Right, because all they did, AFAIK, is spoof caller-ID information to gain access to the voicemail without a password, and IT WAS NOT ILLEGAL at the time..
The "This wasn't illegal at the time" comment has been made a number of times but surely gaining access to voicemail, whether by caller-ID spoofing or guessing passwords is going to be illegal under the computer misuse act which predates RIPA by a decade.
I know that's why I said I'd seen about a dozen, the mention of billboards was to indicate that the BBC are obviously willing to spend real money in promoting this series
Actually the BBC don't make enough money to be self funding, anytime that the BBC have set up anything that looks like it might generate a significant amount of money the Government has told it to pull out of that area or restructure the various commercial entities.
As for the prisoner, none of your license fees went to producing it, it was an ITV show.
Scottish bank notes are not legal tender in Scotland. English bank notes of denomination less than 5UKP were legal tender in Scotland under Currency and Bank Notes Act 1954. Now, with the removal of BoE 1UKP notes, only coins constitute legal tender in Scotland. English bank notes are only legal tender in England, Wales, The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. In Scotland, 1 pound coins are legal tender to any amount, 20ps and 50ps are legal tender up to 10 pounds; 10p and 5ps to 5 pounds and 2p and 1p coins are legal tender to 20p (separately or in combination). 2 pounds coins and (if you can get hold of one) 5 pound coins are also legal tender to unlimited amounts, as are gold coins of the realm at face value (in Scotland at least).
and
The lack of a true legal tender in Scotland does not cause a problem for Scots Law which is flexible enough to get round this apparent legal nonsense, as was demonstrated some time ago when one local authority tried to refuse a cash payment (in Scottish notes) on the grounds it wasn't "legal tender", but lost their case when the sheriff effectively said that they were obliged to accept anything which was commonly accepted as "money", and that should their insistence on "legal tender" have been supported, it would have resulted in the bill being paid entirely in coins, which would have been a nonsense; stopping short of saying that the council would have been "cutting off their nose to spite their face", but seeming to hint at it.
They changed the name because if they'd stuck with redhat then noone else can sell cd sets as "redhat linux". Fedora isn't trademarked so when Ferdora Core 1 comes out you can burn copies of the iso's and sell them marked as "Fedora Core 1". Try the same thing with RedHat 9 and RedHat's lawyers will be knocking on your door talking about trademark infringement.
Actually it doesn't (thought it may break the spirit) since they're not threatening to limit the license, just remove the SCO compatible code from GCC.
They'd be breaking the points you refer to if they released a version with a license statement that said you cannot use this program on SCO operating systems.
What's perhaps more interesting is if the GCC people could revoke all of SCO's licenses and require them to prove that they had removed any copies. I think the GPL forbids this though.
Well, that's the character that's been built up over about 40 years of movies. Flemings original character from the books and the first few films was of a hard professional killer. The gadgets came with the films and the corny lines largely came with Roger Moore.
yes, but it's sun's release, they are providing the support on the hardware and though I've not seen it I'm assuming they've tweaked some things. Certainly they've had the stuff long enough to play around with it.
The main advantage Linux has over x86 is the device driver support and linux is so strong in this that I don't see how Sun is going to make any headway by shipping SUNOS 5.9 kernels with gnu software. If I were involved with the x86 team I would be trying to figure out a way to use the linux driver code base (or the people developing it).
How close to the latest tools do they want to get, the latest release, the latest beta release? the latest alpha release? yesterdays cvs code? which should Sun support? I've no idea what kind of testing and validation Sun do with the software they do use but I'm assuming that the
Well, we were talking in terms of solid long-lived things like software and OS's not ephemeral here today and gone tomorrow hardware but if Sun are still allowing academic source code licenses I'll take a shot, mail it to
Iain Rae 11 Burnside Terrace Biggar Lanarkshire Scotland ML12 6BY
And no I don't see gawk as several steps backwards from awk/nawk, not having used SunOS 3.x I wasn't aware that it was shipped with it. I'm still puzzled thoug, why you want sun to go SunOS 1->2->3->4->5->6?->3 but I suppose It's no sillier that going Solaris 1->2->7->8->9 and linux 5->????;)
Umm no, if Sun want to ship a version of Linux then they'll produce their own release....oh hang on they're doing that now with Sun Linux 5. The higher end Sun market want an OS that will stay stable (in terms of how the OS looks to applications) for a long long time and Sun don't have the finances and or the developers in order to maintain two parallel OS tracks like that. Hell they're having trouble keeping one OS on two platforms.
Sun take backward compatibility very seriously, there are people running Sunos 4.x binaries on Solaris 8.
Oh and why would they market it as Sunos 3 that would be several steps backwards surely
Bit more complicated if the box/complaint were north of the border since they'd also have to talk the Scottish parliament into nobbling the procurator fiscal responsible. that might prove a bit more tricky.
