I don't see it that way. SCO is taking on production houses, not Universal or BMG. MPAA members have a vested interest in supporting SCO's claims from an IP solidarity perspective. The costs passed on to them from $700 per machine paid by independent contractors is chicken feed compared to the cost of shooting the Titanic. This move shows just how clever, and revoltingly slimey, McBride really is. It also demonstrates again how SCO is no longer a tech company.
If you put on the "Twilight Zone" cap and "Outer Limits" goggles, there is a twisted perspective in which SCO can be trying to demonstrate they care about Intellectual Property so much they're willing to pay you to respect it, to their own detriment. Who wouldn't believe a company willing to commit such self-sacrifice for principle doesn't have righteousness on their side? Nauseous faux-religious manipulation of public opinion.
This doesn't make any sense. If SCO were sold it's then former owners would have enough money to pay legal fees on a normal per-service basis. Giving them a percentage of the sale cost puts it in Bois best interest to help pump the stock price up as high as possible by manipulating public perceptions and see this trial, assuming they believe as everyone but (possibly) Darl does it's unwinnable, never makes it to court. All of which has nothing to do with the justice system.
More precisely, new and/or closed (ie. winmodems) hardware. Cutting edge stuff will always be a problem for an OS manufacturers don't support. This is a popularity problem, not a core design issue.
Wrong distro? I play radio, TV, DVDs and any number of video codecs that make the standard Windows desktop puke with no effort at all. The installation was as hard as typing (obligatory Gentoo plug apology) 'emerge mplayer', 'emerge tvtime', 'emerge win32codecs' etc. The standard mplayer demo trick is to load the desktop with multiple instances playing different videos. Works beautifully here.
One of my machines, a p2 366 notebook with a 4 meg Mach 64 ATI card plays full screen movies over a network. Admittedly the latter was tough to do, but I suspect it's impossible in XP on this hardware. I'm amazed someone with the ability to modify power management byte code, which I completely lack, can't achieve the same.
Linux on the desktop seems to have done its best to imitate Windows on the desktop. If you want a user interface better than a pale imitation of Microsoft, then MacOS X is your OS.
Can we agree to finally put this canard to rest? No OS has more variety on the desktop than Linux. Yes, two popular desktop environments - KDE and Gnome - are similar to Windows. Fluxbox and Windowmaker, popular as well, aren't close. XFce4 looks like OS-X. Ion attempts to replicate the terminal. Claiming the Linux desktops are "a pale imitation of Microsoft" is either disingenuous or uninformed.
What if you already know the name of a purported hitman and find his number in the residential phone book? Are the Telcos liable? Are they liable for listing the name of the person you approach for information about hitmen?
Here's what I read. "illegal combatant" was a term made up during World War Two to prosecute and execute a half-dozen Nazi conspirators captured on US soil. One of the upper eschelon Nazis devised some hair brained scheme to transport these men by sub to the Atlantic coast with a pile of munitions with the intent to wreak havoc on the US' wartime industrial capability. I recall it took about a week for one to rat out the rest and they were all quickly imprisoned. This was at the peak of WW2 hostilities and the Americans understandably went off their nut. Since at the time there was no category by which these men would face certain execution, the category illegal combatant was devised.
It is not a core part of the Geneva convention and my understanding is Bush is the only one to use it after WW2. His use of it is reprehensible.
Oddly enough, yes. Underclock the CPU. A closet server's performance bottleneck will likely be I/O anyway. Trade unused performance overhead for cooler temps and longer device life.
I'm not much of PDA guy, but I bring a 5500 to work and use it to back up my Contacts and Calendar from the Exchange server daily. The QTopia apps work well enough. Keychain holds my passwords and logins in Blowfish safety. Never had a problem with the Hancom Office apps. Battery life in normal sleep mode is pretty good, it goes days without charging. Samba and NFS work perfectly. If my cell phone (Nokia) were data-capable the Zaurus could talk to it IR and use it as a modem. Moving contacts to and from the phone is seamless. WiFi is plug and play. Multimedia apps aren't up to snuff last I looked, not a big deal to me. I don't use handwriting recognition.
However, it wasn't easy getting there. I loaded four 'distros' before finally settling on the KDE-released ROM pack. That was months ago and I've been satisfied to leave it as-is. Things might be better now.
The point of the summary was that the Microsoft-released version of the Connectix product minimized OSS support, as many predicted when the sale was first announced. That's exactly what happened. Even as partisan an organization as the Microsoft Software Forum Network glumly admits:
The first thing we noticed was the removal of Linux, BSD, Netware and Solaris from the Guest Operating System Wizard list, which was bound to happen to Virtual PC in the hands of Microsoft.
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I notice your home page is a school account. In five or ten years you might find the world looks a lot different
Unbreakable glass? It's more like you've left keys for the postman, milkman, paperboy, meter reader, any active and potential future service person, under every rug, doorsill and potted plant outside the house and then blame the neighbourhood for things stolen.
The major pain is Windows' use of Favorites instead of proper HTML links. As mentioned elsewhere, Mozilla favourites are a flat page of links. Micorsoft always makes it harder to use alternate software, they've done it since the PC-DOS days.
