This is what I don't understand at all. If this were the case with Windows, wouldn't every driver and DLL linked into the kernel space belong to Microsoft under SCO's logic? Most, if not all, of this stuff they are claiming is their's is implemented as loadable modules, right?
Ah yes, but if you make a remark that is a derivative of the overlords quote, you get modded +5 funny -- even if you forgot how to spell derivative correctly!
(Awaiting the double karma hit on this post and linked post for pointing this out!:)
A new System V derivitive work. SCO, the supreme overlord over all Unix code, welcomes the new openfiling Intelectual Property to add to its growing portfolio.
Bingo, you get weave's prize for the best "duh, so obvious" post in the thread! I rarely write manually and when I do, my hands can't seem to work right! I think I can tap out stuff faster using T9 input on a cellphone than write by hand.
Your prize is our encouragement to travel to Redmond and deliver a 2x4 clue stick to Bill Gates. Be sure to chant out "Here's another one you blew the call on" while delivering it.
btw, for meetings, we use a Smart Board which allows drawing on a white board and saving off to pdf (or other format) for later distribution. Works wonders, very popular with everyone that uses it, effective, and wasn't envisioned by Mr. Gates.
Is this an urban legend or not? (No reference on snopes). I've heard/remember that the first printing of "The Road Ahead" in the mid 90s had Gates harping on how CD-ROM multimedia content was the future of computers, and never once mentioned the Internet. Then in further printings, that was stuck in later.
Quick. What's the bill number and instance of congress currently in session? I want to add that to my spam mailer reject messages just like spammers do in their spam. Who cares if it's law. Example:
550 5.7.1 Spamming is illegal, as per S.B. xxxx passed by the xxx'th Senate.
(Reference the line still used by spammers that messages can't be considered spam as per section 301 S.1618, yada yada yada)
Here's my impressions and comments based on what I've read here...
The opening keynote presentation couldn't be more boring. Two hours of powerpoint slides. And the transitions were a bit jerky. They should have used Apple's Keynote for their keynote. The followup sessions were much better (I attended the deployment track)
You can't print screen, copy, whatever, a protected document that an author sets to disallow that. But you can get a print screen if you run the OS under Virtual PC or VMWARE. (asked and answered at the event).
Someone or people defined on each RMS (Stallman must be upset) server can override the security as a fail safe. I assume this also means expired docs. You're email isn't safe from subpoenas after all.
I personally like the idea of expiring emails. It will allow me to talk shit about my bosses a lot easier with little fear that my message will be forwarded by someone and end up in their INBOX.
We currently PGP "sensitive" emails like that, but that doesn't prevent someone from decrypting and sending on.
An RMS server requires active directory, each AD user account to have an email account listed in the directory, and MS SQL server. It does *NOT* require Exchange.
After 8 hours of presentations, I still don't know the difference between Sharepoint Windows Services and Sharepoint Portal Services.
A lot of this stuff looks really impressive. It's obvious a lot of R&D and coding time went into this stuff. I can see a lot of benefit to huge organizations, but small-to-medium size businesses should be fine with older copies of Office or Open Office.
I don't see how the open source model could ever catch up with the collective work of the "Office System." Who else has the resources? And I'm no Microsoft flunky (read my posting history)
Lots of features are tied to required elements on the server end (hence it being called the Office "System"). If you try to use one of those features which isn't supported on the back-end, the user will get a little error about contacting IT to enable the feature. Wonderful, I can imagine the wasted support calls saying "No, not unless someone gives me $10,000+ can you do that."
They made extensive use of Virtual PC to simulate client interaction but more interesting was Virtual Server. The latter controlled through a web interface. I got the felling that Virtual PC might not run server, but then again, it might be like vmware, with a bogus one gig size limit for virtual machines to force you to get ESX or GSX.
