I quote McBride: My first reaction was we needed to create a counterbalance [to the vocal open sourcers]. We're on the side of the silent majority...but at the end of the day it's around who's right. We're rock solid on our claims... and we're not sitting here day in day out trying to counter the stones being thrown at us. We have a business to run. Our employees are reenergized around the movement back to Unix, reenergized around the role SCO is playing... . Our roots in the Unix business are strong and won't be blown over by a little bit of Linux wind.
This guy is full of more BS than Slashdot. In fact, I would classify him as dellusional. Rock Solid claims? Show us ONE! Just one of your thousands of ROCK SOLID CLAIMS.
As for the Linux wind, the only wind blowing is coming from McBrides mouth.
McBride: They said within 90 days [this morning] but I would qualify that and say I'll be surprised if we get beyond 60 days.
This is in response to suing end users. I can't even get one of SCO's re-energized employees to answer the phone and explain licensing. If SCO follows through on a single threat I'll be amazed. Hey McBride, isn't IBM still violating your big bad "cease and desist" and shipping AIX? Didn't you pull IBM's license? Isn't IBM clearly in violation of your agreement? Are you a total loser? Yes, you are a total loser!
I can't wait until this is over... however, I fear it will never be over until Gates controls the world.
Someone tell Sun there is an easier way to make $50M than having to work this hard. Simply tell Microsoft you'd be willing to sue a major Linux distributor and the checks will start coming your way. Act irrational and scream something incoherent about source code and intellectual property and you might get $100M.
Today SCO announced the SPIM is a derivative work using the login that they SPIM begins with the letter 'S' (just like SCO). Darl McBride CEO of SCO announce that they would not take this lightly and were planning on sending threatening letters to anyone who sends or receives SPIM and to anyone with a name that begins with 'S'.
Is there anyway to get the DRM out of my existing files without re-ripping everything? I've learned my lesson, I am never using any proprietary music format ever again. Luckily I didn't put much in WMP format and it's not a big deal to re-rip it as MP3.
What I experienced tonight gives the Bill Gates Borg graphic a whole new meaning. You will be assimilated! I just hope resistance isn't futile and the good guys win.
Ironically, tonight I moved a harddrive from one computer to another and some of the music files were encoded as WMP's (some tests I did for audio quality comparison). As soon as I tried to play one the web browser popped up asking me if I wanted to migrate my DRM license? Huh? What? DRM license? Microsoft is telling me a need a license to listen to my own stuff? Thanks for telling me after I take everything apart.
Believe me, you aren't missing anything by not using Windows Media Player. Use Realplayer, Winamp, Musicmatch and don't save anything in a proprietary Microsoft format.
The MS threat is real. They aren't happy just monopolizing the desktop market, they want to control all your content as well. I am glad Europe has the fortitude to stand up to them. The US government just totally caved.
I have been purchasing and promoting RedHat Linux as a desktop alternative and it appears from recent official statements that RedHat is abandoning the desktop effort. I know the RedHat has recently annouced Fedora as a replacement to the boxed RedHat distribution which is supposed to be community based.
In my experience as an RHCE, Redhat has done very little to promote a sense of community among it's users or RHCE's. A year ago, RedHat started some online forumns to start the community building processes but, the forumns were very short lived (2 months). Based on all this, where should the users and believers in a desktop Linux solution go next and, what is Redhat doing to and build an effective user/developer community around Fedora? Also, can you comment on the response that Fedora has received so far?
The point is: You cannot take a 10 year old COBOL program and expect it to be able to compile using COBOL.net.
You are correct, but if you can trick people into migrating to Microfocus COBOL on UNIX/Windows and then ease them into COBOL.net for new development. A few releases later, you can pull the rug out from underneath them and have a trapped, captive audience that can't migrate away.:)
Microsoft must continue to find new growth opportunities. It seems like innovation might be another route, but they know that COBOL isn't going away any time soon.
