Somebody's gotta take Darl to Vegas sometime and sit him down at a high stakes table. If he was willing to bet on having a user lawsuit today, who knows if we can talk him into calling "hit" on a 20 in BlackJack...
From the parents link, there appears the following line:
http://www.sco.com/novell/apap4.pdf
Page 15 begins the section listing "Excluded Assets" as in, what is not being transferred from Novell to SCO. On Page 16, we have:
V. Intellectual Property: A. All Copyrights and Trademarks, except for the trademarks Unix and UnixWare B. All Patents.
Well, I'm pretty sure that if the transference agreement that SCO is using states that "All Copyrights and Trademarks, except for the trademarks Unix and UnixWare" are Excluded from the property transference, then SCO is SOL.
This list definately appears to be tailored for people adverse to a space program. So keep that in mind before you take offense to it not including scientific / exploratory reasons and instead has things like "Protection against catastrophic planetary accidents" that aren't very likely at this point.
OK, This is getting Old . . .
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Let's have a little recap for SCOX (Santa Cruz Operation Unix).
GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix.
I'm not quite sure about the Calorie Burn meter, that might just be to throw off the CIA or FBI, but the rest of the functionality is obvious:
Flashlight - So the Finnish spies can see where they're going and crack safes.
FM Tuner - To receive secret messages coded as Finnish boy-band songs.
Sound Meter - So they know when they're about to go over the threshold of security systems based on sound volume.
Thermometer - Same thing, but temperature based.
It pretty much looks like a bunch of devices from Sneakers rolled into one without the thermal suit. Good thinking on the Calorie burn meter, that'd throw anyone off.
A hardware based random number generator (RNG) has been added. This creates true random numbers from the random electrical noise on the chip. This is of much use in security applications, allowing a strong cryptographic key to be generated. VIA call this the "PadLock Data Encryption Engine".
VIA Engineers also note that this was previously a set of registers that they just couldn't iron the crosstalk kinks out of. As such, it was rebranded a feature in classic computer tradition.
I get my email through Cyberus. I used to get about 10 SPAMs a day through them. I know that's technically not that many compared to many other people, but still, it's a hassle.
A few months ago, they implemented an in-house filtering system they call Clearmail. Anyways, it's pretty slick. I get about 1 SPAM per month that somehow slips by. As an added benefit, they send me one email per week with a list of all the SPAM they think they caught, so I can skim it to make sure no real ones got through. So far, it hasn't caught a single real email, but a couple hundred SPAMs. They also include a Criteria chart for each message so you can see why they thought it was SPAM.
Anyways, this seems like an ad, but i just think its pretty slick. . . I wish my other email accounts had similar services.
Red hat is doing this because they don't have the resources to support 6 different versions of their O/S full time. These are just errata updates. If having the errata (security, bug fixes, performance issues) is important enough to you that you're going to care, then you can:
(1) Download the latest RH and buy RH support for it (because this is really just about support),
(2) Hire your own admin to stay abreast of these issues, or do it yourself. (But this is why people pay for RH service, so this isn't a likely option, or
(3) Contract out to another company to step in and do errata updates on EOL'd RH distributions. It's legal, but probably expensive, unless a bunch of people band together to do it.
Anyways, as the argument goes for contributing back to the linux codebase . . . It doesn't make any sense for a company to update programs without trying to get their updates put back into the codebase. Same thing is going on here. It doesn't make sense for RH to back-patch all of these older programs just for errata updates. Too much time and effort that could be spent on the real task: creating more advanced and better working programs. You don't see many people doing updates to Linux Kernel 2.0.39 these days, do you? Wonder why that might be. . .
So, I was having these negotiations with North Korea over their Nukes, and then all of a sudden, they were like boom boom boom boom boom and then South Korea was gone. North Korea, ate South Korea.
Try doing that on one of them pokey computers and then realizing you forgot to include the module for your sound card after you reboot the new kernel. Back to the drawing board. Of course, a $200 microtel pc from Walmart would probably do the trick, but if these kids wanna inflate the economy, I ain't stopping them.
"Customers want a full solution, up to the application level, from a single source," [Metrowerks vice president of strategic marketing John] Smolucha added. Does this sound a little like the Microsoft/Disney/AOLTW/whoever monopolistic practices to anyone else, or am I just being overly cynical and reading too much into it? How does this fit into the whole free (as in speech) aspect of the Linux developmental ideology?
