Yo Wha da heck? SCO owns C++, then by inference they also own C. If this is their IP claim then they own the original that licences MS for most of their OS, and every other OS in the world. Holy shit they even own IP rights to Intels C compiler, and every other C based compiler in the whole freaking world, including GCC and all of the original Linux code.
Here is a SCO IP trial summation fantasy for fun.
( SCOs legal teams summation ) 'In conclusion your Honor we at SCO believe that all advanced computing technology throughout the entire world should pay licensing fees to the original patent holders of the C computer language. You have the demonstrated proof of the non-licenced illegal use of C languages and their derivatives by the Plaintiffs. (the courts eyes glare at Linus and Richard in particular) We have proved our ownership to the origins and Patents of C computer language.'
(Judge Harry B. Mean in reply after consideration and much vodka, and other lubrication) 'It is the ruling of this court that, hence forth; All computer software written in any language resembling C or any derivative of said language C using the Patented precepts of C and its' derivatives will require verifiable Licensing from the Intellectual Property holder SCO. And furthermore any sub-set language, operating system, compiler or program that uses C code will not be permitted to disclose code that might expose the original IP C code source. The damages will be assesed at future trials with appropriate motivation..... (judge Harry and a flock of Lawyers hold out their hands to get greased).
Come on you guys can't anybody figure out that being used a Zombie might be the easiest thing to detect and eliminate. Write a sniffer for the OS and use behaviours as a parameter, what gets me pissed is that with Windows software you have to buy this kind of security from Synmantec and Microsoft will not change the Os to eliminate unwanted install scripts from running. If anything their.net language crap makes the future of bullshit like SARC secure. As to secure settings in NT/2000/XP, the very fact that things can still get installed without you knowing it is a huge hole. The problem is brain dead MS trained system admins!
My advice is by stock in Symantec, they will take over the industry eventually and become a sort of Pinkertons to the computer industry. You will need always need them to ride shotgun if all you use is MS certified people.
I cannot for the life of me see how Freebsd is messy. Sure you can screw things up but the man pages are great. It is easy to move things, change config, etc etc. If you are just interested in running X and not really learning to use a shell then mandrake9 fits the bill. Just remember there can be dependancy diffs between mdkrpm and rpm and debs. I much prefer to compile stuff from source and read the dependancy requirements first. To this end Slackware and Freebsd are the best, even though they have app-get and ports, it is very easy to find the right paths, when you try out a new app that is only available.tgz Changing things in./configure, or commenting out functions, or changing dependancy paths are essential Linux skills.
Sure effectively using make, chown, chroot, and shells etc in Freebsd and Slackware is a big learning curve. The upside is it makes you much more aware of how things work, and a better GNU/bee.
Hopefully the 2.6 kernel will gain rapid acceptance with hardware manufactures, and software writers world wide.
Yes you are right on target as to why Linux is doing great things. Not releasing 2.6 stable too soon is one of them. The problem is that the business world does not appreciate the reasons why.
My wife trains new users for an environment that is typical. Their server is MS based because of the need to run MS office. The real power apps are served by a Linux server for the medical image data files. There in lies the problem, the office application lock of Microsoft.
The lack of a killer business app in Linux is the root cause of the delema. Sure there are great integrated office apps in Linux. But by and large you would need to pry the dead fingers of the average office computer user away from MS office addiction.
My point was that the world of scientific computing and real powerhouse apps would be the best chance for Linux in business till someone comes up with a new killer business application that is native to Linux. What might fill the Bill (pun intended) is an appliction that does all the necessary buisiness/computer chores but is easily customisable in house and scalable. Inventory data , linked to all departments, with or without cash register interface, and accounting software all linked, a kind of Swiss Army knife that is easy to secure and change. Hopefully this is the future of Linux in business.
When businesses see that using a powerhouse Linux server/workstation setup can make a difference to their bottom line their MS office/OS/server dependancy will quickly evaporate.
It will be the processor optimisations that will determine the success of 2.6 Linux. The solutions that Microsoft has embrased with hyperthreading might be a non-starter for Linux. The Intel/MS world view is to optimise compilation for Windows and software emu the 32 bit environment, a difficult if not stupid way to do things.