I would personally rather believe that our theories of gravity are wrong, as opposed to thinking the universe is magically permeated with huge amounts of massive stuff that we quite inconveniently cannot detect.
Imagine that, the universe might be full of things we can't detect.:) Not too long ago humans couldn't detect, radiation, magnetism, or the strong and weak nuclear forces. Now, because we have discovered some of the fundamental forces of nature we are frustrated becaused we can't come up with a grand unified equation that ties all the (known) forces together and unites Newton, Einstein, and quantum mechanics.
Physics is a frustrating business these days. QM makes absolutely no sense and the String theorists think they have figured out the Universe but have no hope of coming up with an experiment to prove it. Until then, I am going to hypothesize we are all living the Matrix.
In other news, Steve Ballmer has just flown to the Pentagon offering to give the Armed Forces a price match for Windows licenses compared to the less expensive (read free), more stable, GNU/Linux Competitor.
Steve Ballmer was allegedly overheard saying, "And if that doesn't work, I'll write them a check to use my !^$&$@ software. Give me that M-16 son, I want to put a bullet in the head of that penguin."
Last week one of my senior managers asked me if it would be possible to recover word processing files off a 5.25" floppy disk formatted for Atari DOS. Believe it or not a coworker had an Atari in his garage with a floppy and modem. We had to scrounge up a bootable terminal program so that we could dial the modem.
Remember ATS0=1 everybody?
I had to scrounge up a modem to answer and that could talk at 300 baud. I tried 3 modems (USRobotics, Hayes, and Multitech). The Multitech is the only modem that would work with at 300 baud with the Atari modem.
An hour later, I had transferred most of the files using XMODEM! Blech! One file at a painful time. There was much rejoicing with the recovery of the data, but what a pain.
If anyone out there can pull data off of Commodore 64 5.25" floppies and would be willing to recover a single file, please let me know. The first program I ever sold was written for the Commodore 64 and I'd like to move it to a Commodore Emulator and see it again! (I gave all my C64, C128, and SX64 hardware away) If you can help, reply and I will send you my info. I wish I would have kept that SX64, but I guess you can't save everything.
I remember the Amiga Expo that was held in Chicago and what a wonderful time and roadtrip was had by all. I will try to catch this Expo next year. I learned so much from that little machine, peek, poke, 6502 assembler, BASIC, and even CPM when I upgraded to the C128.
Technology used to be so simple and finite. Now technology has gotten to the point that it is amazing that it even works at all. Imagine what could be done with a 2.4GHZ CPU, 4 GB of RAM, a 120GB HD, and upgraded sound and video on a C64... Oh the possibilities... We might have transporters and holidecks by now.
I think the problem is that COMCAST is just plain lame and they are doomed to failure in any market where they have competition. In my area we have COMCAST and WOW (Wide Open West) which offers tierd service, everything from 128k up/128k down to 3Mb down/500k up and WOW just released the 3Mb last week in my area. (I immediately jumped on the bandwidth bandwagon and upped my service and monthy charge.) COMCAST on the other hand offers one take-it or leave-it plan and they are always playing with the service.
Well, I would be willing to take the money if no one else wants it:)...
Seriously though, the money could go to ICANN, IEEE, EFF, or the G.W. Bush war in Iraq fund. My point is this, if Verisign wants to "domain squat" they shouldn't get the domains for FREE and should have to pay for them just like everybody else. They are abusing their unique position as a registrar. For example: I can't hijack or redirect every mistyped domain to my ad server e.g. (yaho.com or yaahoo.com). I have to register each misspelling. Verisign should have to do the same.
I think the real solution is this: If Verisign wants to continue this practice then Verisign should have to pay to register each mis-typed domain. After all, the end effect of Verisign's Sitefinder is to dynamically create a domain if it isn't already registered. Making Verisign pay to register each of these mis-typed domains would most likely halt their practice. In my opinion, Verisign is now "domain squatting" on any domain that isn't registered.
Besides that your 5:1 ratio for XP is way off too - there is no reason whatsoever one person could not admin 1000 XP machines with the right tools, but it would be a bad idea.
