I've been using SMS Backup for months now. Install it (free), configure it and let it copy your text messages to a gmail account. Only it isn't caled s3cr3t SMS Backup so it's perfectly alright to use (and has better purposes than spying).
Is this information about POS backends still valid?
FTA: "Wal-Mart has thousands of servers nationwide, and any one of them crashing would ordinarily be a routine event."
"Someone had installed L0phtcrack, a password-cracking tool, onto the system, which//crashed the server// when the intruder tried to launch the program." [emph. added]
"McLane Co., Wal-Mart's wholesale subsidiary, acquired PDI in 1991. Fischer says one goal of the acquisition was to achieve tighter integration with some of the 30,000 c-stores that McLane serves. However, PDI continues to operate as a stand-alone entity and many of its customers are served by other wholesalers."
"The first thing to realize about black holes, [yourruinreverse] says, is that they are not black.\nIt is also important to realize that they are not, strictly speaking, holes either, but it is easiest if you don't try to realize that until a little later, after you've realized that everything you've realized up to that moment is not true."
High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse. From under its rough woven cowl the Monk gazed unblinkingly down into another valley, with which it was having a problem.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
"Funny that they are the ones announcing BayStar putting the pinch on them. Guess they want to put the "positive spin" on it, just like everything else..."
The SCO Group as a public company is obliged by law to disclose any information that may affect their business aversely. That's their problem as a public company, and it is also what's keeping Canopy Group's mingling in all this nicely private (nice for them, for now).
The Open Group still owns UNIX (titled "Backgrounder on the UNIX System and SCO / IBM legal action");
The SCO Group (TSG) owns UnixWare and its other derivative products, and
judging (IANAL) from the TSG v Novell court documents, Novell owns the copyrights to Unix System V and never transferred them to (old) SCO.
If you accept the above, and if you consider as well that Novell has told TSG early on that TSG is wrong about the copyrights, and that IBM knew Novell was doing this, you also know why IBM didn't buy out TSG.
That would make the answer to the more appropriate question who will claim to own Unix System V as simple as this: Novell.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N is putting its weight behind personal computers that run the Linux operating system, the No. 1 personal computer and computer printer maker said on Wednesday."
Linux is not an operating system. It's the kernel for an operating system. With the SCO Group, it does get worse of course: they think they own "the Unix operating system", as they have called whatever ancient software they allege they own in countless court documents.
I tried it, it almost killed the battery
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I've tried the Sidewinder cell phone charger once. After that, the battery emptied in less than half the time it originally took (a single day instead of more than two). The measly instructions accompanying the product did indeed warn against its actual use. Should have RTFM'd before I tried, huh?
Even though goScreen really is the best window manager/pager for Windows out there, why would you want to burden the ISP of its single developer and thereby the developer himself, who doesn't even make a living out of selling software like (for instance) Microsoft does? You could have pointed to some Download.com page about goScreen instead, you know. You could also have used which is the official URL under its own domain, so that any possible slashdotting might have been diverted to a server with a bit more bandwidth. You silly Martin!
If you did a good RTFStory, you'd find the first is the original German article (including some links absent in the translation), the second is the first publication of its translation into English on Groklaw.net, and the third is exactly the same text published on heise.de again. It even has a cute notice at the end which explains which version had become available in what order. Knowing that, you would not have needed to click on all three links: one or two would have sufficed.
Re: 2.
If/. had taken out Groklaw.net, you could have looked up the English version at heise.de or quickly learn German yourself and read the German version (including the helpful links not available in the translation I produced for Groklaw.net). Furthermore, I believe the contents of the final published story are under editorial discretion: If the editor had felt the need to make it easier for you to follow precisely the link you needed without you needing to actually read the full story, he probably would have changed the text or inserted a blink tag where appropriate.
Or he could have truncated the story at "Check out the German article first[.]".
O, this is simply a hilarious quote (spot the two great new concepts): "People could use the code to find exploids or figure out how those Operating Systems work".
To expand on that: implementing a word processor that exports XML has probably been done years before Microsoft entered its patent claim.
It wouldn't be hard to stretch the definition of a word processor to include HTML editors, because they usually create, open, display, markup and otherwise process text documents (what else?) and even allow you to print those documents, save them, and even send them to others digitally.
Furthermore, any such HTML editor that uses or integrates HTML Tidy can write proper XHTML 1.0, and thus writes proper XML documents, like Microsoft is now claiming they invented.
1) Put a notebook and pencil on the table. 2) Take a good distance of about ten paces. 3) Run for the pencil and spit out the inventive concept on paper.
The best thing about the entire review were the free "Member Ratings" displayed below some of the product sales blurbs they needed to pay an author to write. Hey, anyone can write a review by simply mentioning 24 products!
Besides, I didn't see a single trackball (Kensington Expert Mouse, Logitech Marble Mouse) among the items the author 'reviewed'. Also missing were some very nice curved keyboards like the DataDesk SmartBoard.
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I've been using SMS Backup for months now. Install it (free), configure it and let it copy your text messages to a gmail account. Only it isn't caled s3cr3t SMS Backup so it's perfectly alright to use (and has better purposes than spying).