If the Amd world view of how to achieve 32 bit without emu on a 64 bit platform are to fly then the adoption of AMD by the server world is essential for Linux in the future. Blindly following the Intel/MS lead may lead to kaos. The same as blindly imitating Microsofts functions by reverse engineering, is for programmers.
The office desktop lock of MS is not the route that Linux should take, the applied advanced scientific computing and clustering is the best route. When a great scientific workstation can be had for the price of a Linux install on a 64 bit AMD system the business computing world will finally start to wake up and take notice.
Just surf the web long and enough and you will find the Neandrathals, they are everywhere. Most even have blond hair and blue eyes, have eaten their enemies brains, infested Northern Europe and bashed the skulls of the little people who came from the south and east or took them as slaves.
At times they have been called many things one of the most recent designations was the Original Pure Arian race.
As for where they are on the tree of life, that is a decision best left to the future.
The tree of life has very little to do with humanities and everything to do with the evolutionary links between species. There is a huge debate as to whether or not Neandrathals actually died out! The only solution might be if some usable Neandrathal DNA is found to do more detailed sequencing. It could very well be that the genetic traits left by Neandrathals have mostly become recessive, like blue eyes and blond hair. Or more radicaly that some non-arian traits tend to be or become dominant. All these views are not very popular in RedNeck/Nazi science, but need to be explored.
Hey wouldn't it be better if there was a game that splattered gamers, hackers, junkies, and other politically correct targets. The only shooters were sneaky upwardly mobile polititions? Now that would be a killer game! The ultimate goal would be to gain enough voter brownie points to be elected to congress.
Geepers I've seen this lame troll post before!
If freebsd is dead then it sure is making alot of noise. If you really are into coding then bsd is alot more fun than anything else around.
The kernel is rock solid and is easier to test virtual environments without hosing some core config. The core libraries are very easy to protect, and duplicate. The unfortunate thing that I have found about Linux is that the core libraries other than the Kernel make./config on cross platforms a nightmare with some distros. Slackware is the only one thats still easy to figure out the path structure. With only one official Freebsd some people who are getting tired of having to find paths to./config for the different Linux distros are switching to Slackware and FreeBSD, for the sake of their santity. To those who like to code for KDE Slackware runs about 30% faster with KDE 3
than Mandrake or RedHat. Bsd smokes if you set it up right. For the bunch that do shell scripts and code in Vi (and its variant) Bsd and Slackware are still the best dual boot and the closest to a real programmers tool. So what if you do not default boot directly into a window manager, unless you set it up. I still like to type startx and find that Mandrake and RedHat installs since version 8 have become geared to Windows users (which is fine) not the Gnu/Bsd/Linux community as a whole.
FreeBsd, Slackware, and Debian have an important place in the free software world they are and will remain the developement platforms of choice, because choice is what they deliver.
Why doesn't some bright game company come up with a realistic Cops and Robbers. The object of which is to catch bad guys, if you choose to be a bad guy you cannot help but leave clues. If you off another player then you get hunted by the cops etc. If you are a cop and you need to use your gun then you will wind up on a desk filling out paper and processing reports till your incident is reported as a clean shoot.
Making games a little bit closer to reality would even interest the older generation.
I personaly find that the first person shooter crap that is so popular with the Xbox style "gamers" is mindless drivel.
Yes you are correct the tools will require extensive work between two diametrically apposed disciplines. However the output of new photo sensor technologies might make the job considerably easier.
Given the right programming environment, experimental freedom from corporate demands, the Gimp could evolve very quickly indeed. Adobe has been at it for a long time and has a lock on the market, upstarts like the Gimp are evolving much faster. The only catch is patented file formats, and other Microsoft anti competitive trickery.
here is a read me from the linux 86 of the icc color lib.
ICC profile I/O library (icclib), README file
Date 5th November 2002, Version 2.03
This distribution contains source code which implements the reading and writing of color profile files that conform to the International Color Consortium (ICC) Profile Format Specification, Version 3.4.
