You're obviously an idiot so sit back and learn. It's not a CD-R or DVD-R, it's a magneto optical drive, they were hot shit in the early 90's but cost a bundle. The difference is that WORM drives are single session and use a magneto-optical process. Click the links and learn:
Governments should GPL everything/no, they should BSD everything here
Yep, absolutely. Government work should be under a BSD license. Why? Because we PAY for what the government does (or at least our children's children will eventually). I use the GPL when I want to give others an opportunity to use my work in exchange for giving me their work, there's no $$$ involved but there's certainly a barter there. If I paid the government tax $$$, I want their work free and clear, there's no barter involved since my end of the deal was all $$$. Even better, as the poster mentioned, just don't buy their freakin' software.
As for forcing MS to give 10% of their revenue, really not well thought out. Think about it, it changes N-O-T-H-I-N-G! You wanna hurt 'em? Try prohibiting hardware sellers from bundling OS's *AND* force MS to change 1 price for their OS to ALL purchasers. That would do a hell of a lot more for open source than siphoning some of their monopoly profits away.
Back to the post, the "All your base [code] are belong to us" thing, that's SCO's and you (and I) are probably in violation of copyright according to McBride!:D
Last I heard it took quite a bit of time for kernel compiles. I don't know if SCO stockholders would appreciate paying lawyers to sit around and watch if the actual compile took more than a couple of hours.
Depends on the hardware, my AMD XP2000+ takes about 20 minutes to compile the kernel with ALL the modules. In practice, I disable A LOT of modules so a "typical" compile only takes about 10 minutes. I'm sure on a newer Intel P6 3Ghz it's probably quick enough to do "live" in 5 minutes or so. Now, if you have to do it on a P2 266 from 1997, you've got some waiting to do.
the way Oracle and DB2 handle that kind of data is by putting it into the file system
Not always true, there is an option to store BLOBs and CLOBs as file references but the typical usage is to store them inline. The primary advantage being ease of administration and that you can restore the LOB data from a full DB backup.
Damn good point about mod chips to "counter act" DRM. Biggest problem is the sheer variety of mobo makers / models out there, it's not as homogenous as the game consoles.
... oh, all you MS employees out there, notice I said "*IF* AND WHEN...", not simply "WHEN...". Nothing is a foregone conclusion, especially when it involves taking food from the big dog's bowl.
Agreed, same with Norton's and McAffee now that MS wants their share of the pie. Since, they own the browser, they can simply bundle Flash out of existence. It won't happen overnight (see Real for example) but it will happen. The only life line available for these companies is to focus and push Linux adoption. If and when Linux gets 25% of the desktop market, the monopoly will break. The sad truth is that most companies in this situation do not adopt an offensive stance but rather adopt a defensive posture aimed at maintaining their piece of the pie. That defensive posture served Corel and Borland well in any case. When you strike a deal with the devil you should know that payback will eventually come around.
I have some old CD-R backups that are just hitting the 5 year mark. I haven't hit a bad one yet, but now that I've said that, I'm sure this will be the week. I wonder if DVDs are more susceptible to degrading over the same time frame given the higher pit density. So, whatever happened to the promises of the media being good for 50+ years???
Careful there, backing up to magnetic media is nowhere near as safe as non-magnetic media like a CD or DVD. Tapes and drives lose their charges over a relatively short time. Burn it to a DVD, stick it in a safe-deposit box, and you're good for at least 50 years. A WORM drive (do they still sell those?) would work too. I realize backing up 4G at a time is a pain compared to 160G at a time but you don't do it every day either.
I disagree, too many variations in hardware, software on the Linux / router&switch side of things. One of the things that makes it easy to infect Windows systems is that if you know a server is running W2K, you can assume the hardware is x86, you know which files exist on that system, and (most importantly) you know the structure of those executables since they are identical across installations. With Linux, compiler optimizations and kernel configurations make code injection points almost impossible to assume. You could still target a particular distro release on a particular platform but your infection rate would be low. Of course, I read all the above on the back of a matchbook cover if anybody asks.