There was some company saying how much they saved because they have 12,000 users in Exchange and were able to reduce the number of servers that that requires from something like 14 to 8. (rough memory there, amount may be incorrect, but the scale is about right). That was shocking. I run a mail server with 27,000 users on a 4 gig RAM dual processor xeon box under Linux. (Granted, it doesn't do all that exchange does, but damn)
They announced early on that they were giving vouchers away for a free retail copy of Office Professsional and OneNote to all attendees if you stayed to the end. Good idea, it worked. Place was still packed at the end. But on the way out, I was handed a t-shirt cube (one of those compressed brick packaging things). Half way out I said to my co-worker, "I guess the voucher is inside, but I want to check" We opened it up and there was nothing. Ran back to one of the people with the t-shirt boxes and said we didn't get a voucher. They said "Oh, ok" and handed us a piece of paper. If I got home and realized I didn't have it, I would have been pissed as hell. I bet a lot of other people were stiffed out of their vouchers. I wonder if the people handing out the stuff to people exiting were pocketing the vouchers. I bet you could make a good chunk of coin reselling that stuff. Or maybe it was some conspiracy where they were told to forget to hand them out unless specifically asked to reduce the number of free copies to be given out. Or p
The service contract you have to buy to get the first copy prohibits you from doing that. Besides, there are a lot of things I'd love to do but my techs and I don't have the time to do them. The academic environment can be quite chaotic at time. For example, try to standardize on something to reduce support costs and faculty scream we are infringing on academic freedoms.
And now I find that even updates to RH 9 are going to end in April of 2004.
What the hell? I thought they were going to support two revs of each release. 10 isn't even out yet. Or has Fedora scrwed the pooch on that old plan already? Will you be able to buy RHN updates for Fedora?
It really sucks for educational institutions that are strapped for cash. I can get Windows 2003 server under our educational select program for under $100 per server.
Interesting, we have 5 servers using qlogic 2200s. The default redhat kernel since 7.x works fine, autodetects the driver right out of the box. As long as the san zones are set up correctly, it'll find the disks with absolutely no problem.
1. Verizon, personal, best coverage over the entire US.
2. T-mobile. Shitty U.S. coverage, works overseas, decently priced unlimited wireless internet access (well, at least in areas I go) via bluetooth from my laptop. (No bluetooth phones for verizon, and their express network is $80/month...)
3. Nextel. Work supplied phone. Expected to carry it 24/7.
So, two phones on the belt, one in pocket, and when I carry my ipod around, I start to look like the Borg!:) I shudder to think what all of that rf energy is doing to my jewels...:(
Is this going to be a standard around the world, or am I going to be SOL (like with so many other things) when I travel abroad?
(Rant from someone who carries a Verizon cell due to coverage in US and a T-mobile phone that sucks in U.S. but works fine in other countries.)
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I just got close to what you want. My current phone is a Ericcson T610 with bluetooth. My laptop syncs all contact and appt book with it, both ways, seamlessly and once it's on the laptop, gets sent to my other desktops via the bluetooth interface again, but this time over the net via GPRS service. My cellphone can just stay in my bag, backpack, or pocket and any device can use it via Bluetooth. If I wanted to use a PDA with it, add a bluetooth CF card (although I can't vouch for contact/appt syncing.
For example, I can enter appointment and contact data on the phone, have the phone alert me to upcoming appointments, send short emails, even pictures, without the laptop. Once I get near the laptop or desktop, it all syncs into my three computers.
There's only one problem with my setup (for some people) and that is the computers are all Macs (with.Mac service)
After hassling for a few years with ActiveSync and lost partnerships and difficulties using multiple computers, the Mac is just a shear joy for this stuff.
As for PDAs, there's now PDAs that are really phones that do what you want, but I don't want my phone all that big so my combo works great for me. My 12" Powerbook is small and light enough that it's not that much of a hassle to toss it into my backpack when needed on the go.
A good question, but the solutions suggested are a bit over the top. Just list a toll-free number in the ALT text for help in completing the form. I doubt that the amount of people calling require just the occasional interruption of someone. If it becomes are larger labor problem, then at some point, finding a technical solution will become cheaper and will be implemented.
(I know toll free US numbers aren't toll free outside the US, but I believe there is also a toll free international exchange or "country code" too...)