I guess the idea is to have a bomb designed to penetrate far enough into the earth to contain the blast underground.
I suspect that nukes are overkill, the RAF were dropping 10 ton conventional bombs during big mistake II which were destroying bunkers hundreds of feet underground and going through tens of feet of concrete to get there.
Probably the best example of what's possible is the Campaigns in Borneo, Rhadfan and particular Oman where very small number of Specialist troops operating with local tribesmen, some of whom were former terrorists, managed to stop the country falling to terrorists. (note that these were not just military campaigns there was a considerable amount of political give and take and humanitarian aid put in as well)
The key point is that the military should go in with clear aims, whether it's just a one off raid to snatch some group or take out some group.
I suspect that the best solution would be to go in under UN umbrella with an aim to putting a stable government in power, about the worst thing that we (the western powers) could do is nominate some rabid ant-taliban group as the good guys and back them up on everything.
Well, we (the POMS) were involved as well (assuming you mean black arrow) although from the few pictures available it all looked distinctly like Gerry Anderson was in charge.
hmmm.... obviously the kernel has achived sentience and is hacking it's own code. Expect a whole bunch of kernel additions which improve the lot of the computer rather than the developer or user.
I've installed RH sparc on an old IPC over NFS and apart from not RTF'Ming the instructions about the boot disc properly (ok not RTFM'ing at all) i didn't have any problems. In fact I'd bet it's slightly easier than on intel because you don't have the hassles over configuring the hardware. I also tried it booting off the CD on an Ultra 1 with no problems at all.
Bear in mind that the kind of people that are running on sun hardware (outside of Universities) are probably going to trade in their old hardware for new sun stuff and anyway RedhHat are chasing an inherently smaller market on Sparc anyway.
For me it's the Sunday Morning soak in the bath test, I tend to spend Sunday morning relaxing in the bath and reading, print will die for me the day that someone produces something that you can afford to drop in the bath witout electrocuting yourself or completerely ruining an expensive toy.
Why not do both, Have a website with the book online and the banner advertising and charge to download pdf files of the book.
I much prefer paper documentation <turns round and looks at shelves> I must have more than £2,000 worth of books, some of which are second or third editions.
take DNS and bind
1st ed. 1992
2nd ed. 1997
2rd edition 1998
Total cost £65
or Sendmail
1st 1993
2nd 1997
total cost £55
So if you were to charge £10/year subscription and punted out a major revision every 2 or 3 years I'd be happy.
Whether you'd make profit on it or how you'd stop pirate copying I don't know.
I've used Applixware for the last 18 months or so and have been fairly impressed (the 5.0 beta was quite nice), perfect office is equally nice. If you are wanting to do anything complicated with networked printers consider lprng, http://www.lprng.org on your print servers, it's not the easiset thing to set up but it is very flexible and reliable.
I've used in under 6.1 and 6.2 to install a lab of 40 PC's, it's a bit buggy but there's nothing that you can't work round, if you want to add your own packages you can either merge them with the distribution (rpm's only) or write install scripts for rpms or tar files, or even just run install on the files if there's a limited number of files to install. If you spend the time and get it right it should just be a matter of sticking in a floppy, switching the PC on and taking the disk out when it starts the install, possibly less if you have bootproms or PXE(?) compatible network cards.
If you ( or anyone else) want's copies of the ks.cfg files etc then e-mail me (just please don't laugh too much at my crappy shell scripting:)).
Well, I think that the UN had juristiction in that it's first task (like the League of Nations after WWI) was to sort out the mess left over at the end of the war and return occupied territory to the sovriegn governments. IT's power came from the fact that both countries occupying Korea were signatories and had supposedly agreed to withdraw and allow elections to take place, the Invasion fom the North kind of stopped that idea dead.
It should also be said that it's the only time that the United Nations have ever been close to being United on anything and probably the only time that that number of countries have sent troops or other support.
It can. Remember it's going to start off in orbit, if you want to drop into the sun all you have to do is kill your orbital velocity.
It ought to be possible to angle the sail such that you are getting enough of a thrust slowing you down that it will eventually fall into the sun.
Equally it may pay you to play interplanetary billiards with the probe for a couple of years to put it in a highly elliptical orbit round the sun to pick up as much speed as possible.
I remember reading somewhere that by applying chaos theory (well ok it's not really chaos theory but the same branch of maths) to orbital mechanics you can generate highly convoluted orbits which allow you to send probes to places you can't using standard transfer orbits.
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Right, because all they did, AFAIK, is spoof caller-ID information to gain access to the voicemail without a password, and IT WAS NOT ILLEGAL at the time. .
