I think you may have missed the parents point. There is a school of thought that says that given the durability of spores it is very well possible that life (in the form of spores) in fact floats through the universe, entering any celestial body and settling wherever it finds a place to grow. This is not limited to spores travelling from earth to mars with landers but includes spores travelling with rocks/dust from a volcanic eruption and even possibly spores that are part of the interstellar dust.
See http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1725/17250800.htm or google for panspermia
this is double plus absurd. FOSS is not an US product. Many great US spirits contributed lots - but its nature and origin is international. Thus, no export.
Earth's gravity (which brings them back after jumping) acts on them (or us) all the time and it makes no difference if the body influenced by this force is lying (standing, walking...) on the surface or is in mid-air. So, them jumping up does create an impulse ( and adds energy to the system ) while them coming back again is a constant movement and doesn't count.
But at least both the fuel and the technicians come in 5 different friendly colors you can choose from. So you can fly a rocket that matches your gf's eyeliner!
It just crossed my mind that in a destructive scenario piling lawsuit on lawsuit may be just a way to "produce" law costs in order to get money/stocks out of the company. Some weeks ago we had a lot of details on the huge sums that already went to law firms and that it wasn't just Boies but a surprising number of law firms, including McBrides brother. They were paid in cash and stocks. Now, a law firm receiving it's payment in stocks can sell them without danger of violating any "insider" rules? Say, their rationale is to liquidate the company in the most lucrative way. They fix a row of dates when insiders will sell stocks and they make sure they have the backing of some unknown interested party by aiming their campaign on Linux. Then carefully select the lawyers (choosing the CEOs brother is a bit to obvious, though). Boom IBM, boing RedHat, boom Novell. Everyone shaking heads, the costs will kill them - but this is not a problem if you intend to use the costs to get money out of the company while the stock prices are still high.
It's getting to the point where "lock out" is a very real possibility for ANYTHING new being introduced. When that happens, the rest of the world is going to seriously trounce us while we stifle under thousands of lawsuits over stupid patents and overbroad IP laws that serve only to protect corporation's bottom line
There was a 19th century philosopher named Karl Marx who predicted that the capitalist system of organising the economy (and society), while being a revolutionary idea and opening up huge possibilities for advance, would in the long hit the wall just like its historic predecessors did when the growing contradictions between the developing forces of production vs. the existing relations of production would more and more tie down every advance.
While his ideas soon got discredited by having been adopted in agrarian countries mostly, which tried to base on them a way to development w/o bourgeoisie and capitalism, the basic idea still seems valid.
The US didn't think much of IP and copyrights when Europe still was the leading power and north american industries struggled up. This has changed obviously with those huge conglomerates of money and power now aggressively propagating IP inorder to press better margins out of limited markets.
Like you say, for the economy as a whole this threatens a slowdown, hinering innovation and wasting potential. Like the content industry now fighting general purpose computers (dangerous machines to copy data) and trying to castrate them to some sort of media display units.
Some regions of the world will be pressed to follow this move, Europe, I'm afraid, among them. Others wont and like you say, India and even more China will soon rise to great influence and economic power since they have huge potential markets and do not fight innovation, but profit from it.
for most of my families members and they have email addresses like
prename@myname.de
as well. Done it like this for years.
Filing - and granting - a patent for such stuff is but a joke. By the way, how long will it take until someone starts patenting jokes? Like a tv producer patenting every single pointe they produce?
guy1: You know the one about the lawyer and the hangman? guy2: Yeah, wait, US pat. 1234567891234g
It is pretty straightforward, I did it with vmware 3.2 running on w2k. When creating the new vm I chose other as the OS type - seemed logical to me, I later saw others reprt the same choice, but I have no experience what might happen if you dont.
