But one of the problems is a lack of HDTV tuner. You could get Elgato's EyeTV 500 to make your Mini Mac into an HD PVR but you're still lacking 5.1 digital audio. I don't know what you could do about that. If you're spending the $$$ to get an HDTV then you probably already have, or would want to get a nice 5.1 or 7.1 sound system. You wouldn't want to be stuck with stereo from you Mini Mac.
I'm not sure Cringely's HD movie service would catch on either. It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure it would be very successful. One thing is certain though, a lot of people are going to have a lot of fun and do some cool stuff with their Mini Macs.
What is the deal with supernodes, isn't there a peer to peer protocol that doesn't revolve around supernodes?
Because this type of tiered network is what works and scales well to thousands and millions of clients. The original Gnutella protocol was designed not to use "supernodes" or a tiered network structure and it was a miserable failure. The bandwidth and large latency required for all of the clients to communicate with each other (especially ones using 56K modems) easily overcame the usefulness of the network. The current Gnutella protocol now uses a tiered (layered) network where clients can become supernodes and this version actually works with tens to hundreds of thousands of people connected.
When creating a large, scalable network this type of protocol is what has been proven to work.
It's possible that Judge Kimball could make Judge Wells' ruling moot when/if he ever rules on IBM's Partial Summary Judgment motion. Wells has to favor SCO in that she has to consider the possibility that giving them what they want might improve their case.
I'm hoping that since Wells has likely been advising with Kimball on this that Kimball's decision will come soon on IBM's PSJ motion. I'm also hoping that goes in IBM's favor since it would pretty much kill all of SCO's other lawsuits.
You can find a transcript of the order here on IP-Wars.net. Groklaw has an article about the ruling.
I think the order is outrageous personally. IBM's being ordered to produce all versions of AIX and Dynix along with notes, whitepapers, and all that fun stuff. This is going to be a mountain of code and documents considering that AIX is 20 years old.
I did some checking on the YDL iBook and PowerBook support pages and Airport Extreme is not yet supported (which seems to be common for 802.11g on Linux), though standard 802.11b cards are supported.. It also looks like there is no 3D acceleration (but 2D acceleration works) for the Graphics card and putting the computer to sleep only partially works.
So I may have been wrong initially, it looks like there's still some work to be done to make Apple's laptops fully supported on Linux. But you've still got a great Unix OS with Mac OS X if you can't get Linux to run as well as you want.
Well, if you'd like to do that then a PPC machine is not the best choice. But if you're just going to be running Linux applications then it makes a pretty good Linux Laptop. Plus you get out Mac OS X and a bunch of other great software.
I think that Apple makes the best laptops in the world and if you want to put Linux on them you can. Yellow Dog Linux seems to be a good choice if you go this route. Though it appears that Airport Extreme drivers aren't yet working.
But if you've got OS X then what do you need Linux for? Most Linux software can be recompiled for use on Mac OS X.
I love hearing all the people here talk about how there is no Social Security crisis just because the Republicans say there is a crisis. You've also got Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid (the Democrat leader of the Senate) saying stuff like it's "a crisis that doesn't exist." So what was their great hero, Bill Clinton, saying when he was in office?
As you know, I believe strongly that we must set aside every penny of any budget surplus until we have saved Social Security first.
Fiscal responsibility gave us our strong economy. Fiscal irresponsibility would put it at risk. And whether we save Social Security first I will not be moved, but on how we save Social Security -- that will require us to have open minds and generous spirits. It will require listening and learning and looking for the best ideas wherever they may be. We simply must put progress ahead of partisanship.
The stakes couldn't be higher. For 60 years, Social Security has reflected our deepest values -- the duties we owe to our parents, to each other and to our children. Today, 44 million Americans depend upon Social Security. For two-thirds of our seniors it is the main source of income. And nearly one in three beneficiaries are not retirees, for Social Security is also a life insurance policy and a disability policy, along with being a rock-solid guarantee of support in old age.
