No. IBM is the only one that's screwed, and they'll get out of it. Their clients did nothing wrong, unless SCO can figure out a way to sue clients who got AIX licenses on the 13th or later.
BTW, this one is for/. editors: Can someone remove the TM on the SCO logo just to piss them off?
... not like IBM needs their help, but they could say "Fuck SCO! SCO, you're losing your Novell UNIX license. Anyone who's been screwed over by SCO, your SCOX license, even if it was terminated, is now a Novell UNIX license under the same terms as the SCOX license with the same remaining time (not counting early termination threats by SCO."
Actually, nobody posted before it appeared to non-subscribers... I know... I'm a non-subscriber like you. Anyway, SCO needs to read/. and see what they've done.
Umm... The artists don't get nearly all of that $20. THEY deserve it. If you want to pay them, go to a damn concert or find their e-mail and PayPal it to them, don't buy one of their CDs.
What if it's a demo for a GC game that ISN'T ON THE DEMO UNITS? What if it's Windows XP? (ok, MS DOES offer a demo of that, but AFAIK you have to buy the Office 11 eval kit for $30, which also has WS2K3 included and all of the Office Server crap.
Do you have two blank CDs of the same type and brand (for example, two PNY 700MB 16x gold CD-Rs, or two Memorex 700MB 4x CD-RWs)? Burn ONE, and look at BOTH. The color of the one you DIDN'T BURN is the same color as the blank area on the one you DID BURN. Or, if you've only got one, use DirectCD (if you have it, but if you don't, Roxio has trials of Easy CD Creator), burn only 100MB to the disc, and when you finalize, leave the disc open for further writing. Look at it once it's finalized. Pop it back in and burn another 100MB, rinse, lather, pop it out, and look again. The burned area, on the INSIDE, will be larger!
It was initally released as a hobby UNIX for PCs, and I've heard it was by far the fastest UNIX at the time, but QNX pulled out before they got popular. BTW, the old rule of thumb is: You're at least a personal, if not desktop OS if you can run Doom on it. Someone's ported Doom to QNX.
Windows x.x (up to 4.9, which is ME) is based on the monolitic DOS kernel. I think all versions of NT (the first version of NT was 3.1) are microkernels, as "Just for Fun", by Linus Torvalds, quotes a nasty comp.os.minix flame by Andrew Tanenbaum in 1991 or 1992, saying that Linux was outdated, and listed a few monlithic OSes, then bashed them and listed a few microkernels, including Windows NT. NT wasn't released until 1993, so it was a microkernel from the start.
Windows could be... ahem... modified like the embeddingwindows.com people have done... They've pulled off an 8MB install of W98SE. Of course, they mention that you have to sign an NDA for "your" and their protection. It's the 98lite people, which scares me more. I thought they were trying to get us away from the MS secrecy by showing us that it IS possible to remove IE from 98. And now, they shut up all who want to give out the EOS secrets... arrgh! Anyone want to try to beat them? They've got it in 7.96MB, but that's on a 511MB FAT16 partition, not an 8MB FAT12 partition. AFAIK, cluster size goes up as FAT table bit-depth goes down. Higher cluster size means less efficient use of space, so lots of tiny files can cause big problems.
JavaPOS, anyone? It's platform independent, and it's becoming pretty popular. Unfortunately, supporters of it also trust MS OPOS. But, this wasn't supposed to be a MS roast, just a "what can this guy do to use Linux, because it's free".
I knew that it could be in the kernel, but on mine I get "filetype ntfs is not supported by the kernel". I'm thinking of putting a 1GB FAT32 partition on the box just to make file transfers easier, and let other alternative operating systems have some working space (I'd like to see what BeOS is like, but it needs a FAT16/32 filesystem).
I don't know if it's a brick, and it's Symbian instead of GEOS, but the Nokia 9210 might be good. It's also got a color screen... drool... I need the 9290, because I live in the US, but the 9000i implies you live in Europe or Asia, so a 9210 will do the trick. (Actually, the 9290 is a relabled 9210 with a different GSM signal for the US)
Then don't look at entry 41 on the show us your equipment contest. I suspect it's Pr0nboy, but he was a little late (go to the submission page, not the main page, because it's not there)
Thing is, I've lost the 56K modem's special cable, and if it does mess up, it'd be damn hard to work with to get IE back. I do have Opera, but I'd have to make COMMAND.COM my shell... shudder...
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Hmm... should I get Sport, Leather, or Metal? I'm thinking Leather, because Sport wouldn't fit right, and Metal... YOW!
No. IBM is the only one that's screwed, and they'll get out of it. Their clients did nothing wrong, unless SCO can figure out a way to sue clients who got AIX licenses on the 13th or later.
/. editors: Can someone remove the TM on the SCO logo just to piss them off?
BTW, this one is for
OT? I thought this was something on IBM vs. SCO! Someone's betting that IBM will win! OT? NOT!