Is this information about POS backends still valid?
FTA:
"Wal-Mart has thousands of servers nationwide, and any one of them crashing would ordinarily be a routine event."
"Someone had installed L0phtcrack, a password-cracking tool, onto the system, which //crashed the server// when the intruder tried to launch the program." [emph. added]
From http://www.sco.com/company/success/story.html?ID=21 :
"Nearly all of the 350 chains using PDI/RMS are deployed on SCO UNIX® technology [...]"
"McLane Co., Wal-Mart's wholesale subsidiary, acquired PDI in 1991. Fischer says one goal of the acquisition was to achieve tighter integration with some of the 30,000 c-stores that McLane serves. However, PDI continues to operate as a stand-alone entity and many of its customers are served by other wholesalers."
"The first thing to realize about black holes, [yourruinreverse] says, is that they are not black.\nIt is also important to realize that they are not, strictly speaking, holes either, but it is easiest if you don't try to realize that until a little later, after you've realized that everything you've realized up to that moment is not true."
[Adapted from Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless]
...but a caterpillar?
Or maybe the PHP solution to malformed HTML, Lib-scrub?
Actually that patent is being used in IBM's (second amended) counterclaims in the SCO v IBM case.
"Hey geek, does anyone even know you exist?"
"Yes, in fact I have many fans."
The SCO Group as a public company is obliged by law to disclose any information that may affect their business aversely. That's their problem as a public company, and it is also what's keeping Canopy Group's mingling in all this nicely private (nice for them, for now).
In fact, with this fantastic website, you can easily publish any installation manual you like.
I guess someone at Google will now have to go out this day and buy some more harddisks. :-)
BTW, isn't Google still a privately held company? So how would they get in trouble with SEC?
If you accept the above, and if you consider as well that Novell has told TSG early on that TSG is wrong about the copyrights, and that IBM knew Novell was doing this, you also know why IBM didn't buy out TSG.
That would make the answer to the more appropriate question who will claim to own Unix System V as simple as this: Novell.
Linux has a command line now? I didn't know that!
Oh, I see it now :
My mistake.
Linux is not an operating system. It's the kernel for an operating system. With the SCO Group, it does get worse of course: they think they own "the Unix operating system", as they have called whatever ancient software they allege they own in countless court documents.
I've tried the Sidewinder cell phone charger once. After that, the battery emptied in less than half the time it originally took (a single day instead of more than two). The measly instructions accompanying the product did indeed warn against its actual use. Should have RTFM'd before I tried, huh?
You could also have used http://www.goscreen.info/ which is the official URL ....
Even though goScreen really is the best window manager/pager for Windows out there, why would you want to burden the ISP of its single developer and thereby the developer himself, who doesn't even make a living out of selling software like (for instance) Microsoft does? You could have pointed to some Download.com page about goScreen instead, you know. You could also have used which is the official URL under its own domain, so that any possible slashdotting might have been diverted to a server with a bit more bandwidth. You silly Martin!
Re: 1.
/. had taken out Groklaw.net, you could have looked up the English version at heise.de or quickly learn German yourself and read the German version (including the helpful links not available in the translation I produced for Groklaw.net). Furthermore, I believe the contents of the final published story are under editorial discretion: If the editor had felt the need to make it easier for you to follow precisely the link you needed without you needing to actually read the full story, he probably would have changed the text or inserted a blink tag where appropriate.
If you did a good RTFStory, you'd find the first is the original German article (including some links absent in the translation), the second is the first publication of its translation into English on Groklaw.net, and the third is exactly the same text published on heise.de again. It even has a cute notice at the end which explains which version had become available in what order. Knowing that, you would not have needed to click on all three links: one or two would have sufficed.
Re: 2.
If
Or he could have truncated the story at "Check out the German article first[.]".
O, this is simply a hilarious quote (spot the two great new concepts): "People could use the code to find exploids or figure out how those Operating Systems work".
To expand on that: implementing a word processor that exports XML has probably been done years before Microsoft entered its patent claim.
It wouldn't be hard to stretch the definition of a word processor to include HTML editors, because they usually create, open, display, markup and otherwise process text documents (what else?) and even allow you to print those documents, save them, and even send them to others digitally.
Furthermore, any such HTML editor that uses or integrates HTML Tidy can write proper XHTML 1.0, and thus writes proper XML documents, like Microsoft is now claiming they invented.
The way to do it is:
1) Put a notebook and pencil on the table.
2) Take a good distance of about ten paces.
3) Run for the pencil and spit out the inventive concept on paper.
The best thing about the entire review were the free "Member Ratings" displayed below some of the product sales blurbs they needed to pay an author to write. Hey, anyone can write a review by simply mentioning 24 products!
Besides, I didn't see a single trackball (Kensington Expert Mouse, Logitech Marble Mouse) among the items the author 'reviewed'. Also missing were some very nice curved keyboards like the DataDesk SmartBoard.
I couldn't agree more, but I have my reservations.
Thirty miles high