My thought was, maybe that Swedish woman that Mary Roach wrote about in her book, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, who developed a way to turn a corpse into compost as an alternative to burial, had opened up an American facility.:-)
Sony Music wants to entertain you. Sony Electronics wants to equip you. The problem is that when it comes to digital media, their interests are diametrically opposed.
[...]
Now Apple is delivering the innovation while Sony studies the matter. What's changed since the original Walkman debuted is that Sony became the only conglomerate to be in both consumer electronics and entertainment. As a result, it's conflicted: Sony's electronics side needs to let customers move files around effortlessly, but its entertainment side wants to build in restraints, because it sees every customer as a potential thief.
(Sad that I can remember articles from 3 years ago; oh well.)
Obviously, if your computer can "see" the partition on the CD that contains the raw music tracks, there's nothing keeping you from ripping them to MP3.
Yes, after sitting in jail for a month, then coming up with $50K for bail, and not being allowed to leave the US and go home to his family for another four months.
The fact that he was charged doesn't mean anything, except perhaps that
...corporations cause to pass, then use US law to fuck people over, even people who live in other countries and aren't violating their country's laws.
Sorry for the rant, but this episode's going to remain a sore spot for a long, long time.
...referenced above, and in the previous YRO article, to set your privacy preferences, or use a Firefox extension. All you have to do is right-click on a Flash object in a web page to bring up a context menu, and choose "Settings..." (although one wonders if this could be disabled at the Flash object author's choosing).
(Actually, I find it more disturbing that a Flash object in a web page could access a local webcam or microphone. Has anyone seen this capability in use?)
Thanks to "bigtallmofo" for bringing this to our attention in the previous YRO article. Who knew?
NoNags is a huge repository of free (not necessarily "free as in speech," but all "free as in beer") software for Windows that also checks for spyware.
From their intro page: "Before we list anything here we check for viruses, trojans, spyware etc."
Many ignorant people in the OECD have criticized the United States for having such a huge military budget while having no social programs. Well guess what? That is another sacrifice that America has made for the past sixty years for Europe. We had to invest all of that money in to our military after WWII in order to deter Stalin because Europe was too poor to defend itself.
As "mzeig" put it so well above, in post #10716763:
I voted Bush, and did so for primarily moral reasons, but didn't give a thought to any of the examples you listed. Rather, I (and others) consider the current "progressive" tax code to be innately immoral ("from each according to his ability, to each according to his need").
IMHO, there is very little welfare in the US as it is, especially compared with the enormous amount the US spends on the military. And IMHO, even if the US didn't spend that much on the military, people would still think it "immoral" to have the same kind of "socialist" welfare programs common in Europe.
You see, here in America we don't give handouts, we pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, and we believe wholeheartedly in stories by Horatio Alger. It's social Darwinism in action. Anything else is seen as immoral.
The idea that we're "sacrificing" for the sake of Europe is curious, but disingenuous.
Don't you think that if Microsoft could make a serious buck off of it, they would implement something that allowed them to track certain bits of mail?
The point is, every incarnation of this I ever saw (and it's been a while, thankfully) was in plain text, not HTML, with no attachments. Why would anyone think there'd be any way for Microsoft to "track" it?
The Starlight Parade draws between 350,000 and 400,000 people. A bit more than a little neighborhood parade.
Since the population of Portland proper is around ~475K (in the city itself, not the tri-county area), you know they didn't all come to the Starlight Parade. It'd be kinda hard to squeeze that many in along the parade route.
It'll be very cool having him here, even if he does move to Beaverton (aka the suburbs). I wonder if we'll ever get a 9-1-1 call from him.
Does anyone else thing it's a bad idea to throw these sorts of components into something that's going to take a few hundred thousand 100kg (or more depending on speed/weight/height) impacts?
Forget about the solid state electronics...how's that tiny motor going to hold up under the stress?