The install itself is a piece of cake. Two issues you should be prepared for: vmwae has special video drivers for all the supported OSen (w*, linux, FreeBSD) but not for Solaris. So it will be 640x480x4 initially. But others have been there before and I followed the info/data from this site:
The other issue may be networking, chances are you might find yrself in a situation where you set your network card up correctly and as far as you can tell solaris seems to acknowledge this. Still no single ping comes true.
I found that tweaking settings etc wouldn't help. Rebooting the OS inside the vm wouldn't help (in fact, it reintroduces the problem after: ) halt Solaris. Power off the vm. Power on the vm and suddenly networking works.
A helpful link (if only as an companion) is jan.exx
Yes it is and googling on "pcn0 ping solaris x86" found a number of reports of similar problem. Solaris appears to skip sending a certain interrupt and this leads to failures under some configurations ( like acpi activated in bios or like running in a vmware machine )
I'm writing this on solaris 9/vmware 3.2 right now so there is a solution but it is bizarr: The virtual NIC works only on a freshly powered on vm while rebooting the OS inside the vm will cause it to fail.
I found this out following info at this link: Hint for Solaris 9
When you start the virtual computer the very first time it seems to be mpossible to contact the machine in any way over the network. The interface pcn0 is set up correctly but it is not possible to even ping the real machine from the virtual one or vice versa. [...] you just have to power off the virtual machine one more time. Note that it is not enough to just reboot it. Instead you must shut down, power off, power on and boot again. Afterwards the network should work.
Then again, with linux you are not limited to what 1 single supplier thinks they can make you swallow. There are alternatives, debian, SuSE, etc. You are not limited to RH||Microsoft.
But you knew this, of course, and just left it out for rhetorical reasons.
While the front page article looks like some one just felt the need to show the caldera icon once more there seem to be interesting things happening at SCO, apparently some of the investors are not that happy with the current state of events:
" the old Duron (at barely $40) can out-perform Intel chips costing nearly 3x as much. In addition, it shows that the performance of the Athlon XP is head and shoulders above the Celeron processors, while costing roughly the same" -
isn't this what benchmarks and processor-buying-guides have been repeating for some years now? Actual prices and megahurts levels change over time but putting it into relation the picture seems stable: getting the same performance from an Intel cpu is way expensive.
Looking forward for some Fenghuang gongsi from China supplying the old functionality with a new brand and thus give consumers and mb-manufactorers a choice. When a hardware monopolist and a desktop-OS monopolist join forces to bend over the market a big window of opportunity opens for second source suppliers.
Given your location in.de and the prominence of Telekom/T-Online services here I was somewhat disappointed that the link page placed me in Waiblingen (and a plethora of other far south locations with every reload) when my IP was from an T-Online account in Berlin. I do believe that this provider implements a rather rational mapping of IPs to geographical locations so I think you could get better results than just "somewhere in Germany". In fact I have been monitoring the IPs I got for some time now (that ISP shuts down and reconnects a connection once every 24h) and since 20020911 any IP I got was from 217.231.136.0/18.
Just posting this for yr database, most of the folks here couldn't care less...
Slashdot Mirror
I think you may have missed the parents point. There is a school of thought that says that given the durability of spores it is very well possible that life (in the form of spores) in fact floats through the universe, entering any celestial body and settling wherever it finds a place to grow.
This is not limited to spores travelling from earth to mars with landers but includes spores travelling with rocks/dust from a volcanic eruption and even possibly spores that are part of the interstellar dust.
See http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1725/17250800.htm or google for panspermia
> the "export" of open-source software
this is double plus absurd. FOSS is not an US product. Many great US spirits contributed lots - but its nature and origin is international. Thus, no export.
easy: pure gold.
Not true:
Earth's gravity (which brings them back after jumping) acts on them (or us) all the time and it makes no difference if the body influenced by this force is lying (standing, walking...) on the surface or is in mid-air.
So, them jumping up does create an impulse ( and adds energy to the system ) while them coming back again is a constant movement and doesn't count.
But at least both the fuel and the technicians come in 5 different friendly colors you can choose from. So you can fly a rocket that matches your gf's eyeliner!
