I think that you hit on what I failed to even imply.
By SCO claiming the GPL was not a valid license, they are in effect distributing the work of others without a license to copy or distribute that work. There are very few outcomes to this that could be good for SCO.
Depending on how they turn this around, SCO may not have the permission of the original authors to distribute many of the functional parts of their own product. The Unixware kernel doesn't do much on its own.
The republicans own the media. They won't let peaceful protesters within blocks of the President or in view of a camera taping the President. The debate process blocks anyone with a differing view.
This is just about the only way people have left to voice their views. They aren't hurting anyone and they may very well make themselves look stupid. It is simply peaceful, but unlawful, protest.
To quote Cris Rock, "I'm not saying that its right, but I understand."
Since you are still on 2.4 now, it sounds like you already distrust the even numbered kernels. I don't blame you, I'm still floating back and forth between 2.4 and 2.6 depending on the systems use.
I don't think this changes anything. If you look at the slow adoption of 2.6, the hit-and-miss stability and the general bugginess of 2.6, I think that the kernel devs have been developing in the stable branch since 2.6. The 2.5 unstable series development only changed in name to 2.6. It was more of a marketing/PR thing than a sign of stability.
To those of us who have been watching kernel stability, this is more of an admission than a revelation.
"Of course I didn't license them to sell their mod chips. Their mod chips infringe on the licenses that I already sold to others. Thats why I am sueing them!!! I can't make money if they circumnavigate my licensed sellers."
The modchip itself DOES NOT infringe the licenses that you have sold to others. It will just sit there sucking up power doing absolutely nothing.
Much like a crowbar will sit there until a person uses it to either pry some heavy object or break into someones home.
The action of the user can be illegal, but the tool should not be.
BTW, there is a big difference between renaming a product vs. selling a product WITH something. Under your idiotic view Sony wouldn't want you to sell a PS2 WITH 10 games. It's a freaking addon.
It is rare to see someone taking responsibility for their actions. Bravo.
I have a lot of respect for Robertson. He seems like the cocky smart-ass we would all like to be when it comes to business. BTW, I mean that as a compliment.
His heart seems to be in the right place and he manages to make money at it.
I'm quite sure he isn't through taunting Microsoft. It seems like it is a hobby of his.
There are tabs in Firefox, I use them all the time.
The new tab button isn't on the interface by default, so you have to add it with the view/customize menu option. (Sorry if that isn't exactly right, I'm on a Mozilla system ATM)
Even without it, you can still middle-click or right click for open link in new tab.
Ok, so why couldn't you do away with with the hard drive and boot these as thin clients?
The CPU, ram, drive and motherboard are still the big costs in a computer. Two $40 nvidia dual head cards instead of the extra 3x cpu's, RAM, motherboards, NICs, powersupplies, etc. would save quite a bit of cash. Four terminals for the price of one+$40 isn't bad.
I didn't see an explanation why nvidia cards were needed. If they aren't actually needed, use the onboard video of many motherboards and several really cheap PCI cards.
This could also save electricity in large LTSP installations.
I agree to an extent, but whoever chose IIS over a BSD or Linux solution deserves the termination.
Since you have to rely on someone else to keep their server safe, you can take measures into your own hands and use a browser that safely ignores most known exploits.
Actually there is an extension that will open external applications and folders.
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#extern al app
For a while, I had a Firefox shortcut in my Startup folder. Since I always log in and open Firefox, I figured why not. With this extension, I could open other apps right from the Firefox toolbar.
To open a folder, you have to open Windows Explorer with a location as an argument.
Patent something, wait until it is commonly used, then sue. You are thinking of trademarks, which you do have to defend. You can be as selective as you want with patents.
Why else would anyone patent something? The original intent of patents required you to actually produce a product. This method takes that whole nasty research, production, marketing, distribution non-sense out of your way and it is legal, if not moral.
Yes, Google, copy/paste. But I wondered about it too.
The word Godspeed is used to wish a person good fortune or success, as on starting a journey, a new business, etc. It is usually found in expressions of the sort "to bid (a person) Godspeed."
