Amen. When I was with BTOpenwoe (BTOpenworld but...) I had major ADSL problems - some web sites I could access and others not, and my mail server was unreachable (not hosted by BTO). The fact that I run Kmail on Linux was a slight problem, they wanted me to run outlook express and tell them that didn't work...
Eventually I told them that was what I was doing and that it didn't work and could they fix their network please. I think it took two days before they got me re-connected and I'm still wondering why I had to run Lookout Excess to use the web:-(
This and the long and ivolved saga to firstly get ISDN and then move to ADSL are why I am now with Nildram - but I still have to have a BT line. When will local loop unbundling become a reality? Danger Will Robinson, Airborne Swine Alert!
I would like the memory of that abomination expunged from my brain please.
I think Richard E. Grant would make an excellent Doctor, the has all the panache required with the requisite dash of the unconventional. One of my favourite actors, he's rather good when interviewed too, did anyone else like The Scarlet Pimpernel?
I was thinking more about suing the power company for providing the electricity. Or the coal/oil company for providing the fuel that was used to generate the electricity that ran the console that...
Surely Donald Knuth merits the title more than most? I mean, only an uber-geek would interrupt writing a book to develop a whole typesetting system to make the book better and still not have finished the book over 25 years later. And who but a true geek would have a pipe-organ built in his home?
1) If it was a mainframe there'd be no point stealing the CPU, there's no hard drives in it, you need to take the DASD. 2) If it was a mainframe CPU and/or DASD 2 guys couldn't hack it - you'd need a crane or possibly a forklift- if it's a small box. They are big+heavy. 3) Of course the bigger mainframes are water cooled as so they'd need more time for the plumbing or someone would have noticed the leaks...
The article says they were let into the mainframe room and put the computers on trolleys, then later they refer to "mainframe servers". It doesn't add up-what a surprise the reporting is vague.
Still, in my opinion (fwiw) the most likely thing stolen is big HP/IBM/DELL servers. These are often put in mainframe rooms to take advantage of the (ha!) physical security, air-con and halon systems. You'd also be a lot more confident of being able to actually hack in to one of these, without the dedicated power supply and other costs you mentioned.
Compare to Xedit vi is archaic. Xedit, with REXX as it's macro language, is incredibly powerful and customizable - a lot of the CMS and zOS utilities are written like this (as well as ISPF of course).
The 80 col thing is depressing but backwards compatible, there's probably still people using these and paper tapes somewhere, well maybe. Think of it like booting from a floppy, or even as the post of a BIOS, that's slightly more advanced, but not much.
NB Don't confuse the IBM Xedit with the xedit editor for X, that's a different beast. For any old MF guys out there I use The Hessling Editor on windows and Linux, it's a gpl editor based on IBM Xedit (and kedit) which uses REXX as it's macro language:-) I converted a lot of my old xedit macros and it's quite good but not 100% compatible. Definitely usable though. FWIW I also use emacs (don't hate vi, just prefer emacs) but mostly THE, if emacs had proper folding (the ALL command) I'd use it more. I'm sort of thinking about writing a 'filelist' in THE/REXX, as windows explorer and Konqueror don't give me the same abilites.
Which is a great way to run a company, "Keep the customer satisfied" works for me. They know you can go elsewhere so they try very hard to get you not to need to, nor want to.
My favourite analogy is that of European and American Roulette wheels, US wheels have a double zero and European ones don't. They'll likely both get the same money but the US ones want it quicker. (Of course all analogies are flawed, and this one ignores effectively free food and drink at US casinos...)
I don't have a problem with email (except spam of course) I use Kmail rules and this works for me at present. I would use a better solution if one appears.
My problem is similar - I backed up 4Gb of 'loosely organized' data last night, and my bookmark.html is over 1Mb. I have been looking for a way to organize this for a while. The files are things like pictures, reference materials, sofware - all the usual sort of stuff you download from the net. I started using a Dewey Decimal system to sort it out but this breaks quickly as too much goes into 006 and it get's arbitrary very quickly. I still use windows as well as linux (not just for games), I have 2 questions:
1: I used to have AltaVista Discovery as a 'local' search engine, is there any current software that does this? (Win and linux)
2: Netscape has/had a feature in bookmark manager to test the bookmarks to see if they are still live. Is there anything that does this, apart from an old copy of Navigator? This could be either platform as I intend to rsync the bookmarks to a server. Ideally I'd merger rather than replace but...
ObSimpsonsRef:
"Please send one dollar to Happy Dude at 742 Evergreen Terrace Springfield"
How about Homers Hoping Hand - a website where you can give your credit card to donate $10 in the hope that it would make you feel better. I seriously wonder if anyone would.
If only I had the spare ten hours I could go over the last years' press releases and make some "found poetry." Blank verse in this case, of course.
I'm sure that would be a new class of poetry - not Blank Verse but Vacant Verse. Maybe the Vogons would have some competition?
