I tried that a couple of years ago when I was still dual booting for school and it turned all of my linux folders into files! Couldn't figure out any way to recover it.
I am not a lawyer or have any law experience, but I wonder if there is some kind of ruling that states if there is to much press on a particular subject or peice of evidence it can be ruled inadmissible.
If so all of these open letters and such would just be coming back to bite the OpenSource Community. Just a thought on a late monday.
Write to whoever you want. If you don't have a multi-billion dollar industry behind you don't expect any reply. Maybe you might get a autographed picture of your representative to hand on your wall.
When SCO does its IP addr sweep, you will be passed over.
Is this like Moses and the Angel of Death? Saving all the first borns.
When someone writes the bible for the Linux religion this would be a cool addition.
"Then the great Linus Torvalds sent out to his message board and said 'Those who believe in the Community shall forge their TCP/IP fingerprint to read of another'
And on the night of the 20th, the devil SCO passed its evil port scan accross the Community, and all those who didn't believe in the Community were parished with a $699 licence fee"
Microsoft might be making music downloads cheap for everyone.
I liked it better when it was free. The idea was I didn't have to pay for a few songs that I would listen to a couple of times and find out that the artist really wasn't as good as I thought they were.
OS's can be cracked. Use a hardware keylogger directly in the bios. A second harddrive will keep the most resent key strokes from the past 7 yrs. I think after 7 yrs you cant be held accountable for certain crimes.
I think this is the main problem. Everyone wants things precompiled and rpm'ed all nicely for them download iso's and the sort. OpenBSD doesn't have iso's, yet i still take all the files from ftp and make my own iso and install it. If i wanted support I would purchace a book.
I think if you expect your OS to be great you have to work at it to get it there. Once you start cookie cutting an OS your bound to find trouble.
RedHat still has Fedora and if you want support or a box buy it. Nothing has changed just the place you get it from. As for Novell I thinks its great. I think a distrobution doesnt have to be free. As long as Novell sticks to GPL licensing and keeps everything added opensource OSS will live on. Novell will create a stable OS that enterprises will be searching for. They will try and keep Windows and Linux compatability throughout their products.
Finally, Linux will always be opensource because linux is a kernel. a set of rules and drivers for a system. packaging that and adding software does not have to be free. If you want free use Gentoo or Debian or Fedora....etc. But dont forget to buy a CD or T-shirt every once and a while. Make sure their hard work doesnt go unnoticed.
I agree that if linux held 50% of the market share it would be great for both microsoft and linux. The reason is there would be a significant amount of competition between both of them. This would really show if an organized company or an open source movement would prevail in creating the better product. I for one love the choice for linux, but sometimes I feel standards help keep quality high.
and if they can't buy software (games) for it at Best Buy you're screwed too.
I was just thinking this thought this morning. (stop reading my mind:) ). If we really want Linux to be on the desktop the first ones that need to love it are gamers. IMHO, I feel this to be true for almost every peice of hardware directed to home users. Why not software?
The only way 64-bit will make its way onto the desktop is if gamers bring it there. And I feel the only way the Linux will start being on the desktop is when games are ported or developed for linux. Then other software companies will follow.
Currently I get away with playing Quake3 and Wolfenstien. Thats all i need to be happy.
Hopefully in the future more and more hardware companies will give better specifications on thier hardware so drivers can be readily available. Either by the Linux community or the company.
Until then I will continue to read the complaints, flames and opinions on/. and enjoy my Laptop running linux.
I agree, but the difference between a company and a community is that the community has no one to target in particular.
Microsoft may attack Linux security and weaken the buzz being created right now. But some serious buisnesses are looking into linux as a solution to their computing needs. Worse comes to worse Linux goes back to the way it was 4 years ago.
To me it seems the community doesn't need the corporations, the corporations need the Linux community and its high standards.
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hehe, its like pirating GPL.
Just DUMP it in front of the swinging glass doors.
:D
I doubt SCO's building has swinging glass doors, because then no one would be able to get out... They would all be stuck in the rotating doors.
Who spells potato with an -e?
:) )
I've never done it and I'm an engineer. (bad spelling joke
That sounds like a good idea :). I just disconnected the second hd since they weren't using it anyway.
I tried that a couple of years ago when I was still dual booting for school and it turned all of my linux folders into files! Couldn't figure out any way to recover it.
My parents computer was having this problem. It occured when I have the CDRom in Master Mode on the second IDE port with a slave HD.
yeah fvwm is now by far my favorite WM. I used to be into *box's but the configurability of fvwm surpasses all of them.
BTW a thick book will stop even an M-16 5.56 round.