If you have your own CD and want to rip it, AAC allegedly offers better sound quality than mp3 at the same bitrate. The AAC files you make with itunes don't have any DRM. So it's a choice. If you have an ipod, then you may choose AAC, else go with mp3 for maximum flexibility.
Stuff bought through iTMS is all DRM'ed AAC files that are only playable on iTunes and iPods. That is where the bitching is coming from, but even there you can burn to CD and re-rip. Problem is, it's two lossy steps there and the mp3 in that case isn't going to sounds as good as a ripped CD. Instead of going through that hassle, just buy a CD and rip to mp3 if you want that.
Note, again, these are far more "choices" than other jukeboxes/players give you -- and you can't beat the price, free. Windows users just got a good thing!
Some of the reviews were deceptive or just downright wrong.
Fast user switching: From what I've read elsewhere, you can't use Rendezvous between users on same computer. On XP, something is single-user access and the second user who tries to run iTunes gets an error about files being in use. From what was said from developer users of the pre-gold Panther, which has fast user switching, Panther (OS X 10.3, comes out 10/24) has the same limitation. Obviously Apple has to fix this.
Lock ins: So, Apple has the biggest selling portable music player in the market, no other music stores on Windows will support it because other players are "locked into WMP" and somehow because Apple releases something to give those ipod owners access to music stores, it's a bad thing? The real lock-in is Microsoft using OS monopoly to leverage WMP to try to monopolize the style of portable players out there. Non-issue, Windows users have choices. Buy any number of players and have fun with buymusic, napster 2, and restrictive DRM rights, or buy an ipod and use itunes to download music.
MP3 ripping: Most of these anti-choice raves fail to mention that iTunes gives its users the best choice, buying a CD the old fashioned way and ripping it to unrestricted mp3s and using those mp3s on any portable media player.
Death of mp3?: Microsoft's biggest goal is probably to kill off mp3 format. When wmp format was to take over, then portable players could stop supporting mp3 and the lock-in and the elimination of mp3 could begin. Apple just screwed the pooch on this plan.
Vendor control: I have a feeling that because iTMS, iTunes, and iPod are all controlled by Apple, that it was because of this that the record companies were willing to give Apple better licensing rights than the other services. If a vendor controls the entire experience, as much as that makes me nervous (I don't want to see Apple monopolize anything either), it's probably harder to compromise the security due to some third party licensed vendor stupidity (like that vendor who allowed decss to happen because they didn't encrypt their key in their product by mistake).
Flexibility of the three DRM'ed computer model: Also of failure to note is that with the three authorized computers, you can do anything you can on any of the others, and switching what three are authorized isn't that hard. Under WMP and buytunes, at least, I've read bitching that you can only have one "primary" computer that owns the downloaded material and only from that computer can you burn (if permitted) or dump to a device (which might be limtied). Other permitted computers (if there are any) are resticted to play only. I only mucked with DRM under WMP once, with some free download of a tune a while back. All three iTMS computers are authed with the same rights.
Consistent rights policy: Go browse buymusic.com -- there are almost an unlimited number of various restrictions they allow, like limiting number of portable devices it can be downloaded to, number of computers, number of CD burns, each with different amounts. So if I make a playlist of various music types and try to burn, copy, or dump to portable player, any one of them that exceeds one of those limits would cause a problem for that action. No thanks. Apple's is consistent across the board. Now, I admit, because buymusic.com is more flexible with their restrictions, some whining bands like Linkin Park who want album only downloads are listed there but not on iTMS, but if iTMS takes off, they'll change their tune (or rhyme if you prefer!)
Bottom line, as of a few days ago, Windows users have another choice. It's far more than Mac users have. So why the bitching? Mac users seem perfectly happy. If you don't want any of this, don't use Apple's products. Use the others.
Now I am not savvy enough to know if this deal SCOX made is a deal with the devil and a classic toxic convert or not, I'm not that knowledgable about these things. I do have no idea why private investors are still buying SCOX though.