Now that is amusing. I had the opposite experience. I tried to use an old ISA Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO (that came out of a Gateway 2000 box, circa 1996). The best I could get out of it with Debian Woody was some crackling.
However, Gateway (still) has the Windows 9x driver for it available on their web site, and the card works fine in an old computer running Windows 95. (I did have to install the driver, though.)
For the Debian Woody box, I gave up, went out, and bought a new $15 PCI sound card at Fry's with a supported chipset. Luckily they mentioned the name of the chipset, else I wouldn't have known which kernel module to choose!
The funny thing to me about ESR's rant is that I tried running Knoppix 3.x (it's a version of Debian that runs entirely off of CD) on my computer and my wife's computer at the same time, and, lo and behold, her laser printer showed up in KDE's Printing Manager on my computer automagically. (The two computers are networked through a router.) I didn't have to lift a finger. So either Klaus Knopper, who put Knoppix together, made sure it was configured correctly, or the version of Debian he used was configured correctly.
Actually, the advent of CUPS made printing on Linux much easier. I remember trying to get LPRng working on an older version of Red Hat with absolutely no success. (There was this nice GUI-based printer setup wizard that evidently did less than was necessary.) Fortunately CUPS had just come out, and it worked with my inkjet.
(Of course, Aunt Tillie isn't going to know how to download, unarchive, compile, make, and "make install" CUPS.)
- e2g
Re:Best examples of heresy I can think of
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(The article that began this entire/. discussion, and the discussion itself, have been particularly interesting.)
YES, feminism has ruined our country.
Although there are things happening, particularly in the school system, that defy commmon sense, to say feminism has destroyed the country is just laughable. Here's a heretical thought: How about enacting laws that decree that women get paid the same amount for doing the same work?
Homosexuality IS NOT NORMAL
Here's another heretical thought: What if it just doesn't matter if anyone thinks homosexuality is "normal" or not? Some say it's a choice; others say it's a genetic disposition. What does it matter? If humans can build atomic bombs, spaceships, and electron microscopes, why can't they choose their sexual partners without being labelled "abnormal"?
The same people who say gay marriage is a bad thing conveniently overlook the high divorce rate. I know quite a few gays who have been in committed relationships for years, despite the lack of the benefit of marriage. Apparently, long-term relationships are only to be encouraged between a man and a woman.
African-american is offensive to me, because you think that you're BLACK first, then American when you say that.
No, you're not saying you're black, you're saying your ethnic background is African.
The term "African-American" seems a bit awkward to me, just as Italian-American, etc. does, but it's no skin off my nose if an ethnic group wants to celebrate their ethnicity - particularly one that's been treated as poorly as that one.
(It does get kind of silly when a group that defends Italian-Americans gets mad at the way Italians are portrayed in The Sopranos.)
Here's another heretical thought: How about we either pay reparations to blacks, or enforce mandatory quotas for as many years as slavery existed in the United States?
...I know that the government isn't going to take too kindly to this web site giving Al Queda what is nearly a HOWTO document for infiltrating the NSA.
You've got to be kidding. After reading about the amount of personal information he had to give the NSA, and the number of invasive psych tests he had to endure, why do you think anyone would use this memoir as a HOWTO to "infiltrate the NSA"? Get real.
I think we all remember the last time the Secret Service had to delete content from Slashdot.
And there's no similarity between these two posts whatsoever.
What if Ilsa used Rick's computer? (With Sam's help, of course.) Bear with me...
Headline: RIAA Sues Richard Blaine
Rick sits alone at a table. There is a glass of bourbon
on the table directly in front of him, and another empty glass on the table before an empty chair. Near at hand is a bottle. [...] Sam sits down at the computer and music starts to play softly.
RICK
Of all the P2P apps on all the computers in all the world, she uses mine. What's that you're downloading?
SAM
Just a little something of my own.
RICK
Well, stop it. You know what I want to hear.
SAM
No, I don't.