... not like IBM needs their help, but they could say "Fuck SCO! SCO, you're losing your Novell UNIX license. Anyone who's been screwed over by SCO, your SCOX license, even if it was terminated, is now a Novell UNIX license under the same terms as the SCOX license with the same remaining time (not counting early termination threats by SCO."
Actually, nobody posted before it appeared to non-subscribers... I know... I'm a non-subscriber like you. Anyway, SCO needs to read /. and see what they've done.
Umm... The artists don't get nearly all of that $20. THEY deserve it. If you want to pay them, go to a damn concert or find their e-mail and PayPal it to them, don't buy one of their CDs.
What if it's a demo for a GC game that ISN'T ON THE DEMO UNITS? What if it's Windows XP? (ok, MS DOES offer a demo of that, but AFAIK you have to buy the Office 11 eval kit for $30, which also has WS2K3 included and all of the Office Server crap.
Do you have two blank CDs of the same type and brand (for example, two PNY 700MB 16x gold CD-Rs, or two Memorex 700MB 4x CD-RWs)? Burn ONE, and look at BOTH. The color of the one you DIDN'T BURN is the same color as the blank area on the one you DID BURN. Or, if you've only got one, use DirectCD (if you have it, but if you don't, Roxio has trials of Easy CD Creator), burn only 100MB to the disc, and when you finalize, leave the disc open for further writing. Look at it once it's finalized. Pop it back in and burn another 100MB, rinse, lather, pop it out, and look again. The burned area, on the INSIDE, will be larger!
It was initally released as a hobby UNIX for PCs, and I've heard it was by far the fastest UNIX at the time, but QNX pulled out before they got popular. BTW, the old rule of thumb is: You're at least a personal, if not desktop OS if you can run Doom on it. Someone's ported Doom to QNX.
They dodged a lawsuit by changing their name from Quick UNIX (long form)/QUNIX (that's also how you say QNX) to QNX. So, I don't think they do.
But Windows 3.x is a polished version of the Windows 2.x/OS/2 1.1 interface. (1.2/1.3 were copies of the Windows 3.x interface)
Windows x.x (up to 4.9, which is ME) is based on the monolitic DOS kernel. I think all versions of NT (the first version of NT was 3.1) are microkernels, as "Just for Fun", by Linus Torvalds, quotes a nasty comp.os.minix flame by Andrew Tanenbaum in 1991 or 1992, saying that Linux was outdated, and listed a few monlithic OSes, then bashed them and listed a few microkernels, including Windows NT. NT wasn't released until 1993, so it was a microkernel from the start.
Windows could be... ahem... modified like the embeddingwindows.com people have done... They've pulled off an 8MB install of W98SE. Of course, they mention that you have to sign an NDA for "your" and their protection. It's the 98lite people, which scares me more. I thought they were trying to get us away from the MS secrecy by showing us that it IS possible to remove IE from 98. And now, they shut up all who want to give out the EOS secrets... arrgh! Anyone want to try to beat them? They've got it in 7.96MB, but that's on a 511MB FAT16 partition, not an 8MB FAT12 partition. AFAIK, cluster size goes up as FAT table bit-depth goes down. Higher cluster size means less efficient use of space, so lots of tiny files can cause big problems.
It's ERIC, Pr0nboy. I saw your entry in the photo contest sign-up page. That was nasty. Your e-mail is pr0nboy@hotmail.com, right?
1275 fps?!?!? What do you have, a P6-12GHz with a nVidia Geforce9?
Flaming someone for being an AC while you yourself are an AC is funny.
JavaPOS, anyone? It's platform independent, and it's becoming pretty popular. Unfortunately, supporters of it also trust MS OPOS. But, this wasn't supposed to be a MS roast, just a "what can this guy do to use Linux, because it's free".
I knew that it could be in the kernel, but on mine I get "filetype ntfs is not supported by the kernel". I'm thinking of putting a 1GB FAT32 partition on the box just to make file transfers easier, and let other alternative operating systems have some working space (I'd like to see what BeOS is like, but it needs a FAT16/32 filesystem).
... get this seat to stop grabbing my ass!
Opera M2, anyone (ok, so I don't know if it's on cell phones yet, but...)
I don't know if it's a brick, and it's Symbian instead of GEOS, but the Nokia 9210 might be good. It's also got a color screen... drool... I need the 9290, because I live in the US, but the 9000i implies you live in Europe or Asia, so a 9210 will do the trick. (Actually, the 9290 is a relabled 9210 with a different GSM signal for the US)
Then don't look at entry 41 on the show us your equipment contest. I suspect it's Pr0nboy, but he was a little late (go to the submission page, not the main page, because it's not there)
FFFFT.... OH SHIT! THE PC FELL APART!
Oh well. It'll teach those arrogant little kiddies not to fart, I guess.
Try this site, and see what you think then:
. htm
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blwingdings
Thing is, I've lost the 56K modem's special cable, and if it does mess up, it'd be damn hard to work with to get IE back. I do have Opera, but I'd have to make COMMAND.COM my shell... shudder...