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We have a common history (Swedish domination):) and very similar customs, political traditions and so on. [my emphasis]
Last time I checked the Danes dominated the Viking era. Cutting 'n' pasting from the execelent resource that is state.gov:
During the Viking period (9th-11th centuries), Denmark was a great power based on the Jutland Peninsula, the Island of Zealand, and the southern part of what is now Sweden. In the early 11th century, King Canute united Denmark and England for almost 30 years.
Danish Queen Margrethe I succeeded in uniting Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland under the Danish crown. Sweden and Finland left the union in 1520; however, Norway remained until 1814. Iceland, in a "personal union" under the king of Denmark after 1918, became independent in 1944. [...]
Denmark's provinces in today's southwestern Sweden were lost in 1658, and Norway was transferred from the Danish to the Swedish crown in 1814, following the defeat of Napoleon, with whom Denmark was allied. [...]
After the war with Prussia and Austria in 1864, Denmark was forced to cede Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia and adopt a policy of neutrality. Toward the end of the 19th century, Denmark inaugurated important social and labor market reforms, laying the basis for the present welfare state. [...]
The rest is history - the world wars and such.
Anyway, I believe the Swedes were reaching out towards the East during the Viking era, and dominated there. Norwegians went further Northwest out to sea if I remember correctly. The Danes went West (also out to sea) and South, and established the Danelaw.
The Faroe Islands (for now) and Greenland have home-rule governments under normal Danish rule.
The idea is for computers to learn how to use with users -- instead of vice versa. The software has already been tested with air traffic controllers.
Not exactly comforting, if you ask me! I expect air traffic controllers to know their systems and how to use them. What happens when this software has learned to compensate for one traffic controller's particular errors, and then suddenly another traffic controller takes over his/her station?
And it's saying "Don't wheel the A/V rack towards you over uneven surfaces, or you'll end up underneath it writhing in pain".
Which is still useless information when there are lots of ways to break your skull, anyway. I feel many of these warning sign etc. are just disclaimers put in place so you don't sue the manufacturers for being stupid. Somewhat ridiculous, but good for a laugh sometimes.
They should just stick to showing how you don't break the device you have just bought. Granted, advice on not trying to fix your tv is in order - high voltage warnings, and such.
I don't know, they don't look identical _exactly_?
If this is a sneak photo taken from one of the NDA sessions, I would have expected SCO to show the code with a fixed width font, it being "line by line" copied as stated on the photo. You can't see the original indents otherwise.
Also, the variable names look generic to me. (m_size, m_addr, bp - I could have used these short forms in my own code anytime)
SCO still says comments are stolen - let's see an example of those instead.
Even Alastair Campbell has fallen foul of the snippets of invisible data few of us realise our documents contain.
Back in 2002 one of the Danish Prime Minister's opening speeches written in Office XP was made available on the Net. The document included previous drafts which could be rolled back.
The drafts revealed that he did not write the entire speech himself, and of course, also things which should have been left "unsaid". I remember the "unsaid" part caused a bit of a stir - to some extend it revealed a sort of a hidden agenda with regards to some political issues.
Afterwards it was said that this would never happen with classified documents, such as NATO documents.
Surely Slashdot (karma whoring, karma whoring) has shown that a self-moderating system can tolerate huge amounts of noise and still turn up valuable content.
I guess on Friendster, that would give a whole new meaning to the word "karma whoring".
Just select the packages you want, kernel, drivers, etc, wait as the program churns out a nice ISO...
Well, as I see it, with Knoppix (and derivatives) you get almost everything you need. If not you can always apt-get what you need as it's based on Debian. Not exactly what you want, but it's easily customizable from this viewpoint.
I see your point. However, it could be that it's because SCO is seen as being in violation of the GPL themselves - by charging users for using the Linux kernel.
If this verdict stands (and god knows MS can drag it out forever and has friends in very high places) it will have cost MS over a billion dollars to gain dominance over the web.
And if so, it would be a small prize to pay indeed. The lawful way of achieving web dominance or dominance in any world market would be for sure much harder and much more expensive, I reckon. It would take longer as well.
Of course, I may be overexaggerating, but Netscape was really the only company standing in their way back then with respect to web browsers, that is.
I would guess that the server console interface will remain much the same rather than going to the usual Linux VT & bash to make it easy for NetWare admins that don't know Linux to keep upgrading and paying Novell money.
I for one hope they will dump the old console interface as it sucks pretty bad as it is.
For years it used to run in a single thread which would hang on the first defunct NLM you'd try to unload during shutdown or whatever. If you're smart and know which module is causing trouble on a NetWare box, you unload all other critical modules, and then the defunct one lastly before downing.
It was only in Netware 5 that you got the option of spawning more consoles and dismounting your volumes when things got out of hand; you can use these to unload a couple of the more critical applications before you have to turn of the power, because you won't get the server downed normally.