RICK
You downloaded it for her and you can download it for me.
SAM
Well, I don't think I can remember its name.
RICK
If she can stand it, I can. Download it!
SAM
Yes, boss.
Sam starts to download "As Time Goes By."
Rick just stares ahead as the streaming music slowly comes from his computer.
...is that it's been going on for so long. I can remember arguing with my high school chemistry teacher about it in 1980.
Through osmosis, here's what I think I know about the issue: Nuclear waste is a dangerous poison that is poisonous for hundreds of thousands of years. Although the DOE has had a waste disposal fund for years, there's still no political consensus on a seismically neutral place (if such a thing exists) to store the waste. Almost no one wants it. So existing nuclear waste is sitting around accumulating in ponds at nuclear plants.
(That's pronounced "nuke-you-lar," by the way.:-)
My father, the physics teacher, always said he thought the stuff should be shot into the sun - which is great until a rocket explodes on the launchpad or in the atmosphere. And with so much of the waste around, there'd be ample opportunity for that to happen.
So we're still where we were 23 years ago, pitting the promise of clean power generation against the reality of highly dangerous waste. (My bias is that we'd better get the waste issue taken care of or I can't be in support of it.)
This monitoring goes on exclusively in the msnews.microsoft.com domain, plus a few others that are also run by the company. While NetScan is sometimes pointed to MS-oriented news servers (news.devx.com is an example), Microsoft is not "monitoring USENET"
"Monitoring" isn't the issue. M$ has created an effective and easy data sorting and retrieval tool. How could it be used?
Maybe you or someone you know is posting MP3's to one of the a.b.mp3* groups. Perhaps they're posting porn. Or something else embarrassing. This person uses a nym (including a fake email address), but they don't nymshift. So now you can go on over to Author Profile, put in that person's fake email address, and you can see...well, if not every post they made, at least there's the potential, as Netscan gets better.
So you got turned in to the RIAA for posting an album you ripped? Now the RIAA can find out exactly how many albums you've posted since Netscan began keeping track.
Of course you don't know anyone who posts any of those things (neither do I:-), but this Netscan tool could not only enable the RIAA, it could enable anyone who knows the email address you use on Usenet to get a pretty good picture of who you are and where your interests lie, pretty easily (depending on how prolific a poster you are, of course). Sure, you posted publicly, but did you really think anyone had a way to track what you posted, besides Google Groups? They do now.
M$'s Netscan tool could be used for much more than M$ is using it for. It could be packaged and sold. Its results could be combined with other pieces of data about you - your credit report, say. So the issue is not so much that M$ is monitoring you. It's that there's another tool out there that could be combined with other tools to discover all kinds of details about you. It seems to be a trend. It's another part of the "total information awareness" program that's being created, piecemeal, right now.
Someone ought to add a "sco" program to Linux...
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Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I couldn't resist...suggestions?
[eco2geek@Jean-Luc]$man sco
SCO(6)
NAME
sco - FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt)
spreader and SCO Group satirizer
SYNOPSIS
sco OPTION
DESCRIPTION
SCO Group alleges that IBM
misappropriated SCO's intellectual property and put it into Linux. SCO
sued IBM for more than $3 billion (up from an original claim of $1
billion) in damages, and sent 1,500 letters to businesses warning them
of possible liability for using Linux. Many critics think SCO's tactics
are simply a way for a dying company to salvage whatever profitability
it can. The most jaded critics allege that SCO's actions are a
way for the company management to sell off stock at artificially
inflated prices before the company folds (a.k.a. a "pump and
dump" scheme).
-q, --quote
Displays a quote associated with the
case. Quotes come from industry analysts, IBM and SCO Group officials,
and leaders in the Linux community.
-dp, --display-proof
Displays the Linux kernel code that
SCO alleges belongs to it (the result is a blank page, since SCO
refuses to release its "evidence" publicly). Press "q" to return).