Yes it would be a bad idea. Assume the next MS-Worm shows up and floods the network with traffic to the point where 1 XP Admin has to travel to each PC and patch it from a CD-ROM (Just like Blaster all over again). Let's see how long that would take the an XP Admin in a 1:1000 ratio situation.
Assuming the following:
1 XP Admin with $40,000 annual salary
1000 machines to patch
5 x 18 hours work days Calculations:
1000 machines / 5days = 200 machines to patch per day.
200 machines / 18hrs = 11.1 machines per hour
$40,000 / 52 weeks = $769
Thus if the XP admin could average patching 11.1 machines per hour and willing to work 18 hours a day for 5 days, he could get all the machines patched in a work week. The cost to the University would be $769 + benefits and a week of computer/network interruption. Unfortunately for the XP admin when the network gets flooded with traffic the admin tools aren't usable.
Again, I agree, it would be a bad idea. The poor overworked XP Admins I know are starting to ask for Linux training.
If you are interested in this, check out the Canteena solution which has a 12 db gain. You can get a *new* shiny antenna for much less than the cost of a used Primestar dish on EBAY. I know the dish in the article boasts 22 db gain with a 10 mile range but, keep in mind that setting up communication that is line of site 10 miles apart is nearly impossible. (Just try using a camera with an 8x telephoto lens to take a non blurry picture, you'll start to get the idea. ) Have fun!
This may be true, but Linux is a lot easier to patch. The last two Microsoft exploits have resulted in teams of people patching XP via sneakernet (walking around with CD's to install patches). Also, with Microsoft Windows you have no idea what's installed and running. Furthermore, if you install hardware or software you have no clue if it a clobbered a Service Pak or Security Fix. Sometimes doing something as simple as adding an ethernet card can result in making your system insecure again.
Sure Linux has it's faults, but at least I know what services are running, what ports are open, and which files belong to which packages. Also, I can tell via a simple checksum if anything has been modified. Can you do that with the Microsoft platform? Look at your task list and identify every background program that's running.
As far as Linux sucking, I would like to say that (in general) all technology sucks. Until I can get into my car, sit down and recline in the seat and speak "take me to work" to the computer we haven't come all that far. Right now ALL technology is pretty much a variation on a theme which we started playing on the Amigas and Macs back in the late 1980's.
Whatever happened to AI? What ever happened to "programs that can write programs better than programmers?" What ever happened with voice/speech recognition? What ever happened to "thinking " computers that can adapt, grow, and evolve using neural networks. What ever happened to faster, efficient computers that took full advantage of a faster CPU's and better hardware? Whatever happened to technology MAKING LIFE BETTER instead of simply increasing the complexity and frustration factor. Dude it all sucks, it's just a matter of degree. For me it boils down to fun and innovation. I am having a lot more fun running Linux than Microsoft Windows as my desktop and don't have to worry about my system getting owned every other week. Additionally, I enjoy playing with all the innovative software that the opensource programmers are pumping out.
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This looks really cool. Anyone know if it can be downloaded so we can take it for a test drive? Please post a download link if you have one. The article doesn't provide any links except to a static image of how the program visually organizes the files.
Actually, I wasn't trying to be overly funny. This is just how I implement my email storage and replication. It never hurts to know a few anal-retentive packrats. They are easy to identify since they usually have Zip Drives or CD-Burners connected to their machines so they can do their own backups.
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I quote McBride: My first reaction was we needed to create a counterbalance [to the vocal open sourcers]. We're on the side of the silent majority...but at the end of the day it's around who's right. We're rock solid on our claims... and we're not sitting here day in day out trying to counter the stones being thrown at us. We have a business to run. Our employees are reenergized around the movement back to Unix, reenergized around the role SCO is playing... . Our roots in the Unix business are strong and won't be blown over by a little bit of Linux wind.
