Understandably Infinium Labs sued [H]ardOCP for slander.
Slander requires the statement of falsehood intended to damage reputation. Obviously, this is not the case here; the statements made were and are true. End of story.
IL sued for the sole purpose of harrassing someone who had published information IL didn't want people to be aware of. Understandably, they got run over by someone who actually knew the law.
NetBSD makes certain assumptions fairly impossible to get around...32-bits or more (PDP-11 is 16-bit), MMU (GBA doesn't have one, arm26 has a weird, limited one), a couple of meg of RAM. Lack of an MMU would doom the GBA port. And no, there seems to be no interest in creating an MMU-less NetBSD.
Oh...and the 11/94 is a *lot* more that 4x the speed of the 11/20 or 11/15.
Those enterprise applications would not nessesarily run on a hypotehetical Power Solaris. Just as there is a big gap between apps supported on x86 Solaris v. SPARC Solaris, someone would have to convince ISPs that porting and supporting is worth it. The answer seems to be "no" for x86.
They mean number one in terms of subscriber count. Though at the rate that AT&T is shedding customers, that may not be true by the time the deal goes through.
I know a number of journalists (including ones that regularly report from places where they get shot at) that swear by the ancient Tandy Model 100 (http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/model100) for exactly the kind of travel writing you are talking about. They claim them to be fairly indistructable, easy to type on and very stingy on the battery usage. It even has a (slow) modem for uploads.
Gwad do I ever agree. Take Snowcrash. It was a book which streached a handful of really interesting ideas wafer thin over it's ponderous length. The ending was so bad I put Stephenson in the "not worth the effort" catagory a long time ago. Simply awful.
until they finally came out with their own design of the 5x86 architecture
As I recall, the 5x86/K5 architecture came from the aquisition of NexGen...AMD had nothing to do with coming up with it. I actually had an Nx586 machine for a while. Odd chip.
If you look at something like OpenFirmware (http://www.openfirmware.org/), the idea of a BIOS as OS has been around for quite a while. OpenFirmware has been the "BIOS" on Sun SPARCs since they were introduced.
Just a nit, it was X10 that saw X break out into more general use. First one I saw was X10R3. X10R4 ran on, at least, Apollo, IBM PC/RT ACIS, Sun 3 SunOS, ISI BSD & DEC MicroVAX BSD. There were also seperate X10 ports to BellTech BLIT card on a couple of Intel Unix ports & Sony NEWS on BSD.
Oh, yeah...the X10R4 source code was less than 3MB compressed.
Look for a big number writeoff and the phrase "sunk cost" on Intels 10Q filing. For an economist, sunk cost means never having to say you're sorry...:-)
The original poster might not have had a typical experience during their oh-so-awful American education. My experience of an American, public school space education in the early 1980s included Soviet Luna (vividly remember pix of the rover, with the funky chickenwire wheels), Venera (Venus), Mars and Soyuz.
I've rarely had trouble negotiating around onerous contract provisions with relation to IP, as long as the changes are well defined up front. It's really best if you can provide exactly what you are going to be doing on your own time ("I will be doing kernel development for the NetBSD project", "I write collaboration software for NGOs", etc.) If you go off in another direction, provide written notification that you are doing this and consider it your own work and make sure that the doco ends up in your file.
On the other hand, if I'm writing security code for a company, it's going to be difficult to say "I'm also going to write security code when I get home that I own". The corporate reps will almost never accept that provision, and if push comes to shove, you'll have a hard time proving the seperation when it goes to court.
As pointed out, get a lawyer to go over your changes.
What is almost always a problem is going in and saying "I want this job, but I also have this other job that I want to continue". That's a big red flag for most employers, especially if it's in a related field.
The Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) on IBM mainframes dates from the mid- to late-1960s (maybe earlier). It's a high-volume transaction monitor plus minimal operating system, and runs on bare metal (i.e. no VM under it).
TPF is typically used to run travel industry reservation systems (Delta Airlines is one huge customer). It is still supported by IBM and several specialty consulting houses, though apparently much support is done in-house (at least it was in the early '90s when I was consulting at Delta).
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If that isn't enough, FreeBSD's C2 security certification is horrible. Even NT can do better than it!
What are you talking about? FreeBSD has never been certified as C2, and that's all that NT has been certified at (remeber to remove the floppy and network card). Check for yourself at http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/epl/index.html.
BSD users too are dooming thier own OS. As a group, they are a very vocal and rowdy bunch. No real help is given to new users and such an elitest attitude is suicide.
Hasn't slowed down Slashdot, or the anti-BSD trolls that live there.
It is my humble opinion that either NT or Solaris be used for any significant work
I love BSD. It's so easy for any Evil Corporation to take it, modify it, redistribute it under a draconian closed-source license, charge an arm-and-a-leg for it, and REAP THE REWARDS! Even if 99% of the code is untouched. Muahahaha!
Who cares. As long as existant and future versions of NetBSD are available, what do I care if there is an SCOBSD or MSBSD that I will never use.
Case in point: M$ used BSD code in their TCP/IP stack. Oddly enough, the world didn't come to an end, there are still several freely availible BSD releases, and Slashdot users have yet another year of "BSD is dead" and "BSD isn't free" trolls.