I'll have to remember that the next time I'm robbing a library.
what also sounded good is that it sounds all software. I thought Pallidum was going to be hardware based.
heh yeah notepad... its been awhile. At least i didnt write 'vi' :)
I am not a lawyer or have any law experience, but I wonder if there is some kind of ruling that states if there is to much press on a particular subject or peice of evidence it can be ruled inadmissible.
If so all of these open letters and such would just be coming back to bite the OpenSource Community. Just a thought on a late monday.
I bet you most people will just bash the SCO.
Is 'the SCO' a higher order deity compared to 'a SCO'
Write to whoever you want. If you don't have a multi-billion dollar industry behind you don't expect any reply. Maybe you might get a autographed picture of your representative to hand on your wall.
Try changing the desktop from explorer to notebook.exe in the windows.ini.
Always priceless after a quick reboot.
Second best is putting a password on a screensaver at BestBuy and placing the screensaver in the startup menu.
"Got to be quick salesman! Hit the windows key!"
When SCO does its IP addr sweep, you will be passed over.
Is this like Moses and the Angel of Death? Saving all the first borns.
When someone writes the bible for the Linux religion this would be a cool addition.
"Then the great Linus Torvalds sent out to his message board and said 'Those who believe in the Community shall forge their TCP/IP fingerprint to read of another'
And on the night of the 20th, the devil SCO passed its evil port scan accross the Community, and all those who didn't believe in the Community were parished with a $699 licence fee"
According to the product specs, it is a Unix system with X Windows. Some times I think slashdot instigates the flame wars.
Microsoft might be making music downloads cheap for everyone.
I liked it better when it was free. The idea was I didn't have to pay for a few songs that I would listen to a couple of times and find out that the artist really wasn't as good as I thought they were.
OS's can be cracked. Use a hardware keylogger directly in the bios. A second harddrive will keep the most resent key strokes from the past 7 yrs. I think after 7 yrs you cant be held accountable for certain crimes.
Enough speculation, lets quit getting our panties in a bunch until the real meat of the lawsuit comes to life.
Most speculation says that this is the real meat. After this is only the fat and scrap of a once company.
I think this is the main problem. Everyone wants things precompiled and rpm'ed all nicely for them download iso's and the sort. OpenBSD doesn't have iso's, yet i still take all the files from ftp and make my own iso and install it. If i wanted support I would purchace a book.
I think if you expect your OS to be great you have to work at it to get it there. Once you start cookie cutting an OS your bound to find trouble.
RedHat still has Fedora and if you want support or a box buy it. Nothing has changed just the place you get it from. As for Novell I thinks its great. I think a distrobution doesnt have to be free. As long as Novell sticks to GPL licensing and keeps everything added opensource OSS will live on. Novell will create a stable OS that enterprises will be searching for. They will try and keep Windows and Linux compatability throughout their products.
Finally, Linux will always be opensource because linux is a kernel. a set of rules and drivers for a system. packaging that and adding software does not have to be free. If you want free use Gentoo or Debian or Fedora....etc. But dont forget to buy a CD or T-shirt every once and a while. Make sure their hard work doesnt go unnoticed.
I agree that if linux held 50% of the market share it would be great for both microsoft and linux. The reason is there would be a significant amount of competition between both of them. This would really show if an organized company or an open source movement would prevail in creating the better product. I for one love the choice for linux, but sometimes I feel standards help keep quality high.
Oh well another highly opinionated opinion.
Hence the I in my statement.
I'd like to see that new Matrix MMORPG on linux. And I think Zork is downloadable now... at least with a DOS emulator.
and if they can't buy software (games) for it at Best Buy you're screwed too.
:) ). If we really want Linux to be on the desktop the first ones that need to love it are gamers. IMHO, I feel this to be true for almost every peice of hardware directed to home users. Why not software?
/. and enjoy my Laptop running linux.
I was just thinking this thought this morning. (stop reading my mind
The only way 64-bit will make its way onto the desktop is if gamers bring it there. And I feel the only way the Linux will start being on the desktop is when games are ported or developed for linux. Then other software companies will follow.
Currently I get away with playing Quake3 and Wolfenstien. Thats all i need to be happy.
Hopefully in the future more and more hardware companies will give better specifications on thier hardware so drivers can be readily available. Either by the Linux community or the company.
Until then I will continue to read the complaints, flames and opinions on
I agree, but the difference between a company and a community is that the community has no one to target in particular.
Microsoft may attack Linux security and weaken the buzz being created right now. But some serious buisnesses are looking into linux as a solution to their computing needs. Worse comes to worse Linux goes back to the way it was 4 years ago.
To me it seems the community doesn't need the corporations, the corporations need the Linux community and its high standards.
Luck :)
Heh, it was a joke. Guess it didnt get moderated as one.