envelope. Some organisations have ways your can earmark for causes, if they do use it, and support people who give you the option, that way more will offer it in future. For example savefarscape.com has 2 different funds, one for risky stuff one for day to day stuff....
James
Do you know what a Phase is? As in 3 or 5 Phase Supply.
:-)
;-)
No? Don't even try to look at the job, do be honest go on a course now and make sure your each line of racks is on the same phase. (Also why power should aways be brought into the every rack and you should never connect a plug from one rack into a socket in another.) Connection across a phase is far worse that between live and neutral
Do you have certification (so if someone sues you because of a wiring mistake you can prove you atleast should have been working on the supply), and Also insurance so when you are sued it does not flush your complete life.
No? Then you should not be doing anything between the supply and socket. Yes sparkies cost alot but they are payed to take the risks for you, and leave the site in a setup that its quite difficult to kill yourself power wise.
Third and final is your company going to pay for 2 people to have these skills, you will probably find it is illegal to work on power or cabling (under the floor) alone. You need a buddy to raise the alarm and who knows what to do when you do have a problem.
In my life I have had a 230 volt shock and a 5KV shock from power supplies, both times it really hurt and I was lucky and I knew what I was doing and still made a mistake. Anyway my point is this is a high current supply system and you don't know what your doing. You accidently connect yourself to it the breakers probably will not even fire and your dead electricity is not a toy, I am suprise they have not banned it yet
If you really do what do to learn how to do this, get yourself on a proper cause, they are not too long, then you will be qualified to do it
But it might be just cheaper to hire someone else to do the work, its the orginal idea behind that of a "contractor" is someone with skills that are difficult to learn or spensive to maintain and you do not need to have access to them all the time. There by you can save money by not having to pay the "full cost" for the skills cos other employers of the contractor will effectively be sharing the price or the skills, and the contractor can change a premium for the short duration of the job finally and most importantly 10 or your man days could be supplied by 10 contractors in 1 day.
You really wanna save money, learn what the job should require, then collect estimates and then question the pricing and reasoning for it or pay one company to vet the bids from others for a fee but not allow them to bid for the contract themselves, you can even get the to check the safety of the work afterwards.
James
That was exactly my thought, there was me hoping to see how they waterproofed the mother board then used the heat (with liquid cooling) to run a tropical aquarium. But it was just a flat panel fake fish tank oh well next!
James
One question is, do we know exactly what licence sequent had? If I were IBM I would be keeping that one close to my chest till there day in court, because it would be so useful for damages. IBM went to alot of trouble to get its AIX licence, IBM has an army of lawers when it bought sequent I feel sure it worked out ownership of code, otherwise its purchase is useless, and where required clean room implementions would be used before integrating code. I also feel sure IBM will be able to prove this. Perhaps even have videotape of people entering it ;-)
James
The thing I find amusing is that the complaint about GPL has aways been its "viral" natural, but here we have SCO claiming the UNIX code has exactly this nature and worse cos with UNIX SCO believes you cannot donate your own code twice.
James
if you want to right a major amount of code you can pick if words have a U in them or not, and others should respect your choice in that section, and where they have done major work they can make the convention. Lets face it its pretty easy, names and comments could be required in finnish or even worse french.... don't like color or colour #define it....
;-)
#define colour coloXXr
#define color coloXXr
repeat for others.... but best not mention sulphur to me, I just think the amercian smelling looks ugly, but I am english just #define me
James
I like the Message at the beginning of Ep 5x16 "See you on some other channel"
James
The answer is yes it should when in the monopoly situtation what microsoft currently finds itself in, until that point it can do as it wishes. There is a big difference a monopoly player and a "new entrant" (low market share) player are expected to behave. This is also all to do with bundling things with the OS. KDE is only part of a system. A better example would be Red Hat, this offers several difference desktops (unlike windows), LSB systems are also making for binary interoperability with other flavours like Suse etc which is produced by a different company, again something that microsoft does not do.
James
Infact the maximum fine the EU can impose is 10% of world [not just EU] turnover. The reason it is world turn over is to stop some companies saying they have no turn over in the EU yet still trade there and cause offence (AOL up to a month ago was an exanmple of a company who claimed no EU turnover (A VAT dodge)).