-skl, --sco-kernel-license
Displays the license agreement of the
Linux kernel that SCO is distributing with its OpenLinux distribution,
on its publicly-accessible ftp site. (Surprise: It's the GPL.)
-l, --legalize
Asks if you wish to delete the entire
contents of/usr/src/linux as a way to prepare your computer for a
"legal" SCO version of the kernel source. If your answer is "y" or
"yes", does a realistic job of pretending
to delete/usr/src/linux; otherwise, congratulates you on your wisdom
and does nothing.
-lb, --legalize-boot
Asks if you wish to delete the entire
contents of/boot as a way to prepare your computer for a "legal" SCO
version of the kernel. If your answer is "y" or "yes", does a realistic
job of pretending to delete/boot; otherwise, congratulates you on your wisdom and does nothing.
-v, --version
Prints the version and copyright
information, then exits.
AUTHORS
Sosume Donchuwana and Greedo UnBridled
DISCLAIMER
SCO, the SCO Group, and OpenLinux are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Caldera International, Inc. and
used here for satirical purposes only.
Granted, it's not the same as a paper manual but since you mentioned quality, they're really excellent.
Actually, RH's documentation is not "really excellent." Well, if by "excellent" you mean "well-written," then, fine, but there's little or nothing in RH's documentation that couldn't be learned by reading the HOW-TOs at the Linux Documentation Project, which is to say, RH's documentation is way too basic.
When I've hit rough patches - getting my HP inkjet to work before CUPS became standard, for example, or trying to figure out how GRUB worked, or why LILO wasn't working - RH's documentation hasn't helped at all. (And I'm still a Linux newbie.)
One thing I like a lot about RH (besides its easy installation routine) is the Red Hat Network, which is a great way to keep current. But probably the only reason I'd buy a boxed copy of RH is if a period of free telephone-based tech support came with it - and AFAIK it never did.
When you offer your company for sale, you have only yourself to blame when someone makes a bid to buy it. And offering your company for sale is exactly what you're doing when you issue stock.
Arandir's being called a troll for this, but he has a point. At the end of the day, what Oracle's doing is not about the "values issues" that've been debated here - what's good for employees; what's good for Linux; etc. - it's all about money. Ultimately, PeopleSoft's behavior as a business and publicly-traded corporation is also only about one thing - money.
If you'll pardon some somewhat off-topic musings...
I don't really understand what's so great about the publicly traded corporate model over having a privately-owned business, from an owner's standpoint. If I owned Google, for example, and was thinking about going public, sure, I might personally make a ton of money, but to whom would I be beholden? Stockholders, people I don't know. Why would I want to have to answer to a bunch of strangers?
And why is success/progress measured in terms of more, more, always more profits? Whatever happened to the idea of "enough"?
Good thing more people don't think like this, I guess, or the economy wouldn't be as strong.:-)
...the complexity of installing even the most basic of apps...
RedHat 7 came with Pan (the newsreader) v0.11.4. I wanted to upgrade it to v0.13.x. But it was RPM dependency hell, even following various FAQs. Compiling from source didn't work either. I finally ended up upgrading to RedHat 8 to get it. Even then, I couldn't see any text in GTK 2-based apps because, while trying to get Pan to work on RH7, I'd installed an incompatible version of Pango, and upgrading to RH8 hadn't fixed it! I never could find anything that told me which version of Pango went with which version of GTK.
I'm no Linux expert, obviously - but one shouldn't have to mess with components of lower-level graphics and font-rendering subsystems in order to upgrade an application. The install program should take care of that.
Also, check out installing Pan for Windows. (Yes, there is such a thing.) You run the installer, it's installed, GTK's installed, and it works. You run the uninstall routine, and it's all deleted. Simple, unlike Linux, where you're lucky to get an install routine ("It's best to compile from source!" they say), much less an uninstall routine.
