Yes, he (Mr. Watson) went to a NC judge about a flawed subpoena from SCO that ordered him to appear the next day at an unspecified location.
8. Although counsel for SCO had provided a copy of a subpoena that purported to require Mr. Wilson to appear for a deposition on January 27, 2006 (with no location for the deposition specified), counsel for SCO did not provide me or file with the Utah court a return of service for that subpoena. Mr. Normand did not inform me that Mr. Wilson had been served with that subpoena until the day before the January 26 telephone conference, and less than two days before SCO purportedly intended to depose Mr. Wilson. Because of this, and because IBM objected to SCO taking Mr. Wilson's deposition, we had not made arrangements to appear for the deposition on January 27.
My understanding from several legal professionals that I know is that you can safely ignore a defective subpoena and Mr. Watson may have been better off if he had ignored it completely instead of going before a NC court. He threw himself into the shark pool with no protection and the SCO attorneys swam in for the kill.
The SCO gang seem to be very skilled liars and even appear to derive great satisfaction while doing so.
I see on the Apple site that I can buy a single OS X license for $129 or a 5-pack family license for $199. The fine print says it is to be used on "Apple-labeled computers". Has anyone tested their willingness to sell to generic x86 owners? Also, dosen't it make M$ seem even greedier to not have something like this for XP and Office? Imagine how many pirated copies would disappear if they had a $199 family 5-pack of XP Home.
You thought correctly and I am wrong. Geez, even the new AM2 single core cpus support virtualization, just ignore me while I learn to read again. Hmmm, a 3500+ for ~$90US.
Well, I already have two A64 machines ( A64 and an X2), but Pacifica isn't shipping just yet. You can head over to newegg and buy several intel VT capable processors today. If AMD is much later with delivery, then there will be a Conroe desktop or a Merom laptop with my name on it. Not much of a coin toss today.
My next systems will be based on either intel's virtualization or AMD's Pacifica. If the software isn't perfected yet, then it will be cleaned up soon enough to be tremendously useful to me. And that is what drives my dollars to a specific vendor.
This gives us another tool that can be used to repair windows systems that have been hit by some of the newest rootkits that can hide from detection when windows is running. Can't hide from a Linux boot disk and with complete write support, now these can be cleaned and studied more effectively.
Yeah, HURD was (is?) to be the collection of servers that run on top of mach, thus my mangled description. Virtualization is close to the original intent, and hopefully it will really take off when AMD introduces their Pacifica and intel has their equivalent. Both versions are due any time now, Yonah is supposed to be the first available.
The promise of the HURD microkernel with OS 'personalities' is coming to our desktops in a slightly updated fashion. But I still love the idea as long as my Linux and Windows can run beside each other and behave, it makes development much nicer.
I replied to the original post because the wording they chose made it seem like only OSS projects were susceptible to egos and the related problems. My actual experience after twenty years spent mostly in the computer industry and related periphery has shown a much greater ego based reaction when circumstances really required careful and thoughtful response and action. In contrast, my interaction with and observation of OSS projects and people has been much more positive.
Wow, I guess there really are people that absolutely hate to go outside and also manage to have a decent source of income. How else do we explain this?:)
Exactly! A government that dosen't trust it's own people wants the world to trust it to make secure encryption with no published standards and trust that there are no back doors or flaws. And then to trust them to run the Chinese central key servers securely too. If there are serious flaws that they want to take advantage of, then it would seem logical that they would want to make WAPI mandatory (in China at least) too.
That is asking for a lot of trust from the rest of the world.
See my message above yours. The Standard has not been published after being declassified in January 2006. No published code or theory of operation is available to you, me or 6 billion other people to verify that it is secure or that the spec may be secure but the reference source code may have serious bugs that effect the security. Maybe now you can "...see why adding a third is a problem..." and China knows very well why the standard is being rejected by other intelligent nations right now. It dosen't mean that it can't be a standard in the future, just not right now.
China also seems to be in love with the idea of the central server verifing the security between the client and AP. Centralized key serving scares me even when the implementation is known to be secure. The key servers in China will be controlled by whom?
The WAPI standard requires the use of a symmetric encryption algorithm[1], SMS4, which was declassified in January 2006. The standard and its cryptographic implementation remain unpublished.
So the Chinese are pushing for a standard that no one can currently verify as being secure and then they get angry?
At $100, $130 or even $150 I would buy one for my inner-geek-child and at least one more to give to some kid that wants/needs one. I personally think that these sound great in concept and hope the reality turns out to be great for the next generation of kids. The growing tech environment around the world will make it tougher to make a living in "purely" IT jobs in the US though.
So, at what point does it become the responsibility of the police to do enough homework to make sure that their investigation dosen't harm many other businesses that are completely uninvolved in the search for evidence? What recourse do the other effected isp customers have?
I have been around Hams for twenty years and the tech has usually stayed interesting. During the late 80's packet radio was starting out. When most people were calling bbs's using modems, hams were sending wireless data. Check out Phil Karn's site. He has a lot of wireless experience as both ham and engineer responsible for much of the CDMA standard.
Want to start with some small radios and learn more about electronics at the same time? There are manyinterestingkitsaround if you look. You certainly don't have to spend huge amounts on radios to get started. I paid ~$120US for my VX-2R when they were first introduced. It makes a great general purpose scanner too.
Newer modes like PSK31 are incredibly efficient. A couple of watts of power and 31Hz of radio spectrum and you have error free world wide digital communication at 50wpm. It is difficult to audibly detect the signal while listening, even when you know it is there.