The "This wasn't illegal at the time" comment has been made a number of times but surely gaining access to voicemail, whether by caller-ID spoofing or guessing passwords is going to be illegal under the computer misuse act which predates RIPA by a decade.
I know that's why I said I'd seen about a dozen, the mention of billboards was to indicate that the BBC are obviously willing to spend real money in promoting this series
Then you've not been watching, I've seen about a dozen, plus 3 or 4 billboards in and around Edinburgh.
Actually the BBC don't make enough money to be self funding, anytime that the BBC have set up anything that looks like it might generate a significant amount of money the Government has told it to pull out of that area or restructure the various commercial entities.
As for the prisoner, none of your license fees went to producing it, it was an ITV show.
Coins are legal tender (with limitations on amounts for some values of coin).
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Scottish bank notes are not legal tender in Scotland. English bank notes of denomination less than 5UKP were legal tender in Scotland under Currency and Bank Notes Act 1954. Now, with the removal of BoE 1UKP notes, only coins constitute legal tender in Scotland. English bank notes are only legal tender in England, Wales, The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. In Scotland, 1 pound coins are legal tender to any amount, 20ps and 50ps are legal tender up to 10 pounds; 10p and 5ps to 5 pounds and 2p and 1p coins are legal tender to 20p (separately or in combination). 2 pounds coins and (if you can get hold of one) 5 pound coins are also legal tender to unlimited amounts, as are gold coins of the realm at face value (in Scotland at least).
and
The lack of a true legal tender in Scotland does not cause a problem for Scots Law which is flexible enough to get round this apparent legal nonsense, as was demonstrated some time ago when one local authority tried to refuse a cash payment (in Scottish notes) on the grounds it wasn't "legal tender", but lost their case when the sheriff effectively said that they were obliged to accept anything which was commonly accepted as "money", and that should their insistence on "legal tender" have been supported, it would have resulted in the bill being paid entirely in coins, which would have been a nonsense; stopping short of saying that the council would have been "cutting off their nose to spite their face", but seeming to hint at it.
Presumable he's talking about:
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They changed the name because if they'd stuck with redhat then noone else can sell cd sets as "redhat linux". Fedora isn't trademarked so when Ferdora Core 1 comes out you can burn copies of the iso's and sell them marked as "Fedora Core 1". Try the same thing with RedHat 9 and RedHat's lawyers will be knocking on your door talking about trademark infringement.
Actually it doesn't (thought it may break the spirit) since they're not threatening to limit the license, just remove the SCO compatible code from GCC.
They'd be breaking the points you refer to if they released a version with a license statement that said you cannot use this program on SCO operating systems.
What's perhaps more interesting is if the GCC people could revoke all of SCO's licenses and require them to prove that they had removed any copies. I think the GPL forbids this though.
Well, that's the character that's been built up over about 40 years of movies. Flemings original character from the books and the first few films was of a hard professional killer. The gadgets came with the films and the corny lines largely came with Roger Moore.
yes, but it's sun's release, they are providing the support on the hardware and though I've not seen it I'm assuming they've tweaked some things.
;)
Certainly they've had the stuff long enough to play around with it.
The main advantage Linux has over x86 is the device driver support and linux is so strong in this that I don't see how Sun is going to make any headway by shipping SUNOS 5.9 kernels with gnu software. If I were involved with the x86 team I would be trying to figure out a way to use the linux driver code base (or the people developing it).
How close to the latest tools do they want to get, the latest release, the latest beta release? the latest alpha release? yesterdays cvs code? which should Sun support? I've no idea what kind of testing and validation Sun do with the software they do use but I'm assuming that the
Well, we were talking in terms of solid long-lived things like software and OS's not ephemeral here today and gone tomorrow hardware but if Sun are still allowing academic source code licenses I'll take a shot, mail it to
Iain Rae
11 Burnside Terrace
Biggar
Lanarkshire
Scotland
ML12 6BY
And no I don't see gawk as several steps backwards from awk/nawk, not having used SunOS 3.x I wasn't aware that it was shipped with it. I'm still puzzled thoug, why you want sun to go
SunOS 1->2->3->4->5->6?->3
but I suppose It's no sillier that going
Solaris 1->2->7->8->9
and
linux 5->????
Umm no, if Sun want to ship a version of Linux then they'll produce their own release....oh hang on they're doing that now with Sun Linux 5. The higher end Sun market want an OS that will stay stable (in terms of how the OS looks to applications) for a long long time and Sun don't have the finances and or the developers in order to maintain two parallel OS tracks like that. Hell they're having trouble keeping one OS on two platforms.
Sun take backward compatibility very seriously, there are people running Sunos 4.x binaries on Solaris 8.
