I never knew how popular it was up until now, maybe I should pull it back out of the dark recesses and work my way into the ranks again. Dell schedule allowing....
Yes you are probably right in which I conceed to your comment there is no doubt a multitude of "first nail" comments though each one may constitute it's own special section of the coffin in a whole, kind of like combining a whole bunch of boards then nailing down the steel plating for good measure:)
It seems like SCO is getting the royal rump treatment now after issuing it's first jab against the *nix community, just as it is stated on the groklaw boards "this is just the first nail to be slammed into SCO's legal coffin"
Let's hope this leads to a faster resolution of this most ridiculous case brought upon by SCO.
I am just hoping the next comments that start coming out of surgeons mouthes in surgery is "scapel, forceps, hand grenade" (though i hear the combination of all is a killer colon cleaner":)
I would tend to have to agree with this... it seems MS is trying to dig themselvees out of a whole they firt started when they released windows in the first plac that was supposedly "stable" if you are going to release a product on the shelf with the intention of having them bug test it and yes even malicious hackers bug test it, you might as well be paying the customers for their time... not having them shell out a contemptable amount of money for a product that was not "child safe" in the first place (i am sorry i had to resort to the child safe remark but there are still a lot of people out there that use the computer that have the computer experience of a small child pre computer age that just buy products because someone tells them to [i.e. MS].)
I have worked on the diebold systems (in texas performed various testing and diagnostics on the units) during our testing process there were so many different steps we had to use to diagnose any problems with the units and had to catagorize very carefully all the unit's odometer readings (yes each unit stores the amount of times it has been used) along with the hardware's condition and to make sure all the hardware worked, as far as security all of the units are perfectly capable of working in standalone mode and if no power source is available then you can have them run on battery mode (not sure how long but it is a 50 pound unit of which most is that damn lithium ion battery, a pain to pick up:) ).
And even at the end of the testing process they are closed and sealed with a tamper-proof seal, and if it is tampered with they are not used. Though I am not at liberty to say what kind of medium they use to store the results or anything related to the internals of the physical unit I can tell you that they are very hard to tamper with and if you do it IS noticeable even for the untrained eye.
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I never knew how popular it was up until now, maybe I should pull it back out of the dark recesses and work my way into the ranks again. Dell schedule allowing....
it seems that now doing the right thing will get you sued, oh wait there's no suprise here.
i wonder what impact this will on it's company posture overall?
a precedent is being set and hopefully can be used by the masses here soon.
Yes you are probably right in which I conceed to your comment there is no doubt a multitude of "first nail" comments though each one may constitute it's own special section of the coffin in a whole, kind of like combining a whole bunch of boards then nailing down the steel plating for good measure :)
amen to that one brother, let's see how the redman like's it when the table's get turned on them
It seems like SCO is getting the royal rump treatment now after issuing it's first jab against the *nix community, just as it is stated on the groklaw boards "this is just the first nail to be slammed into SCO's legal coffin"
Let's hope this leads to a faster resolution of this most ridiculous case brought upon by SCO.
I am just hoping the next comments that start coming out of surgeons mouthes in surgery is "scapel, forceps, hand grenade" (though i hear the combination of all is a killer colon cleaner" :)
I guess playing with the joystick will actually not make you blind, "mommy I only do it cause I want to be a doctor/surgeon"
I would tend to have to agree with this... it seems MS is trying to dig themselvees out of a whole they firt started when they released windows in the first plac that was supposedly "stable" if you are going to release a product on the shelf with the intention of having them bug test it and yes even malicious hackers bug test it, you might as well be paying the customers for their time... not having them shell out a contemptable amount of money for a product that was not "child safe" in the first place (i am sorry i had to resort to the child safe remark but there are still a lot of people out there that use the computer that have the computer experience of a small child pre computer age that just buy products because someone tells them to [i.e. MS].)
I have worked on the diebold systems (in texas performed various testing and diagnostics on the units) during our testing process there were so many different steps we had to use to diagnose any problems with the units and had to catagorize very carefully all the unit's odometer readings (yes each unit stores the amount of times it has been used) along with the hardware's condition and to make sure all the hardware worked, as far as security all of the units are perfectly capable of working in standalone mode and if no power source is available then you can have them run on battery mode (not sure how long but it is a 50 pound unit of which most is that damn lithium ion battery, a pain to pick up :) ).
And even at the end of the testing process they are closed and sealed with a tamper-proof seal, and if it is tampered with they are not used. Though I am not at liberty to say what kind of medium they use to store the results or anything related to the internals of the physical unit I can tell you that they are very hard to tamper with and if you do it IS noticeable even for the untrained eye.