" Makes me wish I had contributed to Linux(not that I'm a coder but hey ya know...)"
Pretty easy: Write documentation or translate existing documentation of any of the "interesting" GPL projects (i.e. the ones that are potentially being distributed by SCO) and publish these snippets under the GPL.
Apart from then having the wonderful opportunity of countersuing SCO you may actually contribute something worthwile to the cause.
eEurope2005 is the most effective Weapon against any proprietary lock-in and should be made more aware to the IT-world.
Microsoft has no way of meeting the requirements set forth in these *laws* by 2005. Any European government agency switching to XP risks a big slap on its wrist by the EU.
"Try SCO is not being reasonable to ask IBM to tell them everyone who's worked on "infinging" code without first identifying infringing code. THERE IS NO INFRINGING CODE, you weasel."
Who is to say?
I mean honestly, where is all the manpower on SCO'S side to come from in order to build a technically well founded case? How many software engineers with a deep UNIX background are available on the market to do the grunt work on looking at every single line of code, compare it to innumerable other versions of source code from various other OSs?
This is not a technical case, it's a business case and it's going to fly for SCO as long as the American legal system allows cases like that to drag on for years without getting into the heart of the matter.
So far we have not seen any well researched, sound and reasonabble technical paper from SCO's side and I very much doubt we are going to get to see anything like that in the foreseeable future.
Instead we are going to see an endless legal battle with turns and twists, delays and lots of FUD all over the place. The recent 50$ USD investment of hard cash into the company will provide for an excellent team of highly paid lawyers and stock brokers.
Qui bono?
I can only see one serious candidate to feel very happy about an ongoing FUD campaign against Linux in particular.
"If 20% of Americans already participate in the passport document system, that roughly equates to the number who make up a "majority" in any national election, given voter turnout."
What a strange and alien concept.
100% of all Germans have a unique ID, either in form of an ID for inland use and a passport to travel abroad.
And the concept of "register" to vote is totally out of this world for any European anyway. If you are a citizen, you can vote, no matter what. Which, I believe, makes elections in Europe a little more than representative than they are in the US.
Considering the fact that the author explicitly mentions the slashdot effect on the first page of the paper, it probably is a good indicator for a website that will not suffer from that effect.
You have no idea, how expensive that marketing coup might be. Who is going to pay for the development? Surely not not you with your $400 Overclock box.
Apple is a hardware manufacturer and their software is designed to meet the defined specs of their hardware and make use of it.
Just like AIX is IBM only, IRIX is SGI only and OSX is Apple only.
"Don't blame Microsoft for not changing their LAN Software because of established LAN protocols - blame the ISPs that don't block those ports at their routers."
You gotta be kidding me.
Since when is it the ISP's job to take care of a customer's security? Either you have an admin who knows how to deal with an active RPC service or you don't. Either possibility is none of the ISP's business.
"With the score viewer, you can listen to a selection and follow along on the score at the same time."
Couple of years ago I managed a pianist, who then played a live recital in London, which was consequently released on an Audio-DVD (actually the first one with a piano recital ever).
The music was by Chopin and Scriabin, whose works are in the public domain. I got in touch with the German publisher (who only holds the copyrights for his edited version of the score) and we intended to use the spare capacity on the DVD to contain the digitized score to follow along with the music.
Alas, it would have been to expensive to do all the additional editorial work, so the DVD was only released with the audio and some still pictures of the first page of each piece.
The CD is by Denon and the pianist is Igor Zhukov and the recital was recorded in London's beautiful Wigmore Hall.
"SCO, however, has gone from under $5 in may to over $20 today. That's very strong performance. You'd be a fool to sell it short now, since it's guaranteed to go up more."
Do you realize that we are talking about a company that is constantly sizing down its actual work on products and instead focussing all their attention on a ridiculous lawsuit?
This company doesn't *make* any money and it never will. There is hardly any income, except for some laughable license fees. Their support is miserable and their performance even worse. In 2 years they will not have a product that meets any criteria to modern IT.
If you had bothered to read the lindows site itself, you would see that, before actually claiming their $$$/free pc/whatever, they would have to submit physical proof.
Doesn't matter anyway, since the settlement explicitly says that claims are not transferable.
" Put the file into XMMS or Winamp, depending if your in linux or windows. Turn on the AMP/Equalizer, and drag everything except 12-14k down to nothing."
and you won#t hear a damn thing, because the signal is roughly at 600 Hz, effectively filtered out by your settings.
