Not trying to dispute your claims here, just relaying my personal experience. I have two PCs with no-name power supply units. One PSU has lasted over two years with no problems. The other PSU is only about 9 months old (entire system is only 9 months old) and is exceeding my expectations. I'm only 5W below the 350W ratings on both PSUs, too. I paid $50 for one and the other came with my $30 case. So, to answer the grandparent's question, I do think it would be worth buying two cheap PSUs.
In this case, countersuing looks better to the consumer than simply allowing SCO's original claims to go largely uncontested in the court of public opinion. It might cost cash, but so does advertising. And in this case, both expenses accomplish largely the same purpose. It's not about winning or losing, it's about making sure SCO can't make Linux look bad.
Yes, exactly. And the more Linux vendors that jump on board with this initiative, the more foolish and stupid SCO will look. And when that happens, SCO will be no more.
Yes, and if the GPL were ruled unenforceable, that would mean that M$ could make deals with the authors of code, offering them money (comparatively small compared to potential earnings) in exchange for a license that lets M$ do whatever they want with the code. And if the authors switched to the BSD license, well, that'd be right up M$'s alley.
Microsoft a sign of the Apocalypse? That would be funny.
Seriously, though, if M$ thought they could profit from Linux they'd be using it in their products already and biting the GPL bullet. Or figuring out a strategy to get the GPL tossed out so they could use other strategies to be able to use the code.
<nazi class="grammar"> First off, which is in the wrong case. which is the objective case. It should be the nominative form, that. Second, that/which is the wrong word. Dennis Ritchis is a person, and therefore should be substituted by the pronoun who (not whom, as that would cause that same nominative/objective problem again).
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<nazi class="spelling"> You have a spelling error. The name is Dennis Ritchie. </nazi>
You have an excellent point. I think, however, that even those users would quickly grow tired of him/her/it once they became comfortable with Office.
At one time I found him helpful. But that was only once, and only because I was stuck using MS Publisher instead of a real desktop publishing app like PageMaker. Other than that single instance, it's always proven an annoyance.
My personal favorite was the Office Logo for the simple fact that it could bring the whole OS down with it on my laptop (Win95, Office 2000 at that time). All of the forms were horribly annoying, though. It really should have been listed as a failure, although that won't happen since Clippy and the other stupid Office assistants are part of Office. Oh, well, at least I could change the install options and rip the stupid paperclip out.
Personally I'd like to see a whole year set aside to making software SAFE instead of adding features.
That's irrelevant. No matter how "secure" and "safe" daemons/services and programs are made today, tomorrow the next hacker worth his salt or security expert will find a flaw that'll have to be patched. Software is a never-ending cycle of bugs and security flaws by nature. Sure, better design leads to fewer big problems, but there are ALWAYS going to be problems. And as you pointed out, open source is just as vulnerable to security flaws as closed source.
but I don't actually share stuff. And I don't download the...well, noise...that the RIAA holds copyright over. I can't say that I like this at all, though. I just wonder how long it'll take people to settle with the RIAA.
My bet is as soon as the subpoena is served, at least 10% of them will be contacting the RIAA to negotiate a settlement (perhaps using their legal counsel to do this for them).
My college runs SCO UNIXWare and is in the process of moving to OpenServer. Both sytems are so slow it's sick. Honestly, the servers they're running the SCO crap on are only a couple years old (4 at most), and my old IBM Thinkpad 360C Type 2620 Model 30F complete with 20 megs RAM, a 33 MHz Intel 80486SX, and 340 meg hard drive running VectorLinux (essentially a watered-down Slackware Linux) can outrun the SCO servers. Truly pathetic.
Then configure the machines so that all the Administrator accounts have the same password that only you know (and the users' accounts aren't just renames of the Administrator account) or create your own user account on all the workstations. The Computer Management console will work then for your setup (this is how it's done at my college which is too stupid to run a domain, but instead use a Novell server with nearly 600 Win2k Pro workstations and 4 WinXP Pro workstations).
If you're an admin, just connect to the 2k/XP machines with the Computer Management console and reset the passwords remotely. Or log onto the workstation as the domain admin and do the same thing locally. This comes in even more handy when the account you need to change the password on is a domain account.