Seriously, do you really think this make any difference? Huge companies with tons of lobbyists and massive legal departments essentially dictate the law. IBM has friends in very high places that count on IBM jobs and contracts for their constituents. Do you think it's a coincidence that IBM had the case moved to a federal court? That contract could state that SCO owns AIX but it wouldn't make a lick of difference. If the DOJ couldn't take down the 43rd largest company in the US (Microsoft) what chance does a fart in the wind like SCO have of taking down the 8th largest company in the US (IBM) when that company has a lobbying arm that makes MS's seem like an organ grinder with a pet monkey?
There are a number of high school students who work for minimum wage...
Actually, employers can pay minors $4.25/hr, $2.40 less per hour than minimum wage, if they are employed for less than 90 days. This provision means that the minimum wage is not intended for high school students at all.
Hmmm, doesn't paint them in a terribly flattering light does it. Goes to show that the minimum wage system in this country is seriously broken. Minimum wage should prove for living at the poverty line at a minimum.
Yep, I took that class in 1989, it was on an IBM midrange and there were no IDEs other than the IBM editor. Things could, and understandably, have changed over the 14 years since I last looked at it.
The year was 1989. I forget the specific platform we were coding on but I think it was an IBM midrange of some sort. So you've got a good point that the Pascal I saw probably looks very little like the current Pascal.
There are OpenOffice ActiveX controls in 1.1 Beta so I imagine file viewers / filters for use within MS Office will be available shortly. In fact, the viewer / filter strategy would be a good "infiltration" technique for the OO XML file type.
No no, you're forgetting how bad pascal was. They forced me to take a Pascal course in college and I have never used it since. I think Java is far better than pascal for beginners, even better than Basic in my opinion. I still prefer C++ followed closely by C for my own work but I think Java's lets kids learn about proper structure and scopes. More importantly, it's free and there are many good free IDEs for it. The tough thing is at least when I was a kid, my stuff looked like all the commercial cursor mode stuff out there. A kid these days has very little hope of writing apps that look like commercial apps.
IANAL but the effectiveness of unionizing depends on what state the poster is in, unions in right to work states have considerably less teeth than states without right to work legislation. The problem for unions in RTW states is that "scabs" are effectively legal since membership in the union is not mandatory. More info is available here. So you can strike, but you can also be permanently replaced at the same time. You can get a current list of RTW states here. I have mixed emotions about unions myself so I can't comment either way.
Well, you do have some constraints to work in based on the physical makeup of the hardware and behavior of the hardware under Windows. You can scrounge up some information based on the chips used on the card on the net. Several chip makers offer op codes for their chips online. You start there, then run the hardware under windows while sniffing the bus (pci/i2c/etc). This gives you an idea of how to initialize and make broad calls to the card. Then you start putting those bits of information together into a driver on Linux. It also helps if a similar driver already exists under Linux that you can "clean out" and use as a shell. That said, it's long, slow, and frustrating work that involves rebooting what must be a million times. I admire the patience of anybody who does this kinda thing on a regular basis.
I've never heard of a EULA being revoked either, in fact I don't even know if EULA's are really legally binding but it would take a fat wad of money to find out in the courts. However, this doesn't change the fact that the original post about "owning" XP is wrong. Microsoft still "owns" the software, you only obtain permission to "use" it so long as you abide by the original rules of the EULA. Also, this EULA is subject to change with each patch or service pack, so the EULA is a moving target if you want to keep your OS current.
