Re:More meaningless Darl soundbites
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SCO Aims For The Feds
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He states a computer expert in North Korea can download Linux and create a super-computer. Yet I'm sure the same expert can download some ISOs of Windows from somewhere.
Your argument is flawed. You seem to overlook that fact that windows does not cluster, has low processing thoughput, is riddled with security problems, and is unstable.
Re:A good invention makes this invention unnecesar
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U.S. Prepares to Get Nuked
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There is no shield against a nuclear missile except perhaps pushing it out into space or stopping it from blowing in the first place.
Once it blows you have a huge mess that will kill people not just at the target but anywhere the wind carries the radiation.
This stuff isn't like dynamite that blows up and becomes inert. Radioactive material can take thousands of years to decay.
You could nuke every living being on the planet first. Of course you have to share the same air as the rest of the world so in time it would kill you too.
I guess thats one way to get out of paying back huge national debts.
i just got hung up on, and that was approximatly the same time on friday. i was trying to get an activation code for win xp when i was disconnected from them all together. i waited a while thinking that like all good cutomer support they would call me right back because i was hung up on, but waited half an hour and called them to try to talk to the guy i was dealing with, and they told me that they were having serious internal problems. im not sure how it works, but i think MS might use some kind of internal VOIP system because there was a delay in speech with th guy i was talking to as well, but hotmail and their tech support both went down around the same time as i was informed of "major internal problems." so something big happened.
And if you base your business on Hotmail, i'd say you have a serious I.T. decisions problem.
I'd totally agree. But it doesn't change the fact that a very large number of small businesses do use hotmail email addresses. I can walk down any highstreet near where I live and see hotmail addresses on shop windows and the side of vans.
Hotmail has become the choice for people that know nothing about IT and just want something simple that works.
Microsoft would gain a lot of SCO was proved right. But they must have had their legal team look at the situation and report that SCO was just wasting its time.
The best Microsoft can hope for is to spread FUD. The worst Microsoft could see is the GPL reinforced in court, and a hell of a lot of bad PR for their company.
It's a bad deal from Microsofts point of view. Microsoft didn't get where they are now though bad deals.
What is it with OpenBSD bashing. OpenBSD is a great system. As far as security goes it makes distros like red hat look like windoze. ( mod me as a troll, see if I care. )
The project may well be a dictatorship but the code is totally free. You can take any part of it for your own projects. ( microsoft does )
Linux is a successful democracy then? And Microsoft is successful...
If you mean Gnu/linux, the full system, not just the kernel then it's not really a democracy. Thats if by democracy you mean one person one vote. But then when has democracy ever meant that?
We all know what microsoft are. They are a product of the system they exist in. If they were any differant they would not be so successful.
I work in a global company. Thats how the management behave. I'm not one of them, but I do see how they behave.
People seem to get promoted to management for being a arse-licker. Management get promoted higher up the chain by fiddling figures and misrepresenting the truth. They do nothing by email and nothing in public. All communication is in closed door meetings.
Emails can later be used as evidence, which is why nothing interesting goes into email.
Maybe it's differant where you work. If it is let me know who to send my CV to.
I work with manipulators and backhanded people and everything they don't want to be made public is said in private meetings. They don't write emails to explain what they are up to. They only use email to arrange meetings and give orders to juniors.
Now if it was a leaked powerpoint slideshow I might believe it.
Hopefully on April 17 the judge will have grown balls enough to slap them with contempt, put Darl in jail and leave him there.
..And everyone else involved in the scam.
I think dismissing this case or finding against SCO will be the best we can hope for though.
If Darl can get thought this without going to jail the system has to be broken somewhere. What kind of message is it sending if theives and conmen are allowed to get away with it? In america people steal a lot less and get locked up for years for it.
What happens if in 45 days SCO produces proof that their copyrighted code IS in IBM's code? What will that mean for IBM, for the Linux community?
I don't think it will matter much. I'll be too busy writting the cold fusion HOWTO and slashdot will be too interested in the alien landings.
It's not going to happen.
It was a con to pump the share price and throw mud at linux. SCO mangement made a -LOT- of money from the pump and dump. If they didn't pull this the company would have gone bust sometime last year.
Are you sure they are talking about SCO here? Even before they claimed they owned UNIX and everything related to it they were not a 'leading provider' of anything.