Note, all this info comes from the Yahoo SCOX board -- fascinating reading, like the below quote from yoyotogoismyname, who has been one of SCOX's biggest long shrills for several weeks now. Soon as he heard about the $50M investment, he dumped his SCOX stock.
Baystar can send this company to bankruptcy and still demand that SCOX pay it back its $50 million. How is that? If the stock price drops to near zero, Baystar makes out OK since they are short SCOX. Plus they get to be first in line to collect from a bankrupt SCOX after the banks or senior bondholders. If SCOX rises, these guys lose nothing since they got the shares for $16 and change. The convertible shares covers any lost from the short. What is worse is there is a built in arb. These guys get to pocket 20-16.5=3.5 per share* 3 million= $10.5 million, INSTANTLY!!!! PLUS that convert pays an interest amount. FU SCOX!!!!!
That's one person's estimate of how many apps have been broken. I'd like to see that backed up with something more reliable than one person's gut reaction.
Compuserve used to be *the* dialup provider. I first signed up in 1982 when it was text-only, 300 baud, $6.00/hour. Compuserve was one of the last providers to go to flat rate too. It had all the best vendor support forums at a time and was basically the high-end service. When they got 1200 bps, it was $12.00/hour. Wow, 4x the speed, only 2x the price!:)
Many years passed, they started to support PPP, finally got flat rate access. Then AOL bought them and raped the name and turned it into a discount ISP, as if you could get any lower than AOL. Basically, ruined it. Believe it or not, there are a few die-hard compuserve originals on the "classic" service, which is an entirely separate dialup network than AOL/UUnet. I still have an account on compuserve since I can get local dialup access at no extra charge all over the world.
So, I guess AOL, not satisfied with ruining Compuserve (as one can see by some of the other comments here about them) are out to destroy what's left of Netscape too.
Idiots. No wonder Time Warner is embarassed by them.
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A U.S. gallon is 4/5ths that of an Imperial gallon, so once you adjust for that, you're down in the crap range as well!
This is what I don't understand at all. If this were the case with Windows, wouldn't every driver and DLL linked into the kernel space belong to Microsoft under SCO's logic? Most, if not all, of this stuff they are claiming is their's is implemented as loadable modules, right?
(Awaiting the double karma hit on this post and linked post for pointing this out! :)
A new System V derivitive work. SCO, the supreme overlord over all Unix code, welcomes the new openfiling Intelectual Property to add to its growing portfolio.
Your prize is our encouragement to travel to Redmond and deliver a 2x4 clue stick to Bill Gates. Be sure to chant out "Here's another one you blew the call on" while delivering it.
btw, for meetings, we use a Smart Board which allows drawing on a white board and saving off to pdf (or other format) for later distribution. Works wonders, very popular with everyone that uses it, effective, and wasn't envisioned by Mr. Gates.
Is this an urban legend or not? (No reference on snopes). I've heard/remember that the first printing of "The Road Ahead" in the mid 90s had Gates harping on how CD-ROM multimedia content was the future of computers, and never once mentioned the Internet. Then in further printings, that was stuck in later.
You can only read it in outlook 2003. The copy/cut is disabled. It'll probably be effective for most uses.
550 5.7.1 Spamming is illegal, as per S.B. xxxx passed by the xxx'th Senate.
(Reference the line still used by spammers that messages can't be considered spam as per section 301 S.1618, yada yada yada)
I would never ever say anything bad about my boss :-)
The service contract you have to buy to get the first copy prohibits you from doing that. Besides, there are a lot of things I'd love to do but my techs and I don't have the time to do them. The academic environment can be quite chaotic at time. For example, try to standardize on something to reduce support costs and faculty scream we are infringing on academic freedoms.
What the hell? I thought they were going to support two revs of each release. 10 isn't even out yet. Or has Fedora scrwed the pooch on that old plan already? Will you be able to buy RHN updates for Fedora?
Sigh...
I was referring to the original article, not the comment I was replying too. Sorry, I didn't debug my statement before hitting Submit.
9/11 dropping... Sigh, Godwin's law needs to be updated.
