There was a usenet thread recently in either uk.tech.broadcast or uk.tech.digital-tv (sorry, can't find it at the mo) from someone in the UK who had purchased a laptop with an inbuilt TV tuner then received a letter from the TV Licencing Authorities advising them they need a licence.
Why all this hate for e360insight? I understand they tried to deal fairly and amicably with Spamhaus and attempted to contact them numerous times by email.
Is it their their fault that they didn't get anywhere because Spamhaus didn't get their mails (sooo they say)?
I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes about 5 years ago. No-one in the family (either side) has diabetes and there is no family history of it either. I am not overweight for my height (6ft 2in), my diet is reasonably balanced and healthy (I reckon I visit KFC/McDs/Burger King etc. about 5 times a year) and the doctors think I became diabetic as a result of a viral infection.
I don't get annoyed at people who post 'diabetes = fat people' messages 'cos there's no point, but it worth reiterating that although you can put yourself into a diabetic state through lifestyle choices, for many 'it just/shit happens'.
In other news, SCO has requested a full source code dump of the soon-to-be-released blockbuster game 'Duke Nukem Forever', claiming to have evidence that certain aspects of the game closely resemble (or may have been copied) from their seminal (but also as yet unpublished) game 'Nuke Ducks Forever' - an innovative 'first person shooter' designed to appeal to fans of the growing-in-popularity sport of extreme small-game hunting.
The assets of the bankrupt company belong to the creditors - that would in the majority be IBM so, in effect IBM would be able to use these assets to realise any monies owed.
In light of the fact that some of the potential 'assets' of SCO would have included the costs awarded to them IF they had won the case, IBM could now withdraw their request for summary judgement and pursue the claim(s) formerly alleged by SCO.
Now, since IBM is also a defendent in the case, they could ADMIT the claims in the original SCO lawsuit and pay themselves nominal damages BUT also now have the case proven and so open the floodgates for them to pursue Red Hat, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Slackware developers etc. etc. and each and every corporate and private Linux user.
The result would be that IBM becomes the most evil force in the empire, Microsoft becomes the people's friend, Bill Gates is made a saint and everyone starts installing GND/HURD (but can't explain why), the world's economic infrastructure implodes and the only way to do any serious computing is to submit a batched application via teleprinter to your local University who had the forsesight to store their old VAX 11/750 in 1987 'just in case'.
L3K
PS : IANALAMTUFCE
(I am not a lawyer and made this up for comic effect)
Trixbox is great, but the latest release (1.2) is giving lots of people grief as when they apply changes in FreePBX (click the red top bar) the whole lot needs to be restarted (amportal restart at the command line) as many trunks and extensions suddenly drop off the system - many over at the Trixbox forum are debating the problem which seems to be somewhere in between the latest release of Asterisk, FreePBX and the Trixbox assemblage.
Rob, any knowledge of this - some seem to have a more stable system if they downgrade to asterisk 1.2.9?
Hey, a wheel looks like a zero - as in 'ones and zeroes' - and as we all well know, SCO owns the rights on many combinations of those, so bend over - here come the lawyers.
"A Microsoft-sponsored study found that Vista will be a boon to European economy, as it 'will create more than 50,000 technology jobs in six large European countries and will lead to a flood of economic benefits for companies there...,"
"A Microsoft-sponsored study found that Vista will be such a pain in the ass to install and support that it 'will create more than 50,000 IT support jobs in six large European countries and will lead to a flood of complaints for companies there..."
Digg picked this up the the other day, but it has been talked about on mobile phone forums for at least 8 months so I think we are chasing some very old tails.
What if the M$ techs reverse-engineered the fairuse4wm.exe app to see how it worked and to implement the patch? Wouldn't they be breaking some software-type copyright laws in doing this;-)...and just to add that my wife paid for and downloaded 10 tracks for her mp3 player the other day only to find that the drm on them meant she couldn't get them from her PC to mp3 player. After using the fairuse software we got 8 of them over - discuss!