For more information about the ICC, and for copies of the specification, please refer to http://www.color.org/.
(Note that this software is written from the ICC V3.4 standard, but the software and its author are not affiliated with, or otherwise connected with the ICC.)
The ICC profile I/O library archive is kept at http://web.access.net.au/argyll/color.html
Motivation
Color is still very much a black art to many programmers dealing with computer graphics. The ICC Profile Format is an industry attempt to provide an interchange format to help solve the problems of specifying color, and in transferring color graphics from, and between systems and devices. Although the ICC format has been around a number of years, and has long been adopted by companies in the business of providing systems for publishing and printing, and is now widely used as part of commercial operating system support for device independent color, its uptake in the general world of computer graphics has been slow.
The writing of this library was prompted by my private and professional enthusiasm for computer graphics, and color. Inspired by other examples of freely usable software (notably the Independent JPEG Group's free JPEG software, and Sam Leffler's TIFF library), I have decided to make this library available under similar terms. I hope that this library will provide a starting point for including ICC profile support more widely that is currently the case, particularly in open source code projects.
Overview
This package contains a C software implementation of the ICC Profile Format, Version 3.4. The ICC Profile Format attempts to provide a cross-platform device profile format, that can be used to translate color data created on one device into another device's native color space. For a fuller explanation of what the ICC Profile Format is all about, please refer to http://www.color.org, and the profile specification.
In summary this library provides:
* Full source code, free for commercial and non-commercial use.
* Support for all version 3.4 header elements, Tags and Tag Types.
* Conversion to/from machine native representation of all data
types.
* Support for user defined Tags.
* Support for adding/deleting Tags.
* Support for Tag type sharing within a file (often used for
sharing LUTs amongst intents).
* Support for reading/writing embedded profiles, including from/to
a memory buffer, rather than a file.
* Provides a single function for transforming color values through
a profile, including support for intents, forward and reverse
transforms, gamut lookup or preview lookup.
* Provides support and code examples for creating all profile
types, monochrome, matrix and Lut.
* Attempts to be platform neutral, and flexibility in its use of
system file and memory sub-systems.
* Loads Tag Types on demand to conserve memory space.
Changes from V2.02
Version 2.03 has a few minor changes from the previous release, V2.02, aimed at improving the system compatibility of the library.
See icc.c for a more detailed change history.
Package contents:
icclib.zip ZIP archive of the following files
README.txt This file.
Licence.txt Important! - Permissions for use of this package.
icc.c Library source file.
iccstd.c Library source that uses stdio and malloc system calls.
icc.h Library include file. Note machine dependent
Have you ever really used the full potential of the Gimp, I cannot seem to find it. Creating application interface graphics, buttons, font glyphs, its resolution, scan in capacity, buffer control, layering, image dithering, drawing tools are all getting better. Not that it has no bugs, but what there are seem to be not that objectionable, and usually easy to work around. As long as you are not using the buggy limited Windows version, the limits of the Gimp are hard to find, and like photoshop require real study!
Given the apple integrated approach to OS10+ your statement might just be a little premature
If Apple does succeed in integrating Gimp functionality into a desktop, then the average PhotoShop pro might just say hey why the hell should I pay big money for a 64 bit pentium work station, then tons of cash for software as well.
Adobe dropping Apple is a move that is obvious in it's implications. To keep Redmond happy! The free software movement is gaining steam with the pro's.
In music, imaging, etc. The home market for PC junkies has become more important to Adobe. Pro's will pay for great tools like ProTools audio, but Photoshop Pro has become a bloated button ridden overpriced PC style app, great as it was it is not that indespensable.
I do not even own an Apple, but I am getting very tempted!
Thongs that dip have never been my strong point! Being Martian I have a little bit of trouble with English. This is something that "up with which I have learned to put". A loose quotation from a famous Britt.
Point is that the good work being done by those who have the balls to fight the real cause of spam and corruption is being overlooked by the media.
Does this mean that you will not be able to receive hot-mail, because it will only run on Win servers? To communicate and educate you must give in and use closed source, it is the only safe way to compute.