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You're obviously an idiot so sit back and learn. It's not a CD-R or DVD-R, it's a magneto optical drive, they were hot shit in the early 90's but cost a bundle. The difference is that WORM drives are single session and use a magneto-optical process. Click the links and learn:
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Governments should GPL everything/no, they should BSD everything here
:D
Yep, absolutely. Government work should be under a BSD license. Why? Because we PAY for what the government does (or at least our children's children will eventually). I use the GPL when I want to give others an opportunity to use my work in exchange for giving me their work, there's no $$$ involved but there's certainly a barter there. If I paid the government tax $$$, I want their work free and clear, there's no barter involved since my end of the deal was all $$$. Even better, as the poster mentioned, just don't buy their freakin' software.
As for forcing MS to give 10% of their revenue, really not well thought out. Think about it, it changes N-O-T-H-I-N-G! You wanna hurt 'em? Try prohibiting hardware sellers from bundling OS's *AND* force MS to change 1 price for their OS to ALL purchasers. That would do a hell of a lot more for open source than siphoning some of their monopoly profits away.
Back to the post, the "All your base [code] are belong to us" thing, that's SCO's and you (and I) are probably in violation of copyright according to McBride!
Last I heard it took quite a bit of time for kernel compiles. I don't know if SCO stockholders would appreciate paying lawyers to sit around and watch if the actual compile took more than a couple of hours.
Depends on the hardware, my AMD XP2000+ takes about 20 minutes to compile the kernel with ALL the modules. In practice, I disable A LOT of modules so a "typical" compile only takes about 10 minutes. I'm sure on a newer Intel P6 3Ghz it's probably quick enough to do "live" in 5 minutes or so. Now, if you have to do it on a P2 266 from 1997, you've got some waiting to do.
... actually, it doesn't have to be a FULL export, even user level exports would contain the LOB data.
the way Oracle and DB2 handle that kind of data is by putting it into the file system
Not always true, there is an option to store BLOBs and CLOBs as file references but the typical usage is to store them inline. The primary advantage being ease of administration and that you can restore the LOB data from a full DB backup.
Damn good point about mod chips to "counter act" DRM. Biggest problem is the sheer variety of mobo makers / models out there, it's not as homogenous as the game consoles.
... oh, all you MS employees out there, notice I said "*IF* AND WHEN ...", not simply "WHEN ...". Nothing is a foregone conclusion, especially when it involves taking food from the big dog's bowl.
Agreed, same with Norton's and McAffee now that MS wants their share of the pie. Since, they own the browser, they can simply bundle Flash out of existence. It won't happen overnight (see Real for example) but it will happen. The only life line available for these companies is to focus and push Linux adoption. If and when Linux gets 25% of the desktop market, the monopoly will break. The sad truth is that most companies in this situation do not adopt an offensive stance but rather adopt a defensive posture aimed at maintaining their piece of the pie. That defensive posture served Corel and Borland well in any case. When you strike a deal with the devil you should know that payback will eventually come around.
I have some old CD-R backups that are just hitting the 5 year mark. I haven't hit a bad one yet, but now that I've said that, I'm sure this will be the week. I wonder if DVDs are more susceptible to degrading over the same time frame given the higher pit density. So, whatever happened to the promises of the media being good for 50+ years???
my 2400 baud modem
I used to have one of those, a black USR, about the size of a keyboard. I really don't miss those days!
Careful there, backing up to magnetic media is nowhere near as safe as non-magnetic media like a CD or DVD. Tapes and drives lose their charges over a relatively short time. Burn it to a DVD, stick it in a safe-deposit box, and you're good for at least 50 years. A WORM drive (do they still sell those?) would work too. I realize backing up 4G at a time is a pain compared to 160G at a time but you don't do it every day either.
I disagree, too many variations in hardware, software on the Linux / router&switch side of things. One of the things that makes it easy to infect Windows systems is that if you know a server is running W2K, you can assume the hardware is x86, you know which files exist on that system, and (most importantly) you know the structure of those executables since they are identical across installations. With Linux, compiler optimizations and kernel configurations make code injection points almost impossible to assume. You could still target a particular distro release on a particular platform but your infection rate would be low. Of course, I read all the above on the back of a matchbook cover if anybody asks.