Some POSIX flavour added to Netware wouldn't hurt. An option to kill - and I mean kill - a process would be a great improvement. It may be possible already (I'm still on Netware 5), but then I'm just stupid, aren't I.:-)
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I would recommend it!
zDon't forget incompatibility between formats used in some of their different MS Office versions.
zMental Property? That's a new one. :-)
zLast time I checked the Danes dominated the Viking era. Cutting 'n' pasting from the execelent resource that is state.gov:
During the Viking period (9th-11th centuries), Denmark was a great power based on the Jutland Peninsula, the Island of Zealand, and the southern part of what is now Sweden. In the early 11th century, King Canute united Denmark and England for almost 30 years.
Danish Queen Margrethe I succeeded in uniting Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland under the Danish crown. Sweden and Finland left the union in 1520; however, Norway remained until 1814. Iceland, in a "personal union" under the king of Denmark after 1918, became independent in 1944. [...]
Denmark's provinces in today's southwestern Sweden were lost in 1658, and Norway was transferred from the Danish to the Swedish crown in 1814, following the defeat of Napoleon, with whom Denmark was allied. [...]
After the war with Prussia and Austria in 1864, Denmark was forced to cede Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia and adopt a policy of neutrality. Toward the end of the 19th century, Denmark inaugurated important social and labor market reforms, laying the basis for the present welfare state. [...]
The rest is history - the world wars and such.
Anyway, I believe the Swedes were reaching out towards the East during the Viking era, and dominated there. Norwegians went further Northwest out to sea if I remember correctly. The Danes went West (also out to sea) and South, and established the Danelaw.
The Faroe Islands (for now) and Greenland have home-rule governments under normal Danish rule.
Thanks for listening.
zThe "Profit" part would be on the caller's list, I'd imagine. :-)
zNot exactly comforting, if you ask me! I expect air traffic controllers to know their systems and how to use them. What happens when this software has learned to compensate for one traffic controller's particular errors, and then suddenly another traffic controller takes over his/her station?
zWhich is still useless information when there are lots of ways to break your skull, anyway. I feel many of these warning sign etc. are just disclaimers put in place so you don't sue the manufacturers for being stupid. Somewhat ridiculous, but good for a laugh sometimes.
They should just stick to showing how you don't break the device you have just bought. Granted, advice on not trying to fix your tv is in order - high voltage warnings, and such.
zI don't think you should drink that! :-)
zHa! That's just Star Trek technobabble!
You almost had me fooled. :-)
zJust tried the KB823980 (DCOM thingy) security patch ...
So how will they accomplish that in the middle of a user session?
zI don't know, they don't look identical _exactly_?
If this is a sneak photo taken from one of the NDA sessions, I would have expected SCO to show the code with a fixed width font, it being "line by line" copied as stated on the photo. You can't see the original indents otherwise.
Also, the variable names look generic to me. (m_size, m_addr, bp - I could have used these short forms in my own code anytime)
SCO still says comments are stolen - let's see an example of those instead.
zBack in 2002 one of the Danish Prime Minister's opening speeches written in Office XP was made available on the Net. The document included previous drafts which could be rolled back.
The drafts revealed that he did not write the entire speech himself, and of course, also things which should have been left "unsaid". I remember the "unsaid" part caused a bit of a stir - to some extend it revealed a sort of a hidden agenda with regards to some political issues.
Afterwards it was said that this would never happen with classified documents, such as NATO documents.
Sure!
zI guess on Friendster, that would give a whole new meaning to the word "karma whoring".
zWell, as I see it, with Knoppix (and derivatives) you get almost everything you need. If not you can always apt-get what you need as it's based on Debian. Not exactly what you want, but it's easily customizable from this viewpoint.
zThat should have been price, as in a small price for a large prize! :-)
zOh I know, but that's for redistribution, not use of the software!
Says the GPL:
zI see your point. However, it could be that it's because SCO is seen as being in violation of the GPL themselves - by charging users for using the Linux kernel.
Perhaps this is a question for good 'ol Bruce. :-)
zAnd if so, it would be a small prize to pay indeed. The lawful way of achieving web dominance or dominance in any world market would be for sure much harder and much more expensive, I reckon. It would take longer as well.
Of course, I may be overexaggerating, but Netscape was really the only company standing in their way back then with respect to web browsers, that is.
z
Using Excitons? Wow, exciting! :-)
This joke goes out to Niels Bohr, my fellow countryman.
zNo no, you must have confused RIAA with SCO.
zNah, that's just a Ferengi in the gorilla suit!
zThat reminds me! I actually had a customer who put a floppy disk in a slot-in CDROM drive. :-)
zNot to worry! You still get IPX. :-)
zI for one hope they will dump the old console interface as it sucks pretty bad as it is.
For years it used to run in a single thread which would hang on the first defunct NLM you'd try to unload during shutdown or whatever. If you're smart and know which module is causing trouble on a NetWare box, you unload all other critical modules, and then the defunct one lastly before downing.
It was only in Netware 5 that you got the option of spawning more consoles and dismounting your volumes when things got out of hand; you can use these to unload a couple of the more critical applications before you have to turn of the power, because you won't get the server downed normally.
Some POSIX flavour added to Netware wouldn't hurt. An option to kill - and I mean kill - a process would be a great improvement. It may be possible already (I'm still on Netware 5), but then I'm just stupid, aren't I. :-)
zI bet Lionel Hutz must have said that once before. :-)
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