Today, Social Security is sound, but a demographic crisis is looming. By 2030, there will be twice as many elderly as there are today, with only two people working for every person drawing Social Security. After 2032, contributions from payroll taxes will only cover 75 cents on the dollar of current benefits. So we must act, and act now, to save Social Security.
Were they singing a different tune back then? Is there only a crisis when a Democrat says there's a crisis?
I'm sorry but "only two people working for every person drawing Social Security" will not work. Social Security will not be able to support itself. Now you may not agree with what has been proposed by the President to reform Social Security, but you shouldn't be so childish and stupid to deny that a problem exists.
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Since the cheapest Mac Mini has a 1.25 GHz processor and ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of VRAM then you should be set. Though since it only comes with 256 MB of RAM you'll probably need to upgrade to 512 MB, but you were going to do that anyway, right? Actually, you were going to max it out at 1 GB of RAM, right?;) -- It works. Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo
What about the SCO Group's evidence that Linux contains Unix source code?
After nearly two years and Darl McBride's claims of "mountains of code" you'd think they'd have shown something by now. -- It works. Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo
In other news... Another anal cyst... err, umm I mean analyst at Frost & Sullivan discovered that the centralized data stored in a PC user's address book can be exploited by virus and Trojan writers. The anal cyst... err, analyst, stated that "This data provides a list of valid email addresses that could be exploited to spread a virus or worm. It's just a matter of time."
This is encouraging for me since I hope to be getting a DS for Christmas (Santa are you out there?). I've got a GBA SP and the battery life on that thing is outstanding. I can probably count the number of times I've charged it on one hand. Of course I don't play with it nearly as much as other people, but having good battery life is a must in a portable. If I'm going to fly from New York to California then I don't want to worry about my GameBoy (or DS) running out of life before I get there.
Nintendo claims that the Nintendo DS can last about 10 hours before it needs to be charged. I don't know whether or not this is real-world performance. It'd be interesting to see what the battery life is when doing multiplayer, wireless gaming.
Not everyone agrees. Kaitlin Duck Sherwood of San Francisco, author of a popular how-to manual on effective e-mail, argued in an interview that exclamation points could help convey intonation, thereby avoiding confusion in some e-mail.
"If you want to indicate stronger emphasis, use all capital letters and toss in some extra exclamation points," Sherwood advises in her guide...
Personally I like the other person's suggestion that you should be allowed only two exclamation points in [your] whole life. I've seen SO MANY DAMN CAPS and exclamation points!!! that I WANT TO SHOOT SOMEONE!!!!!
I agree with that reasoning and I'd comment more about it if I knew more about the DS' implementation. It probably just wasn't designed to connect to a normal TCP/IP network, let alone an online network.
Also note that games which use an IP stack and connect to the 'net are being developed for the DS as we speak...
This is interesting, do you have any links about these games? That would be pretty cool.
XLink Kai is a global gaming network - bringing together XBox, Playstation 2 and Gamecube users, in one integrated community. It is software running on your PC or Macintosh that allows you to play system-link enabled games online for free. Kai is the only service that is not console specific, and boasts one of the friendliest communites available.
Apparently they're working on providing tunneling for the Nintendo DS but the DS doesn't conform to 802.11 wireless standards. This may be because Nintendo wants to keep things proprietary or low-power, but they seem to think otherwise:
Finally, I'd just like to say that somebody should really send a PSP unit to whoever designed the WiFi module for the Nintendo DS - it's a very, very nice implementation - and adheres correctly to the recognised standards for wireless networking. I know others may argue that Nintendo uses their non-standard wireless architecture to "save power" - I'd like to officially confirm that as a crock-of-shit - Nintendo use their own "proprietary protocol" - because, it seems, they couldn't be bothered to / ran out if time trying to write a proper IP stack for the DS - so they used some horrible thrown-together frame format, used a very low-range tranceiver, and called it innovative. Anyway - my views on the DS hardware aren't relevant - what is relevant is that Kai will support both of these devices - one now, the other later - once I've finished jumping through all Nintendo's hoops.
