The reason they could have the same failure rate is because the subset you have tested is not sufficient to give statistically correct information.
for example: 100 brand X drives were bought and the first day 2 drives fail, but the remainder continue to work for the next 5 years. This senario would hold true for the above case, and show that for the sample sets, the failure rate was the same.
MC: "Where do you want to go today?" ME: alt.binaries.pictures.erotica MC: I'm sorry, but that msnews group is not found MC: "Where do you want to go today?" ME: comp.os.linux MC: "now viewing comp.os.windows"
> Can we drop phrases like "Banana Republic"? It's pretty patronizing.
Nah. Living in Australia, the land of the Banana Republic, led by President Bonsai[1], who is controlled by ARIA[2] and voted in by people who hate his policies just show that banana republics are going quite well in this age of technology.
Unless, of course, you were implying that is was patronizing to banana growers.
[1] - the Australian Labour Party front bench has started calling John Howard "bonsai" because he is a "baby Bush".
[2] - ARIA, the Australian record industry assoc. (baby RIAA)
I thought the "new standards" were resolved and it is called IPv6.
Why force companies to spend money implementing "more complex" solutions that would amount to nothing more than a stop gap.
The big problem is IP address space is a finite resource, and with all finite resources companies will continue to use the resource until it is gone before seriously looking for a replacement.
Even after they run out, companies will not simply throw away their IPv4 assignments to convert to IPv6 because after the pool is empty, the address the company holds will be worth a lot more. IPv6 can connect to an IPv4 network so they will still receive users who have IPv6.
SCO kind of reminds me of the "Legitimate" businessmens club...
And I can picture "representives" from each business sitting in a dark, smoke filled room lit by a single lightbulb suspended above the table.
As the head of the organisation, the Microsoft representative welcomes everyone to the meeting and then introducing the newest member to the "family"; SCO.
neither are knives, but if I am found to be carrying one in the street I could be chared with possession of a deadly weapon. I would not be charged with possession of a "kitchen utensil used in the preparation and consumption of food".
On a side note. I've seen women with fingernails that resemble knives (and yes they can be sharp). Would these women be required to cut their nails if traveling by plane? And if so, how can they cut them as their nail clippers have been confiscated?
I thought that windows security was when the user cuts the power cord with a knife while the computer was running. Removes the computer from the internet, and removes the user from life. Thus preventing any "hacker" from obtaining information from either the computer or the user.
When has the fact that something has legitamate uses stop the authorities/companies from making it illegal.
ie: DeCSS Lock picks / slimjims (is that one or two words?) Guns Knives Crossbows (They ARE illegal in Australia excl Victoria)
I once knew a guy at my school who had his head bashed in with a hammer. Maybe we will have to go back to hitting nails with rocks (nope, they should be banned too because they can kill).
Thanks for the (OT) correction. it is late here. There are some companies out there that do in fact do this. Sigma Designs drivers for the EM84xx chips have a GPL'd kernel driver and a closed source shared library.
The only issue with this is that even though the kernel driver is open source, it exists purely as a "RING 0 gateway" for the shared library. So if bugs exist, they cannot be fixed by the open source community.
Here, here. And to those people out there of the form "I want everything open source, death to binary modules...". Say it with your wallet, don't buy the hardware, email 3DLabs and, in a diplomatic manner, inform them that you have decided not to purchase their product because there drivers are not compatible with your ideals.
Personally, I believe that binary drivers are better than no drivers (as long as the company maintains them) but if the company is not prepared to maintain them, the drivers should never be released.
It was rock music, then video games, then rock music, then video games, then Marilyn Manson, then Quake(I/II/3a).
There is a connection between violent video games / music and fucked up children. Fucked up children enjoy playing violent video games and listening to music about death (or whatever). But a lot of normal children also enjoy these passtimes.
What people need to understand is that it is not the games / music that fucks up the kids, they were like that way before. Parents should look at the childs environment for possible causes of the childs antisocial behaviour.
Think of violent video games / music as more of a warning system rather than a cause.
I've just finished reading through the GPL and no where does it state that by using software covered by the GPL you will explicitly give credit to the GNU foundation by prepending GNU/ to the name of your product.
As can be wittnessed in the classic "Cannibal the Musical" in which Alferd and friends stumble across a Ute Indian camp. The tribe was called the Nihon-jin. The Indians were all played by Japanese people from The uni and others.