James
Don't Metallica own there own label? Is so the RIAA may not have he right to sue on their behalf. After all the RIAA is a big boys/girls club. Metallica is just small fry.
James
The main problem with (pure) plutonium and why I would not handle it is because its very poisonus. However if you put it in a nice thin steel jacket, its not much problem at all. However don't leave in on the shelf to long as the many of the decay daughers like amerisium are nasty gamma emmitters and you don't wanna be arround those.
James
It doesn't matter if you don't, so long as they have enough samples from the population. This can then be used to extrapolate the missing samples. So Uncle Fred who just got arrested for being drunk, just them sample for a family line. Think it cannot be done? They can use the parts that only get passed on though the mothers side and changes very slowing to get a nice family grouping. Here in the UK, they are taking the DNA of anyone arrested, (and keeping it even if they were innocent) Someone has already been caught here based on DNA given by a family member.
James
They could but I doubt they would for the simple reason, they are competing against rechargable batteries if they do not offer a product that works better for a similar price they will not get anyone to switch from the status quo, after all rechargables are good enough that we don't use one time batteries. Refilling does not have to be free, electric seems free, just cos you get the bill all in one go and forget about it. Refilling just has to be convenient [going to a shop each time is not convenient unless like your car you can do it once a week] and cost effective [comparied to the status quo], 10-20 cent refil would be my guess.
Working better does not just mean extended life is the only thing that might be improved. Other options are, better shelf life (i.e sitting idle for 6 months on 3/4 full and still be 3/4 full on use). Still providing 5 hours of unconnected usage after 2 years of product use.
James
Depends really, if you could design a casing that when ruptured neturalising all the methanol that would be one option. Another option would be to allow them to be flown "empty", and allow people to plugin laptops (A much more useful thing for long haul anyway) also then they could sell you more methanol at the other end... It was not long ago people where not allowed to use computers at all on planes, if the business customers (high value) demands it, it will be made to happen some how. If this is the only way to get a "battery" that still works to anything like its full lifetime 3 months after purchance, it will happen.
James
It says it the article that your be able to refil it, (hay you gas your car without thinking about it). Methanol is very cheap you will be able to buy a bottle of it from a Home Improvement (DIY) shop for 2 bucks and the size bottles they sell I will expect that will be 10-20 or so charges. Which compares quite favourably with electric. As to flying on planes and such, they are making sure the are approved before releasing them to the public.
James
The RSA patent is perhaps not the right one to talk about, one of the problems the "europians" had with the patent was the fact that GCHQ in the UK had already worked out all the logic behind prime number pairs prior to the patent. They just (normal for the UK) wanted to keep it secret so they could use it. If they had infact gone public it probably would not be called RSA.
James
Not to mention the fact that criminals are now car cloning, they find someone with the same car and copy the number plate and all the fines go to that person and the police does not give a damn, "it looks the same in the picture", the bbc has a article about someone who spent weeks tracking down the cloner themselves.
James
They would probably claim they continued to distribute the code so they could what the enfringment increase without tipping people off.
James
I was not thinking of using a secure transport I was thinking that the messaged would be signed with the public key so the reserving server know it orginated from a server that was allowed to send email for that domain even though it might have been though a number of relays before it got to it. Yup everyone could have signing in there clients, but that means end users have to be educated rather than System admins.
James
This is why the RMX should actually be a public key, authorised servers to post for that domain have a copy of thatr public key, infact, there is no reason why every server could not have a different one which could be published in the DNS. If a private key is stolen you just revoke it and generate a new one. Relays could relay but would not be able to change the content. The problem with a key system is its far more difficult to get everyone to agree to what they key format and encryption should be, there is no debate with the IP system.
James
Thats why they want to add RMX, rather than just using the MX addresses in reverse. Cos a valid sender does not have to be valid for receiving.
James
You can setup an SSL-Authenicating posting SMTP server that allows relaying from you. It being authenicating means it only works from your laptop. Its also a good thing TM, cos it will queue any messages for you, so you can disconnect from the network and it will worry about delayed messages.
James