This definitely looks like an interesting service and one that I'd like to try out.
Photographers who lack the inclination or the clout to persuade Adobe to publish Photoshop for the Linux platform, but care enough to take a hostile attitude when GIMP is mentioned as a potentially useful tool.
I was not trying to take a hostile attitude, if my posts came off as such then I appologize. I was just trying to point out one of the reasons why professional photographers would not be likely to use the GIMP.
That doesn't mean that the GIMP doesn't have other great uses outside of professional photography. From what I've seen it's good at what it does and you can't beat the price.
Since I'm a Mac user I'm not very likely to use the GIMP because it runs in a non-native X-Windows environment. But, being that I'm also a developer, porting the GIMP to a native Mac OS X Cocoa environment is something that interests me and someday I might want to sratch that itch. If I ever decide to sratch that itch then I might also help add support for 16-bit images (unless someone else has beaten me to the punch).
But I missed the part where anyone, ever, asserted that GIMP was created as a tool for professional photographers to use.
Since the topic is Professional Photographers Using Linux? I assumed that we were talking about professional tools. The GIMP is a great tool at a great price, but it's just not there yet for the professional photographer. It'll probably get there some day though.
Please see my reply concerning 8-bit color. I think what the grandparent meant was 8-bits per component, or RGB8, which is 24-bits per pixel. The GIMP (as far as I know) does not yet support 16-bits per component, RGB16, or 48-bit color. Since most RAW formats are greater than 8-bits per component (I believe Nikon NEF is 12-bits per component) they will likely be converted to 16-bits / component TIFFs which means that professional photographers cannot use the GIMP.
I agree that GIMP isn't the tool for a professional photographer (and I'd argue that a Beseler and a Swiss 4x5 are the main tools, still), but my understanding is that GIMP has been 24-bit in RGB and 32-bit in RGBA for quite some time, and that the coming version will be 48-bit Float in RGB, and 128-bit Float in RGBA.
What he means is that the GIMP is 8-bits per component == RGB8 == 3 Components * 8-bits == 24-bits per pixel. Or RGBA8 == 4 Components * 8-bits == 32-bits per pixel. One of the bigger gripes among professional users is that the GIMP doesn't support 16-bits per component (RGB16) which is more common when converting RAW images to TIFF. Since professional photographers are probably shooting exclusively in the RAW formats for anything that they would sell then the GIMP is a tool that they cannot use.
As to the "48-bit Float" comment I assume you mean 96-bit Float for RGB (3 components * 32-bits = 96-bit) since the "float" type is 32-bits. -- Sounds like a scam, but it works. Free Flat Screens | Free iPod Photo
As another poster mentioned, sounds like a blogging software issue and not a concerted effort on PJ's part to rob you of your attribution.
Here we go with this same excuse yet again. Well, it might have been an excuse once, but now that PJ knows what happens when accounts are deleted it is no excuse at all. She knows what the software does yet she is still happily deleting accounts as fast as she can find people to disagree with.
If you are so concerned about post attribution, how about putting your name in the actual message from now on?
Well, he does now. Did anyone think that he would ever need to do this before? Do you worry about your Slashdot account being deleted and put your name in all of your posts? Should you even have to worry about this?
I could also post anonymously on Groklaw and sign my post with his name. How would you know that it was me and not John that made the post? What information is there in an anonymous post that allows you to successfully tie it to the person that posted it?
Putting your name in your posts is no solution to this problem. If ever your account were to be deleted then there would be no way to prove that you were in fact the author. I could claim that I authored it and signed it with your name. The information that shows, without a doubt, that you are the author will have been removed. (Think copyright management information removed without permission.)
Groklaw continues to thrive now that most of the bleating whiners have been cropped from the message boards. Court documents continue to arrive and be converted to text in a timely manner and Pam's comments continue to chisel away at the SCO legal position while reflecting on the morality of such groups.