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Quotation from the Rev. Martin Niemoller
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Juden holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.
English translation:
When the Nazis arrested the Communists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.
When they locked up the Social Democrats, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
When they arrested the trade unionists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist.
When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.
When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.
It would certainly be a shame to learn that ham operators are so miserable and bitter that, out of anger at millionaires and politicians, they would spitefully refuse to participate in helping normal folks during a natural disaster.
They would not refuse, they simplay would be *unable* to do so. They cannot use their gear in non-emergency times. With powerline communication in place everywhere, reception of any signal on shortwave becomes impossible.
You expect ham radio operators to keep their gear in shape, knowing they can't use it for its original purpose?
"Hats off to you people & thanks for the wonderful job you do!"
Do it as long as you can, because the very existence of ham radio is endangered. Powerline communication uses the entire shortwave spectrum and is being hailed as the only way to ensure a nationwide coverage of internet access. The telco and energy industry pushes the issue with the FCC right now and as things stand, the entire shortwave spectrum will be completely useless for any wireless service, be it ham radio, shortwave broadcast or other emergency service that need the shortwave frequency range.
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ te lecoms/regulatory/publiconsult/powerline_communica tions/text_en.htm
It's been a nice hobby for me during the last 25 years, but as things stand it won't last another 25 years.
You might want to inform your congressman about the issue and tell him that in a couple of years hams might be unwilling to provide emergency services when ham radio as a hobby has systematically been sacrificed for the industry's greed for a useless technology.
" If the numbers that the telemarketing industry is throwing about are even half right, this could end our current economic recovery. Telemarketers alledge that they create several billion dollars in sales every year, several billion dollars that will go up in smoke in October. That plus a huge boost in unemployed (and otherwise unemployable) persons is a very bad thing. Be careful what you wish for."
An economic recovery dependent on money spent by consumers only is a Bad Thing [tm] anyway. In fact, it is a vicious cycle that can only so long disguise the fact that the US economy is in extremely bad health anyway. Half of the "economic recovery" is based on defense spending and that money comes from a constantly rising deficit of the state.
Have you guys realized that the US is basically bankrupt?
How many *millions* of people do you have over there, who will never be able to earn their living with a job that requires a little more than half a brain?
These are the first jobs that will cease to exist very soon, since people can do without telemarketers, super market bag clowns and all those other jobs that do not contribute to anything relevant in economic terms, other than generate a cash flow within those who don't have cash in the first place.
You'll then end up with a couple of millions of people without qualification, perspective, educational background and money to pay taxes.
Another couple of years and these millions of people will forma critical mass that spells trouble at no end.
But I am sure there are some smart guys out there, who have already found a solution to keep these people quiet.
"Most civil cases don't come down to a legitimate adjudicated decision. They are resolved by one party (usually the wronged one, since they are naturally the one with the least resources) being unable or unwilling to continue. "
This is why the EFF should try to reach all those users served with a subpoena and have them as part of a class action. Combined, all these users will have sufficient funds for a competent team of lawyers and have the issue settled once and for all.
" Some of the evidence Sontag showed us is straightforward: Sections of the Linux kernel code relating to the journaling file system [...] support are identical to the Unix System V code."
"All they really might have to do is send the press releases from the US office."
Don't underestimate German judges: *Anything* in publication that refers to SCO in Germany and SCO's claim that Linux infringes on their IP will be seen as a way to circumvent the injunction and will immediately be subject to another hefty fine. While the 10.000 EUR has been rather mild because SCO Germany simply overlooked some files on the webserver, any renewed attempt to address the IP question in Germany will definitely be regarded as a willfuct act of ignoring the injunction.
Slashdot Mirror
" Makes me wish I had contributed to Linux(not that I'm a coder but hey ya know...)"
Pretty easy: Write documentation or translate existing documentation of any of the "interesting" GPL projects (i.e. the ones that are potentially being distributed by SCO) and publish these snippets under the GPL.
Apart from then having the wonderful opportunity of countersuing SCO you may actually contribute something worthwile to the cause.
"Plus there are no penguins in Antarctica..."
Oh really?
Must have been a walrus steak then.
Please mod parent up.
eEurope2005 is the most effective Weapon against any proprietary lock-in and should be made more aware to the IT-world.
Microsoft has no way of meeting the requirements set forth in these *laws* by 2005. Any European government agency switching to XP risks a big slap on its wrist by the EU.