Totally agree - it's a pain and has happened to some of our laptops which suddenly 'decided' they were not running genuine versions of windows even though they were.
The real pain-in-the-ass though is that wonderful message '...an update has been installed that required a reboot...' - that really hurts when you left the office with your PC password locked and running a ssh session doing something unspeakbly long on a Linux server.
Don't have a problem with any of that - will the world stop turning, will we all move onto something else, will other people pick up the reins, will we have all survived WWIII?
Who knows but life will go on in one shape or form.
That codec thingy's going to be a real bitch on my servers.
You are making the assumption that I eluded to in my OP - I'll use Linux where it suits me and other OSs where necessary - it's no big thing - I don't really hang my head in shame because every system I own or use isn't running Linux.
Eric's argument presumes there is a *need* to 'Win over' the iPod generation.
Is the clock ticking? If we don't get them on board, will Linux implode by 1st January 200x? Must we hunt down, corner and 'convert' that last Windows user?
Hey, here's a thing, Eric: What if we work on the basis that those who need or want Linux will continue to do so, those who develop and support the product for love or money will also do so and those that want to have a looksee will do so and and may or may not choose to use it? Simple!
Chill out - there's more important things to worry about.
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There was a usenet thread recently in either uk.tech.broadcast or uk.tech.digital-tv (sorry, can't find it at the mo) from someone in the UK who had purchased a laptop with an inbuilt TV tuner then received a letter from the TV Licencing Authorities advising them they need a licence.
Why all this hate for e360insight? I understand they tried to deal fairly and amicably with Spamhaus and attempted to contact them numerous times by email.
Is it their their fault that they didn't get anywhere because Spamhaus didn't get their mails (sooo they say)?
Rubbish!
Aliens will find:
Fscking AOL CDs
Chewing gum stains on all underfoot surfaces
The Duke Nukem Forever development team still hard at work
Check up on the Chromium carefully - it may not be as safe as once thought.
Linker3000
(T2 on Metformin and Novonorm (repaglinide) amongst other things)
Oh, if only I could give you mod points...
I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes about 5 years ago. No-one in the family (either side) has diabetes and there is no family history of it either. I am not overweight for my height (6ft 2in), my diet is reasonably balanced and healthy (I reckon I visit KFC/McDs/Burger King etc. about 5 times a year) and the doctors think I became diabetic as a result of a viral infection.
I don't get annoyed at people who post 'diabetes = fat people' messages 'cos there's no point, but it worth reiterating that although you can put yourself into a diabetic state through lifestyle choices, for many 'it just/shit happens'.
In other news, SCO has requested a full source code dump of the soon-to-be-released blockbuster game 'Duke Nukem Forever', claiming to have evidence that certain aspects of the game closely resemble (or may have been copied) from their seminal (but also as yet unpublished) game 'Nuke Ducks Forever' - an innovative 'first person shooter' designed to appeal to fans of the growing-in-popularity sport of extreme small-game hunting.
Allegedly, some grumpy old lunar citizen shouted 'get that damn contraption off my lawn!'
Thanks,
References to 'IBM' will be replaced with 'Novell' as part of a patch kit to be released next Tuesday.
Changelog
=========
Bug #0001: Replace 'IBM' with 'Novell'
Bug #0002: Replace 'GND/HURD' with 'GNU/HURD' before RMS finds out and has a hissy fit
Well, I am glad that's finally sorted - I've been losing sleep over the issue for years.
Funny and disturbing at the same time.
The artist needs to get out more!
Actually,
The assets of the bankrupt company belong to the creditors - that would in the majority be IBM so, in effect IBM would be able to use these assets to realise any monies owed.
In light of the fact that some of the potential 'assets' of SCO would have included the costs awarded to them IF they had won the case, IBM could now withdraw their request for summary judgement and pursue the claim(s) formerly alleged by SCO.