Italian beer - as famous as red wine from Holland!
I may be completly wrong about this, anyhow...
It just crossed my mind that in a destructive scenario piling lawsuit on lawsuit may be just a way to "produce" law costs in order to get money/stocks out of the company.
Some weeks ago we had a lot of details on the huge sums that already went to law firms and that it wasn't just Boies but a surprising number of law firms, including McBrides brother. They were paid in cash and stocks.
Now, a law firm receiving it's payment in stocks can sell them without danger of violating any "insider" rules?
Say, their rationale is to liquidate the company in the most lucrative way. They fix a row of dates when insiders will sell stocks and they make sure they have the backing of some unknown interested party by aiming their campaign on Linux. Then carefully select the lawyers (choosing the CEOs brother is a bit to obvious, though). Boom IBM, boing RedHat, boom Novell. Everyone shaking heads, the costs will kill them - but this is not a problem if you intend to use the costs to get money out of the company while the stock prices are still high.
It's getting to the point where "lock out" is a very real possibility for ANYTHING new being introduced. When that happens, the rest of the world is going to seriously trounce us while we stifle under thousands of lawsuits over stupid patents and overbroad IP laws that serve only to protect corporation's bottom line
There was a 19th century philosopher named Karl Marx who predicted that the capitalist system of organising the economy (and society), while being a revolutionary idea and opening up huge possibilities for advance, would in the long hit the wall just like its historic predecessors did when the growing contradictions between the developing forces of production vs. the existing relations of production would more and more tie down every advance.
While his ideas soon got discredited by having been adopted in agrarian countries mostly, which tried to base on them a way to development w/o bourgeoisie and capitalism, the basic idea still seems valid.
The US didn't think much of IP and copyrights when Europe still was the leading power and north american industries struggled up. This has changed obviously with those huge conglomerates of money and power now aggressively propagating IP inorder to press better margins out of limited markets.
Like you say, for the economy as a whole this threatens a slowdown, hinering innovation and wasting potential. Like the content industry now fighting general purpose computers (dangerous machines to copy data) and trying to castrate them to some sort of media display units.
Some regions of the world will be pressed to follow this move, Europe, I'm afraid, among them. Others wont and like you say, India and even more China will soon rise to great influence and economic power since they have huge potential markets and do not fight innovation, but profit from it.
I hereby claim prior ar as I have the domain
myName.de
with subdomains
prename.myname.de
for most of my families members and they have email addresses like
prename@myname.de
as well. Done it like this for years.
Filing - and granting - a patent for such stuff is but a joke.
By the way, how long will it take until someone starts patenting jokes? Like a tv producer patenting every single pointe they produce?
guy1: You know the one about the lawyer and the hangman?
guy2: Yeah, wait, US pat. 1234567891234g
TBD:
1. Plant flag
2. Setup embarkation office and make sure any Chinese or European visitors leave fingerprints and photo
3. Ensure that there will be no queing in front of the toilet by foreign passengers while flying over American territory (Moon, Mars, Universe)
4. ?
5. Profit!
>This law is based on the international reciprocity principle.
Yes, this decision really was reported all over the globe within hours and I assume the majority liked to hear it as it is only fair.
Linuces
I think mozilla misrepresents the url in the status line while the address line shows the url correctly.
MSIE, on the other hand, fails completly.
In fact, on some versions of mozilla you even can spot a control char in the status line, too. But real spoofing depends on the address line.
heise (German)
As a test:
http://www.mozilla.org%00@www.heisec.de
is shown as http://www.heisec.de in mozilla, while msie puts http://www.mozilla.org into the address line.
according to netcraft www.news.navy.mil runs Microsoft-IIS/5.0 under FreeBSD.
Well, defense is their business, isn't it?
It is pretty straightforward, I did it with vmware 3.2 running on w2k. When creating the new vm I chose other as the OS type - seemed logical to me, I later saw others reprt the same choice, but I have no experience what might happen if you dont.
