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SCO Keeps SinkingThu Motley Fool
"Management blamed the slow sales on a "lack of SCOsource licensing revenue." SCOsource is the Linux users' shakedown program. Apparently, no one is paying up. It took in $11,000 last quarter. That's not a typo. President and CEO Darl McBride paid more lip service to "increasing shareholder value," but you really have to wonder about the viability of his vision when his firm's most engrossing initiative brings in less money than the guys who mow lawns in my neighborhood."
I have a Voodoo 2 with 12 megs of ram still plugged into my 8 meg agp card. I was so excited when I got it back in 98 i just haven't needed anything else and it still looks good.... when I play quake 2.:)
"SCO has also sent letters to many large companies suggesting that their use of Linux might leave them infringing on SCO's copyrights. It has offered to free them of legal risk in return for hefty license fees. If any company decides to pay such licenses, Boies Schiller would be entitled to 20%, according to the filing."
I have a PS2 model 9595 (microchannel) spinning away in my basement. It runs slackware and hooks my 3 systems up using tokenring via a 8226 spliter.:) I even have an ethernet card in there so I can have my cable modem attached. Just lost a 9 year old drive the other day but the nice thing is I have raid 5 running. Even have a nice little display of the uptime and system load on the 8 led panel if anyone else remembers what it looks like. They just don't build them like that anymore.
I started using Slack in 1994 ver 3.1 and I'm still using it today (well version 8). I'm running it on an IBM Microchannel server model 9595 at 90 Mhz. Slackware is rock solid and I hope it stays that way. Happy Birthday slack my old friend.
It's almost dead but here is the page about the CPU.. interesting. hehe
"Nehemiah is the next generation C3 CPU, and features a number of improvements over the Ezra-T C3 used in all previous EPIAs. It has The 20.5 million transistors, and uses a 0.13 micron process. For comparison, a Barton Athlon or Northwood Pentium 4 have about 55 million transistors, and recent GPUs have over 100 million transistors.
The Nehemiah is designed to work at clock speeds of 1GHz and beyond - the Ezra-T is designed at up to about 1GHz.
Nehemiah has a die size of 52mm2 - the world's smallest x86 processor. It has been designed to minimize power consumption and optimise heat dissipation - VIA call this "Coolstream". Some active cooling is still required, but not very much. Let's hope for a Nehemiah Eden C3 version.
The Nehemiah features SSE instructions instead of the 3DNow! instructions featured on previous C3s. This should bring enhanced performance in 3D applications, which are optimised for more modern SIMD instruction sets. SSE optimised image processing applications should also benefit.
Full Speed FPU - the Nehemiah has a full speed floating point unit for the first time. The Ezra-T has a half-speed FPU. Floating point calculations are used heavily in 3D rendering, multimedia, and streaming applications.
Enhanced 64KB Full-Speed Exclusive L2 cache with 16-way associativity. An exclusive L2 cache gives a larger effective total cache size as it doesn't replicate the contents of the L1 cache. The more cache available, the more chance there is that program loops can run in cache and not comparatively slow main memory.
StepAhead Advanced Branch Prediction - Looks ahead and gathers the data needed to optimally run applications
A hardware based random number generator (RNG) has been added. This creates true random numbers from the random electrical noise on the chip. This is of much use in security applications, allowing a strong cryptographic key to be generated. VIA call this the "PadLock Data Encryption Engine".
"Should the Defendants, be allowed to continue their assult upon the Plaintiff and Plaintiff's industry, the plaintiff's industry will cease to exist. This will cause more Americans to become unemployed."
Wonder if they will be able to file for unemployment? Guess I won't be sending them my resume any time soon...
