No, not a hyperlink, but does it seem passing strange to anyone that our own body clock is far closer to a Martian day than an Earth day? No conspiracy theories here, but it makes one wonder...
No, actually the quoted text in your post says "containing our copyrighted application binary interface code". They haven't proved that the versions you mention do contain such code and until they have, any such speculation remains just that.
The standard of trolling has certainly fallen recently. Where's the SCO licence fee estimate for the finished 65536 processor SMP unit? You got a better class of idiot in those days...;o)
Grab an install of Multizilla and use the Browser Spoofing utility for those sites that reject on user agent. Works fine for me, even for such tasks as banking online...
They'll be querying webservers, looking at NAT and Masquerade data that they find, and making a big pain out of themselves.
Tell that to Linksys. Their access points and broadband wireless routers could equally be described as a software distirution in the eyes of the law. I think SCO may well be taking on more than it bargained for in terms of how many people this is going to piss off. It extends far further than a few "punk kid programmers" from Norway, to misquote a quote from another SCO exec.
I find that Windows XP supports a wider range of applications, operations and hardware than DOS 5. Well, and way more stuff than FBSD.
Could it be? Is it possible? -that the reason that Windows is such a hunk of flakey shit is that it panders to, nay, supports such cheap shitty hardware that something has to give? I give you Winmodems as my primary exhibit and rest my case.
Face it, if you want reliability, stability and known quantities, you have to get rid of the chaff. That means webcams using cheapo Korean chipsets, scanners with the same, winmodems and printers and anything that needs the processor to emulate some part of hardware with closed-source drivers. Anything less is going to crash. Worse, the hiding of this flakeyness leads users to believe that they are to blame, or even worse, their sysadmin.
I need not mention worms and trojans. Some enlightened person already did
I am so glad the poster helpfully pointed out the URL for IBM Corp.
Perhaps he thought that the list of names including IBM may give those blood-sucking fu^H^H^H^Hpeople at SCO pause for thought. A mighty force they make presented together like that...
Yes, I know, I was using the vernacular. Your point is well made, though, so thank you for elucidating.
The hard drive problem isn't likely to go away until we overcome the problem of the read/write lifespan of flash RAM and similar technology, not to mention price, as you say.
Say goodbye to your fans...
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Perhaps more relevant to us is the fact that zero dissipation means, in effect, zero heat. It also means zero loss so power requirements, so important in the portable market, would lessen exponentially. Spintronics based devices would therefore not need the elaborate cooling solutions current semiconductors do. A truly silent computer may be just over the horizon, folks...
Well, I was going to say "old fart". Would you like that better?
To be perfectly honest I couldn't care less what you call me, personally. However, many radio enthusiasts are young people, especially since the national radio societies rightly or wrongly seem to be targetting amateur radio at school/college age youngsters as a route into electronics.
You still didn't answer the question, BTW. Why are we all instantly assumed to be crusty old farts with racks full of old ex-WW2 tube equipment so heavy that it needs a reinforced concrete floor? Times change, technology has mevoed on, and like it or not, so has amateur radio.
OI! I resemble that remark! Why, I ought to take my Wouff-Hong to you for that!
Seriously, where does everyone and his dog get the idea that all amateur radio ops and enthusiasts are wrinkly oldsters? Sure, many are, but there is life away from the RAOTA nets. Try looking up the spectrum a bit and see what's being done by amateurs in the microwave bands, with things like 802.11 kit with bi-directional amplifiers that we can legally use (802.11b and g just happens to be smack bang inside the 13cms amateur band), along with high gain antennas. Satellite, emergency and disater communications, DX, awards, you name it there will be a facet of amateur radio to cater for your whims. Oh, sorry, no pr0n, though.
Old hat? See amateur radio in the 21st century before you cast your judgement, old son.
Your son has been aware of our class activities for weeks now, but the date has arrived for our annual show and tell and your son has done nothing but tell.
We were suprised at this, since young SCO has been going about the place telling everyone July is show and tell month, but unfortunately he seems to have become preoccupied with a game he calls "share inflation" with his pals in the playground, which involves helping them all share with him and then taking his own ball away at the crucial moment.
Perhaps a meeting with the two (or one, if young SCO turns out to be the slang term he's behaving like) of you would be appropriate?