Get the DVD, some friends, a bottle of Scotch and watch it with the directors commentary. very funny
I'd watch out if I were you, sprinf is a macro that is defined in SCO.h. I have managed to see the code that SCO has been showing people and this appears in one portion:/* sprinf
* (c) 1989 SCO
* The purpose of this macro is to prevent brain
* dead compilers from barfing when they cannot
* handle code from even more brain dead programmers
*/
The real reason that Apple didn't go with Linux is because they had a conversation with RMS. The outcome of which would have resulted in the calling of the product GNU/Linux/OSX/Aqua. Apple just couldn't bring themselves to share the product name with any other company/entity.
I remember once I had to get "root" access on OSX. So I held down the two buttons on the bottom left of the mac keyboard (I don't have one here, so I can't say which ones). Then held down 'S' (or a key around that area) and powered on the box (If you could call it a box) I was then presented with a bash prompt and full access. Sort of like init=/bin/sh, or single user mode.
So you do not need buffer overflows or anything like that if you have the box in front of you and you have a hammer.
DOS: smash the box until it no longer works. root exploit: smash the box and get the hard disk. Plug that into another computer.
Actually the C-64 only had 32K of ram + 32K rom. OTOH, the Plus4 had full 64K ram + 32K rom with the rom mapped to the high 32K ram. The two could be switch with an asm flag. If only the Plus4 was compatible with the C-64, but that is all history.
To SCO: You say the same code exists in both Linux and your product. You have also shown snippets of the offending code. But, you have yet to show any proof of where the code actually originated. Is it that you can not show timelines of the code process?
From SCO: As you can see from the following timeline the origin of the code is clear:
1996 SMP scalability added to Linux kernel 1999 SMP improvements by IBM
2000 SCO employee "develops" SMP scalability 2003 SCO determines Linux and SCO share the same code.
Please note that these values are made up and are very bias.
The only thing that SCO has claimed is that in fact the two products share the same code.
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Maybe freesco is the underground party who released the SCO code into the Linux Kernel.
The reason they could have the same failure rate is because the subset you have tested is not sufficient to give statistically correct information.
for example: 100 brand X drives were bought and the first day 2 drives fail, but the remainder continue to work for the next 5 years. This senario would hold true for the above case, and show that for the sample sets, the failure rate was the same.
Lies, damn lies, and statistics
All I want is a Mr Clippy...
MC: "Where do you want to go today?"
ME: alt.binaries.pictures.erotica
MC: I'm sorry, but that msnews group is not found
MC: "Where do you want to go today?"
ME: comp.os.linux
MC: "now viewing comp.os.windows"
> Can we drop phrases like "Banana Republic"? It's pretty patronizing.
Nah. Living in Australia, the land of the Banana Republic, led by President Bonsai[1], who is controlled by ARIA[2] and voted in by people who hate his policies just show that banana republics are going quite well in this age of technology.
Unless, of course, you were implying that is was patronizing to banana growers.
[1] - the Australian Labour Party front bench has started calling John Howard "bonsai" because he is a "baby Bush".
[2] - ARIA, the Australian record industry assoc. (baby RIAA)
I thought the "new standards" were resolved and it is called IPv6.
Why force companies to spend money implementing "more complex" solutions that would amount to nothing more than a stop gap.
The big problem is IP address space is a finite resource, and with all finite resources companies will continue to use the resource until it is gone before seriously looking for a replacement.
Even after they run out, companies will not simply throw away their IPv4 assignments to convert to IPv6 because after the pool is empty, the address the company holds will be worth a lot more. IPv6 can connect to an IPv4 network so they will still receive users who have IPv6.
Quoth:
>You can thank the now Mrs. Gates.
I guess that is why it is/was called Microsoft Bob. That is what she was doing when she thought of it.
-5 Disturbing
Quote: "We are currently working on a version with faster processor speed. Please check back with us in a couple of months for more information."
In other words: Don't buy our current product. We will use the non-existant money we make from not selling version one to make version two.
Didn't other companies go broke due to similar statements?
SCO kind of reminds me of the "Legitimate" businessmens club...
And I can picture "representives" from each business sitting in a dark, smoke filled room lit by a single lightbulb suspended above the table.
As the head of the organisation, the Microsoft representative welcomes everyone to the meeting and then introducing the newest member to the "family"; SCO.
neither are knives, but if I am found to be carrying one in the street I could be chared with possession of a deadly weapon. I would not be charged with possession of a "kitchen utensil used in the preparation and consumption of food".
On a side note. I've seen women with fingernails that resemble knives (and yes they can be sharp). Would these women be required to cut their nails if traveling by plane? And if so, how can they cut them as their nail clippers have been confiscated?
I thought that windows security was when the user cuts the power cord with a knife while the computer was running. Removes the computer from the internet, and removes the user from life. Thus preventing any "hacker" from obtaining information from either the computer or the user.