Give in let yourself spend money there are people starving in Redmond. We will be doing the world of communication a favor if no other means of digital communication other than MS servers can access knowledge!
If she is fighting $cientology then she is taking on a big portion of the corrupt part of $holywood/Vegas USA.
She's going after the largest pseudo scientific religious money making scam artists. No dought the pr0n industry is part of the equation. Spam is one of their biggest products. Just hope organised crime does not get her first.
I know organised crime does not exist anymore, according to TV reports. Joe Blow America does not care who or even know who is running the show.
I did not change my sig for this post so it is a little wierd... sorry
Here is the origin of company that wrote the code check interface. They have evolved and grown at an exponential rate since learning to use visual studio!
People smart enough to use the function, identify self as internet explorer 5 in Opera and other browsers might tilt the survey just a little.
So maybe only about 90% of internet users are stupid enough to use the default MS internet tools that can get them hacked. That means that 10% of web users have savy, a great improvement from even two years ago.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is a SCO IP trial summation fantasy for fun.
( SCOs legal teams summation ) 'In conclusion your Honor we at SCO believe that all advanced computing technology throughout the entire world should pay licensing fees to the original patent holders of the C computer language. You have the demonstrated proof of the non-licenced illegal use of C languages and their derivatives by the Plaintiffs. (the courts eyes glare at Linus and Richard in particular) We have proved our ownership to the origins and Patents of C computer language.'
(Judge Harry B. Mean in reply after consideration and much vodka, and other lubrication) 'It is the ruling of this court that, hence forth; All computer software written in any language resembling C or any derivative of said language C using the Patented precepts of C and its' derivatives will require verifiable Licensing from the Intellectual Property holder SCO. And furthermore any sub-set language, operating system, compiler or program that uses C code will not be permitted to disclose code that might expose the original IP C code source. The damages will be assesed at future trials with appropriate motivation..... (judge Harry and a flock of Lawyers hold out their hands to get greased).
My advice is by stock in Symantec, they will take over the industry eventually and become a sort of Pinkertons to the computer industry. You will need always need them to ride shotgun if all you use is MS certified people.
Sure effectively using make, chown, chroot, and shells etc in Freebsd and Slackware is a big learning curve. The upside is it makes you much more aware of how things work, and a better GNU/bee.
Yes you are right on target as to why Linux is doing great things. Not releasing 2.6 stable too soon is one of them. The problem is that the business world does not appreciate the reasons why
My wife trains new users for an environment that is typical.
Their server is MS based because of the need to run MS office. The real power apps are served by a Linux server for the medical image data files. There in lies the problem, the office application lock of Microsoft.
The lack of a killer business app in Linux is the root cause of the delema. Sure there are great integrated office apps in Linux. But by and large you would need to pry the dead fingers of the average office computer user away from MS office addiction.
My point was that the world of scientific computing and real powerhouse apps would be the best chance for Linux in business till someone comes up with a new killer business application that is native to Linux. What might fill the Bill (pun intended) is an appliction that does all the necessary buisiness/computer chores but is easily customisable in house and scalable. Inventory data , linked to all departments, with or without cash register interface, and accounting software all linked, a kind of Swiss Army knife that is easy to secure and change. Hopefully this is the future of Linux in business.
When businesses see that using a powerhouse Linux server/workstation setup can make a difference to their bottom line their MS office/OS/server dependancy will quickly evaporate.
I once lost something in the back of a stationwagon, so you had better back up your data!
If the Amd world view of how to achieve 32 bit without emu on a 64 bit platform are to fly then the adoption of AMD by the server world is essential for Linux in the future. Blindly following the Intel/MS lead may lead to kaos. The same as blindly imitating Microsofts functions by reverse engineering, is for programmers.
The office desktop lock of MS is not the route that Linux should take, the applied advanced scientific computing and clustering is the best route. When a great scientific workstation can be had for the price of a Linux install on a 64 bit AMD system the business computing world will finally start to wake up and take notice.