When he says "Customers", he means "Embedded Systems Developers". And yes, we do want a full solution, up to the application level, from a single source. You want to buy a single dev kit, not a chip programmer from one company, a programming environment from a second, and an O/S from a third. This way you don't have to pull out your hair trying to integrate the environments before you even begin development. And no, it's not a monopolistic statement, as it doesn't preclude other companies having solutions for their own chips. Basically, MetroWerks wants to provide an entire development solution for Motorola chips, kinda like TI wants to provide the same for their chips.
Hmmm.... A VB Programmer......Now I'm conflicted! A Vote for Free Information is also a vote for VB.......Maybe the prosecution should pull this one off this time............although I do love my Ogle so I feel bad saying that......
Getting started in Linux is easy. First, read this . Then, follow all the steps in it Backwards. Backwards is key. After that, you should be all setup.
Actually, alot of the 3G phone handset designs have AGPS (Assisted Global Positioning Satellite) receivers built in, so they don't need triangulation to spot ya any more. Part of the requirement that E911 systems have imposed on cell phones being able to identify their own location so they can send help out as needed.
WCDMA - Wideband Code Division Multiplexing Algorithm
UMTS - Universal Mobile Telephone System
3G - Third Generation Cell Phone System
GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications
GPRS - General Packet Radio Service
EDGE - Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution
Its probably more accurate to say this is the first WCDMA/UMTS call on a commercial network, as Motorola and probably others have been doing this on their private networks for some time now.
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It's so genius, it might actually work.
Somebody's gotta take Darl to Vegas sometime and sit him down at a high stakes table. If he was willing to bet on having a user lawsuit today, who knows if we can talk him into calling "hit" on a 20 in BlackJack...
Argh! You stole my queen!
From the parents link, there appears the following line:
http://www.sco.com/novell/apap4.pdf
Page 15 begins the section listing "Excluded Assets" as in, what is not being transferred from Novell to SCO. On Page 16, we have:
V. Intellectual Property:
A. All Copyrights and Trademarks, except for the trademarks Unix and UnixWare
B. All Patents.
Well, I'm pretty sure that if the transference agreement that SCO is using states that "All Copyrights and Trademarks, except for the trademarks Unix and UnixWare" are Excluded from the property transference, then SCO is SOL.
This list definately appears to be tailored for people adverse to a space program. So keep that in mind before you take offense to it not including scientific / exploratory reasons and instead has things like "Protection against catastrophic planetary accidents" that aren't very likely at this point.
Let's have a little recap for SCOX (Santa Cruz Operation Unix).
GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix. GNU's Not Unix.
I'm not quite sure about the Calorie Burn meter, that might just be to throw off the CIA or FBI, but the rest of the functionality is obvious:
Flashlight - So the Finnish spies can see where they're going and crack safes.
FM Tuner - To receive secret messages coded as Finnish boy-band songs.
Sound Meter - So they know when they're about to go over the threshold of security systems based on sound volume.
Thermometer - Same thing, but temperature based.
It pretty much looks like a bunch of devices from Sneakers rolled into one without the thermal suit. Good thinking on the Calorie burn meter, that'd throw anyone off.
A hardware based random number generator (RNG) has been added. This creates true random numbers from the random electrical noise on the chip. This is of much use in security applications, allowing a strong cryptographic key to be generated. VIA call this the "PadLock Data Encryption Engine".
VIA Engineers also note that this was previously a set of registers that they just couldn't iron the crosstalk kinks out of. As such, it was rebranded a feature in classic computer tradition.
I get my email through Cyberus. I used to get about 10 SPAMs a day through them. I know that's technically not that many compared to many other people, but still, it's a hassle.
A few months ago, they implemented an in-house filtering system they call Clearmail. Anyways, it's pretty slick. I get about 1 SPAM per month that somehow slips by. As an added benefit, they send me one email per week with a list of all the SPAM they think they caught, so I can skim it to make sure no real ones got through. So far, it hasn't caught a single real email, but a couple hundred SPAMs. They also include a Criteria chart for each message so you can see why they thought it was SPAM.
Anyways, this seems like an ad, but i just think its pretty slick. . . I wish my other email accounts had similar services.