SCO press releases remind me of one of Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger books where Clothahump is reading out election promises as these are 'less than nothing' to counteract residual reality for a spell.
No, it would just be nice for the ISP to toss the spammer for violating the TOS/AUP when this is shown to them. No ISP can reasonably vet all usere beforehand. What they can do is act when the user revelas themself to be a spammer. That's all.
Why should he disregard the Patent claims? Patents do not have to be rigorously enforced, unlike some othe forms if 'IP'. It's a different situation wrt copyright.
Our jerks end up either dreaming up really stupid ideas, writing for the amoral 'newspapers' that belong at the bottom of birdcages, or becoming politicians.:-(
I needed a good story to cheer me up, thanks FL.
Reading this:
Are servers included as part of the LAN? If so, how do you differentiate between a "server" and a "desktop?"
Made me play a protection racket tax audit scenarion: "Hmm, so you say you have no servers on your lan for me to tax? You must be running peer-to-peer! Pay up or I'll call the RIAA!"
(Of course taxation is already an extortion racket: pay up or either you'll be locked up or we'll take your stuff away.)
But Suse's future depended entirely on a success of UnitedLinux.
Rubbish. They were and are doing nicely on their own.
Suse is in many respects like SCO: they don't really believe in open source, but only in closed source pay-ware.
See elsewhere in this discussion for free sw where SuSE contribute (inc X, KDE,Apache Samba). They most definitely are not with SCO on that piece of lunacy.
Thus, the suse administration program YaST is closed source.
All programmes derived from YaST and all works derived from it in full or parts thereof are to be filled on the opening screen with the clear information "Modified Version". Moreover the operator give his name on the opening screen, stating that SuSE Linux AG is not providing any support for the "Modified Version" and is excluded from any liability whatsoever. Every amendment to the sources which are not conducted by SuSE Linux AG are deemed to be a "Modified Version".
The Licensee is entitled to change his copy from the sources of YaST, whereby a work based on the YaST programme is created, provided that the following conditions are satisfied.
1. Every amendment must have a note in the source with date and operator. The amended sources must be made available for the user in accordance with section 3) together with the unamended licence.
2. The Licensee is obliged to make all work distributed by him which is derived as a whole or in part from YaST or parts of YaST to third parties as a whole under the terms of this licence without royalties.
3. The amendment of this licence by a Licensee, even in part, is forbidden.
SuSE Linux AG reserves the right to accept parts or all amendments of a modified version of YaST into the official version of YaST free of charge. The Licensee has no bearing on this.
Ok, it's not GPL, it's similar to the Sun license but it's not closed source.
In the end, they will
sink with their partner SCO.
don't forget IBM are involved in United Linux too, so UL loses whoever wins, or something.
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Or the fastest OS X desktop?
Whatever.
Could you mount a seecon lnb on the same dish on an adjustable arm? Or would the uplink saturate the tv lnb?
When I was with BTOpenwoe (BTOpenworld but...) I had major ADSL problems - some web sites I could access and others not, and my mail server was unreachable (not hosted by BTO). The fact that I run Kmail on Linux was a slight problem, they wanted me to run outlook express and tell them that didn't work...
Eventually I told them that was what I was doing and that it didn't work and could they fix their network please. I think it took two days before they got me re-connected and I'm still wondering why I had to run Lookout Excess to use the web :-(
This and the long and ivolved saga to firstly get ISDN and then move to ADSL are why I am now with Nildram - but I still have to have a BT line. When will local loop unbundling become a reality?
Danger Will Robinson, Airborne Swine Alert!
I think Richard E. Grant would make an excellent Doctor, the has all the panache required with the requisite dash of the unconventional. One of my favourite actors, he's rather good when interviewed too, did anyone else like The Scarlet Pimpernel?
Well I'm sure you get my point.
If it resolves to VeriSign because they've been screwing around, then they can have it.
And who but a true geek would have a pipe-organ built in his home?
Some may prefer Dennis Ritchie or even Richard Stallman...
1) If it was a mainframe there'd be no point stealing the CPU, there's no hard drives in it, you need to take the DASD.
2) If it was a mainframe CPU and/or DASD 2 guys couldn't hack it - you'd need a crane or possibly a forklift- if it's a small box. They are big+heavy.
3) Of course the bigger mainframes are water cooled as so they'd need more time for the plumbing or someone would have noticed the leaks...
The article says they were let into the mainframe room and put the computers on trolleys, then later they refer to "mainframe servers". It doesn't add up-what a surprise the reporting is vague.
Still, in my opinion (fwiw) the most likely thing stolen is big HP/IBM/DELL servers. These are often put in mainframe rooms to take advantage of the (ha!) physical security, air-con and halon systems. You'd also be a lot more confident of being able to actually hack in to one of these, without the dedicated power supply and other costs you mentioned.