Oh and why would they market it as Sunos 3 that would be several steps backwards surely
Bit more complicated if the box/complaint were north of the border since they'd also have to talk the Scottish parliament into nobbling the procurator fiscal responsible. that might prove a bit more tricky.
Oooh yeessss there iiissss
I guess the idea is to have a bomb designed to penetrate far enough into the earth to contain the blast underground.
I suspect that nukes are overkill, the RAF were dropping 10 ton conventional bombs during big mistake II which were destroying bunkers hundreds of feet underground and going through tens of feet of concrete to get there.
Probably the best example of what's possible is the Campaigns in Borneo, Rhadfan and particular Oman where very small number of Specialist troops operating with local tribesmen, some of whom were former terrorists, managed to stop the country falling to terrorists. (note that these were not just military campaigns there was a considerable amount of political give and take and humanitarian aid put in as well)
The key point is that the military should go in with clear aims, whether it's just a one off raid to snatch some group or take out some group.
I suspect that the best solution would be to go in under UN umbrella with an aim to putting a stable government in power, about the worst thing that we (the western powers) could do is nominate some rabid ant-taliban group as the good guys and back them up on everything.
Well, we (the POMS) were involved as well (assuming you mean black arrow) although from the few pictures available it all looked distinctly like Gerry Anderson was in charge.
hmmm.... obviously the kernel has achived sentience and is hacking it's own code. Expect a whole bunch of kernel additions which improve the lot of the computer rather than the developer or user.
Unfortunately if you use windows 2000 in combination with Office 2000 there is a 40% chance of it losing list items in a numbered list
I've installed RH sparc on an old IPC over NFS and apart from not RTF'Ming the instructions about the boot disc properly (ok not RTFM'ing at all) i didn't have any problems. In fact I'd bet it's slightly easier than on intel because you don't have the hassles over configuring the hardware. I also tried it booting off the CD on an Ultra 1 with no problems at all.
Bear in mind that the kind of people that are running on sun hardware (outside of Universities) are probably going to trade in their old hardware for new sun stuff and anyway RedhHat are chasing an inherently smaller market on Sparc anyway.
For me it's the Sunday Morning soak in the bath test, I tend to spend Sunday morning relaxing in the bath and reading, print will die for me the day that someone produces something that you can afford to drop in the bath witout electrocuting yourself or completerely ruining an expensive toy.
Why not do both, Have a website with the book online and the banner advertising and charge to download pdf files of the book.
I much prefer paper documentation <turns round and looks at shelves> I must have more than £2,000 worth of books, some of which are second or third editions.
take DNS and bind
1st ed. 1992
2nd ed. 1997
2rd edition 1998
Total cost £65
or Sendmail
1st 1993
2nd 1997
total cost £55
So if you were to charge £10/year subscription and punted out a major revision every 2 or 3 years I'd be happy.
Whether you'd make profit on it or how you'd stop pirate copying I don't know.
I've used Applixware for the last 18 months or so and have been fairly impressed (the 5.0 beta was quite nice), perfect office is equally nice. If you are wanting to do anything complicated with networked printers consider lprng, http://www.lprng.org on your print servers, it's not the easiset thing to set up but it is very flexible and reliable.
I've used in under 6.1 and 6.2 to install a lab of 40 PC's, it's a bit buggy but there's nothing that you can't work round, if you want to add your own packages you can either merge them with the distribution (rpm's only) or write install scripts for rpms or tar files, or even just run install on the files if there's a limited number of files to install. If you spend the time and get it right it should just be a matter of sticking in a floppy, switching the PC on and taking the disk out when it starts the install, possibly less if you have bootproms or PXE(?) compatible network cards.
:)).
If you ( or anyone else) want's copies of the ks.cfg files etc then e-mail me (just please don't laugh too much at my crappy shell scripting
Well, I think that the UN had juristiction in that it's first task (like the League of Nations after WWI) was to sort out the mess left over at the end of the war and return occupied territory to the sovriegn governments. IT's power came from the fact that both countries occupying Korea were signatories and had supposedly agreed to withdraw and allow elections to take place, the Invasion fom the North kind of stopped that idea dead.
It should also be said that it's the only time that the United Nations have ever been close to being United on anything and probably the only time that that number of countries have sent troops or other support.
It can. Remember it's going to start off in orbit, if you want to drop into the sun all you have to do is kill your orbital velocity.
It ought to be possible to angle the sail such that you are getting enough of a thrust slowing you down that it will eventually fall into the sun.
Equally it may pay you to play interplanetary billiards with the probe for a couple of years to put it in a highly elliptical orbit round the sun to pick up as much speed as possible.
I remember reading somewhere that by applying chaos theory (well ok it's not really chaos theory but the same branch of maths) to orbital mechanics you can generate highly convoluted orbits which allow you to send probes to places you can't using standard transfer orbits.