Yeah, dual OC48s. Remember, "software pirates" are supposed to go to hell, are they not? Therefore we need some way to continue our habit that got us here in the first place.
For as many of us as there are here, though, the effective throughput sucks...my throughput is limited to just slightly faster than a 28.8 modem.
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Yes, it can be done, but I've never done it. It's quite heavily documented in the default smb.conf file.
RedHat's business partner deals were with Sun (at least the more publicized ones from early this year).
Not trying to dispute your claims here, just relaying my personal experience. I have two PCs with no-name power supply units. One PSU has lasted over two years with no problems. The other PSU is only about 9 months old (entire system is only 9 months old) and is exceeding my expectations. I'm only 5W below the 350W ratings on both PSUs, too. I paid $50 for one and the other came with my $30 case. So, to answer the grandparent's question, I do think it would be worth buying two cheap PSUs.
Yes, and if the GPL were ruled unenforceable, that would mean that M$ could make deals with the authors of code, offering them money (comparatively small compared to potential earnings) in exchange for a license that lets M$ do whatever they want with the code. And if the authors switched to the BSD license, well, that'd be right up M$'s alley.
Seriously, though, if M$ thought they could profit from Linux they'd be using it in their products already and biting the GPL bullet. Or figuring out a strategy to get the GPL tossed out so they could use other strategies to be able to use the code.
...that this will be a venue to generate more FUD as well as an attempt to get a competitive edge? Am I just paranoid or what?
Looking at the quality of code from some of my friends, I KNOW we haven't come that far yet.
You have a spelling error. The name is Dennis Ritchie.
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At one time I found him helpful. But that was only once, and only because I was stuck using MS Publisher instead of a real desktop publishing app like PageMaker. Other than that single instance, it's always proven an annoyance.
My personal favorite was the Office Logo for the simple fact that it could bring the whole OS down with it on my laptop (Win95, Office 2000 at that time). All of the forms were horribly annoying, though. It really should have been listed as a failure, although that won't happen since Clippy and the other stupid Office assistants are part of Office. Oh, well, at least I could change the install options and rip the stupid paperclip out.
Not if you remember the ; at the end of the statement.
Sorry about that. I'm in the habit of interpreting "RIAA" as all the record labels and the "representation" unit.
My bet is as soon as the subpoena is served, at least 10% of them will be contacting the RIAA to negotiate a settlement (perhaps using their legal counsel to do this for them).
My college runs SCO UNIXWare and is in the process of moving to OpenServer. Both sytems are so slow it's sick. Honestly, the servers they're running the SCO crap on are only a couple years old (4 at most), and my old IBM Thinkpad 360C Type 2620 Model 30F complete with 20 megs RAM, a 33 MHz Intel 80486SX, and 340 meg hard drive running VectorLinux (essentially a watered-down Slackware Linux) can outrun the SCO servers. Truly pathetic.
Then configure the machines so that all the Administrator accounts have the same password that only you know (and the users' accounts aren't just renames of the Administrator account) or create your own user account on all the workstations. The Computer Management console will work then for your setup (this is how it's done at my college which is too stupid to run a domain, but instead use a Novell server with nearly 600 Win2k Pro workstations and 4 WinXP Pro workstations).
If you're an admin, just connect to the 2k/XP machines with the Computer Management console and reset the passwords remotely. Or log onto the workstation as the domain admin and do the same thing locally. This comes in even more handy when the account you need to change the password on is a domain account.
I'll still take the latest Slackware with a version of Apache that meets my needs anyday, thank you very much.
I always thought there was something wrong with Microsofts password "encryption." Now it's confirmed.
If you were a subscriber, you'd see that this is the next story that will go live on the /. frontpage.
For as many of us as there are here, though, the effective throughput sucks...my throughput is limited to just slightly faster than a 28.8 modem.
That was supposed to be >= 801. I forgot about the stupid HTML stuff.
It's not much A/C then, because I don't feel a chill yet.
That's already done on Comcast's DCTs. All PPV channel numbers are = 801, so I suppose that's an indicator, but not a very attention-grabbing one.