The 80 col thing is depressing but backwards compatible, there's probably still people using these and paper tapes somewhere, well maybe. Think of it like booting from a floppy, or even as the post of a BIOS, that's slightly more advanced, but not much.
NB Don't confuse the IBM Xedit with the xedit editor for X, that's a different beast. For any old MF guys out there I use The Hessling Editor on windows and Linux, it's a gpl editor based on IBM Xedit (and kedit) which uses REXX as it's macro language :-) I converted a lot of my old xedit macros and it's quite good but not 100% compatible. Definitely usable though.
FWIW I also use emacs (don't hate vi, just prefer emacs) but mostly THE, if emacs had proper folding (the ALL command) I'd use it more. I'm sort of thinking about writing a 'filelist' in THE/REXX, as windows explorer and Konqueror don't give me the same abilites.
"Keep the customer satisfied" works for me. They know you can go elsewhere so they try very hard to get you not to need to, nor want to.
My favourite analogy is that of European and American Roulette wheels, US wheels have a double zero and European ones don't. They'll likely both get the same money but the US ones want it quicker. (Of course all analogies are flawed, and this one ignores effectively free food and drink at US casinos...)
My problem is similar - I backed up 4Gb of 'loosely organized' data last night, and my bookmark.html is over 1Mb. I have been looking for a way to organize this for a while. The files are things like pictures, reference materials, sofware - all the usual sort of stuff you download from the net. I started using a Dewey Decimal system to sort it out but this breaks quickly as too much goes into 006 and it get's arbitrary very quickly. I still use windows as well as linux (not just for games), I have 2 questions:
1: I used to have AltaVista Discovery as a 'local' search engine, is there any current software that does this? (Win and linux)
2: Netscape has/had a feature in bookmark manager to test the bookmarks to see if they are still live. Is there anything that does this, apart from an old copy of Navigator? This could be either platform as I intend to rsync the bookmarks to a server. Ideally I'd merger rather than replace but...
"Please send one dollar to Happy Dude at 742 Evergreen Terrace Springfield"
How about Homers Hoping Hand - a website where you can give your credit card to donate $10 in the hope that it would make you feel better. I seriously wonder if anyone would.
SCO press releases remind me of one of Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger books where Clothahump is reading out election promises as these are 'less than nothing' to counteract residual reality for a spell.
No, it would just be nice for the ISP to toss the spammer for violating the TOS/AUP when this is shown to them. No ISP can reasonably vet all usere beforehand. What they can do is act when the user revelas themself to be a spammer. That's all.
Why should he disregard the Patent claims? Patents do not have to be rigorously enforced, unlike some othe forms if 'IP'. It's a different situation wrt copyright.
Our jerks end up either dreaming up really stupid ideas, writing for the amoral 'newspapers' that belong at the bottom of birdcages, or becoming politicians. :-(
OK, the URL for the ESR piece is different, but the text isn't.
Four days is nowhere near a record though :-(
Reading this: Made me play a protection racket tax audit scenarion: "Hmm, so you say you have no servers on your lan for me to tax? You must be running peer-to-peer! Pay up or I'll call the RIAA!"
(Of course taxation is already an extortion racket: pay up or either you'll be locked up or we'll take your stuff away.)
I'm not whining, but really, why is this flamebait?
Rubbish. They were and are doing nicely on their own. See elsewhere in this discussion for free sw where SuSE contribute (inc X, KDE,Apache Samba).
They most definitely are not with SCO on that piece of lunacy. I got the source with my copy of SuSE, try reading the license.:
All programmes derived from YaST and all works derived from it in full or parts thereof are to be filled on the opening screen with the clear information "Modified Version". Moreover the operator give his name on the opening screen, stating that SuSE Linux AG is not providing any support for the "Modified Version" and is excluded from any liability whatsoever. Every amendment to the sources which are not conducted by SuSE Linux AG are deemed to be a "Modified Version". The Licensee is entitled to change his copy from the sources of YaST, whereby a work based on the YaST programme is created, provided that the following conditions are satisfied.
1. Every amendment must have a note in the source with date and operator. The amended sources must be made available for the user in accordance with section 3) together with the unamended licence.
2. The Licensee is obliged to make all work distributed by him which is derived as a whole or in part from YaST or parts of YaST to third parties as a whole under the terms of this licence without royalties.
3. The amendment of this licence by a Licensee, even in part, is forbidden.
SuSE Linux AG reserves the right to accept parts or all amendments of a modified version of YaST into the official version of YaST free of charge. The Licensee has no bearing on this.
Ok, it's not GPL, it's similar to the Sun license but it's not closed source.
don't forget IBM are involved in United Linux too, so UL loses whoever wins, or something.I must stop feeding the trolls, I must stop feeding the trolls, I must...
Red Hat support the kernel development and SuSE support XFree dev.
Or what sort of contribution did you have in mind?
I can see the appeal in a law which would let execs be fined for dodgy behaviour - SCO anyone? (Sorry I haven't seen todays SCO story yet).