Well, Mr. Coward, your organization might be small enough to work that way. Mine isn't.
The IT administration organization contracts IT development for a product. Work is performed at an internally billed T&M rate. That money comes out of IT budgets. We most certain pay.
Therefore, by your definition, we are customers.
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Slander requires the statement of falsehood intended to damage reputation. Obviously, this is not the case here; the statements made were and are true. End of story.
IL sued for the sole purpose of harrassing someone who had published information IL didn't want people to be aware of. Understandably, they got run over by someone who actually knew the law.
All I want is a friggin shit-covered death-bot...is that so much to ask?
NetBSD makes certain assumptions fairly impossible to get around...32-bits or more (PDP-11 is 16-bit), MMU (GBA doesn't have one, arm26 has a weird, limited one), a couple of meg of RAM. Lack of an MMU would doom the GBA port. And no, there seems to be no interest in creating an MMU-less NetBSD.
Oh...and the 11/94 is a *lot* more that 4x the speed of the 11/20 or 11/15.
All XP has a minimalist firewall built in. Xp2 just added some improvements.
Those enterprise applications would not nessesarily run on a hypotehetical Power Solaris. Just as there is a big gap between apps supported on x86 Solaris v. SPARC Solaris, someone would have to convince ISPs that porting and supporting is worth it. The answer seems to be "no" for x86.
They mean number one in terms of subscriber count. Though at the rate that AT&T is shedding customers, that may not be true by the time the deal goes through.
Because the extra fluff is high margin, and regualar talk isn't.
Amen, brother. Lucida is easy on the eyes...
How physically reliable are these? Are they tough enough to take camping, etc.?
I know a number of journalists (including ones that regularly report from places where they get shot at) that swear by the ancient Tandy Model 100 (http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/model100) for exactly the kind of travel writing you are talking about. They claim them to be fairly indistructable, easy to type on and very stingy on the battery usage. It even has a (slow) modem for uploads.
Gwad do I ever agree. Take Snowcrash. It was a book which streached a handful of really interesting ideas wafer thin over it's ponderous length. The ending was so bad I put Stephenson in the "not worth the effort" catagory a long time ago. Simply awful.
As I recall, the 5x86/K5 architecture came from the aquisition of NexGen...AMD had nothing to do with coming up with it. I actually had an Nx586 machine for a while. Odd chip.
Just don't bitch when all there is on the carte are the most profitable, vanilla, mainstream channels.
If you look at something like OpenFirmware (http://www.openfirmware.org/), the idea of a BIOS as OS has been around for quite a while. OpenFirmware has been the "BIOS" on Sun SPARCs since they were introduced.
This will effect, what, both users of SCO Unix?
MGR ran fine on Linux in the old days. Very, very snappy on a 386sx/20. Too few bells and whistles for the modern crowd, however.
Oh, yeah...the X10R4 source code was less than 3MB compressed.
Look for a big number writeoff and the phrase "sunk cost" on Intels 10Q filing. For an economist, sunk cost means never having to say you're sorry...:-)
The original poster might not have had a typical experience during their oh-so-awful American education. My experience of an American, public school space education in the early 1980s included Soviet Luna (vividly remember pix of the rover, with the funky chickenwire wheels), Venera (Venus), Mars and Soyuz.
On the other hand, if I'm writing security code for a company, it's going to be difficult to say "I'm also going to write security code when I get home that I own". The corporate reps will almost never accept that provision, and if push comes to shove, you'll have a hard time proving the seperation when it goes to court.
As pointed out, get a lawyer to go over your changes.
What is almost always a problem is going in and saying "I want this job, but I also have this other job that I want to continue". That's a big red flag for most employers, especially if it's in a related field.
My Sun-badged 17" Nokia finally gave up the ghost a month ago. It was the second monitor on my XP box.
TPF is typically used to run travel industry reservation systems (Delta Airlines is one huge customer). It is still supported by IBM and several specialty consulting houses, though apparently much support is done in-house (at least it was in the early '90s when I was consulting at Delta).
What are you talking about? FreeBSD has never been certified as C2, and that's all that NT has been certified at (remeber to remove the floppy and network card). Check for yourself at http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/epl/index.html.
BSD users too are dooming thier own OS. As a group, they are a very vocal and rowdy bunch. No real help is given to new users and such an elitest attitude is suicide.
Hasn't slowed down Slashdot, or the anti-BSD trolls that live there.
It is my humble opinion that either NT or Solaris be used for any significant work
Oh...I get it. You're retarded. My bad...
Who cares. As long as existant and future versions of NetBSD are available, what do I care if there is an SCOBSD or MSBSD that I will never use.
Case in point: M$ used BSD code in their TCP/IP stack. Oddly enough, the world didn't come to an end, there are still several freely availible BSD releases, and Slashdot users have yet another year of "BSD is dead" and "BSD isn't free" trolls.
The IT administration organization contracts IT development for a product. Work is performed at an internally billed T&M rate. That money comes out of IT budgets. We most certain pay. Therefore, by your definition, we are customers.
Run with that.