At times they have been called many things one of the most recent designations was the Original Pure Arian race.
As for where they are on the tree of life, that is a decision best left to the future.
The tree of life has very little to do with humanities and everything to do with the evolutionary links between species. There is a huge debate as to whether or not Neandrathals actually died out! The only solution might be if some usable Neandrathal DNA is found to do more detailed sequencing. It could very well be that the genetic traits left by Neandrathals have mostly become recessive, like blue eyes and blond hair. Or more radicaly that some non-arian traits tend to be or become dominant. All these views are not very popular in RedNeck/Nazi science, but need to be explored.
Hey wouldn't it be better if there was a game that splattered gamers, hackers, junkies, and other politically correct targets. The only shooters were sneaky upwardly mobile polititions? Now that would be a killer game! The ultimate goal would be to gain enough voter brownie points to be elected to congress.
Geepers I've seen this lame troll post before! If freebsd is dead then it sure is making alot of noise. If you really are into coding then bsd is alot more fun than anything else around.
The kernel is rock solid and is easier to test virtual environments without hosing some core config. The core libraries are very easy to protect, and duplicate. The unfortunate thing that I have found about Linux is that the core libraries other than the Kernel make ./config on cross platforms a nightmare with some distros. Slackware is the only one thats still easy to figure out the path structure. With only one official Freebsd some people who are getting tired of having to find paths to ./config for the different Linux distros are switching to Slackware and FreeBSD, for the sake of their santity. To those who like to code for KDE Slackware runs about 30% faster with KDE 3
than Mandrake or RedHat. Bsd smokes if you set it up right. For the bunch that do shell scripts and code in Vi (and its variant) Bsd and Slackware are still the best dual boot and the closest to a real programmers tool. So what if you do not default boot directly into a window manager, unless you set it up. I still like to type startx and find that Mandrake and RedHat installs since version 8 have become geared to Windows users (which is fine) not the Gnu/Bsd/Linux community as a whole.
FreeBsd, Slackware, and Debian have an important place in the free software world they are and will remain the developement platforms of choice, because choice is what they deliver.
dd if=0 of=(whatever you want to hose!) Windows, a corrupted partition, your C drive? You never know. I love it.
Making games a little bit closer to reality would even interest the older generation.
I personaly find that the first person shooter crap that is so popular with the Xbox style "gamers" is mindless drivel.
Spaghetti, coded in honey based sauce with lots of button mushrooms to push.
just try setting your system clock to March 6th 20032,
Invalid time specification, which is about when the Sco case might finally come to court!
Microsoft might decide to move to Hanford so they can compete, with giant mutated Doggy like reborn versions of Clippy.
A cluster at Oak Ridge?
Better check the rads and the terraflops. Might even mutate into a giant deranged Penguin that eats Seattle.
However the output of new photo sensor technologies might make the job considerably easier.
Given the right programming environment, experimental freedom from corporate demands, the Gimp could evolve very quickly indeed. Adobe has been at it for a long time and has a lock on the market, upstarts like the Gimp are evolving much faster. The only catch is patented file formats, and other Microsoft anti competitive trickery.
I think I see a hole in your security; "We are supporting Windows users."
here is a read me from the linux 86 of the icc color lib.
ICC profile I/O library (icclib), README file
Date 5th November 2002, Version 2.03
This distribution contains source code which implements the reading and
writing of color profile files that conform to the International Color
Consortium (ICC) Profile Format Specification, Version 3.4.
For more information about the ICC, and for copies of the specification,
please refer to http://www.color.org/.
(Note that this software is written from the ICC V3.4 standard, but the
software and its author are not affiliated with, or otherwise connected
with the ICC.)
The ICC profile I/O library archive is kept at
http://web.access.net.au/argyll/color.html
Motivation
Color is still very much a black art to many programmers dealing with
computer graphics. The ICC Profile Format is an industry attempt to provide
an interchange format to help solve the problems of specifying color, and
in transferring color graphics from, and between systems and devices.
Although the ICC format has been around a number of years, and has long
been adopted by companies in the business of providing systems for
publishing and printing, and is now widely used as part of commercial
operating system support for device independent color, its uptake in the
general world of computer graphics has been slow.