IMO, one of the biggest reasons people will shell out money for Windows licenses is that most Windows programs adhere to basic standards, like including installation and uninstallation routines, quite unlike Linux.
Uh, next time you're trying to build a persuasive argument to industry executives, you may want to think about quoting someone other than The Artist Currently Known As Prince. He may make some salient points, but he sure sounds like an idiot with his phonetical writing style.
[start sarcasm]
And while you're at it, you might want to think about quoting someone else than Thos. Jefferson. He may make some salient points, but he sure sounds like an anachronism with his 19th-century writing style.
[end sarcasm]
I would hope that anyone who takes the time to read this excellent Salon article would also read Prince's comments for their content, not their appearance. Besides being a great musician/entertainer, Prince has some insightful thoughts on the subject of music piracy.
"Scientifically, it's far, far safer for us to take nuclear waste and bury it deep in some mine shaft somewhere than to continue dumping billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning gasoline and diesel. We're contaminating our entire environment now because people are afraid of nuclear energy."
(Well, I'm not afraid of nuclear energy, I just know its waste is about the most poisonous stuff there is...but the man's got a point.) Anybody ever think about how much crap we spew into the environment on a yearly basis by using petroleum? Why not? You breathe it.
So...as far as I can tell, this edition removed all the political intrique and vague sense of plot, poured in more closeups of scenes we already either liked or hated, and ruined all the somewhat fun explosions and action scenes by running things so fast acrost the screen you can't see them?
If you're looking for a deep plot, you've come to the wrong movie!:-) Star Wars has always been more of a comic strip set in film than anything else. No, they didn't do any of those things.
According to a newspaper article, 22 minutes were removed from the original in order to decrease the size of the film reel in order for it to fit the OmniMax equipment (which, in Portland, had to be upgraded in order to host the film). The article also said that visual content was added in order to compensate for the larger size of the picture. And the soundtrack evidently came on CD rather than on a separate reel.
It was odd to have to turn your head to see everything, and you had to flatten out in your seat to avoid getting a crick in your neck. And when scenes had white backgrounds, you could see the seams between the "screen", which looked to be made out of metal mesh and acted like a scrim (they played a blurb that lit up the speaker system behind the screen before the movie started).
My wife didn't like it because there was so much visual input it was hard for her to take.
Other than those niggles, it was great. I'm already looking forward to seeing Star Wars Episode III in IMAX format.
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My thought was, maybe that Swedish woman that Mary Roach wrote about in her book, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, who developed a way to turn a corpse into compost as an alternative to burial, had opened up an American facility. :-)
(Sad that I can remember articles from 3 years ago; oh well.)
Obviously, if your computer can "see" the partition on the CD that contains the raw music tracks, there's nothing keeping you from ripping them to MP3.
Quote from "knoppix-cheatcodes.txt": "The "noswap" option is useful for a forensic analysis without touching existing swap partitions."
Yes, after sitting in jail for a month, then coming up with $50K for bail, and not being allowed to leave the US and go home to his family for another four months.
Sorry for the rant, but this episode's going to remain a sore spot for a long, long time.
(Actually, I find it more disturbing that a Flash object in a web page could access a local webcam or microphone. Has anyone seen this capability in use?)
Thanks to "bigtallmofo" for bringing this to our attention in the previous YRO article. Who knew?
From their intro page: "Before we list anything here we check for viruses, trojans, spyware etc."
As "mzeig" put it so well above, in post #10716763:
IMHO, there is very little welfare in the US as it is, especially compared with the enormous amount the US spends on the military. And IMHO, even if the US didn't spend that much on the military, people would still think it "immoral" to have the same kind of "socialist" welfare programs common in Europe.
You see, here in America we don't give handouts, we pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, and we believe wholeheartedly in stories by Horatio Alger. It's social Darwinism in action. Anything else is seen as immoral.
The idea that we're "sacrificing" for the sake of Europe is curious, but disingenuous.