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Here is the link he provided on the ebay listing of him building the speaker.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/skycaptai
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From SCO Keeps SinkingThu Motley Fool
"Management blamed the slow sales on a "lack of SCOsource licensing revenue." SCOsource is the Linux users' shakedown program. Apparently, no one is paying up. It took in $11,000 last quarter. That's not a typo. President and CEO Darl McBride paid more lip service to "increasing shareholder value," but you really have to wonder about the viability of his vision when his firm's most engrossing initiative brings in less money than the guys who mow lawns in my neighborhood."
rofl :)
is to verify you have all your needed licenses before you reinstall... 1 ) SCO license... oh heck with that let the flipping of disks begin :)
That looks like a rocking good time.
The patent numbers are 5,597,307; 5,795,156; 6,249,863 and 6,418,532.
I have a Voodoo 2 with 12 megs of ram still plugged into my 8 meg agp card. I was so excited when I got it back in 98 i just haven't needed anything else and it still looks good.... when I play quake 2. :)
"SCO has also sent letters to many large companies suggesting that their use of Linux might leave them infringing on SCO's copyrights. It has offered to free them of legal risk in return for hefty license fees. If any company decides to pay such licenses, Boies Schiller would be entitled to 20%, according to the filing."
20% from each license....
I have a PS2 model 9595 (microchannel) spinning away in my basement. It runs slackware and hooks my 3 systems up using tokenring via a 8226 spliter. :) I even have an ethernet card in there so I can have my cable modem attached. Just lost a 9 year old drive the other day but the nice thing is I have raid 5 running. Even have a nice little display of the uptime and system load on the 8 led panel if anyone else remembers what it looks like. They just don't build them like that anymore.
I started using Slack in 1994 ver 3.1 and I'm still using it today (well version 8). I'm running it on an IBM Microchannel server model 9595 at 90 Mhz. Slackware is rock solid and I hope it stays that way. Happy Birthday slack my old friend.
Dr. Evil would be proud of SCO.. 3 Billion dollars...
But the funny thing is after they said 3 billion IBM just kept on laughing.
So this is what happens to our best and brightest programmers.....
It's almost dead but here is the page about the CPU.. interesting. hehe
"Nehemiah is the next generation C3 CPU, and features a number of improvements over the Ezra-T C3 used in all previous EPIAs. It has The 20.5 million transistors, and uses a 0.13 micron process. For comparison, a Barton Athlon or Northwood Pentium 4 have about 55 million transistors, and recent GPUs have over 100 million transistors.
The Nehemiah is designed to work at clock speeds of 1GHz and beyond - the Ezra-T is designed at up to about 1GHz.
Nehemiah has a die size of 52mm2 - the world's smallest x86 processor. It has been designed to minimize power consumption and optimise heat dissipation - VIA call this "Coolstream". Some active cooling is still required, but not very much. Let's hope for a Nehemiah Eden C3 version.
The Nehemiah features SSE instructions instead of the 3DNow! instructions featured on previous C3s. This should bring enhanced performance in 3D applications, which are optimised for more modern SIMD instruction sets. SSE optimised image processing applications should also benefit.
Full Speed FPU - the Nehemiah has a full speed floating point unit for the first time. The Ezra-T has a half-speed FPU. Floating point calculations are used heavily in 3D rendering, multimedia, and streaming applications.
Enhanced 64KB Full-Speed Exclusive L2 cache with 16-way associativity. An exclusive L2 cache gives a larger effective total cache size as it doesn't replicate the contents of the L1 cache. The more cache available, the more chance there is that program loops can run in cache and not comparatively slow main memory.
StepAhead Advanced Branch Prediction - Looks ahead and gathers the data needed to optimally run applications
A hardware based random number generator (RNG) has been added. This creates true random numbers from the random electrical noise on the chip. This is of much use in security applications, allowing a strong cryptographic key to be generated. VIA call this the "PadLock Data Encryption Engine".
Future Nehemiahs will feature IO/APIC support. An Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (APIC) provides multi-processor interrupt management - dual processor EPIA anyone?
The Nehemiah is available in EBGA or Socket 370 packages - both are low profile and require less board real estate."
Wonder if they will be able to file for unemployment? Guess I won't be sending them my resume any time soon...
fdisk /mbr
I installed slack back in 1995 and never looked back. NICE