The writing of this library was prompted by my private and professional
enthusiasm for computer graphics, and color. Inspired by other examples of
freely usable software (notably the Independent JPEG Group's free JPEG
software, and Sam Leffler's TIFF library), I have decided to make this
library available under similar terms. I hope that this library will
provide a starting point for including ICC profile support more widely that
is currently the case, particularly in open source code projects.
Overview
This package contains a C software implementation of the ICC Profile
Format, Version 3.4. The ICC Profile Format attempts to provide a
cross-platform device profile format, that can be used to translate color
data created on one device into another device's native color space. For a
fuller explanation of what the ICC Profile Format is all about, please
refer to http://www.color.org, and the profile specification.
In summary this library provides:
* Full source code, free for commercial and non-commercial use.
* Support for all version 3.4 header elements, Tags and Tag Types.
* Conversion to/from machine native representation of all data
types.
* Support for user defined Tags.
* Support for adding/deleting Tags.
* Support for Tag type sharing within a file (often used for
sharing LUTs amongst intents).
* Support for reading/writing embedded profiles, including from/to
a memory buffer, rather than a file.
* Provides a single function for transforming color values through
a profile, including support for intents, forward and reverse
transforms, gamut lookup or preview lookup.
* Provides support and code examples for creating all profile
types, monochrome, matrix and Lut.
* Attempts to be platform neutral, and flexibility in its use of
system file and memory sub-systems.
* Loads Tag Types on demand to conserve memory space.
Changes from V2.02
Version 2.03 has a few minor changes from the previous release, V2.02,
aimed at improving the system compatibility of the library.
See icc.c for a more detailed change history.
Package contents:
icclib.zip ZIP archive of the following files
README.txt This file.
Licence.txt Important! - Permissions for use of this package.
icc.c Library source file.
iccstd.c Library source that uses stdio and malloc system calls.
icc.h Library include file. Note machine dependent
Given the apple integrated approach to OS10+ your statement might just be a little premature
If Apple does succeed in integrating Gimp functionality into a desktop, then the average PhotoShop pro might just say hey why the hell should I pay big money for a 64 bit pentium work station, then tons of cash for software as well.
Adobe dropping Apple is a move that is obvious in it's implications. To keep Redmond happy! The free software movement is gaining steam with the pro's.
In music, imaging, etc. The home market for PC junkies has become more important to Adobe. Pro's will pay for great tools like ProTools audio, but Photoshop Pro has become a bloated button ridden overpriced PC style app, great as it was it is not that indespensable.
I do not even own an Apple, but I am getting very tempted!
Fortunately Monkey net spammers mostly do not live in northern Canada otherwise you know what would happen.
...klunk//// the sound of brass balls falling after they freeze then get kicked.
Klunk
Being Martian I have a little bit of trouble with English. This is something that "up with which I have learned to put". A loose quotation from a famous Britt.
Point is that the good work being done by those who have the balls to fight the real cause of spam and corruption is being overlooked by the media.
To communicate and educate you must give in and use closed source, it is the only safe way to compute.
Give in let yourself spend money there are people starving in Redmond. We will be doing the world of communication a favor if no other means of digital communication other than MS servers can access knowledge!
She's going after the largest pseudo scientific religious money making scam artists. No dought the pr0n industry is part of the equation. Spam is one of their biggest products. Just hope organised crime does not get her first.
I know organised crime does not exist anymore, according to TV reports. Joe Blow America does not care who or even know who is running the show.
I did not change my sig for this post so it is a little wierd... sorry
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/11/001
./ yet.
Just remember to move the last url 0 back one space, after ctrl-c and ctrl-v the above url.Sorry I worked for the firm and do not know how to link in htm with
People smart enough to use the function,
identify self as internet explorer 5 in Opera and other browsers might tilt the survey just a little.
So maybe only about 90% of internet users are stupid enough to use the default MS internet tools that can get them hacked. That means that 10% of web users have savy, a great improvement from even two years ago.