The audition team from Microsoft will almost certainly consist of more sales guys than technical guys. And the sales guys will have a huge budget.
"Try SCO is not being reasonable to ask IBM to tell them everyone who's worked on "infinging" code without first identifying infringing code. THERE IS NO INFRINGING CODE, you weasel."
Who is to say?
I mean honestly, where is all the manpower on SCO'S side to come from in order to build a technically well founded case? How many software engineers with a deep UNIX background are available on the market to do the grunt work on looking at every single line of code, compare it to innumerable other versions of source code from various other OSs?
This is not a technical case, it's a business case and it's going to fly for SCO as long as the American legal system allows cases like that to drag on for years without getting into the heart of the matter.
So far we have not seen any well researched, sound and reasonabble technical paper from SCO's side and I very much doubt we are going to get to see anything like that in the foreseeable future.
Instead we are going to see an endless legal battle with turns and twists, delays and lots of FUD all over the place. The recent 50$ USD investment of hard cash into the company will provide for an excellent team of highly paid lawyers and stock brokers.
Qui bono?
I can only see one serious candidate to feel very happy about an ongoing FUD campaign against Linux in particular.
"If 20% of Americans already participate in the passport document system, that roughly equates to the number who make up a "majority" in any national election, given voter turnout."
What a strange and alien concept.
100% of all Germans have a unique ID, either in form of an ID for inland use and a passport to travel abroad.
And the concept of "register" to vote is totally out of this world for any European anyway. If you are a citizen, you can vote, no matter what. Which, I believe, makes elections in Europe a little more than representative than they are in the US.
"The database exists already, or haven't you ever left the country?"
How many of the 280 Million US citizens do actually have a passport to travel abroad?
RTG - RadioThermal Generator.
To give cellphone-environmentalists a reason for a field day?
Considering the fact that the author explicitly mentions the slashdot effect on the first page of the paper, it probably is a good indicator for a website that will not suffer from that effect.
" I can't really think of a killer app for Linux that would drive average users to Linux."
I can: mplayer
Show me something like that on a Mac or on XP.
streaming audio, streaming video, encoding all kinds of formats, playing virtually all available audio and video formats.
And all you do is type "mplayer "
Now that's a killer app and it's cool.
"How about a free demo version of OS X for x86?"
You have no idea, how expensive that marketing coup might be. Who is going to pay for the development? Surely not not you with your $400 Overclock box.
Apple is a hardware manufacturer and their software is designed to meet the defined specs of their hardware and make use of it.
Just like AIX is IBM only, IRIX is SGI only and OSX is Apple only.
Deal with it.
"Don't blame Microsoft for not changing their LAN Software because of established LAN protocols - blame the ISPs that don't block those ports at their routers."
You gotta be kidding me.
Since when is it the ISP's job to take care of a customer's security? Either you have an admin who knows how to deal with an active RPC service or you don't. Either possibility is none of the ISP's business.
"With the score viewer, you can listen to a selection and follow along on the score at the same time."
Couple of years ago I managed a pianist, who then played a live recital in London, which was consequently released on an Audio-DVD (actually the first one with a piano recital ever).
The music was by Chopin and Scriabin, whose works are in the public domain. I got in touch with the German publisher (who only holds the copyrights for his edited version of the score) and we intended to use the spare capacity on the DVD to contain the digitized score to follow along with the music.
Alas, it would have been to expensive to do all the additional editorial work, so the DVD was only released with the audio and some still pictures of the first page of each piece.
The CD is by Denon and the pianist is Igor Zhukov and the recital was recorded in London's beautiful Wigmore Hall.
is going to change the world of software fundamentally.
"SCO, however, has gone from under $5 in may to over $20 today. That's very strong performance. You'd be a fool to sell it short now, since it's guaranteed to go up more."
Do you realize that we are talking about a company that is constantly sizing down its actual work on products and instead focussing all their attention on a ridiculous lawsuit?
This company doesn't *make* any money and it never will. There is hardly any income, except for some laughable license fees. Their support is miserable and their performance even worse. In 2 years they will not have a product that meets any criteria to modern IT.
Utterly and totally ridiculous.
If you had bothered to read the lindows site itself, you would see that, before actually claiming their $$$/free pc/whatever, they would have to submit physical proof.
Doesn't matter anyway, since the settlement explicitly says that claims are not transferable.
