Actually, now that I think about it, if the above situation would force kernel gurus to focus on reinventing that particular piece of code, someone might step forward and say... What if we did it this way...? And find a better way to do it. Worst case scenario, do the clean room trick were you have 2 people one that can see the code and one that can't and let the linux guy ask the nda guy generic questions about the code, so they can write it from scratch without explicitly seeing it. Who knows, it may even be something like a bit of code that enables MicroChannel support... When's the last time you ticked that box when compiling your kernel? 99% of us may not even be using it! Though IBM may... IIRC some of the RS/6000 systems had MCA slots before PCI was popular.
Maybe now that project page has been/.'d that more people are aware of its demise and may lend a hand to revive it? Either it will get it's 1-2 days of fame and then be forgotten about or there might be a resurgence in working on it again?
I think we burned a hole in his floppy disk from 9 million drive seeks in 1 second.
SCO could have just originally said... "Here is the code that shouldn't be there" And give a month or two for kernel developers to produce code patches for 2.0.x, 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.5.x. Then say that users are legally required to migrate to the nearest patched kernel or perhaps use some kernel diffs on whatever version they are running. Then later go after any "linux company" that is still actively making available the code in question. But then again, as some marketing pundits will tell you "there's no such thing as bad publicity"
Well the military base that got a few of the simulators had a chalk board with a model of the base silkscreened on it and had magnetic planes that could be moved around.
Compared to the multi-screen Air Traffic Control systems that are commercially available.
Screens Assembled
Some of the smaller models such as what are used at the FAA Academy use 3 27" displays. Of course the resolution is different. The big screens use $15,000 projectors and custom mounting hardware. And commercially available 3D image generation systems. But you can scale it down to a p4 and a Geforce card per screen.
He only posted the first 3 digits of Gray Davis's SSN, that's nothing. IIRC that part tells you where you registered. That can be figured out. If you really wanted to worry them, do something like 5x6-x3-x7x0.
That way they'd have a pretty good idea that you have the info.
Any of the "local" providers that advertise on TV that will "get you connected for $XX.95" are no good if you ever want to get a car loan or mortgage.
A friend recently got a car loan and they asked for her home phone number and she said she just had a cell, and they said that for any loan company to approve a loan, you need to have a home phone provided by a major telephone company. (They specifically mentioned SBC, Verizon or Sprint) I suppose this is because people would get a phone line with the no name companies, get their loan and cancel and then default on the loan and get a new number. If you use a major phone company I think they can hunt you down easier or something.
Linux can not safely write to NTFS, not even NTFSv1.2 even though it has been around since 1994. The lack of documentation makes it so that some aspects of updating the metadata and indexes cannot be done safely in all situations.
I used to use a nt password reset boot disk a few years ago that was based on Linux. I could change admin passwords on NTFS disks just fine. Not exactly running a database on NTFS but it never corrupted any disks.
Speaking of journalling, I still find that NTFS needs a good chkdsk/f every few months to fix things. Yet trying to fsck under Irix w/ XFS leaves you with this:
# fsck/dev/root /dev/root contains an XFS filesystem; running fsck is unnecessary.
I'm glad that somebody has the backbone to go forward with IPv6!
I can see the headlines now... The US is invading the Middle East to over throw their IT infastructure for their refusal to use our Zionist IP addressing scheme. We insert puppet US controlled operating systems (via 10240 bit encrypted SSH) and force our Democratic IPv6 networks on them. We say that it will give them freedom! No more 2 hour DHCP leases given out by an autocratic (MS?) OS. We will give everyone their own static IP to do with as they wish!!!
But seriously, how do countries that don't have adequate clean water plan for things like IPv6 migration? (Note, I'm not saying that all Middle Eastern countries are like that)
You can live in the Matrix and still worship Allah or whomever you feel created the universe. He's out there somewhere. It's not like there wasn't someone that created the world outside the Matrix. The Matrix is a movie not a religion. And even if it were real, when you die in the Matrix, you really die, so don't think that the 10 commandments don't apply any more.
How many companies are going to in turn sue SCO for terminating their license? A large company could have a few thousand AIX licenses. That alone could easily be worth at least a million dollars. I think once their lawyers do some background work on this they will realize that IBM is not the one that is being unreasonable.
Well, before they zapped him he said, "Another episode of slugheads.com" I just found it. Search for stun gun on kazaa or similar and it's the first one that comes up.
Slugheads.com used to have a video clip of a guy taking a stun gun to the scrote. Just standing there with them hanging out and some guy just walks up to him and ZAP. They play the song "I feel good" by James Brown in the background. It's funny as hell but they don't have it on their website anymore. Anyone seen a link for it?
Actually I built a shocker with just a relay in my Radio Shack 200 in 1 kit. You loop the switch back to the coil. If you touch a certain combination of the pins it will shock you good enough to feel it. Not sure how it works, maybe something to do with the colapsing magnetic field in the coil over and over.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, now that I think about it, if the above situation would force kernel gurus to focus on reinventing that particular piece of code, someone might step forward and say... What if we did it this way...? And find a better way to do it. Worst case scenario, do the clean room trick were you have 2 people one that can see the code and one that can't and let the linux guy ask the nda guy generic questions about the code, so they can write it from scratch without explicitly seeing it. Who knows, it may even be something like a bit of code that enables MicroChannel support... When's the last time you ticked that box when compiling your kernel? 99% of us may not even be using it! Though IBM may... IIRC some of the RS/6000 systems had MCA slots before PCI was popular.