The point is, every incarnation of this I ever saw (and it's been a while, thankfully) was in plain text, not HTML, with no attachments. Why would anyone think there'd be any way for Microsoft to "track" it?
Are people that clueless about how email works?
Since the population of Portland proper is around ~475K (in the city itself, not the tri-county area), you know they didn't all come to the Starlight Parade. It'd be kinda hard to squeeze that many in along the parade route.
It'll be very cool having him here, even if he does move to Beaverton (aka the suburbs). I wonder if we'll ever get a 9-1-1 call from him.
Forget about the solid state electronics...how's that tiny motor going to hold up under the stress?
However, Gateway (still) has the Windows 9x driver for it available on their web site, and the card works fine in an old computer running Windows 95. (I did have to install the driver, though.)
For the Debian Woody box, I gave up, went out, and bought a new $15 PCI sound card at Fry's with a supported chipset. Luckily they mentioned the name of the chipset, else I wouldn't have known which kernel module to choose!
The funny thing to me about ESR's rant is that I tried running Knoppix 3.x (it's a version of Debian that runs entirely off of CD) on my computer and my wife's computer at the same time, and, lo and behold, her laser printer showed up in KDE's Printing Manager on my computer automagically. (The two computers are networked through a router.) I didn't have to lift a finger. So either Klaus Knopper, who put Knoppix together, made sure it was configured correctly, or the version of Debian he used was configured correctly.
Actually, the advent of CUPS made printing on Linux much easier. I remember trying to get LPRng working on an older version of Red Hat with absolutely no success. (There was this nice GUI-based printer setup wizard that evidently did less than was necessary.) Fortunately CUPS had just come out, and it worked with my inkjet.
(Of course, Aunt Tillie isn't going to know how to download, unarchive, compile, make, and "make install" CUPS.)
- e2g
Although there are things happening, particularly in the school system, that defy commmon sense, to say feminism has destroyed the country is just laughable. Here's a heretical thought: How about enacting laws that decree that women get paid the same amount for doing the same work?
Here's another heretical thought: What if it just doesn't matter if anyone thinks homosexuality is "normal" or not? Some say it's a choice; others say it's a genetic disposition. What does it matter? If humans can build atomic bombs, spaceships, and electron microscopes, why can't they choose their sexual partners without being labelled "abnormal"?
The same people who say gay marriage is a bad thing conveniently overlook the high divorce rate. I know quite a few gays who have been in committed relationships for years, despite the lack of the benefit of marriage. Apparently, long-term relationships are only to be encouraged between a man and a woman.
No, you're not saying you're black, you're saying your ethnic background is African.
The term "African-American" seems a bit awkward to me, just as Italian-American, etc. does, but it's no skin off my nose if an ethnic group wants to celebrate their ethnicity - particularly one that's been treated as poorly as that one.
(It does get kind of silly when a group that defends Italian-Americans gets mad at the way Italians are portrayed in The Sopranos.)
Here's another heretical thought: How about we either pay reparations to blacks, or enforce mandatory quotas for as many years as slavery existed in the United States?
You've got to be kidding. After reading about the amount of personal information he had to give the NSA, and the number of invasive psych tests he had to endure, why do you think anyone would use this memoir as a HOWTO to "infiltrate the NSA"? Get real.
And there's no similarity between these two posts whatsoever.
I'd rate you +5 Paranoid.
Headline: RIAA Sues Richard Blaine
- eco2geekThrough osmosis, here's what I think I know about the issue: Nuclear waste is a dangerous poison that is poisonous for hundreds of thousands of years. Although the DOE has had a waste disposal fund for years, there's still no political consensus on a seismically neutral place (if such a thing exists) to store the waste. Almost no one wants it. So existing nuclear waste is sitting around accumulating in ponds at nuclear plants.