This guy is full of more BS than Slashdot. In fact, I would classify him as dellusional. Rock Solid claims? Show us ONE! Just one of your thousands of ROCK SOLID CLAIMS.
As for the Linux wind, the only wind blowing is coming from McBrides mouth.
McBride: They said within 90 days [this morning] but I would qualify that and say I'll be surprised if we get beyond 60 days.
This is in response to suing end users. I can't even get one of SCO's re-energized employees to answer the phone and explain licensing. If SCO follows through on a single threat I'll be amazed. Hey McBride, isn't IBM still violating your big bad "cease and desist" and shipping AIX? Didn't you pull IBM's license? Isn't IBM clearly in violation of your agreement? Are you a total loser? Yes, you are a total loser!
I can't wait until this is over... however, I fear it will never be over until Gates controls the world.
Someone tell Sun there is an easier way to make $50M than having to work this hard. Simply tell Microsoft you'd be willing to sue a major Linux distributor and the checks will start coming your way. Act irrational and scream something incoherent about source code and intellectual property and you might get $100M.
I guess this qualifies as a 1,2,3 Profit!
Today SCO announced the SPIM is a derivative work using the login that they SPIM begins with the letter 'S' (just like SCO). Darl McBride CEO of SCO announce that they would not take this lightly and were planning on sending threatening letters to anyone who sends or receives SPIM and to anyone with a name that begins with 'S'.
Boycott SCO and SPIM!
Is there anyway to get the DRM out of my existing files without re-ripping everything? I've learned my lesson, I am never using any proprietary music format ever again. Luckily I didn't put much in WMP format and it's not a big deal to re-rip it as MP3.
What I experienced tonight gives the Bill Gates Borg graphic a whole new meaning. You will be assimilated! I just hope resistance isn't futile and the good guys win.
Ironically, tonight I moved a harddrive from one computer to another and some of the music files were encoded as WMP's (some tests I did for audio quality comparison). As soon as I tried to play one the web browser popped up asking me if I wanted to migrate my DRM license? Huh? What? DRM license? Microsoft is telling me a need a license to listen to my own stuff? Thanks for telling me after I take everything apart.
Believe me, you aren't missing anything by not using Windows Media Player. Use Realplayer, Winamp, Musicmatch and don't save anything in a proprietary Microsoft format.
The MS threat is real. They aren't happy just monopolizing the desktop market, they want to control all your content as well. I am glad Europe has the fortitude to stand up to them. The US government just totally caved.
Dear Mr. Szulik,
I have been purchasing and promoting RedHat Linux as a desktop alternative and it appears from recent official statements that RedHat is abandoning the desktop effort. I know the RedHat has recently annouced Fedora as a replacement to the boxed RedHat distribution which is supposed to be community based.
In my experience as an RHCE, Redhat has done very little to promote a sense of community among it's users or RHCE's. A year ago, RedHat started some online forumns to start the community building processes but, the forumns were very short lived (2 months). Based on all this, where should the users and believers in a desktop Linux solution go next and, what is Redhat doing to and build an effective user/developer community around Fedora? Also, can you comment on the response that Fedora has received so far?
The point is: You cannot take a 10 year old COBOL program and expect it to be able to compile using COBOL.net.
:)
You are correct, but if you can trick people into migrating to Microfocus COBOL on UNIX/Windows and then ease them into COBOL.net for new development. A few releases later, you can pull the rug out from underneath them and have a trapped, captive audience that can't migrate away.
Microsoft must continue to find new growth opportunities. It seems like innovation might be another route, but they know that COBOL isn't going away any time soon.
I would personally rather believe that our theories of gravity are wrong, as opposed to thinking the universe is magically permeated with huge amounts of massive stuff that we quite inconveniently cannot detect.
:) Not too long ago humans couldn't detect, radiation, magnetism, or the strong and weak nuclear forces. Now, because we have discovered some of the fundamental forces of nature we are frustrated becaused we can't come up with a grand unified equation that ties all the (known) forces together and unites Newton, Einstein, and quantum mechanics.