Godspeed is a nominalization of the phrase God speed (you), understanding which depends on two things: speed in this sense means 'to prosper; succeed', which is now archaic, but which is the original sense of the word; and the verb is subjunctive, expressing a wish, with the entire phrase meaning "may God cause you to succeed." Semantic parallels are such common expressions as God bless you or God forbid!; another nominalization is goddamn (as in "I don't give a good goddamn what you think"), shortened from God damn you.
Seriously, the US taxpayers already paid for this once.
Why wasn't all the data from the NASA research made public so that any organization or individual with enough money could simply buy land, build a launch site, build a ship and launch their own reproduction of the NASA original designs?
The actual building of hardware was outsourced to the lowest bidder anyway, so the designs can't be that hard to reproduce. Hell, I'm sure the people who built the first ones would be glad to make another for the right price.
Not flaming, if your insecure systems are mostly invisible behind NAT and a firewall, it sounds like a good thing. One or two more secured hops to the system sure can't hurt until you have it locked down.
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I agree. Until there is a paying customer, he doesn't have to give away jack shit.
Don't like it? Go get the source from another website and compile it yourself.
I hate to double reply, but I can't edit my previous post.
SCO is breaching the GPL. Remember how you could buy a license for Linux, but you could not redistribute it? That's a GPL no no.
Thanks to those few who signed a legally binding contract for SCO/Linux licenses, there is concrete proof that SCO is distributing Linux illegally.
I think that you hit on what I failed to even imply.
By SCO claiming the GPL was not a valid license, they are in effect distributing the work of others without a license to copy or distribute that work. There are very few outcomes to this that could be good for SCO.
Depending on how they turn this around, SCO may not have the permission of the original authors to distribute many of the functional parts of their own product. The Unixware kernel doesn't do much on its own.
How about their stagnant Unix that is wrapped in GPL software so that it is functional?
The republicans own the media.
They won't let peaceful protesters within blocks of the President or in view of a camera taping the President.
The debate process blocks anyone with a differing view.
This is just about the only way people have left to voice their views. They aren't hurting anyone and they may very well make themselves look stupid. It is simply peaceful, but unlawful, protest.
To quote Cris Rock, "I'm not saying that its right, but I understand."
No, check the release date slippage.
This the the PDA Duke Nukem uses.
Nice title
Watch that karma burn...
Since you are still on 2.4 now, it sounds like you already distrust the even numbered kernels. I don't blame you, I'm still floating back and forth between 2.4 and 2.6 depending on the systems use.
I don't think this changes anything. If you look at the slow adoption of 2.6, the hit-and-miss stability and the general bugginess of 2.6, I think that the kernel devs have been developing in the stable branch since 2.6. The 2.5 unstable series development only changed in name to 2.6. It was more of a marketing/PR thing than a sign of stability.
To those of us who have been watching kernel stability, this is more of an admission than a revelation.
It is sad that you are correct when you try to use sarcasm.
"Of course I didn't license them to sell their mod chips. Their mod chips infringe on the licenses that I already sold to others. Thats why I am sueing them!!! I can't make money if they circumnavigate my licensed sellers."
The modchip itself DOES NOT infringe the licenses that you have sold to others. It will just sit there sucking up power doing absolutely nothing.
Much like a crowbar will sit there until a person uses it to either pry some heavy object or break into someones home.
The action of the user can be illegal, but the tool should not be.
BTW, there is a big difference between renaming a product vs. selling a product WITH something. Under your idiotic view Sony wouldn't want you to sell a PS2 WITH 10 games. It's a freaking addon.
It is rare to see someone taking responsibility for their actions. Bravo.
I have a lot of respect for Robertson. He seems like the cocky smart-ass we would all like to be when it comes to business.
BTW, I mean that as a compliment.
His heart seems to be in the right place and he manages to make money at it.
I'm quite sure he isn't through taunting Microsoft. It seems like it is a hobby of his.
There are tabs in Firefox, I use them all the time.
The new tab button isn't on the interface by default, so you have to add it with the view/customize menu option. (Sorry if that isn't exactly right, I'm on a Mozilla system ATM)
Even without it, you can still middle-click or right click for open link in new tab.