Well then, where are the court documents and transcripts from the Daimler case? Groklaw doesn't have them. Al Petrofsky has gone out of his way to get these documents, report or court hearings, get audio and video recordings of the hearings, etc. Groklaw will sometimes link to Al's site, scofacts.org, but never give him credit. It says something to me when PJ can't get along with people that so productive and active in the same cause.
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But one of the problems is a lack of HDTV tuner. You could get Elgato's EyeTV 500 to make your Mini Mac into an HD PVR but you're still lacking 5.1 digital audio. I don't know what you could do about that. If you're spending the $$$ to get an HDTV then you probably already have, or would want to get a nice 5.1 or 7.1 sound system. You wouldn't want to be stuck with stereo from you Mini Mac.
I'm not sure Cringely's HD movie service would catch on either. It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure it would be very successful. One thing is certain though, a lot of people are going to have a lot of fun and do some cool stuff with their Mini Macs.
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What is the deal with supernodes, isn't there a peer to peer protocol that doesn't revolve around supernodes?
Because this type of tiered network is what works and scales well to thousands and millions of clients. The original Gnutella protocol was designed not to use "supernodes" or a tiered network structure and it was a miserable failure. The bandwidth and large latency required for all of the clients to communicate with each other (especially ones using 56K modems) easily overcame the usefulness of the network. The current Gnutella protocol now uses a tiered (layered) network where clients can become supernodes and this version actually works with tens to hundreds of thousands of people connected.
When creating a large, scalable network this type of protocol is what has been proven to work.
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It's possible that Judge Kimball could make Judge Wells' ruling moot when/if he ever rules on IBM's Partial Summary Judgment motion. Wells has to favor SCO in that she has to consider the possibility that giving them what they want might improve their case.
I'm hoping that since Wells has likely been advising with Kimball on this that Kimball's decision will come soon on IBM's PSJ motion. I'm also hoping that goes in IBM's favor since it would pretty much kill all of SCO's other lawsuits.
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You can find a transcript of the order here on IP-Wars.net. Groklaw has an article about the ruling.
I think the order is outrageous personally. IBM's being ordered to produce all versions of AIX and Dynix along with notes, whitepapers, and all that fun stuff. This is going to be a mountain of code and documents considering that AIX is 20 years old.
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I did some checking on the YDL iBook and PowerBook support pages and Airport Extreme is not yet supported (which seems to be common for 802.11g on Linux), though standard 802.11b cards are supported.. It also looks like there is no 3D acceleration (but 2D acceleration works) for the Graphics card and putting the computer to sleep only partially works.
So I may have been wrong initially, it looks like there's still some work to be done to make Apple's laptops fully supported on Linux. But you've still got a great Unix OS with Mac OS X if you can't get Linux to run as well as you want.
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Well, if you'd like to do that then a PPC machine is not the best choice. But if you're just going to be running Linux applications then it makes a pretty good Linux Laptop. Plus you get out Mac OS X and a bunch of other great software.
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I think that Apple makes the best laptops in the world and if you want to put Linux on them you can. Yellow Dog Linux seems to be a good choice if you go this route. Though it appears that Airport Extreme drivers aren't yet working.
But if you've got OS X then what do you need Linux for? Most Linux software can be recompiled for use on Mac OS X.
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July 27, 1998 Were they singing a different tune back then? Is there only a crisis when a Democrat says there's a crisis?
I'm sorry but "only two people working for every person drawing Social Security" will not work. Social Security will not be able to support itself. Now you may not agree with what has been proposed by the President to reform Social Security, but you shouldn't be so childish and stupid to deny that a problem exists.
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I've probably been reading ThinkSecret since he was 13 and it's been consistently the most accurate of all the other rumor sites that I know of.
Way to go kid!
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Yep
;)
Here's the WoW system requirements:
Mac® System OS X 10.3.5 OS:
933 MHz or higher G4 or G5 processor
512 MB RAM or higher; DDR RAM recommended
ATI or NVIDIA video hardware with 32 MB VRAM or more
4 GB or more of available hard drive space
MacOS X 10.3.5 or newer
56k or higher modem with an Internet connection
Since the cheapest Mac Mini has a 1.25 GHz processor and ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of VRAM then you should be set. Though since it only comes with 256 MB of RAM you'll probably need to upgrade to 512 MB, but you were going to do that anyway, right? Actually, you were going to max it out at 1 GB of RAM, right?