Imagine that, the universe might be full of things we can't detect.
Physics is a frustrating business these days. QM makes absolutely no sense and the String theorists think they have figured out the Universe but have no hope of coming up with an experiment to prove it. Until then, I am going to hypothesize we are all living the Matrix.
Yep, mod this up.... It's definately classic. I wonder is ESR knows he has a "child molester" moustache?
I agree... SCO all about take the money and run. I hope IBM hangs in there and bleeds them dry until they are forced to scream, "You're my daddy!"
SCO's lawyers truly suck.
In other news, Steve Ballmer has just flown to the Pentagon offering to give the Armed Forces a price match for Windows licenses compared to the less expensive (read free), more stable, GNU/Linux Competitor.
Steve Ballmer was allegedly overheard saying, "And if that doesn't work, I'll write them a check to use my !^$&$@ software. Give me that M-16 son, I want to put a bullet in the head of that penguin."
Last week one of my senior managers asked me if it would be possible to recover word processing files off a 5.25" floppy disk formatted for Atari DOS. Believe it or not a coworker had an Atari in his garage with a floppy and modem. We had to scrounge up a bootable terminal program so that we could dial the modem.
Remember ATS0=1 everybody?
I had to scrounge up a modem to answer and that could talk at 300 baud. I tried 3 modems (USRobotics, Hayes, and Multitech). The Multitech is the only modem that would work with at 300 baud with the Atari modem.
An hour later, I had transferred most of the files using XMODEM! Blech! One file at a painful time. There was much rejoicing with the recovery of the data, but what a pain.
If anyone out there can pull data off of Commodore 64 5.25" floppies and would be willing to recover a single file, please let me know. The first program I ever sold was written for the Commodore 64 and I'd like to move it to a Commodore Emulator and see it again! (I gave all my C64, C128, and SX64 hardware away) If you can help, reply and I will send you my info. I wish I would have kept that SX64, but I guess you can't save everything.
I remember the Amiga Expo that was held in Chicago and what a wonderful time and roadtrip was had by all. I will try to catch this Expo next year. I learned so much from that little machine, peek, poke, 6502 assembler, BASIC, and even CPM when I upgraded to the C128.
Technology used to be so simple and finite. Now technology has gotten to the point that it is amazing that it even works at all. Imagine what could be done with a 2.4GHZ CPU, 4 GB of RAM, a 120GB HD, and upgraded sound and video on a C64... Oh the possibilities... We might have transporters and holidecks by now.
I don't know a single geek with Xena posters. Most geeks have Star Trek or X-Files posters, at least that is what I have in my office.
Don't magnetic fields drop off at the inverse SQUARE of the distance or does that only apply to light (eletromagnetic radiation) and gravity?
I think the problem is that COMCAST is just plain lame and they are doomed to failure in any market where they have competition. In my area we have COMCAST and WOW (Wide Open West) which offers tierd service, everything from 128k up/128k down to 3Mb down/500k up and WOW just released the 3Mb last week in my area. (I immediately jumped on the bandwidth bandwagon and upped my service and monthy charge.) COMCAST on the other hand offers one take-it or leave-it plan and they are always playing with the service.
Hey COMCAST, check out the WOW Speeds
Well, I would be willing to take the money if no one else wants it :) ...
Seriously though, the money could go to ICANN, IEEE, EFF, or the G.W. Bush war in Iraq fund. My point is this, if Verisign wants to "domain squat" they shouldn't get the domains for FREE and should have to pay for them just like everybody else. They are abusing their unique position as a registrar. For example: I can't hijack or redirect every mistyped domain to my ad server e.g. (yaho.com or yaahoo.com). I have to register each misspelling. Verisign should have to do the same.
Does anyone have a copy of Verisign's charter?
I think the real solution is this: If Verisign wants to continue this practice then Verisign should have to pay to register each mis-typed domain. After all, the end effect of Verisign's Sitefinder is to dynamically create a domain if it isn't already registered. Making Verisign pay to register each of these mis-typed domains would most likely halt their practice. In my opinion, Verisign is now "domain squatting" on any domain that isn't registered.