I'm sorry if I don't understand what is missing.
Ok, so why couldn't you do away with with the hard drive and boot these as thin clients?
The CPU, ram, drive and motherboard are still the big costs in a computer. Two $40 nvidia dual head cards instead of the extra 3x cpu's, RAM, motherboards, NICs, powersupplies, etc. would save quite a bit of cash. Four terminals for the price of one+$40 isn't bad.
I didn't see an explanation why nvidia cards were needed. If they aren't actually needed, use the onboard video of many motherboards and several really cheap PCI cards.
This could also save electricity in large LTSP installations.
I'm curious now...
So you have one PC with 4 keyboards/mice/monitors and 4 logged in users working simultaneously in Windows?
You mean there are no terminals (or other PC's) needed to make this happen?
I agree to an extent, but whoever chose IIS over a BSD or Linux solution deserves the termination.
Since you have to rely on someone else to keep their server safe, you can take measures into your own hands and use a browser that safely ignores most known exploits.
Actually there is an extension that will open external applications and folders.
n al app
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#exter
For a while, I had a Firefox shortcut in my Startup folder. Since I always log in and open Firefox, I figured why not. With this extension, I could open other apps right from the Firefox toolbar.
To open a folder, you have to open Windows Explorer with a location as an argument.
It's easier than it sounds. Really.
What? This is how patents are used these days.
Patent something, wait until it is commonly used, then sue. You are thinking of trademarks, which you do have to defend. You can be as selective as you want with patents.
Why else would anyone patent something? The original intent of patents required you to actually produce a product. This method takes that whole nasty research, production, marketing, distribution non-sense out of your way and it is legal, if not moral.
I wish them luck, but getting this much press for a store in a car wash is a big black eye on OSS.
Can you just think of how bad MS and friends will spin this? Lets just keep it quiet and forget about them until there is a serious retail outlet.
We haven't invaded Canada just yet.
Yes, Google, copy/paste. But I wondered about it too.
The word Godspeed is used to wish a person good fortune or success, as on starting a journey, a new business, etc. It is usually found in expressions of the sort "to bid (a person) Godspeed."
Godspeed is a nominalization of the phrase God speed (you), understanding which depends on two things: speed in this sense means 'to prosper; succeed', which is now archaic, but which is the original sense of the word; and the verb is subjunctive, expressing a wish, with the entire phrase meaning "may God cause you to succeed." Semantic parallels are such common expressions as God bless you or God forbid!; another nominalization is goddamn (as in "I don't give a good goddamn what you think"), shortened from God damn you.
Seriously, the US taxpayers already paid for this once.
Why wasn't all the data from the NASA research made public so that any organization or individual with enough money could simply buy land, build a launch site, build a ship and launch their own reproduction of the NASA original designs?
The actual building of hardware was outsourced to the lowest bidder anyway, so the designs can't be that hard to reproduce. Hell, I'm sure the people who built the first ones would be glad to make another for the right price.
I'd love to hear a good answer.
I have to agree with the view that NASA couldn't build a system similar the to Saturn V.
IMHO, it would be over-engineered and over budget from too many cooks in the kitchen and come apart.
With all the cut backs, I doubt they have the collective engineering genius needed to reproduce it even if they stuck to the original blueprints.
This is the group that can't even tell standard from metric we are talking about here.
Cool solution!
Now that I know how to cover up the SYMPTOM of the infection, I can just ignore that I have a virus on my fresh new install of Windows!
I agree, get the router. It isn't optional these days.
So I should reinstall my OS and depend on some third party tool to remove crap installed on it?
What you are saying is that it is impossible to install Windows cleanly?
Try using a firewall/router instead.
If you can't afford a hardware router you can't afford Windows. Add $50+ to the TCO of Windows.
Or if you can't afford that, use another free OS, such as any BSD or Linux.
How is NAT a step backwards?
Not flaming, if your insecure systems are mostly invisible behind NAT and a firewall, it sounds like a good thing. One or two more secured hops to the system sure can't hurt until you have it locked down.
Luckily, sometimes the easy way is the best way.