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My understanding from several legal professionals that I know is that you can safely ignore a defective subpoena and Mr. Watson may have been better off if he had ignored it completely instead of going before a NC court. He threw himself into the shark pool with no protection and the SCO attorneys swam in for the kill.
The SCO gang seem to be very skilled liars and even appear to derive great satisfaction while doing so.
I see on the Apple site that I can buy a single OS X license for $129 or a 5-pack family license for $199. The fine print says it is to be used on "Apple-labeled computers". Has anyone tested their willingness to sell to generic x86 owners? Also, dosen't it make M$ seem even greedier to not have something like this for XP and Office? Imagine how many pirated copies would disappear if they had a $199 family 5-pack of XP Home.
Screenshot of XP running on Xen.
You thought correctly and I am wrong. Geez, even the new AM2 single core cpus support virtualization, just ignore me while I learn to read again. Hmmm, a 3500+ for ~$90US.
Well, I already have two A64 machines ( A64 and an X2), but Pacifica isn't shipping just yet. You can head over to newegg and buy several intel VT capable processors today. If AMD is much later with delivery, then there will be a Conroe desktop or a Merom laptop with my name on it. Not much of a coin toss today.
My next systems will be based on either intel's virtualization or AMD's Pacifica. If the software isn't perfected yet, then it will be cleaned up soon enough to be tremendously useful to me. And that is what drives my dollars to a specific vendor.
Yeah, I imagine that he has accumulated enough frequent flyer miles to actually leave the Milky Way.
Help is all around!
This gives us another tool that can be used to repair windows systems that have been hit by some of the newest rootkits that can hide from detection when windows is running. Can't hide from a Linux boot disk and with complete write support, now these can be cleaned and studied more effectively.
Yeah, HURD was (is?) to be the collection of servers that run on top of mach, thus my mangled description. Virtualization is close to the original intent, and hopefully it will really take off when AMD introduces their Pacifica and intel has their equivalent. Both versions are due any time now, Yonah is supposed to be the first available.
They did address the games issue in the article. It was 'don't bother'. He even had the tongue in cheek estimate of a 3dmark score of -30000.
The promise of the HURD microkernel with OS 'personalities' is coming to our desktops in a slightly updated fashion. But I still love the idea as long as my Linux and Windows can run beside each other and behave, it makes development much nicer.
I replied to the original post because the wording they chose made it seem like only OSS projects were susceptible to egos and the related problems. My actual experience after twenty years spent mostly in the computer industry and related periphery has shown a much greater ego based reaction when circumstances really required careful and thoughtful response and action. In contrast, my interaction with and observation of OSS projects and people has been much more positive.
Yeah, we all know that egotism would never play a part in any closed source project or company.
Yeah, he hadn't heard of Linux, but he was planning to investigate this new "OS/2" thing that he had heard mentioned.
Wow, I guess there really are people that absolutely hate to go outside and also manage to have a decent source of income. How else do we explain this? :)
Exactly! A government that dosen't trust it's own people wants the world to trust it to make secure encryption with no published standards and trust that there are no back doors or flaws. And then to trust them to run the Chinese central key servers securely too. If there are serious flaws that they want to take advantage of, then it would seem logical that they would want to make WAPI mandatory (in China at least) too.
That is asking for a lot of trust from the rest of the world.
See my message above yours. The Standard has not been published after being declassified in January 2006. No published code or theory of operation is available to you, me or 6 billion other people to verify that it is secure or that the spec may be secure but the reference source code may have serious bugs that effect the security. Maybe now you can "...see why adding a third is a problem..." and China knows very well why the standard is being rejected by other intelligent nations right now. It dosen't mean that it can't be a standard in the future, just not right now.
China also seems to be in love with the idea of the central server verifing the security between the client and AP. Centralized key serving scares me even when the implementation is known to be secure. The key servers in China will be controlled by whom?
So the Chinese are pushing for a standard that no one can currently verify as being secure and then they get angry?
At $100, $130 or even $150 I would buy one for my inner-geek-child and at least one more to give to some kid that wants/needs one. I personally think that these sound great in concept and hope the reality turns out to be great for the next generation of kids. The growing tech environment around the world will make it tougher to make a living in "purely" IT jobs in the US though.
So, at what point does it become the responsibility of the police to do enough homework to make sure that their investigation dosen't harm many other businesses that are completely uninvolved in the search for evidence? What recourse do the other effected isp customers have?
I have been around Hams for twenty years and the tech has usually stayed interesting. During the late 80's packet radio was starting out. When most people were calling bbs's using modems, hams were sending wireless data. Check out Phil Karn's site. He has a lot of wireless experience as both ham and engineer responsible for much of the CDMA standard.
Want to start with some small radios and learn more about electronics at the same time? There are many interesting kits around if you look. You certainly don't have to spend huge amounts on radios to get started. I paid ~$120US for my VX-2R when they were first introduced. It makes a great general purpose scanner too.
Newer modes like PSK31 are incredibly efficient. A couple of watts of power and 31Hz of radio spectrum and you have error free world wide digital communication at 50wpm. It is difficult to audibly detect the signal while listening, even when you know it is there.
64bit extensions to the IA32 instruction set. No one here is claiming that AMD or intel developed the first 64bit processor.
Isn't this like Pinocchio claiming that he isn't Geppetto's puppet?
Ummm, usually female. runs and hides........