Red hat is doing this because they don't have the resources to support 6 different versions of their O/S full time. These are just errata updates. If having the errata (security, bug fixes, performance issues) is important enough to you that you're going to care, then you can:
(1) Download the latest RH and buy RH support for it (because this is really just about support),
(2) Hire your own admin to stay abreast of these issues, or do it yourself. (But this is why people pay for RH service, so this isn't a likely option, or
(3) Contract out to another company to step in and do errata updates on EOL'd RH distributions. It's legal, but probably expensive, unless a bunch of people band together to do it.
Anyways, as the argument goes for contributing back to the linux codebase . . . It doesn't make any sense for a company to update programs without trying to get their updates put back into the codebase. Same thing is going on here. It doesn't make sense for RH to back-patch all of these older programs just for errata updates. Too much time and effort that could be spent on the real task: creating more advanced and better working programs. You don't see many people doing updates to Linux Kernel 2.0.39 these days, do you? Wonder why that might be. . .
So, I was having these negotiations with North Korea over their Nukes, and then all of a sudden, they were like boom boom boom boom boom and then South Korea was gone. North Korea, ate South Korea.
It was kinda.....a bummer.
My personal favorite is the "Hardware On Drugs" message.
/usr/src/linux
cd
grep -r drugs *
linux-2.4.19/drivers/net/wan/dscc4.c:
printk(KERN_INFO) "%s: hardware on drugs!\n", dev->name);
cd linux*
make xconfig
make dep
make bzImage
Try doing that on one of them pokey computers and then realizing you forgot to include the module for your sound card after you reboot the new kernel. Back to the drawing board. Of course, a $200 microtel pc from Walmart would probably do the trick, but if these kids wanna inflate the economy, I ain't stopping them.
"Customers want a full solution, up to the application level, from a single source," [Metrowerks vice president of strategic marketing John] Smolucha added. Does this sound a little like the Microsoft/Disney/AOLTW/whoever monopolistic practices to anyone else, or am I just being overly cynical and reading too much into it? How does this fit into the whole free (as in speech) aspect of the Linux developmental ideology?
When he says "Customers", he means "Embedded Systems Developers". And yes, we do want a full solution, up to the application level, from a single source. You want to buy a single dev kit, not a chip programmer from one company, a programming environment from a second, and an O/S from a third. This way you don't have to pull out your hair trying to integrate the environments before you even begin development. And no, it's not a monopolistic statement, as it doesn't preclude other companies having solutions for their own chips. Basically, MetroWerks wants to provide an entire development solution for Motorola chips, kinda like TI wants to provide the same for their chips.
Hmmm.... A VB Programmer......Now I'm conflicted! A Vote for Free Information is also a vote for VB.......Maybe the prosecution should pull this one off this time............although I do love my Ogle so I feel bad saying that......
Good example for TV:
Go to a site that makes you play whack-a-mole with pop-up windows in Explorer. Then go there in Mozilla.
Yeah, but, how are you going to get away with showing porn on TV?
Getting started in Linux is easy. First, read this . Then, follow all the steps in it Backwards. Backwards is key. After that, you should be all setup.
Didn't you get the memo?
That was the entire point of their Helix Project.......
So if you could just put the new cover sheet on, that'd be great........And I'll see you get another copy of the memo.
I thought we were against digitized cops with access to all our private data.
Well, digitized cops are bad, but at least they're not proprietary digitized cops.....This is Slashdot. Duh.
Well, since you're offering, yeah! Thanks!
Is there a competiting website called . / now?
In house networks are live network environments. kthxbye.
Actually, alot of the 3G phone handset designs have AGPS (Assisted Global Positioning Satellite) receivers built in, so they don't need triangulation to spot ya any more. Part of the requirement that E911 systems have imposed on cell phones being able to identify their own location so they can send help out as needed.
WCDMA - Wideband Code Division Multiplexing Algorithm
UMTS - Universal Mobile Telephone System
3G - Third Generation Cell Phone System
GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications
GPRS - General Packet Radio Service
EDGE - Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution
Its probably more accurate to say this is the first WCDMA/UMTS call on a commercial network, as Motorola and probably others have been doing this on their private networks for some time now.
Now if NAV detects Open Office saved doc's as Viri, that's news