Besides that your 5:1 ratio for XP is way off too - there is no reason whatsoever one person could not admin 1000 XP machines with the right tools, but it would be a bad idea.
Yes it would be a bad idea. Assume the next MS-Worm shows up and floods the network with traffic to the point where 1 XP Admin has to travel to each PC and patch it from a CD-ROM (Just like Blaster all over again). Let's see how long that would take the an XP Admin in a 1:1000 ratio situation.
Assuming the following:
1 XP Admin with $40,000 annual salary
1000 machines to patch
5 x 18 hours work days
Calculations:
1000 machines / 5days = 200 machines to patch per day.
200 machines / 18hrs = 11.1 machines per hour
$40,000 / 52 weeks = $769
Thus if the XP admin could average patching 11.1 machines per hour and willing to work 18 hours a day for 5 days, he could get all the machines patched in a work week. The cost to the University would be $769 + benefits and a week of computer/network interruption. Unfortunately for the XP admin when the network gets flooded with traffic the admin tools aren't usable.
Again, I agree, it would be a bad idea. The poor overworked XP Admins I know are starting to ask for Linux training.
Wow! You mean you found something actually made in the USA?!
If you are interested in this, check out the Canteena solution which has a 12 db gain. You can get a *new* shiny antenna for much less than the cost of a used Primestar dish on EBAY. I know the dish in the article boasts 22 db gain with a 10 mile range but, keep in mind that setting up communication that is line of site 10 miles apart is nearly impossible. (Just try using a camera with an 8x telephoto lens to take a non blurry picture, you'll start to get the idea. ) Have fun!
You have a typo in the link, (extra space between in and nolab). Thanks for the link, I am going to try it now.
n nolab/3dfm-1.0.tar.gz
Thanks again!
Here is a link without the extra space http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/sf/subcat/in/i
This may be true, but Linux is a lot easier to patch. The last two Microsoft exploits have resulted in teams of people patching XP via sneakernet (walking around with CD's to install patches). Also, with Microsoft Windows you have no idea what's installed and running. Furthermore, if you install hardware or software you have no clue if it a clobbered a Service Pak or Security Fix. Sometimes doing something as simple as adding an ethernet card can result in making your system insecure again.
Sure Linux has it's faults, but at least I know what services are running, what ports are open, and which files belong to which packages. Also, I can tell via a simple checksum if anything has been modified. Can you do that with the Microsoft platform? Look at your task list and identify every background program that's running.
As far as Linux sucking, I would like to say that (in general) all technology sucks. Until I can get into my car, sit down and recline in the seat and speak "take me to work" to the computer we haven't come all that far. Right now ALL technology is pretty much a variation on a theme which we started playing on the Amigas and Macs back in the late 1980's.
Whatever happened to AI? What ever happened to "programs that can write programs better than programmers?" What ever happened with voice/speech recognition? What ever happened to "thinking " computers that can adapt, grow, and evolve using neural networks. What ever happened to faster, efficient computers that took full advantage of a faster CPU's and better hardware? Whatever happened to technology MAKING LIFE BETTER instead of simply increasing the complexity and frustration factor. Dude it all sucks, it's just a matter of degree. For me it boils down to fun and innovation. I am having a lot more fun running Linux than Microsoft Windows as my desktop and don't have to worry about my system getting owned every other week. Additionally, I enjoy playing with all the innovative software that the opensource programmers are pumping out.
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This looks really cool. Anyone know if it can be downloaded so we can take it for a test drive? Please post a download link if you have one. The article doesn't provide any links except to a static image of how the program visually organizes the files.
Actually, I wasn't trying to be overly funny. This is just how I implement my email storage and replication. It never hurts to know a few anal-retentive packrats. They are easy to identify since they usually have Zip Drives or CD-Burners connected to their machines so they can do their own backups.