I own 3 lines of the SVR4 codebase, and I'm willing to license it to you under the GPL if you can cover the cost of my lawsuit against SCO. Each user of Linux that has been asked for money by SCO should send me $10 toward the legal fund of my pending lawsuit in Uganda, which I will surely win by default. With SCO's healthy respect for the law, they should pay out in no time.
Please mail your credit card information to:
Mr. Happy
42 Faux St.
Null City, Uganda 00042
I hope this truns into a profitable business venture for both of us.
according to the great guide, mice made the Earth. Humans such as ourselves evolved from the useless third of a lost civilization that was wiped out by a payphone-spread virus.
If SCO "owns" a small fraction of a widely distributed whole, that whole in its entirety is SCO's property.
If SCO doesn't own any part of a whole that it distributed in violation of copyright law, then copyright law is not applicable, for no specific reason.
If you violate their property, you deserve to go to hell. If they violate much more of your property, tough luck. If they violate it again, tough luck.
These guys have made the situation clear, why can't we just agree that they aren't affected by copyright law?
I want to know the difference in speed between a dual G5 and a Quad UltraII Sun U80 when compiling Linux targetted to X86.
I don't care if one can get 900fps in Unreal Tournament while the other can only get 880.
As for bias, did you know that my Timex Sinclair is the best computer there that has ever been made or will ever be made? The salesman said so, so it must be true.
I avoid OS 9 like the plague, but OS X (NeXt-based) has much better winshit interaction support. Thanks to Class, OS X can run OS 9 software. Linux can do a similar thing with MacOnLinux. Both use the native process rather than emulator, they are fast enough to run Bryce on my G3 iBook.
My school is concidering a Linux server, but they'd have to draft me to configure it. They are also having trouble affording the low end pentium I told them would be necessary.
The techs at most public schools are dumbasses. It's sad but true. (I apologize if you are a tech at a school that doesn't follow this trend. Keep up the good work.)
My entire school's network accesses the web over one of two T1 lines. Rather than a load-balancing Linux server, they have two 80486 systems with 32mb apiece running illegally purchased copies of NT4, with only service pack 2.
The school's techs worked for 3 damn weeks trying to get an iMac G4 on the school network. Every printer in the school is shared, while none of them have passwords. Every teacher's computer is shared, while none of them have passwords. Hell, the records server's Administrator password is the initials of the school!
In the middle of a budget crisis(we'll go broke Oct 1), the school bought 40+ Athlon computers.
Macs are going out of schools. It's not because OS X is any harder to use (perfect blend of idiot friendliness and power), but rather because idiot-proofing is now being winshit compatible.
Apple computers will always be used in video editing classes, and PCs have wormed their way into the rest of the school years ago. Apple lost the battle during System 7, it's time to move on and accept that the world at large can't be steered by a better product. If they focus on the informed consumers and professionals, they'll survive and flourish.
graphics cards work quickly because they cut every corner that can possibly be cut. It makes sense that they would run computer software slower.
I'm more interested in using them for specific calculations. Imagine if one of these things was accidentally embued with the ability to factor gigantic numbers. The AGP slot is just an excuse to keep us from beowulfing them over PCI-X
beowulf cluster?
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same idea, but with much faster video response times
I assume that hard-coding trig functions into the tertiary processors would be advantagious for this. I know it violates the spirit of RISC in general-pupose computing, but for such a large scale system with so many processors it coould be advantagious.
Do HP's Saturn or other such special-purpose processors have hard-coded higher-level functions?
If I make a bullet-proof windshield for you that doesn't protect against bullets, it would be my fault that the thing doesn't stop them. If your armored truck gets robbed because of this, I would be partially responsible for your losses, second only to the people that robbed it.
If Microsoft would just admit that their software is insecure, we would get back to calling it an insecure piece of crap. When they win national defense software contracts and claim to be secure, I have a serious problem with them.
I use OpenBSD on anything life-or-death and Linux on everything else. I have yet to see any of those systems get infected with a virus or invaded by crackers. The most I've been hurt from a virus was the downtime when my ISP caught Slammer.