When has the fact that something has legitamate uses stop the authorities/companies from making it illegal.
ie: DeCSS
Lock picks / slimjims (is that one or two words?)
Guns
Knives
Crossbows (They ARE illegal in Australia excl Victoria)
I once knew a guy at my school who had his head bashed in with a hammer. Maybe we will have to go back to hitting nails with rocks (nope, they should be banned too because they can kill).
Thanks for the (OT) correction. it is late here. There are some companies out there that do in fact do this. Sigma Designs drivers for the EM84xx chips have a GPL'd kernel driver and a closed source shared library.
The only issue with this is that even though the kernel driver is open source, it exists purely as a "RING 0 gateway" for the shared library. So if bugs exist, they cannot be fixed by the open source community.
Here, here. And to those people out there of the form "I want everything open source, death to binary modules...". Say it with your wallet, don't buy the hardware, email 3DLabs and, in a diplomatic manner, inform them that you have decided not to purchase their product because there drivers are not compatible with your ideals.
Personally, I believe that binary drivers are better than no drivers (as long as the company maintains them) but if the company is not prepared to maintain them, the drivers should never be released.
It was rock music, then video games, then rock music, then video games, then Marilyn Manson, then Quake(I/II/3a).
There is a connection between violent video games / music and fucked up children. Fucked up children enjoy playing violent video games and listening to music about death (or whatever). But a lot of normal children also enjoy these passtimes.
What people need to understand is that it is not the games / music that fucks up the kids, they were like that way before. Parents should look at the childs environment for possible causes of the childs antisocial behaviour.
Think of violent video games / music as more of a warning system rather than a cause.
I've just finished reading through the GPL and no where does it state that by using software covered by the GPL you will explicitly give credit to the GNU foundation by prepending GNU/ to the name of your product.
As can be wittnessed in the classic "Cannibal the Musical" in which Alferd and friends stumble across a Ute Indian camp. The tribe was called the Nihon-jin. The Indians were all played by Japanese people from The uni and others.
Get the DVD, some friends, a bottle of Scotch and watch it with the directors commentary. very funny
>(I'm NOT mentioning any names, they know who they are)
Why not, don't you know tip 3 of the karma whoring for dummies:
3. if you mention Microsoft if a post you automagically get a +2.
If you write it with a $. ie Micro$oft you can even get more.
Micro$oft can also be written simply as M$.
I'd watch out if I were you, sprinf is a macro that is defined in SCO.h. I have managed to see the code that SCO has been showing people and this appears in one portion: /* sprinf
* (c) 1989 SCO
* The purpose of this macro is to prevent brain
* dead compilers from barfing when they cannot
* handle code from even more brain dead programmers
*/
#define sprinf sprintf
I was wondering, what part of OpenServer is actually open?
Is is the code they "borrowed" from Linus?
The real reason that Apple didn't go with Linux is because they had a conversation with RMS. The outcome of which would have resulted in the calling of the product GNU/Linux/OSX/Aqua. Apple just couldn't bring themselves to share the product name with any other company/entity.
I remember once I had to get "root" access on OSX. So I held down the two buttons on the bottom left of the mac keyboard (I don't have one here, so I can't say which ones). Then held down 'S' (or a key around that area) and powered on the box (If you could call it a box) I was then presented with a bash prompt and full access. Sort of like init=/bin/sh, or single user mode.
So you do not need buffer overflows or anything like that if you have the box in front of you and you have a hammer.
DOS: smash the box until it no longer works.
root exploit: smash the box and get the hard disk. Plug that into another computer.
I wasn't trying to be funny. I actually do stand corrected. It is just that my previous post was so far off, and the above reply was very correcting.
So I stand very corrected.
I stand VERY corrected
Actually the C-64 only had 32K of ram + 32K rom. OTOH, the Plus4 had full 64K ram + 32K rom with the rom mapped to the high 32K ram. The two could be switch with an asm flag. If only the Plus4 was compatible with the C-64, but that is all history.
To SCO: You say the same code exists in both Linux and your product. You have also shown snippets of the offending code. But, you have yet to show any proof of where the code actually originated. Is it that you can not show timelines of the code process?
From SCO: As you can see from the following timeline the origin of the code is clear:
1996 SMP scalability added to Linux kernel
1999 SMP improvements by IBM
2000 SCO employee "develops" SMP scalability
2003 SCO determines Linux and SCO share the same code.
Please note that these values are made up and are very bias.
The only thing that SCO has claimed is that in fact the two products share the same code.