(That's pronounced "nuke-you-lar," by the way. :-)
My father, the physics teacher, always said he thought the stuff should be shot into the sun - which is great until a rocket explodes on the launchpad or in the atmosphere. And with so much of the waste around, there'd be ample opportunity for that to happen.
So we're still where we were 23 years ago, pitting the promise of clean power generation against the reality of highly dangerous waste. (My bias is that we'd better get the waste issue taken care of or I can't be in support of it.)
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Maybe you or someone you know is posting MP3's to one of the a.b.mp3* groups. Perhaps they're posting porn. Or something else embarrassing. This person uses a nym (including a fake email address), but they don't nymshift. So now you can go on over to Author Profile, put in that person's fake email address, and you can see...well, if not every post they made, at least there's the potential, as Netscan gets better.
So you got turned in to the RIAA for posting an album you ripped? Now the RIAA can find out exactly how many albums you've posted since Netscan began keeping track.
Of course you don't know anyone who posts any of those things (neither do I :-), but this Netscan tool could not only enable the RIAA, it could enable anyone who knows the email address you use on Usenet to get a pretty good picture of who you are and where your interests lie, pretty easily (depending on how prolific a poster you are, of course). Sure, you posted publicly, but did you really think anyone had a way to track what you posted, besides Google Groups? They do now.
M$'s Netscan tool could be used for much more than M$ is using it for. It could be packaged and sold. Its results could be combined with other pieces of data about you - your credit report, say. So the issue is not so much that M$ is monitoring you. It's that there's another tool out there that could be combined with other tools to discover all kinds of details about you. It seems to be a trend. It's another part of the "total information awareness" program that's being created, piecemeal, right now.
[eco2geek@Jean-Luc]$man sco
SCO(6)NAME
sco - FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) spreader and SCO Group satirizerSYNOPSIS
sco OPTIONDESCRIPTION
SCO Group alleges that IBM misappropriated SCO's intellectual property and put it into Linux. SCO sued IBM for more than $3 billion (up from an original claim of $1 billion) in damages, and sent 1,500 letters to businesses warning them of possible liability for using Linux. Many critics think SCO's tactics are simply a way for a dying company to salvage whatever profitability it can. The most jaded critics allege that SCO's actions are a way for the company management to sell off stock at artificially inflated prices before the company folds (a.k.a. a "pump and dump" scheme).-q, --quote
Displays a quote associated with the case. Quotes come from industry analysts, IBM and SCO Group officials, and leaders in the Linux community.-dp, --display-proof
Displays the Linux kernel code that SCO alleges belongs to it (the result is a blank page, since SCO refuses to release its "evidence" publicly). Press "q" to return).-skl, --sco-kernel-license
Displays the license agreement of the Linux kernel that SCO is distributing with its OpenLinux distribution, on its publicly-accessible ftp site. (Surprise: It's the GPL.)-l, --legalize
Asks if you wish to delete the entire contents of-lb, --legalize-boot
Asks if you wish to delete the entire contents of-v, --version
Prints the version and copyright information, then exits.AUTHORS
Sosume Donchuwana and Greedo UnBridledDISCLAIMER
SCO, the SCO Group, and OpenLinux are trademarks or registered trademarks of Caldera International, Inc. and used here for satirical purposes only.SEE ALSO
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=88sco 1.0 - August 2003 - SCO(6)
Insensitive clod!
Actually, RH's documentation is not "really excellent." Well, if by "excellent" you mean "well-written," then, fine, but there's little or nothing in RH's documentation that couldn't be learned by reading the HOW-TOs at the Linux Documentation Project, which is to say, RH's documentation is way too basic.
When I've hit rough patches - getting my HP inkjet to work before CUPS became standard, for example, or trying to figure out how GRUB worked, or why LILO wasn't working - RH's documentation hasn't helped at all. (And I'm still a Linux newbie.)
One thing I like a lot about RH (besides its easy installation routine) is the Red Hat Network, which is a great way to keep current. But probably the only reason I'd buy a boxed copy of RH is if a period of free telephone-based tech support came with it - and AFAIK it never did.