Is installing a patch in winshit still as difficult as opening up their browser and going to the update site? Many of us connect to our servers from crummy connections that can't handle remote graphical terminals with Windows. If M$ has finally made an equivalent to "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" since I discovered the glory of Posix-Compliance, then good job for them. If not, then they can bite my shiny metal ^D
How thought up making different currencies have different appearances? It's because of them that sending $599 in monopoly money to SCO can be done safely, without fear of said money going toward their legal fund.
Some guy probably left a windows server sending out warez on the company's bandwidth. The last time I had to deal with Windows servers (BLECH!), I found that the sysadmin was afraid to run FTP for security reasons.
As Microsoft would say, "You should've firewalled off that port."
But my site wasn't linked to from the main page, doesn't have large downloads, and doesn't have large images. Even the logo was text, rather than graphical, at the time.
I have several units (64mb-512mb) or a particular brand of USB drives that come with just a filesystem, rather than a partition table on them. I partition them to partially FAT32 and partially Ext3. The Windows 98 drivers that come with the units do not support partitioning.
Is it possible to backport the drivers from WinME? Does a good universal driver exist for usb storage devices?
As a tip to those using Linux and MacOS: OS X w/out EXT2 support will attempt to interpret a single-partition usb storage device as FAT32, causing all kinds of havoc to ensue. I can't remember if the problem is with 10.0 or 10.2. It might have been fixed, but I'm in no mood to test it.
I tar -cjf (bzip2 compression) backups for users on my server, and record the result to disc. Rockridge/Joliet screws up permissions/ownerships, and it seems pointless to wrap the archive in an ISO for the sole purpose of compatibility with OSes that can't easily do raw CD IO.
tar -cjvf foo.tar.bz2 backup_dir; cdrecord dev=0,1,0 speed=16 foo.tar.bz2;#to record
dd if=/dev/scd1 of=foo.tar.bz2; tar -xjvf foo.tar.bz2;#to restore
What bugs me is that I can't use a device name, rather than a SCSI address, for my burner.
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Please mail your credit card information to:
- Mr. Happy
I hope this truns into a profitable business venture for both of us.42 Faux St.
Null City, Uganda 00042
according to the great guide, mice made the Earth. Humans such as ourselves evolved from the useless third of a lost civilization that was wiped out by a payphone-spread virus.
If SCO "owns" a small fraction of a widely distributed whole, that whole in its entirety is SCO's property.
If SCO doesn't own any part of a whole that it distributed in violation of copyright law, then copyright law is not applicable, for no specific reason.
If you violate their property, you deserve to go to hell. If they violate much more of your property, tough luck. If they violate it again, tough luck.
These guys have made the situation clear, why can't we just agree that they aren't affected by copyright law?
You predicted likely typos. I'm impressed (both as a libertarian zealot and as a GNU zealot.)
just drop all packets to port 25/tcp and you should be set
I'd move to Australia, but you guys would probably evict me within the year. How much could trans-continental shipping of 30 computers cost?
I want to know the difference in speed between a dual G5 and a Quad UltraII Sun U80 when compiling Linux targetted to X86.
I don't care if one can get 900fps in Unreal Tournament while the other can only get 880.
As for bias, did you know that my Timex Sinclair is the best computer there that has ever been made or will ever be made? The salesman said so, so it must be true.
I avoid OS 9 like the plague, but OS X (NeXt-based) has much better winshit interaction support. Thanks to Class, OS X can run OS 9 software. Linux can do a similar thing with MacOnLinux. Both use the native process rather than emulator, they are fast enough to run Bryce on my G3 iBook.
My school is concidering a Linux server, but they'd have to draft me to configure it. They are also having trouble affording the low end pentium I told them would be necessary.
The techs at most public schools are dumbasses. It's sad but true. (I apologize if you are a tech at a school that doesn't follow this trend. Keep up the good work.)
My entire school's network accesses the web over one of two T1 lines. Rather than a load-balancing Linux server, they have two 80486 systems with 32mb apiece running illegally purchased copies of NT4, with only service pack 2.
The school's techs worked for 3 damn weeks trying to get an iMac G4 on the school network. Every printer in the school is shared, while none of them have passwords. Every teacher's computer is shared, while none of them have passwords. Hell, the records server's Administrator password is the initials of the school!