They have discovered that the British Isles are tilting, with the north of the country gaining altitude and the south of the country 'sinking'
That explains the difference in house prices up North and down South. I wonder when they'll start advertising southern homes as "temporary accomodation"?:o)
In the best British tradition the probe will lay out a tea set and some cucumber sandwiches to attract alien lifeforms.
No, with the thin Martian atmosphere the water would boil at too low a temperature, so you can't make a decent cup of tea on Mars. Frightfully important to make a good first impression on the blighters, so we sent it up with some of our real ale instead. Wouldn't want them to get ticked off for sending awful tasting stuff - like your beer - wot!:o)
Since most of our police don't need to approach people with the object of inserting the muzzle of a.45 in their ear, I doubt whether this will have an impact. They're called criminals over here, not felons.
Armed crime is a problem in certain areas, but we have armed response units to address the threat. Since we have strict gun control laws over here, the police are happy to carry out their work using their advanced hand to hand methods, resorting to armed units for those situations as they arise.
As someone's sig reads: The right to bear arms is only slightly less ridiculous than the right to arm bears and your comment "bears" this out:o)
worst of all uninsured (try suing someone who can't pay)
Yes, I recall a neighbour of mine being hit by a tourist on a narrow country road not far from here. The car was a complete write-off and my neighbour and his wife sustained neck and head injuries when the car went off the road, over a steep bank and rolled. In his injured condition, he still had to stand in the middle of the road to prevent the idiot from driving away before the police arrived. The tourist was not insured. My neighbour now drives a twelve year old Ford instead of the three year old car they spent their savings on.
Justice? What bloody justice? This might not be a "Good Thing" from the privacy perspective, but from the perspective of the law-abiding motorist it may turn out to be a god-send.
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Ah, so it's not quite as bad as I thought. I wonder if it does work with *BSD? Anybody know? Some USB net interfaces are supported in the FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE.
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...or is this supposed to be something cool for the Linux/OSS world? If so, why does a precusrory glance at the download page yield only Windows.zip files? Does this machine connect to and communicate with a Linux desktop? Even more important (from my POV) is would it do the same on a FreeBSD box?
Don't get me wrong, they look really cool, but these are, IMO, the machine's main selling points. If they lack support in this area, you might as well forget it because there's going to be some very disappointed geeks out there. I would hate to think that these little PDAs are using Linux as a way of keeping the OS costs down, whilst at the same time neglecting the the very people who make it possible for them to do this.
The bad news is that sales of CDs are in a freefall, representing a $250 million loss over the last two years.
OK, so we agree sales are falling. Is it any wonder? Having heard the fifth cover version of "Spirit in the Sky" earlier and myriads of other "artists" releasing other people's work, I begin to wonder if the media have woken up to exactly who is the thief here.
Wake up call: There is a global recession, or something that very much looks like one. The music industry is being hit by a downturn in spending in general, just like everyone else. Not only that but they are exacerbating the problem by the broadside by turning out crap, stuff we've heard time and time again, manufactured groups and cover versions that shame the originals. Why are they making less money? Doesn't take a rocket scientist, does it?
Why wasn't there all this hue and cry when twin tape decks appeared on the market? Because they weren't as visible as the publicly accessible Internet. Album and song sharing is not a new, 'net age problem. It happened all the time pre-Internet. Anyone who says they haven't copied a tape or recorded from the chart show on the radio is either very young or a liar. The only reason this is gaining public airtime is simply because the 'net, being free speech epitomised, is an easy target for any group of totalitarians, the RIAA included.
Yes, BTW, I buy my music, when there's anything worth buying. I always have done. The problem is, the interval between my purchases has increased. This is not influenced by finances or that I can download from the 'net. Simply put, the amount of quality music available has declined. Not only that but the implication that I am a criminal simply because I am tech savvy and trying to blame me and worse, imposing a tax on me due to their own faliures and shortcomings doesn't exactly endear the music industry to me, making me think a little more carefully about what I purchase since my purchases may support this idiocy.
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No, not a hyperlink, but does it seem passing strange to anyone that our own body clock is far closer to a Martian day than an Earth day? No conspiracy theories here, but it makes one wonder...
No, actually the quoted text in your post says "containing our copyrighted application binary interface code". They haven't proved that the versions you mention do contain such code and until they have, any such speculation remains just that.
So, why the fsck would I care?