Now, since IBM is also a defendent in the case, they could ADMIT the claims in the original SCO lawsuit and pay themselves nominal damages BUT also now have the case proven and so open the floodgates for them to pursue Red Hat, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Slackware developers etc. etc. and each and every corporate and private Linux user.
The result would be that IBM becomes the most evil force in the empire, Microsoft becomes the people's friend, Bill Gates is made a saint and everyone starts installing GND/HURD (but can't explain why), the world's economic infrastructure implodes and the only way to do any serious computing is to submit a batched application via teleprinter to your local University who had the forsesight to store their old VAX 11/750 in 1987 'just in case'.
L3K
PS : IANALAMTUFCE
(I am not a lawyer and made this up for comic effect)
Where can we find more details of the entire recall - TFA didn't mention it and the SOny Web site seems to just be full of how wonderful they are.
Yep,
You could go on the pill or have your tubes tied!
Trixbox is great, but the latest release (1.2) is giving lots of people grief as when they apply changes in FreePBX (click the red top bar) the whole lot needs to be restarted (amportal restart at the command line) as many trunks and extensions suddenly drop off the system - many over at the Trixbox forum are debating the problem which seems to be somewhere in between the latest release of Asterisk, FreePBX and the Trixbox assemblage.
Rob, any knowledge of this - some seem to have a more stable system if they downgrade to asterisk 1.2.9?
Hey, a wheel looks like a zero - as in 'ones and zeroes' - and as we all well know, SCO owns the rights on many combinations of those, so bend over - here come the lawyers.
"A Microsoft-sponsored study found that Vista will be a boon to European economy, as it 'will create more than 50,000 technology jobs in six large European countries and will lead to a flood of economic benefits for companies there...,"
"A Microsoft-sponsored study found that Vista will be such a pain in the ass to install and support that it 'will create more than 50,000 IT support jobs in six large European countries and will lead to a flood of complaints for companies there..."
Which all just goes to show that satire on the wrong hands is just plain dull.
Well,
Digg picked this up the the other day, but it has been talked about on mobile phone forums for at least 8 months so I think we are chasing some very old tails.
What if the M$ techs reverse-engineered the fairuse4wm.exe app to see how it worked and to implement the patch? Wouldn't they be breaking some software-type copyright laws in doing this ;-) ...and just to add that my wife paid for and downloaded 10 tracks for her mp3 player the other day only to find that the drm on them meant she couldn't get them from her PC to mp3 player. After using the fairuse software we got 8 of them over - discuss!
Thanks - caught sight of the app last week!
Totally agree - it's a pain and has happened to some of our laptops which suddenly 'decided' they were not running genuine versions of windows even though they were.
The real pain-in-the-ass though is that wonderful message '...an update has been installed that required a reboot...' - that really hurts when you left the office with your PC password locked and running a ssh session doing something unspeakbly long on a Linux server.
Good job the auto reboot can be disabled.
Yep,
Don't have a problem with any of that - will the world stop turning, will we all move onto something else, will other people pick up the reins, will we have all survived WWIII?
Who knows but life will go on in one shape or form.
That codec thingy's going to be a real bitch on my servers.
You are making the assumption that I eluded to in my OP - I'll use Linux where it suits me and other OSs where necessary - it's no big thing - I don't really hang my head in shame because every system I own or use isn't running Linux.
Eric's argument presumes there is a *need* to 'Win over' the iPod generation.
Is the clock ticking? If we don't get them on board, will Linux implode by 1st January 200x? Must we hunt down, corner and 'convert' that last Windows user?
Hey, here's a thing, Eric: What if we work on the basis that those who need or want Linux will continue to do so, those who develop and support the product for love or money will also do so and those that want to have a looksee will do so and and may or may not choose to use it? Simple!
Chill out - there's more important things to worry about.
No, Microsoft will start a new initiative called the Genuine Double Patch Advantage (GDPA)