IBM, HP, SUN, Red Hat, are leading providers. SCO never was and never will be.
Noone doubted the energy continued to exist. The bet concerned the patten of information held by the matter/energy. The questions was if you encoded something in a patten of laser light and sent that into the black hole would the encoded information continue to exist? ( given that no record of the data sent exists except that encoded in the light. )
Google for holographic universe, it's interesting stuff.
And America has some of the most unfair practices when dealing with the rest of the world. ( steel imports, third world aid packages that don't aid, blockades against entire countries )
I brought an ex-enron PC from an auction on ebay. I didn't know it was from enron until after I brought it. It was only a P3 mini workstation thing, but it was very cheap.
When I took it apart to add another network card I found no dust inside it. It looked like it had not been used for more than a few hours.
It's been up running openbsd for over 100 days now.
Total bargain, I was well chuffed. I don't know if the guy that brought it from the auction and resold it on ebay made any money though.
The following may or may not be causing your problem:
It seems hard drive numbering has changed between 2.4 and 2.6. This should not affect you unless you are running a mixture of sata and pata hard drives. It looks like you might be doing that.
It seems 2.6 counts sata drives first so you are going to need to change the hdg6 to hd?6.
You might be able to tell what drives are what by details in the kernel messages.
I have to say I agree with you. It's not always worth upgrading.
Everyone tells me 2.6 is faster but I just don't see it. If I kick off 100 xloads at the same time my system still slows to a crawl just like it always did.
Mind you, if it was 10% faster I might not notice anyway.
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He states a computer expert in North Korea can download Linux and create a super-computer. Yet I'm sure the same expert can download some ISOs of Windows from somewhere.
Your argument is flawed. You seem to overlook that fact that windows does not cluster, has low processing thoughput, is riddled with security problems, and is unstable.
There is no shield against a nuclear missile except perhaps pushing it out into space or stopping it from blowing in the first place.
Once it blows you have a huge mess that will kill people not just at the target but anywhere the wind carries the radiation.
This stuff isn't like dynamite that blows up and becomes inert. Radioactive material can take thousands of years to decay.
nuke them first?
You could nuke every living being on the planet first. Of course you have to share the same air as the rest of the world so in time it would kill you too.
I guess thats one way to get out of paying back huge national debts.
So to recap what we've learned today, the following will die:
Tivo
Civilization on Mars
AOL
Apple
America
It's a shame about Apple.
What's really lagging in OpenBSD is an easy to use port/package system
What are you talking about?
OpenBSD uses ports and packages just like FreeBSD.
i just got hung up on, and that was approximatly the same time on friday. i was trying to get an activation code for win xp when i was disconnected from them all together. i waited a while thinking that like all good cutomer support they would call me right back because i was hung up on, but waited half an hour and called them to try to talk to the guy i was dealing with, and they told me that they were having serious internal problems. im not sure how it works, but i think MS might use some kind of internal VOIP system because there was a delay in speech with th guy i was talking to as well, but hotmail and their tech support both went down around the same time as i was informed of "major internal problems." so something big happened.
Lets get this stright. You -brought- windows XP.
And if you base your business on Hotmail, i'd say you have a serious I.T. decisions problem.
I'd totally agree. But it doesn't change the fact that a very large number of small businesses do use hotmail email addresses. I can walk down any highstreet near where I live and see hotmail addresses on shop windows and the side of vans.
Hotmail has become the choice for people that know nothing about IT and just want something simple that works.
Your right.
Microsoft would gain a lot of SCO was proved right. But they must have had their legal team look at the situation and report that SCO was just wasting its time.
The best Microsoft can hope for is to spread FUD.
The worst Microsoft could see is the GPL reinforced in court, and a hell of a lot of bad PR for their company.
It's a bad deal from Microsofts point of view.
Microsoft didn't get where they are now though bad deals.
Theo is running a pretty successful dictatorship.
What is it with OpenBSD bashing. OpenBSD is a great system. As far as security goes it makes distros like red hat look like windoze. ( mod me as a troll, see if I care. )
The project may well be a dictatorship but the code is totally free. You can take any part of it for your own projects. ( microsoft does )
Linux is a successful democracy then? And Microsoft is successful...