You really ought to. You may end up swimming around in someone's gonads ;o)
The standard of trolling has certainly fallen recently. Where's the SCO licence fee estimate for the finished 65536 processor SMP unit? You got a better class of idiot in those days... ;o)
Grab an install of Multizilla and use the Browser Spoofing utility for those sites that reject on user agent. Works fine for me, even for such tasks as banking online...
They'll be querying webservers, looking at NAT and Masquerade data that they find, and making a big pain out of themselves.
Tell that to Linksys. Their access points and broadband wireless routers could equally be described as a software distirution in the eyes of the law. I think SCO may well be taking on more than it bargained for in terms of how many people this is going to piss off. It extends far further than a few "punk kid programmers" from Norway, to misquote a quote from another SCO exec.
I find that Windows XP supports a wider range of applications, operations and hardware than DOS 5. Well, and way more stuff than FBSD.
Could it be? Is it possible? -that the reason that Windows is such a hunk of flakey shit is that it panders to, nay, supports such cheap shitty hardware that something has to give? I give you Winmodems as my primary exhibit and rest my case.
Face it, if you want reliability, stability and known quantities, you have to get rid of the chaff. That means webcams using cheapo Korean chipsets, scanners with the same, winmodems and printers and anything that needs the processor to emulate some part of hardware with closed-source drivers. Anything less is going to crash. Worse, the hiding of this flakeyness leads users to believe that they are to blame, or even worse, their sysadmin.
I need not mention worms and trojans. Some enlightened person already did
More like tending the sharks with frickin' LASER beams on their heads... ;o)
I am so glad the poster helpfully pointed out the URL for IBM Corp.
Perhaps he thought that the list of names including IBM may give those blood-sucking fu^H^H^H^Hpeople at SCO pause for thought. A mighty force they make presented together like that...
This isn't actually an "exponential" decrease.
Yes, I know, I was using the vernacular. Your point is well made, though, so thank you for elucidating.
The hard drive problem isn't likely to go away until we overcome the problem of the read/write lifespan of flash RAM and similar technology, not to mention price, as you say.
Perhaps more relevant to us is the fact that zero dissipation means, in effect, zero heat. It also means zero loss so power requirements, so important in the portable market, would lessen exponentially. Spintronics based devices would therefore not need the elaborate cooling solutions current semiconductors do. A truly silent computer may be just over the horizon, folks...
Well, I was going to say "old fart". Would you like that better?
To be perfectly honest I couldn't care less what you call me, personally. However, many radio enthusiasts are young people, especially since the national radio societies rightly or wrongly seem to be targetting amateur radio at school/college age youngsters as a route into electronics.
You still didn't answer the question, BTW. Why are we all instantly assumed to be crusty old farts with racks full of old ex-WW2 tube equipment so heavy that it needs a reinforced concrete floor? Times change, technology has mevoed on, and like it or not, so has amateur radio.
Example of amateur radio embracing technology for your consideration: eQSO, Amateur radio over the Internet
only wrinkly old radio amateurs
OI! I resemble that remark! Why, I ought to take my Wouff-Hong to you for that!
Seriously, where does everyone and his dog get the idea that all amateur radio ops and enthusiasts are wrinkly oldsters? Sure, many are, but there is life away from the RAOTA nets. Try looking up the spectrum a bit and see what's being done by amateurs in the microwave bands, with things like 802.11 kit with bi-directional amplifiers that we can legally use (802.11b and g just happens to be smack bang inside the 13cms amateur band), along with high gain antennas. Satellite, emergency and disater communications, DX, awards, you name it there will be a facet of amateur radio to cater for your whims. Oh, sorry, no pr0n, though.
Old hat? See amateur radio in the 21st century before you cast your judgement, old son.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. SCO,
Your son has been aware of our class activities for weeks now, but the date has arrived for our annual show and tell and your son has done nothing but tell.
We were suprised at this, since young SCO has been going about the place telling everyone July is show and tell month, but unfortunately he seems to have become preoccupied with a game he calls "share inflation" with his pals in the playground, which involves helping them all share with him and then taking his own ball away at the crucial moment.
Perhaps a meeting with the two (or one, if young SCO turns out to be the slang term he's behaving like) of you would be appropriate?
Yours,
Concerned teacher.
Exactly what I was thinking, although it's not a special event call but a Guernsey private call. 73!