" Put the file into XMMS or Winamp, depending if your in linux or windows. Turn on the AMP/Equalizer, and drag everything except 12-14k down to nothing."
and you won#t hear a damn thing, because the signal is roughly at 600 Hz, effectively filtered out by your settings.
From af9y.com:
"The mystery station is one of the calls in this list of all known 2 mtr EME stations: all2eme.txt (18 K Bytes)"
peter@df5jt $ wget http://www.webcom.com/~af9y/all2eme.txt
peter@df5jt $ cat all2eme.txt|grep -i df5jt
DF5JT
peter@df5jt $
Where's my 100 bucks?
Quotation from the Rev. Martin Niemoller
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Juden holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.
English translation:
When the Nazis arrested the Communists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist.
When they locked up the Social Democrats, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
When they arrested the trade unionists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist.
When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.
When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.
It would certainly be a shame to learn that ham operators are so miserable and bitter that, out of anger at millionaires and politicians, they would spitefully refuse to participate in helping normal folks during a natural disaster.
They would not refuse, they simplay would be
*unable* to do so. They cannot use their gear in non-emergency times. With powerline communication in place everywhere, reception of any signal on shortwave becomes impossible.
You expect ham radio operators to keep their gear in shape, knowing they can't use it for its original purpose?
You are deluded.
"Hats off to you people & thanks for the wonderful job you do!"
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/ te lecoms/regulatory/publiconsult/powerline_communica tions/text_en.htm
Do it as long as you can, because the very existence of ham radio is endangered. Powerline communication uses the entire shortwave spectrum and is being hailed as the only way to ensure a nationwide coverage of internet access. The telco and energy industry pushes the issue with the FCC right now and as things stand, the entire shortwave spectrum will be completely useless for any wireless service, be it ham radio, shortwave broadcast or other emergency service that need the shortwave frequency range.
Take a look at:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?
Same, by the way, in Europe:
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics
It's been a nice hobby for me during the last 25 years, but as things stand it won't last another 25 years.
You might want to inform your congressman about the issue and tell him that in a couple of years hams might be unwilling to provide emergency services when ham radio as a hobby has systematically been sacrificed for the industry's greed for a useless technology.
" If the numbers that the telemarketing industry is throwing about are even half right, this could end our current economic recovery. Telemarketers alledge that they create several billion dollars in sales every year, several billion dollars that will go up in smoke in October. That plus a huge boost in unemployed (and otherwise unemployable) persons is a very bad thing. Be careful what you wish for."
An economic recovery dependent on money spent by consumers only is a Bad Thing [tm] anyway. In fact, it is a vicious cycle that can only so long disguise the fact that the US economy is in extremely bad health anyway. Half of the "economic recovery" is based on defense spending and that money comes from a constantly rising deficit of the state.
Have you guys realized that the US is basically bankrupt?
How many *millions* of people do you have over there, who will never be able to earn their living with a job that requires a little more than half a brain?
These are the first jobs that will cease to exist very soon, since people can do without telemarketers, super market bag clowns and all those other jobs that do not contribute to anything relevant in economic terms, other than generate a cash flow within those who don't have cash in the first place.
You'll then end up with a couple of millions of people without qualification, perspective, educational background and money to pay taxes.
Another couple of years and these millions of people will forma critical mass that spells trouble at no end.
But I am sure there are some smart guys out there, who have already found a solution to keep these people quiet.
"Most civil cases don't come down to a legitimate adjudicated decision. They are resolved by one party (usually the wronged one, since they are naturally the one with the least resources) being unable or unwilling to continue. "
This is why the EFF should try to reach all those users served with a subpoena and have them as part of a class action. Combined, all these users will have sufficient funds for a competent team of lawyers and have the issue settled once and for all.
" Some of the evidence Sontag showed us is straightforward: Sections of the Linux kernel code relating to the journaling file system [...] support are identical to the Unix System V code."
Ummh.
*The* journalling file system?
BS.
"All they really might have to do is send the press releases from the US office."
Don't underestimate German judges: *Anything* in publication that refers to SCO in Germany and SCO's claim that Linux infringes on their IP will be seen as a way to circumvent the injunction and will immediately be subject to another hefty fine. While the 10.000 EUR has been rather mild because SCO Germany simply overlooked some files on the webserver, any renewed attempt to address the IP question in Germany will definitely be regarded as a willfuct act of ignoring the injunction.
In that case we are talking *big* money.