In the middle of a budget crisis(we'll go broke Oct 1), the school bought 40+ Athlon computers.
Macs are going out of schools. It's not because OS X is any harder to use (perfect blend of idiot friendliness and power), but rather because idiot-proofing is now being winshit compatible.
Apple computers will always be used in video editing classes, and PCs have wormed their way into the rest of the school years ago. Apple lost the battle during System 7, it's time to move on and accept that the world at large can't be steered by a better product. If they focus on the informed consumers and professionals, they'll survive and flourish.
For those with OpenZaurus, install the python packages and learn it between meetings/classes/etc.
graphics cards work quickly because they cut every corner that can possibly be cut. It makes sense that they would run computer software slower.
I'm more interested in using them for specific calculations. Imagine if one of these things was accidentally embued with the ability to factor gigantic numbers. The AGP slot is just an excuse to keep us from beowulfing them over PCI-X
same idea, but with much faster video response times
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram.html
To do this yourself, just type:
<a href="http://foo/">bar</a>
criminal law will be involved soon enough.
why else would they be emulating it?
I assume that hard-coding trig functions into the tertiary processors would be advantagious for this. I know it violates the spirit of RISC in general-pupose computing, but for such a large scale system with so many processors it coould be advantagious.
Do HP's Saturn or other such special-purpose processors have hard-coded higher-level functions?
If I make a bullet-proof windshield for you that doesn't protect against bullets, it would be my fault that the thing doesn't stop them. If your armored truck gets robbed because of this, I would be partially responsible for your losses, second only to the people that robbed it.
If Microsoft would just admit that their software is insecure, we would get back to calling it an insecure piece of crap. When they win national defense software contracts and claim to be secure, I have a serious problem with them.
I use OpenBSD on anything life-or-death and Linux on everything else. I have yet to see any of those systems get infected with a virus or invaded by crackers. The most I've been hurt from a virus was the downtime when my ISP caught Slammer.
Is installing a patch in winshit still as difficult as opening up their browser and going to the update site? Many of us connect to our servers from crummy connections that can't handle remote graphical terminals with Windows. If M$ has finally made an equivalent to "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" since I discovered the glory of Posix-Compliance, then good job for them. If not, then they can bite my shiny metal ^D
How thought up making different currencies have different appearances? It's because of them that sending $599 in monopoly money to SCO can be done safely, without fear of said money going toward their legal fund.
You must be one of them!"
</simpsons>
<!--Maybe I should've used the groening tag above? Let's argue about it.-->
Some guy probably left a windows server sending out warez on the company's bandwidth. The last time I had to deal with Windows servers (BLECH!), I found that the sysadmin was afraid to run FTP for security reasons.
As Microsoft would say, "You should've firewalled off that port."
But my site wasn't linked to from the main page, doesn't have large downloads, and doesn't have large images. Even the logo was text, rather than graphical, at the time.
I have several units (64mb-512mb) or a particular brand of USB drives that come with just a filesystem, rather than a partition table on them. I partition them to partially FAT32 and partially Ext3. The Windows 98 drivers that come with the units do not support partitioning.
Is it possible to backport the drivers from WinME? Does a good universal driver exist for usb storage devices?
As a tip to those using Linux and MacOS: OS X w/out EXT2 support will attempt to interpret a single-partition usb storage device as FAT32, causing all kinds of havoc to ensue. I can't remember if the problem is with 10.0 or 10.2. It might have been fixed, but I'm in no mood to test it.
I tar -cjf (bzip2 compression) backups for users on my server, and record the result to disc. Rockridge/Joliet screws up permissions/ownerships, and it seems pointless to wrap the archive in an ISO for the sole purpose of compatibility with OSes that can't easily do raw CD IO.
tar -cjvf foo.tar.bz2 backup_dir; cdrecord dev=0,1,0 speed=16 foo.tar.bz2;#to record
dd if=/dev/scd1 of=foo.tar.bz2; tar -xjvf foo.tar.bz2;#to restore
What bugs me is that I can't use a device name, rather than a SCSI address, for my burner.
the Linux kernel can use gzip or bzip2 compression. This is usefull for 2.4, and very near necessary for 2.5 and 2.6.