Arandir's being called a troll for this, but he has a point. At the end of the day, what Oracle's doing is not about the "values issues" that've been debated here - what's good for employees; what's good for Linux; etc. - it's all about money. Ultimately, PeopleSoft's behavior as a business and publicly-traded corporation is also only about one thing - money.
If you'll pardon some somewhat off-topic musings...
I don't really understand what's so great about the publicly traded corporate model over having a privately-owned business, from an owner's standpoint. If I owned Google, for example, and was thinking about going public, sure, I might personally make a ton of money, but to whom would I be beholden? Stockholders, people I don't know. Why would I want to have to answer to a bunch of strangers?
And why is success/progress measured in terms of more, more, always more profits? Whatever happened to the idea of "enough"?
Good thing more people don't think like this, I guess, or the economy wouldn't be as strong. :-)
- eco2geek
RedHat 7 came with Pan (the newsreader) v0.11.4. I wanted to upgrade it to v0.13.x. But it was RPM dependency hell, even following various FAQs. Compiling from source didn't work either. I finally ended up upgrading to RedHat 8 to get it. Even then, I couldn't see any text in GTK 2-based apps because, while trying to get Pan to work on RH7, I'd installed an incompatible version of Pango, and upgrading to RH8 hadn't fixed it! I never could find anything that told me which version of Pango went with which version of GTK.
I'm no Linux expert, obviously - but one shouldn't have to mess with components of lower-level graphics and font-rendering subsystems in order to upgrade an application. The install program should take care of that.
Also, check out installing Pan for Windows. (Yes, there is such a thing.) You run the installer, it's installed, GTK's installed, and it works. You run the uninstall routine, and it's all deleted. Simple, unlike Linux, where you're lucky to get an install routine ("It's best to compile from source!" they say), much less an uninstall routine.
IMO, one of the biggest reasons people will shell out money for Windows licenses is that most Windows programs adhere to basic standards, like including installation and uninstallation routines, quite unlike Linux.
You can flame me if you wish, but it's true.
[start sarcasm]
And while you're at it, you might want to think about quoting someone else than Thos. Jefferson. He may make some salient points, but he sure sounds like an anachronism with his 19th-century writing style.
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I would hope that anyone who takes the time to read this excellent Salon article would also read Prince's comments for their content, not their appearance. Besides being a great musician/entertainer, Prince has some insightful thoughts on the subject of music piracy.
- the slashdot member currently known as eco2geek
"Scientifically, it's far, far safer for us to take nuclear waste and bury it deep in some mine shaft somewhere than to continue dumping billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning gasoline and diesel. We're contaminating our entire environment now because people are afraid of nuclear energy."
(Well, I'm not afraid of nuclear energy, I just know its waste is about the most poisonous stuff there is...but the man's got a point.) Anybody ever think about how much crap we spew into the environment on a yearly basis by using petroleum? Why not? You breathe it.
If you're looking for a deep plot, you've come to the wrong movie! :-) Star Wars has always been more of a comic strip set in film than anything else. No, they didn't do any of those things.
According to a newspaper article, 22 minutes were removed from the original in order to decrease the size of the film reel in order for it to fit the OmniMax equipment (which, in Portland, had to be upgraded in order to host the film). The article also said that visual content was added in order to compensate for the larger size of the picture. And the soundtrack evidently came on CD rather than on a separate reel.
It was odd to have to turn your head to see everything, and you had to flatten out in your seat to avoid getting a crick in your neck. And when scenes had white backgrounds, you could see the seams between the "screen", which looked to be made out of metal mesh and acted like a scrim (they played a blurb that lit up the speaker system behind the screen before the movie started).
My wife didn't like it because there was so much visual input it was hard for her to take.
Other than those niggles, it was great. I'm already looking forward to seeing Star Wars Episode III in IMAX format.