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MirrorDot.org has a mirror up, but it's pretty slow right now. Get it while you can.
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What about the SCO Group's evidence that Linux contains Unix source code?
After nearly two years and Darl McBride's claims of "mountains of code" you'd think they'd have shown something by now.
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This is what it said when I clicked on it:
Sollog is stuck in a failed marriage with a marmot
After a refresh though it appears to be the normal article.
In other news... Another anal cyst... err, umm I mean analyst at Frost & Sullivan discovered that the centralized data stored in a PC user's address book can be exploited by virus and Trojan writers. The anal cyst... err, analyst, stated that "This data provides a list of valid email addresses that could be exploited to spread a virus or worm. It's just a matter of time."
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This is encouraging for me since I hope to be getting a DS for Christmas (Santa are you out there?). I've got a GBA SP and the battery life on that thing is outstanding. I can probably count the number of times I've charged it on one hand. Of course I don't play with it nearly as much as other people, but having good battery life is a must in a portable. If I'm going to fly from New York to California then I don't want to worry about my GameBoy (or DS) running out of life before I get there.
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Nintendo claims that the Nintendo DS can last about 10 hours before it needs to be charged. I don't know whether or not this is real-world performance. It'd be interesting to see what the battery life is when doing multiplayer, wireless gaming.
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Not everyone agrees. Kaitlin Duck Sherwood of San Francisco, author of a popular how-to manual on effective e-mail, argued in an interview that exclamation points could help convey intonation, thereby avoiding confusion in some e-mail.
"If you want to indicate stronger emphasis, use all capital letters and toss in some extra exclamation points," Sherwood advises in her guide...
Personally I like the other person's suggestion that you should be allowed only two exclamation points in [your] whole life. I've seen SO MANY DAMN CAPS and exclamation points!!! that I WANT TO SHOOT SOMEONE!!!!!
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I agree with that reasoning and I'd comment more about it if I knew more about the DS' implementation. It probably just wasn't designed to connect to a normal TCP/IP network, let alone an online network.
Also note that games which use an IP stack and connect to the 'net are being developed for the DS as we speak...
This is interesting, do you have any links about these games? That would be pretty cool.
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A little about XLink Kai:
XLink Kai is a global gaming network - bringing together XBox, Playstation 2 and Gamecube users, in one integrated community. It is software running on your PC or Macintosh that allows you to play system-link enabled games online for free. Kai is the only service that is not console specific, and boasts one of the friendliest communites available.
Apparently they're working on providing tunneling for the Nintendo DS but the DS doesn't conform to 802.11 wireless standards. This may be because Nintendo wants to keep things proprietary or low-power, but they seem to think otherwise:
Finally, I'd just like to say that somebody should really send a PSP unit to whoever designed the WiFi module for the Nintendo DS - it's a very, very nice implementation - and adheres correctly to the recognised standards for wireless networking. I know others may argue that Nintendo uses their non-standard wireless architecture to "save power" - I'd like to officially confirm that as a crock-of-shit - Nintendo use their own "proprietary protocol" - because, it seems, they couldn't be bothered to / ran out if time trying to write a proper IP stack for the DS - so they used some horrible thrown-together frame format, used a very low-range tranceiver, and called it innovative. Anyway - my views on the DS hardware aren't relevant - what is relevant is that Kai will support both of these devices - one now, the other later - once I've finished jumping through all Nintendo's hoops.
This definitely looks like an interesting service and one that I'd like to try out.
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Photographers who lack the inclination or the clout to persuade Adobe to publish Photoshop for the Linux platform, but care enough to take a hostile attitude when GIMP is mentioned as a potentially useful tool.