Interesting, we have 5 servers using qlogic 2200s. The default redhat kernel since 7.x works fine, autodetects the driver right out of the box. As long as the san zones are set up correctly, it'll find the disks with absolutely no problem.
1. Verizon, personal, best coverage over the entire US.
2. T-mobile. Shitty U.S. coverage, works overseas, decently priced unlimited wireless internet access (well, at least in areas I go) via bluetooth from my laptop. (No bluetooth phones for verizon, and their express network is $80/month...)
3. Nextel. Work supplied phone. Expected to carry it 24/7.
So, two phones on the belt, one in pocket, and when I carry my ipod around, I start to look like the Borg! :) I shudder to think what all of that rf energy is doing to my jewels... :(
(Rant from someone who carries a Verizon cell due to coverage in US and a T-mobile phone that sucks in U.S. but works fine in other countries.)
For example, I can enter appointment and contact data on the phone, have the phone alert me to upcoming appointments, send short emails, even pictures, without the laptop. Once I get near the laptop or desktop, it all syncs into my three computers.
There's only one problem with my setup (for some people) and that is the computers are all Macs (with .Mac service)
After hassling for a few years with ActiveSync and lost partnerships and difficulties using multiple computers, the Mac is just a shear joy for this stuff.
As for PDAs, there's now PDAs that are really phones that do what you want, but I don't want my phone all that big so my combo works great for me. My 12" Powerbook is small and light enough that it's not that much of a hassle to toss it into my backpack when needed on the go.
(I know toll free US numbers aren't toll free outside the US, but I believe there is also a toll free international exchange or "country code" too...)
Stuff bought through iTMS is all DRM'ed AAC files that are only playable on iTunes and iPods. That is where the bitching is coming from, but even there you can burn to CD and re-rip. Problem is, it's two lossy steps there and the mp3 in that case isn't going to sounds as good as a ripped CD. Instead of going through that hassle, just buy a CD and rip to mp3 if you want that.
Note, again, these are far more "choices" than other jukeboxes/players give you -- and you can't beat the price, free. Windows users just got a good thing!
Bottom line, as of a few days ago, Windows users have another choice. It's far more than Mac users have. So why the bitching? Mac users seem perfectly happy. If you don't want any of this, don't use Apple's products. Use the others.
Now I am not savvy enough to know if this deal SCOX made is a deal with the devil and a classic toxic convert or not, I'm not that knowledgable about these things. I do have no idea why private investors are still buying SCOX though.
Note, all this info comes from the Yahoo SCOX board -- fascinating reading, like the below quote from yoyotogoismyname, who has been one of SCOX's biggest long shrills for several weeks now. Soon as he heard about the $50M investment, he dumped his SCOX stock.
Baystar can send this company to bankruptcy and still demand that SCOX pay it back its $50 million. How is that? If the stock price drops to near zero, Baystar makes out OK since they are short SCOX. Plus they get to be first in line to collect from a bankrupt SCOX after the banks or senior bondholders. If SCOX rises, these guys lose nothing since they got the shares for $16 and change. The convertible shares covers any lost from the short. What is worse is there is a built in arb. These guys get to pocket 20-16.5=3.5 per share* 3 million= $10.5 million, INSTANTLY!!!! PLUS that convert pays an interest amount. FU SCOX!!!!!
That's one person's estimate of how many apps have been broken. I'd like to see that backed up with something more reliable than one person's gut reaction.
Many years passed, they started to support PPP, finally got flat rate access. Then AOL bought them and raped the name and turned it into a discount ISP, as if you could get any lower than AOL. Basically, ruined it. Believe it or not, there are a few die-hard compuserve originals on the "classic" service, which is an entirely separate dialup network than AOL/UUnet. I still have an account on compuserve since I can get local dialup access at no extra charge all over the world.
So, I guess AOL, not satisfied with ruining Compuserve (as one can see by some of the other comments here about them) are out to destroy what's left of Netscape too.
Idiots. No wonder Time Warner is embarassed by them.