Maybe now that project page has been /.'d that more people are aware of its demise and may lend a hand to revive it? Either it will get it's 1-2 days of fame and then be forgotten about or there might be a resurgence in working on it again?
I think we burned a hole in his floppy disk from 9 million drive seeks in 1 second.
SCO could have just originally said... "Here is the code that shouldn't be there" And give a month or two for kernel developers to produce code patches for 2.0.x, 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.5.x. Then say that users are legally required to migrate to the nearest patched kernel or perhaps use some kernel diffs on whatever version they are running. Then later go after any "linux company" that is still actively making available the code in question. But then again, as some marketing pundits will tell you "there's no such thing as bad publicity"
Well the military base that got a few of the simulators had a chalk board with a model of the base silkscreened on it and had magnetic planes that could be moved around.
Compared to the multi-screen Air Traffic Control systems that are commercially available. Screens
Assembled
Some of the smaller models such as what are used at the FAA Academy use 3 27" displays. Of course the resolution is different. The big screens use $15,000 projectors and custom mounting hardware. And commercially available 3D image generation systems. But you can scale it down to a p4 and a Geforce card per screen.
He only posted the first 3 digits of Gray Davis's SSN, that's nothing. IIRC that part tells you where you registered. That can be figured out. If you really wanted to worry them, do something like 5x6-x3-x7x0.
That way they'd have a pretty good idea that you have the info.
What's next, nictonie free tobacco
Funny you should mention that
It never bothered Slashdot. Everything is a .gif here. You'd think they'd have switched to .png out of principle.
Any of the "local" providers that advertise on TV that will "get you connected for $XX.95" are no good if you ever want to get a car loan or mortgage.
A friend recently got a car loan and they asked for her home phone number and she said she just had a cell, and they said that for any loan company to approve a loan, you need to have a home phone provided by a major telephone company. (They specifically mentioned SBC, Verizon or Sprint) I suppose this is because people would get a phone line with the no name companies, get their loan and cancel and then default on the loan and get a new number. If you use a major phone company I think they can hunt you down easier or something.
Linux can not safely write to NTFS, not even NTFSv1.2 even though it has been around since 1994. The lack of documentation makes it so that some aspects of updating the metadata and indexes cannot be done safely in all situations.
/f every few months to fix things. Yet trying to fsck under Irix w/ XFS leaves you with this:
/dev/root
/dev/root contains an XFS filesystem; running fsck is unnecessary.
I used to use a nt password reset boot disk a few years ago that was based on Linux. I could change admin passwords on NTFS disks just fine. Not exactly running a database on NTFS but it never corrupted any disks.
Speaking of journalling, I still find that NTFS needs a good chkdsk
# fsck
That's how the ice cream at the dippin dots stands is made. They just put drops of the unfrozen mixture into liquid nitrogen.
Quote:
:etouQ
1. Embrace
2. Extend
3. Extinguish
4. Profit!
Eeep!
Thinking that many users here disabled the Caldera slashbox, they put it under an IBM icon so we would see it.
Quote from the movie:
Girl: "He touched my breasts!"
Evil Dude: "She doesn't even have any breasts!"
Kinda weird that made it in a kids movie.
I'm glad that somebody has the backbone to go forward with IPv6!
I can see the headlines now... The US is invading the Middle East to over throw their IT infastructure for their refusal to use our Zionist IP addressing scheme. We insert puppet US controlled operating systems (via 10240 bit encrypted SSH) and force our Democratic IPv6 networks on them. We say that it will give them freedom! No more 2 hour DHCP leases given out by an autocratic (MS?) OS. We will give everyone their own static IP to do with as they wish!!!
But seriously, how do countries that don't have adequate clean water plan for things like IPv6 migration? (Note, I'm not saying that all Middle Eastern countries are like that)
You can live in the Matrix and still worship Allah or whomever you feel created the universe. He's out there somewhere. It's not like there wasn't someone that created the world outside the Matrix. The Matrix is a movie not a religion. And even if it were real, when you die in the Matrix, you really die, so don't think that the 10 commandments don't apply any more.
than the comcast service I have right now. I swear my internet works only when no one on the block is watching cable.
Since the buy-out of At&t broadband, I've seen my cable modem go offline more than ever.
How many companies are going to in turn sue SCO for terminating their license? A large company could have a few thousand AIX licenses. That alone could easily be worth at least a million dollars. I think once their lawyers do some background work on this they will realize that IBM is not the one that is being unreasonable.
The first time I saw it on the OSX page a few years ago. I wondered how they could use it without licensing true Unix technology.
I think I could get a lot of points from him on my dead-pool list.
Well, before they zapped him he said, "Another episode of slugheads.com" I just found it. Search for stun gun on kazaa or similar and it's the first one that comes up.
Slugheads.com used to have a video clip of a guy taking a stun gun to the scrote. Just standing there with them hanging out and some guy just walks up to him and ZAP. They play the song "I feel good" by James Brown in the background. It's funny as hell but they don't have it on their website anymore. Anyone seen a link for it?
Actually I built a shocker with just a relay in my Radio Shack 200 in 1 kit. You loop the switch back to the coil. If you touch a certain combination of the pins it will shock you good enough to feel it. Not sure how it works, maybe something to do with the colapsing magnetic field in the coil over and over.
Hmm. I didn't see that on the prestongates site. Just thought it was some old man.
http://www.prestongates.com/meetpge/wGates.asp