I was not trying to take a hostile attitude, if my posts came off as such then I appologize. I was just trying to point out one of the reasons why professional photographers would not be likely to use the GIMP.
That doesn't mean that the GIMP doesn't have other great uses outside of professional photography. From what I've seen it's good at what it does and you can't beat the price.
Since I'm a Mac user I'm not very likely to use the GIMP because it runs in a non-native X-Windows environment. But, being that I'm also a developer, porting the GIMP to a native Mac OS X Cocoa environment is something that interests me and someday I might want to sratch that itch. If I ever decide to sratch that itch then I might also help add support for 16-bit images (unless someone else has beaten me to the punch).
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But I missed the part where anyone, ever, asserted that GIMP was created as a tool for professional photographers to use.
Since the topic is Professional Photographers Using Linux? I assumed that we were talking about professional tools. The GIMP is a great tool at a great price, but it's just not there yet for the professional photographer. It'll probably get there some day though.
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Ummm... 8 bit colour?
Please see my reply concerning 8-bit color. I think what the grandparent meant was 8-bits per component, or RGB8, which is 24-bits per pixel. The GIMP (as far as I know) does not yet support 16-bits per component, RGB16, or 48-bit color. Since most RAW formats are greater than 8-bits per component (I believe Nikon NEF is 12-bits per component) they will likely be converted to 16-bits / component TIFFs which means that professional photographers cannot use the GIMP.
> Currently the gimp is only 8 bit color.
I agree that GIMP isn't the tool for a professional photographer (and I'd argue that a Beseler and a Swiss 4x5 are the main tools, still), but my understanding is that GIMP has been 24-bit in RGB and 32-bit in RGBA for quite some time, and that the coming version will be 48-bit Float in RGB, and 128-bit Float in RGBA.
What he means is that the GIMP is 8-bits per component == RGB8 == 3 Components * 8-bits == 24-bits per pixel. Or RGBA8 == 4 Components * 8-bits == 32-bits per pixel. One of the bigger gripes among professional users is that the GIMP doesn't support 16-bits per component (RGB16) which is more common when converting RAW images to TIFF. Since professional photographers are probably shooting exclusively in the RAW formats for anything that they would sell then the GIMP is a tool that they cannot use.
As to the "48-bit Float" comment I assume you mean 96-bit Float for RGB (3 components * 32-bits = 96-bit) since the "float" type is 32-bits.
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As another poster mentioned, sounds like a blogging software issue and not a concerted effort on PJ's part to rob you of your attribution.
Here we go with this same excuse yet again. Well, it might have been an excuse once, but now that PJ knows what happens when accounts are deleted it is no excuse at all. She knows what the software does yet she is still happily deleting accounts as fast as she can find people to disagree with.
If you are so concerned about post attribution, how about putting your name in the actual message from now on?
Well, he does now. Did anyone think that he would ever need to do this before? Do you worry about your Slashdot account being deleted and put your name in all of your posts? Should you even have to worry about this?
I could also post anonymously on Groklaw and sign my post with his name. How would you know that it was me and not John that made the post? What information is there in an anonymous post that allows you to successfully tie it to the person that posted it?
Putting your name in your posts is no solution to this problem. If ever your account were to be deleted then there would be no way to prove that you were in fact the author. I could claim that I authored it and signed it with your name. The information that shows, without a doubt, that you are the author will have been removed. (Think copyright management information removed without permission.)
Groklaw continues to thrive now that most of the bleating whiners have been cropped from the message boards. Court documents continue to arrive and be converted to text in a timely manner and Pam's comments continue to chisel away at the SCO legal position while reflecting on the morality of such groups.
Well then, where are the court documents and transcripts from the Daimler case? Groklaw doesn't have them. Al Petrofsky has gone out of his way to get these documents, report or court hearings, get audio and video recordings of the hearings, etc. Groklaw will sometimes link to Al's site, scofacts.org, but never give him credit. It says something to me when PJ can't get along with people that so productive and active in the same cause.
Groklaw's loss is our gain.