It seems like every other article is about videogames. I've nothing against them, but they hardly reflect half of a geek's life. Anyone else bothered by the change?
I'm downloading Gideon v. Wainwright, the case that established a defendant's right to an attorney if he could not afford one. See the book and movie, Gideon's Trumpet.
I wish that too, but it will not happen, unless direct collusion can be proven. I doubt it ever will. Remember, MS has the best, most experienced legal team in the business (they need it). There is no way to prove that they gave SCO money to pursue the case, even though that is almost certainly true.
All it takes is for one honest man to step forward...
2) More importantly to software engineering as a field of practice, a great many true innovators make it a point NOT to protect their innovation, but instead to share it with their collegues, with students, with anyone who's interested.
Yes, that may be bad for business for the short term
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Even this is not necessarily true. I've known several bright and motivated people who could have built up highly successfull businesses with their ideas. Instead they spent all their time and money trying to tie up their IP in patents. Ultimately it was largely a waste of time with just a pretty piece of paper on the wall and thousands of dollars spent.
Read the article. Plenty of subtle reference to rights management and content control. Buy a DVD with this viper and have to wave it next to your DVD player to get it to play.
I just bought Building Secure Servers with Linux and so far I've been very inpressed. It has the first understandable (to a mostly hardware guy like me) explaination of iptable configuration. It also has a good section analyzing different firewall/router configurations, setting up ssl and loads of other good stuff. Very well written and probably an excellent start.
Written by Micheal D, Bauer, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 36920-00217
Great stuff. I don't know whether you're a student or what, but you have a great future building embedded computer equipment if you choose that career path. You have curiosity, brains, and excellent prototyping and documentation skills.
As for the old motherboard for a source of parts, I keep a couple of big boxes full of motherboards and adapters for salvaging parts. Even though I'm at a point where I can get free samples of nearly anything I want, there's nothing like having the part you need when you need it.
there are so many skills 'lost' in the modern 'american' lifestyle... but I find my fellows tend to have books on these subjects lying around, too. Is this common in geekdom? Is this an expression of 'hacking' outside of machinery/engineering?"
Yes!
Of the 3 geeks we have at the office, we have a banjo maker and player, a beer brewer, a machinist with a lathe, a mill, and no CNC and another machinist with a lathe. We have a cabinetmaker. We have 2 skilled black and white photographers that do their own darkroom work, and one who collects minicomputers and 80's era broadcast televison cameras.
If you don't read anything else, read this...
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One is that, despite misleading claims implied on SCO's web pages by phrases like "exclusive licensing", SCO does not own or control the Unix trademark. As we have previously observed, that trademark -- and the privilege of suing IBM for relief on a trademark-violation theory -- belongs to The Open Group.
Furthermore, SCO is barred by the terms of the GNU General Public License from making copyright or patent-infringement claims on any technology shipped in conjunction with the Linux kernel that SCO/Caldera itself has been selling for the last eight years. Therefore, SCO may accuse IBM of misappropriating SCO-owned software to improve the Linux kernel only if that software does not actually ship with the Linux kernel it is alleged to be improving!
Finally, SCO is barred from making trade-secret claims on the contents of the Linux kernel, not merely by the fact that the kernel source is generally available, but by the fact that SCO has made the sources of its Linux kernel available for download from SCO's own website!
My favorite quote...
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SCO's complaint is factually defective in that it implies claims about SCO's business and technical capabilities that are untrue. It is, indeed, very cleverly crafted to deceive a reader without intimate knowledge of the technology and history of Unix; it gives false impressions by both the suppression of relevant facts, the ambiguous suggestion of falsehoods, and in a few instances by outright lying.
"What they have done is steal our properties. They steal our codes and make it free beer. This is wrong. But we do something very beautiful. We sue IBM, we sue Linus, we sue everyone who touches free-beer software. We will sue them all for 1 billions dollars. All will be sued, none will not be sued. We will sue with lawyers, bullets and shoes."
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It seems like every other article is about videogames. I've nothing against them, but they hardly reflect half of a geek's life. Anyone else bothered by the change?
I'm downloading Gideon v. Wainwright, the case that established a defendant's right to an attorney if he could not afford one. See the book and movie, Gideon's Trumpet.
All it takes is for one honest man to step forward...
I hope to hell you at least compile it under PowerBasic.
You should be using Focal. Just add line 64.5
Slashcode?
Casinos are the 'Gaming Industry' and have been forever. You're doing the computer game industry a disservice by calling it the gaming industry.
Or not...
Get the fsking snout out of the trough.
Shouldn't take more than 2 or 2 channels.
Yes, that may be bad for business for the short term snip...
Even this is not necessarily true. I've known several bright and motivated people who could have built up highly successfull businesses with their ideas. Instead they spent all their time and money trying to tie up their IP in patents. Ultimately it was largely a waste of time with just a pretty piece of paper on the wall and thousands of dollars spent.
Oh, I forgot that you're a church. Nevermind.
But that's not nearly as much fun as buying a color laser printer...
And show good stewardship of your congregation's money. If you have so much money that you *need* to spend it on something, open a soup kitchen.
Read the article. Plenty of subtle reference to rights management and content control. Buy a DVD with this viper and have to wave it next to your DVD player to get it to play.
And I'll gladly send it to Linus for his legal fund. And I suspect that I won't be the only one...
Written by Micheal D, Bauer, O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN 36920-00217
moderation is broke tonight.
As for the old motherboard for a source of parts, I keep a couple of big boxes full of motherboards and adapters for salvaging parts. Even though I'm at a point where I can get free samples of nearly anything I want, there's nothing like having the part you need when you need it.
Yes!
Of the 3 geeks we have at the office, we have a banjo maker and player, a beer brewer, a machinist with a lathe, a mill, and no CNC and another machinist with a lathe. We have a cabinetmaker. We have 2 skilled black and white photographers that do their own darkroom work, and one who collects minicomputers and 80's era broadcast televison cameras.
Furthermore, SCO is barred by the terms of the GNU General Public License from making copyright or patent-infringement claims on any technology shipped in conjunction with the Linux kernel that SCO/Caldera itself has been selling for the last eight years. Therefore, SCO may accuse IBM of misappropriating SCO-owned software to improve the Linux kernel only if that software does not actually ship with the Linux kernel it is alleged to be improving!
Finally, SCO is barred from making trade-secret claims on the contents of the Linux kernel, not merely by the fact that the kernel source is generally available, but by the fact that SCO has made the sources of its Linux kernel available for download from SCO's own website!
SCO's complaint is factually defective in that it implies claims about SCO's business and technical capabilities that are untrue. It is, indeed, very cleverly crafted to deceive a reader without intimate knowledge of the technology and history of Unix; it gives false impressions by both the suppression of relevant facts, the ambiguous suggestion of falsehoods, and in a few instances by outright lying.
"Billy Gates, I should've expected to find you holding SCO's leash. I recognized your foul stench when the suite was filed."
"What they have done is steal our properties. They steal our codes and make it free beer. This is wrong. But we do something very beautiful. We sue IBM, we sue Linus, we sue everyone who touches free-beer software. We will sue them all for 1 billions dollars. All will be sued, none will not be sued. We will sue with lawyers, bullets and shoes."