Seriously, do you really think this make any difference? Huge companies with tons of lobbyists and massive legal departments essentially dictate the law. IBM has friends in very high places that count on IBM jobs and contracts for their constituents. Do you think it's a coincidence that IBM had the case moved to a federal court? That contract could state that SCO owns AIX but it wouldn't make a lick of difference. If the DOJ couldn't take down the 43rd largest company in the US (Microsoft) what chance does a fart in the wind like SCO have of taking down the 8th largest company in the US (IBM) when that company has a lobbying arm that makes MS's seem like an organ grinder with a pet monkey?
If you expect people to bet on a SCO long shot, we want some better odds than this, 1:1 ain't gonna cut it. Do I hear 1000:1 on a SCO win?
Touché! I was in a "summer job" mindset. Didn't stop to think about part-timers. You're right it's still nothing to write home about though.
There are a number of high school students who work for minimum wage...
Actually, employers can pay minors $4.25/hr, $2.40 less per hour than minimum wage, if they are employed for less than 90 days. This provision means that the minimum wage is not intended for high school students at all.
Hmmm, doesn't paint them in a terribly flattering light does it. Goes to show that the minimum wage system in this country is seriously broken. Minimum wage should prove for living at the poverty line at a minimum.
Except that Wal-Mart is not a convicted monopolist. Netflix at least has a fighting chance, Netscape didn't.
Yep, I took that class in 1989, it was on an IBM midrange and there were no IDEs other than the IBM editor. Things could, and understandably, have changed over the 14 years since I last looked at it.
The year was 1989. I forget the specific platform we were coding on but I think it was an IBM midrange of some sort. So you've got a good point that the Pascal I saw probably looks very little like the current Pascal.
There are OpenOffice ActiveX controls in 1.1 Beta so I imagine file viewers / filters for use within MS Office will be available shortly. In fact, the viewer / filter strategy would be a good "infiltration" technique for the OO XML file type.
No no, you're forgetting how bad pascal was. They forced me to take a Pascal course in college and I have never used it since. I think Java is far better than pascal for beginners, even better than Basic in my opinion. I still prefer C++ followed closely by C for my own work but I think Java's lets kids learn about proper structure and scopes. More importantly, it's free and there are many good free IDEs for it. The tough thing is at least when I was a kid, my stuff looked like all the commercial cursor mode stuff out there. A kid these days has very little hope of writing apps that look like commercial apps.
IANAL but the effectiveness of unionizing depends on what state the poster is in, unions in right to work states have considerably less teeth than states without right to work legislation. The problem for unions in RTW states is that "scabs" are effectively legal since membership in the union is not mandatory. More info is available here. So you can strike, but you can also be permanently replaced at the same time. You can get a current list of RTW states here. I have mixed emotions about unions myself so I can't comment either way.
Well, you do have some constraints to work in based on the physical makeup of the hardware and behavior of the hardware under Windows. You can scrounge up some information based on the chips used on the card on the net. Several chip makers offer op codes for their chips online. You start there, then run the hardware under windows while sniffing the bus (pci/i2c/etc). This gives you an idea of how to initialize and make broad calls to the card. Then you start putting those bits of information together into a driver on Linux. It also helps if a similar driver already exists under Linux that you can "clean out" and use as a shell. That said, it's long, slow, and frustrating work that involves rebooting what must be a million times. I admire the patience of anybody who does this kinda thing on a regular basis.
I've never heard of a EULA being revoked either, in fact I don't even know if EULA's are really legally binding but it would take a fat wad of money to find out in the courts. However, this doesn't change the fact that the original post about "owning" XP is wrong. Microsoft still "owns" the software, you only obtain permission to "use" it so long as you abide by the original rules of the EULA. Also, this EULA is subject to change with each patch or service pack, so the EULA is a moving target if you want to keep your OS current.