Interesting. I can see how this would work inside a corporation, but to share outside this server has to be accessible from the Internet. A solitary Windows server holding a company's authentication keys and with a port on the 'cloud' will make a sweet target for crackers. Keep that baby patched.
Do you also feel that Windows, with its origins on the desktop, will never be a server OS? Or does its NT heritage mean it will never be a desktop OS? Or is the assertion just spurious?
Compare like to like. Remove from the Redhat list any patch for an app without a functional equivalent in the comparison Windows OS. No SSH, no sendmail, Webmin, etc., etc. Redhat ships with a piss-pot of apps. What happens to the count?
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I don't see it that way. SCO is taking on production houses, not Universal or BMG. MPAA members have a vested interest in supporting SCO's claims from an IP solidarity perspective. The costs passed on to them from $700 per machine paid by independent contractors is chicken feed compared to the cost of shooting the Titanic. This move shows just how clever, and revoltingly slimey, McBride really is. It also demonstrates again how SCO is no longer a tech company.
If you put on the "Twilight Zone" cap and "Outer Limits" goggles, there is a twisted perspective in which SCO can be trying to demonstrate they care about Intellectual Property so much they're willing to pay you to respect it, to their own detriment. Who wouldn't believe a company willing to commit such self-sacrifice for principle doesn't have righteousness on their side? Nauseous faux-religious manipulation of public opinion.
Give Darl a little credit here, it can be both.
I wonder how BayStar and Royal Bank of Canada feel about that?
This doesn't make any sense. If SCO were sold it's then former owners would have enough money to pay legal fees on a normal per-service basis. Giving them a percentage of the sale cost puts it in Bois best interest to help pump the stock price up as high as possible by manipulating public perceptions and see this trial, assuming they believe as everyone but (possibly) Darl does it's unwinnable, never makes it to court. All of which has nothing to do with the justice system.
Try another distro. The RPM-based ones earned a deserved reputation in the past for being difficult to the point of rage in this regard.
More precisely, new and/or closed (ie. winmodems) hardware. Cutting edge stuff will always be a problem for an OS manufacturers don't support. This is a popularity problem, not a core design issue.
One of my machines, a p2 366 notebook with a 4 meg Mach 64 ATI card plays full screen movies over a network. Admittedly the latter was tough to do, but I suspect it's impossible in XP on this hardware. I'm amazed someone with the ability to modify power management byte code, which I completely lack, can't achieve the same.
Can we agree to finally put this canard to rest? No OS has more variety on the desktop than Linux. Yes, two popular desktop environments - KDE and Gnome - are similar to Windows. Fluxbox and Windowmaker, popular as well, aren't close. XFce4 looks like OS-X. Ion attempts to replicate the terminal. Claiming the Linux desktops are "a pale imitation of Microsoft" is either disingenuous or uninformed.
man grep
Hope that helps you out.
Backing slowly towards the door, smiling in agreement and avoiding any sudden movements....
What if you already know the name of a purported hitman and find his number in the residential phone book? Are the Telcos liable? Are they liable for listing the name of the person you approach for information about hitmen?
It is not a core part of the Geneva convention and my understanding is Bush is the only one to use it after WW2. His use of it is reprehensible.
Oddly enough, yes. Underclock the CPU. A closet server's performance bottleneck will likely be I/O anyway. Trade unused performance overhead for cooler temps and longer device life.
However, it wasn't easy getting there. I loaded four 'distros' before finally settling on the KDE-released ROM pack. That was months ago and I've been satisfied to leave it as-is. Things might be better now.
The first thing we noticed was the removal of Linux, BSD, Netware and Solaris from the Guest Operating System Wizard list, which was bound to happen to Virtual PC in the hands of Microsoft.
I notice your home page is a school account. In five or ten years you might find the world looks a lot different
Damn, that felt good. ;)
Unbreakable glass? It's more like you've left keys for the postman, milkman, paperboy, meter reader, any active and potential future service person, under every rug, doorsill and potted plant outside the house and then blame the neighbourhood for things stolen.
Cringley's point proven. How many of those Sourceforge projects are ever seen?
The major pain is Windows' use of Favorites instead of proper HTML links. As mentioned elsewhere, Mozilla favourites are a flat page of links. Micorsoft always makes it harder to use alternate software, they've done it since the PC-DOS days.
Do nothing more than repeat the second line of the story and score +4 Informative. It's the Moderators who really need a branding.
Interesting. I can see how this would work inside a corporation, but to share outside this server has to be accessible from the Internet. A solitary Windows server holding a company's authentication keys and with a port on the 'cloud' will make a sweet target for crackers. Keep that baby patched.
Do you also feel that Windows, with its origins on the desktop, will never be a server OS? Or does its NT heritage mean it will never be a desktop OS? Or is the assertion just spurious?
Compare like to like. Remove from the Redhat list any patch for an app without a functional equivalent in the comparison Windows OS. No SSH, no sendmail, Webmin, etc., etc. Redhat ships with a piss-pot of apps. What happens to the count?