The install itself is a piece of cake. Two issues you should be prepared for:
vmwae has special video drivers for all the supported OSen (w*, linux, FreeBSD) but not for Solaris. So it will be 640x480x4 initially.
But others have been there before and I followed the info/data from this site:
xf86
Worked like advertised.
The other issue may be networking, chances are you might find yrself in a situation where you set your network card up correctly and as far as you can tell solaris seems to acknowledge this. Still no single ping comes true.
I found that tweaking settings etc wouldn't help. Rebooting the OS inside the vm wouldn't help (in fact, it reintroduces the problem after: )
halt Solaris. Power off the vm. Power on the vm and suddenly networking works.
A helpful link (if only as an companion) is
jan.exx
the link is:
l _t our_4.html
http://www.jan.exss.de/vmware/solaris/en_instal
Yes it is and googling on "pcn0 ping solaris x86" found a number of reports of similar problem. Solaris appears to skip sending a certain interrupt and this leads to failures under some configurations ( like acpi activated in bios or like running in a vmware machine )
I'm writing this on solaris 9/vmware 3.2 right now so there is a solution but it is bizarr: The virtual NIC works only on a freshly powered on vm while rebooting the OS inside the vm will cause it to fail.
I found this out following info at this link:
Hint for Solaris 9
When you start the virtual computer the very first time it seems to be mpossible to contact the machine in any way over the network. The interface pcn0 is set up correctly but it is not possible to even ping the real machine from the virtual one or vice versa. [...] you just have to power off the virtual machine one more time. Note that it is not enough to just reboot it. Instead you must shut down, power off, power on and boot again.
Afterwards the network should work.
As for the video under vmware, I was lucky with theese:
xf86
however, up to now I still have no luck with network (vmware 3.2, solaris 9 x86, vmware OS==other)
Then again, I#m a complete solaris newbie and may need some research.
www2.sco.com is online at Dec 11 13:56:58 CET 2003. nmap reports:
Remote operating system guess: SCO UnixWare 7.0.0 or OpenServer 5.0.4-5.0.6
Then again, with linux you are not limited to what 1 single supplier thinks they can make you swallow. There are alternatives, debian, SuSE, etc. You are not limited to RH||Microsoft.
But you knew this, of course, and just left it out for rhetorical reasons.
While the front page article looks like some one just felt the need to show the caldera icon once more there seem to be interesting things happening at SCO, apparently some of the investors are not that happy with the current state of events:
SCO Finalizes Agreements With Investors and Law Firms
and...
Santa Claus Operation
A new look for SCO - not supreme but funny enough to take a look.
sco_christmas
for that link in the 2nd paragraph, hits the point methinks
" the old Duron (at barely $40) can out-perform Intel chips costing nearly 3x as much. In addition, it shows that the performance of the Athlon XP is head and shoulders above the Celeron processors, while costing roughly the same" -
isn't this what benchmarks and processor-buying-guides have been repeating for some years now?
Actual prices and megahurts levels change over time but putting it into relation the picture seems stable: getting the same performance from an Intel cpu is way expensive.
Looking forward for some Fenghuang gongsi from China supplying the old functionality with a new brand and thus give consumers and mb-manufactorers a choice.
When a hardware monopolist and a desktop-OS monopolist join forces to bend over the market a big window of opportunity opens for second source suppliers.
Given your location in .de and the prominence of Telekom/T-Online services here I was somewhat disappointed that the link page placed me in Waiblingen (and a plethora of other far south locations with every reload) when my IP was from an T-Online account in Berlin.
I do believe that this provider implements a rather rational mapping of IPs to geographical locations so I think you could get better results than just "somewhere in Germany".
In fact I have been monitoring the IPs I got for some time now (that ISP shuts down and reconnects a connection once every 24h) and since 20020911 any IP I got was from 217.231.136.0/18.
Just posting this for yr database, most of the folks here couldn't care less...