If you mean Gnu/linux, the full system, not just the kernel then it's not really a democracy.
Thats if by democracy you mean one person one vote. But then when has democracy ever meant that?
We all know what microsoft are. They are a product of the system they exist in. If they were any differant they would not be so successful.
I work in a global company. Thats how the management behave. I'm not one of them, but I do see how they behave.
People seem to get promoted to management for being a arse-licker. Management get promoted higher up the chain by fiddling figures and misrepresenting the truth. They do nothing by email and nothing in public. All communication is in closed door meetings.
Emails can later be used as evidence, which is why nothing interesting goes into email.
Maybe it's differant where you work. If it is let me know who to send my CV to.
This email looks like a fake.
I work with manipulators and backhanded people and everything they don't want to be made public is said in private meetings. They don't write emails to explain what they are up to. They only use email to arrange meetings and give orders to juniors.
Now if it was a leaked powerpoint slideshow I might believe it.
Hopefully on April 17 the judge will have grown balls enough to slap them with contempt, put Darl in jail and leave him there.
..And everyone else involved in the scam.
I think dismissing this case or finding against SCO will be the best we can hope for though.
If Darl can get thought this without going to jail the system has to be broken somewhere. What kind of message is it sending if theives and conmen are allowed to get away with it? In america people steal a lot less and get locked up for years for it.
What happens if in 45 days SCO produces proof that their copyrighted code IS in IBM's code? What will that mean for IBM, for the Linux community?
I don't think it will matter much. I'll be too busy writting the cold fusion HOWTO and slashdot will be too interested in the alien landings.
It's not going to happen.
It was a con to pump the share price and throw mud at linux. SCO mangement made a -LOT- of money from the pump and dump. If they didn't pull this the company would have gone bust sometime last year.
a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions
Are you sure they are talking about SCO here?
Even before they claimed they owned UNIX and everything related to it they were not a 'leading provider' of anything.
IBM, HP, SUN, Red Hat, are leading providers. SCO never was and never will be.
You are missing something.
Noone doubted the energy continued to exist.
The bet concerned the patten of information held by the matter/energy. The questions was if you encoded something in a patten of laser light and sent that into the black hole would the encoded information continue to exist? ( given that no record of the data sent exists except that encoded in the light. )
Google for holographic universe, it's interesting stuff.
I believe thats a myth.
There just isn't enough pressure in the human body to make it explode in a vacuum like you see in sci-fi films.
And America has some of the most unfair practices when dealing with the rest of the world. ( steel imports, third world aid packages that don't aid, blockades against entire countries )
Whats your point?
Everywhere else microsoft have been able to buy their way out of situations like this.
It seems unlikely to me they won't be able to buy their brand of justice in japan too.
Microsoft won't behave nicely due to anyones laws. Only their customers ( or lack of ) can make them behave better.
Happy, glad.
Who wants to buy a part of SCO ?
They should be shutting up shop any time now.
I brought an ex-enron PC from an auction on ebay. I didn't know it was from enron until after I brought it. It was only a P3 mini workstation thing, but it was very cheap.
When I took it apart to add another network card I found no dust inside it. It looked like it had not been used for more than a few hours.
It's been up running openbsd for over 100 days now.
Total bargain, I was well chuffed. I don't know if the guy that brought it from the auction and resold it on ebay made any money though.
Some companies just deserve to go bust. It's amazing they lasted as long as they did if thats the kind of crap they spent money on.
I mean really, does any company need giant lava lamps and stupid toys.
And how could they ever justify buying a harley?
The following may or may not be causing your problem:
It seems hard drive numbering has changed between 2.4 and 2.6. This should not affect you unless you are running a mixture of sata and pata hard drives. It looks like you might be doing that.
It seems 2.6 counts sata drives first so you are going to need to change the hdg6 to hd?6.
You might be able to tell what drives are what by details in the kernel messages.
Of course your fstab is going to need fixing too.
I might be able to tell you want is going on if you can post the kernel messages you get when you boot.
I have to say I agree with you. It's not always worth upgrading.
Everyone tells me 2.6 is faster but I just don't see it. If I kick off 100 xloads at the same time my system still slows to a crawl just like it always did.
Mind you, if it was 10% faster I might not notice anyway.