They have discovered that the British Isles are tilting, with the north of the country gaining altitude and the south of the country 'sinking'
That explains the difference in house prices up North and down South. I wonder when they'll start advertising southern homes as "temporary accomodation"? :o)
In the best British tradition the probe will lay out a tea set and some cucumber sandwiches to attract alien lifeforms.
No, with the thin Martian atmosphere the water would boil at too low a temperature, so you can't make a decent cup of tea on Mars. Frightfully important to make a good first impression on the blighters, so we sent it up with some of our real ale instead. Wouldn't want them to get ticked off for sending awful tasting stuff - like your beer - wot! :o)
I'll take the U.S. system to the UK any time.
As is your right. That's the beauty of our societies: we can agree to differ with impunity. In that we are more alike than different.
Since most of our police don't need to approach people with the object of inserting the muzzle of a .45 in their ear, I doubt whether this will have an impact. They're called criminals over here, not felons.
Armed crime is a problem in certain areas, but we have armed response units to address the threat. Since we have strict gun control laws over here, the police are happy to carry out their work using their advanced hand to hand methods, resorting to armed units for those situations as they arise.
As someone's sig reads: The right to bear arms is only slightly less ridiculous than the right to arm bears and your comment "bears" this out :o)
worst of all uninsured (try suing someone who can't pay)
Yes, I recall a neighbour of mine being hit by a tourist on a narrow country road not far from here. The car was a complete write-off and my neighbour and his wife sustained neck and head injuries when the car went off the road, over a steep bank and rolled. In his injured condition, he still had to stand in the middle of the road to prevent the idiot from driving away before the police arrived. The tourist was not insured. My neighbour now drives a twelve year old Ford instead of the three year old car they spent their savings on.
Justice? What bloody justice? This might not be a "Good Thing" from the privacy perspective, but from the perspective of the law-abiding motorist it may turn out to be a god-send.
Ah, so it's not quite as bad as I thought. I wonder if it does work with *BSD? Anybody know? Some USB net interfaces are supported in the FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE.
...or is this supposed to be something cool for the Linux/OSS world? If so, why does a precusrory glance at the download page yield only Windows .zip files? Does this machine connect to and communicate with a Linux desktop? Even more important (from my POV) is would it do the same on a FreeBSD box?
Don't get me wrong, they look really cool, but these are, IMO, the machine's main selling points. If they lack support in this area, you might as well forget it because there's going to be some very disappointed geeks out there. I would hate to think that these little PDAs are using Linux as a way of keeping the OS costs down, whilst at the same time neglecting the the very people who make it possible for them to do this.
I hope I'm wrong...
The bad news is that sales of CDs are in a freefall, representing a $250 million loss over the last two years.
OK, so we agree sales are falling. Is it any wonder? Having heard the fifth cover version of "Spirit in the Sky" earlier and myriads of other "artists" releasing other people's work, I begin to wonder if the media have woken up to exactly who is the thief here.
Wake up call: There is a global recession, or something that very much looks like one. The music industry is being hit by a downturn in spending in general, just like everyone else. Not only that but they are exacerbating the problem by the broadside by turning out crap, stuff we've heard time and time again, manufactured groups and cover versions that shame the originals. Why are they making less money? Doesn't take a rocket scientist, does it?
Why wasn't there all this hue and cry when twin tape decks appeared on the market? Because they weren't as visible as the publicly accessible Internet. Album and song sharing is not a new, 'net age problem. It happened all the time pre-Internet. Anyone who says they haven't copied a tape or recorded from the chart show on the radio is either very young or a liar. The only reason this is gaining public airtime is simply because the 'net, being free speech epitomised, is an easy target for any group of totalitarians, the RIAA included.
Yes, BTW, I buy my music, when there's anything worth buying. I always have done. The problem is, the interval between my purchases has increased. This is not influenced by finances or that I can download from the 'net. Simply put, the amount of quality music available has declined. Not only that but the implication that I am a criminal simply because I am tech savvy and trying to blame me and worse, imposing a tax on me due to their own faliures and shortcomings doesn't exactly endear the music industry to me, making me think a little more carefully about what I purchase since my purchases may support this idiocy.
Um, yes. (/me goes off into a corner to die) Didn't see that. Sorry, chaps! I guess I had an off day ;o)
Is everything with ethernet suddenly a "web server" to /.? It's an ethernet transceiver with TCP/IP, not a frigging web server, OK?