I find the claim of 2.2 million SCO servers unlikely. 2.2 million SCO OpenServer machines, sure, but a good portion of those are, IIRC, retail point of sale systems, and little more than smart terminals, not servers.
Probably they are counting licenses sold since the early 80's when SCO was SCO and not Caldera. I guess they assume all of those 286 and 386 servers are still running somewhere.
OT: It ain't Jingoism if it's true...:) If I want to believe that the US is the best country in the entire world then what is wrong with that? Why do so many people leave their countries to come here? I could just as easily say that French patriotism is Jingoism. It doesn't mean anything if I've never been there.
By SCO sitting on its ass, they are screwing around with Linux, if anything it could be considered libelous. I'm sure that there are at least a few in the Linux kernel circle that have suspended working on things in order to distance themselves from the code in case of a legal fallout. SCO is just making things tense for good-willed open source programmers. (Now my opinion) What a bunch of assholes!
If they make a portable, it'll probably be in the 300-400mhz range or so (xscale maybe?) running modified CE no doubt. At that point it will be way beyond the 100$ price point of the game boy series. As it was said in a previous article. Microsoft prefers to "eat their own dog food" So it will be running CE. It'll need a lot more ram than the GBA probably 16MB preferably 32MB if they want any room for a game. Now comes the problem of distributing the games. In order to do things the MS way, it'll need to be copy protected and they'll need a way to save game progress. Now they need a new interface for this game than what is anything standard to keep people from trying to hack their way into the game media. It sounds like a real hassle at this point. I'd bet an MD cart would make a decent game format but it would be far from ideal for MS to license the MD technology from Sony. Anyway those were just some of my observations.
And Solaris isn't System V Release 4?! Gee...I guess Sun have been lying to me:-p
SunOS Release 5.7 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
The first line line of text that appears when the kernel loads. So you're right.
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Does that mean it would be possible to manipulate them using electric fields? You could put a backplate on the ant farm with a matrix of electrodes. The ants would be attracted to the ones which were switched on. You could control it from a parallel port to have an ascii display composed of swarming ants. Not only would this be a cool hack, it would completely creep out anyone who saw it in action. IANAB - does anyone know if this would work?
Looks like a perfect use for lcdproc under linux!
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Ask any air conditioner repairman. The ants get stuck inside the relays and cause the relay to fail. Sometimes they eat the insulation of the wiring, cause it to short and trip the breaker. So don't be suprised if your power supply starts smoking one day.
Criminals may own guns, but then again so do the police. So if we follow history, hand to hand combat declined with the invention of the long bow. So how do you fight a man with a bow? You use a better range bow against him.
Gun owners will argue that if your children learn to respect firearms, then they will be less likely to misuse them. Perhaps this will follow in the logic. But then again there is the "out of site, out of mind" theory as well.
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Looks like the Dlink site has their own upgrade as well.
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That upgrade appears to be for the cards based on the TI-ACX100 based cards. So you should be able to load these drivers on perhaps a DWL-650+ (the Dlink Airplus series cards)
Well considering that the GUI can run with a hacked boot loader or MOL, it can't be that dependant on hardware other than the basic PPC requirements. Darwin has limited hardware support on Intel but if it were to have the full driver support of FreeBSD then it could be recompiled for PPC and perhaps run on just about any PPC system. I'm not all together sure how the video drivers work on OSX though. That could be a little bit of a problem.
Darwin is Open Source. It would seem to me that if someone wanted to get OSX running without MOL (or Xpostfacto) on a non-approved PPC machine, they could compile a darwin kernel that does not exclude non-standard hardware.
For example this board has what appears to be a non-standard north bridge and south bridge (non-standard as far as apples go)but they work under linux. Someone could port the modules over to darwin, I'm sure. From what I can tell, there is not very much of a "community" behind darwin. Most seem content to let the apple guys do the darwin work. If I had any level of programming skill beyond 1 semester of C programming I'd seriously look into this myself.
Where do the major differences exist between darwin and Freebsd? Certainly FreeBSD is written to be portable since it runs on i386, alpha, and 64bit Sparc platforms. I'd think that some of the code could be inserted into darwin to add kernel level support for unsupported hw.
I worked at an electronics store and a customer returned a computer for a refund, I checked it out after it was returned and they had templates in there to generate fake proof of insurance certificates for cars. I notified the store loss prevention. They agreed that the person was using the computer for illegal purposes but decided not to contact the police for fear that the customer would sue them for "invasion of privacy". What a bunch of crap. Then a year or so later, I was working on a computer that belonged to a state supreme court judge and it had some pornograpy on it including under-aged porn. We decided not to do anything about it because we figured he might be using it for a court case. My general rule on working on people's home computers is that they all have porn. Just do a search for *.jpg and sort by size. I've never been disappointed when searching.
As well as telling others to do so as well. I didn't go into the technical details for the non technical people but basically said. There's a possibility that it could cause some computers not to boot after installation as part of its copy protection.
I played the "better safe than sorry" card and it worked. I wonder how much of a spike Taxcut's sales got?
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I wrote an article on the Knoppix.net site on how to make a normal Redhat system into a knoppix boot server. http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=229&h ighlight=tftpd
Could we the people just buy SCO so we can all piss on the board room table and throw the Unix code into a big fire? Darl, what a f'ing a-hole!
I find the claim of 2.2 million SCO servers unlikely. 2.2 million SCO OpenServer machines, sure, but a good portion of those are, IIRC, retail point of sale systems, and little more than smart terminals, not servers.
Probably they are counting licenses sold since the early 80's when SCO was SCO and not Caldera. I guess they assume all of those 286 and 386 servers are still running somewhere.
Burn a CD with zonealarm and install it in safe mode. Or configure your router to deny it.
When the lanes merge, the healthy and wriggly sperm swim into the salt water stream and leave the dead and the disabled sperm behind.
Does road rage occur at the cellular level?
Jingoism continues to cloud people's thinking.
:) If I want to believe that the US is the best country in the entire world then what is wrong with that? Why do so many people leave their countries to come here? I could just as easily say that French patriotism is Jingoism. It doesn't mean anything if I've never been there.
OT: It ain't Jingoism if it's true...
By SCO sitting on its ass, they are screwing around with Linux, if anything it could be considered libelous. I'm sure that there are at least a few in the Linux kernel circle that have suspended working on things in order to distance themselves from the code in case of a legal fallout. SCO is just making things tense for good-willed open source programmers. (Now my opinion) What a bunch of assholes!
If they make a portable, it'll probably be in the 300-400mhz range or so (xscale maybe?) running modified CE no doubt. At that point it will be way beyond the 100$ price point of the game boy series. As it was said in a previous article. Microsoft prefers to "eat their own dog food" So it will be running CE. It'll need a lot more ram than the GBA probably 16MB preferably 32MB if they want any room for a game. Now comes the problem of distributing the games. In order to do things the MS way, it'll need to be copy protected and they'll need a way to save game progress. Now they need a new interface for this game than what is anything standard to keep people from trying to hack their way into the game media. It sounds like a real hassle at this point. I'd bet an MD cart would make a decent game format but it would be far from ideal for MS to license the MD technology from Sony. Anyway those were just some of my observations.
And Solaris isn't System V Release 4?! Gee...I guess Sun have been lying to me :-p
SunOS Release 5.7 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
The first line line of text that appears when the kernel loads. So you're right.
Does that mean it would be possible to manipulate them using electric fields? You could put a backplate on the ant farm with a matrix of electrodes. The ants would be attracted to the ones which were switched on. You could control it from a parallel port to have an ascii display composed of swarming ants. Not only would this be a cool hack, it would completely creep out anyone who saw it in action. IANAB - does anyone know if this would work?
Looks like a perfect use for lcdproc under linux!
Ask any air conditioner repairman. The ants get stuck inside the relays and cause the relay to fail. Sometimes they eat the insulation of the wiring, cause it to short and trip the breaker. So don't be suprised if your power supply starts smoking one day.
Forgot to add this...
Criminals may own guns, but then again so do the police. So if we follow history, hand to hand combat declined with the invention of the long bow. So how do you fight a man with a bow? You use a better range bow against him.
Gun owners will argue that if your children learn to respect firearms, then they will be less likely to misuse them. Perhaps this will follow in the logic. But then again there is the "out of site, out of mind" theory as well.
Looks like the Dlink site has their own upgrade as well.
That upgrade appears to be for the cards based on the TI-ACX100 based cards. So you should be able to load these drivers on perhaps a DWL-650+ (the Dlink Airplus series cards)
What's VC stand for?
Victor Charlie? (Viet Cong)
Perhaps not.
I hate to say this but... "Me too!" but since no other user did it... I did.
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Who equates computer with Windows(tm)
I have a part on my website about fixing screens: http://home.attbi.com/~stonent/screenfix.htm
It may not be the inverter, it could be the bulb.
Well considering that the GUI can run with a hacked boot loader or MOL, it can't be that dependant on hardware other than the basic PPC requirements. Darwin has limited hardware support on Intel but if it were to have the full driver support of FreeBSD then it could be recompiled for PPC and perhaps run on just about any PPC system. I'm not all together sure how the video drivers work on OSX though. That could be a little bit of a problem.
...but XENIX was SCO's original Unix, while UnixWare was what it picked up in the Caldera acquisition...
IIRC SCO was making UnixWare long before Caldera acquired them. So this statement is a bit confusing.
Darwin is Open Source. It would seem to me that if someone wanted to get OSX running without MOL (or Xpostfacto) on a non-approved PPC machine, they could compile a darwin kernel that does not exclude non-standard hardware.
For example this board has what appears to be a non-standard north bridge and south bridge (non-standard as far as apples go)but they work under linux. Someone could port the modules over to darwin, I'm sure. From what I can tell, there is not very much of a "community" behind darwin. Most seem content to let the apple guys do the darwin work. If I had any level of programming skill beyond 1 semester of C programming I'd seriously look into this myself.
Where do the major differences exist between darwin and Freebsd? Certainly FreeBSD is written to be portable since it runs on i386, alpha, and 64bit Sparc platforms. I'd think that some of the code could be inserted into darwin to add kernel level support for unsupported hw.
I worked at an electronics store and a customer returned a computer for a refund, I checked it out after it was returned and they had templates in there to generate fake proof of insurance certificates for cars. I notified the store loss prevention. They agreed that the person was using the computer for illegal purposes but decided not to contact the police for fear that the customer would sue them for "invasion of privacy". What a bunch of crap. Then a year or so later, I was working on a computer that belonged to a state supreme court judge and it had some pornograpy on it including under-aged porn. We decided not to do anything about it because we figured he might be using it for a court case. My general rule on working on people's home computers is that they all have porn. Just do a search for *.jpg and sort by size. I've never been disappointed when searching.
As well as telling others to do so as well. I didn't go into the technical details for the non technical people but basically said. There's a possibility that it could cause some computers not to boot after installation as part of its copy protection.
I played the "better safe than sorry" card and it worked. I wonder how much of a spike Taxcut's sales got?