I installed SFU on a machine running Windows 2000 and tried it out.
It was so pathetically slow that it didn't stay on there very long.
Has anyone else actually tried it out? Maybe I missed something.
I typically set up a real e-mail address on an e-mail server that automagically sends everything to/dev/null.
For example, if I had example.com, there would be a shredder@example.com address. And many of the people on that domain would know the address and could use it as they wished.
I've never bothered to look to see how much, if any, e-mail these accounts actually receive.
You could store the data quite reliably in much less space with a good quality laser printer.
I've heard of someone who did it with very tiny forward and back slashes. The paper reportedly looked gray but a good laser scanner could pick it up without problem.
What would be really interesting would be an informal contest to see who could store the most data in a single page of paper.
Tapes can be pretty dependable, but you need a better quality tape system than that typically sold for PC backups. The 20 GB tapes are just not that dependable.
If I had the money, at a minimum I'd get a tape drive that could handle the 200 GB (uncompressed) tapes. Something like IBM's LTO Gen-2 Tape Library. That should run a bit less than $6,000.
For that matter, if I won the lottery, my first purchase would probably be a top of the line tape backup system instead of a the usual new car.
Since I can't afford it, I use DVDs and CDs for backups. They are a pain in the neck and are not that dependable, but I keep backups up to a year on DVD+RW so if one fails, hopefully the others will have the data.
Instead of writing directly to the DVD writer, I write the backups to disk and then copy the backup sets to the DVDs.
I also keep a complete current backup of nearly everything important on a seperate computer.
Years ago, I worked for a company that ended up laying everyone off and filing for bankruptcy.
The president of the company and I were doing our best to pull it out of bankruptcy.
One day we took a computer and monitor over to someone's office to do a demonstration of our software and capabilities.
They guy we did the demonstration for was the former chairman of the board for the biggest employer in the major city in which the company was located.
To get to his office, we had to take an escalator to the second floor and than an elevator up to his office.
When we were leaving, I was carrying the monitor and the president of the company was pushing a dolly loaded with the computer.
At the escalator, we decided that I'd go down, set the monitor down, and go back up to help with the computer.
A few feet from the bottom of the escalator, I heard a loud thump, thump, thump behind me. At the bottom, I stepped to the side just in time to see the computer go past me.
The president of the company had decided not to wait and started down the escalator with the dolly in front of him. Within a few feet, the computer had come off the front of the dolly and took off down the escalator on its own.
The strange thing was that the computer worked fine in spite of a big hole in the case. I suspect that if I'd put a plastic cover over the hole, it might have been classified as a case mod.
I've never seen options where the company could "call" and require you to pony up the strike value of the options you hold...
Me neither.
Maybe he's referring to an expiration of the options. If the options were getting ready to expire, you would either have to exercise the options or lose them.
The primary reason for employees selling options is to purchase things.
Are the options actually transferable?
Also, note that they might exercise their options before they expire. At least, my impression is that stock options generally are good only for some period of time and if not exercised during that time period, cannot be exercised later.
The real power of options come with the fact that an employee can hold the options for several years with the value of the company rises.
I thought that the real power was that the person with the options had a fixed price to buy shares. If he purchased the shares outright, besides the tax considerations, he would lose money if the value of the stock declined. But with options, he isn't out anything if the value of the stock declines. But he benefits from any increase in value.
A company that has the best interests of its employees at heart would discourage stock ownership by employees.
A company that has the best interest of its employees at heart will encourage stock ownership by employees if it thinks the value of stock will increase.
I thought that you only had to pay taxes on the difference between the price you sold them out and the price you bought them at.
For example, if you pay $10 per share for the stock and sold them at $15 per share, the taxes on the sale of the share would only be on the difference, $5, instead of the entire $15 per share.
And, of course, the amount of the tax from the sale of the shares would depend on how long you kept them (capital gains).
At a previous job, there used to be a nearby diner that was rarely busy in the afternoon. I used to regularly go over there and drink ice tea for a couple hours while reading computer manuals.
At my current job, there really is nowhere suitable to go. The local public library is only half a block away, but it is only open a few hours a week and really doesn't have any good place to sit down and concentrate without interruption.
What I would really like is a reading room/library with comfortable chairs, good lights, both desks and coffee-type tables, no telephones, no computers, and good insulation to keep outside sounds out.
About the closest thing we have to that is a hot tub. It is comfortable, the lights are okay, and there are no telephones are computers in htere, but there are no desks or tables so if what you are reading slips, it gets soaking wet.
There are several things that must be shown for a slander of title to succeed. If any one of these are not proven, then the entire claim fails.
What the judge is saying is that even if all of the other elements of a slander of title were proven, SCO's inability to specify specific damages would certainly decide the case in Novell's favor. Thus, there is no need to hear the case at all. For SCO to prevail, they must show specific damages in addition to the other elements.
Therefore, even if SCO prevailed on all the other issues, they would still fail because they of the lack of specific damages.
Under normal circumstances, this decision would be a strong signal to the plaintiff that they should work out some kind of deal with the defendant.
Re:Don't Play Their Game - Make a New One!
on
Becoming a CLEC?
·
· Score: 1
Actually, we do sell wireless services in the area.
It's kind of strange, though. Very few of our wireless customers live out of town. The ones who want the extra speed live in town where DSL is just now available. For every wireless customer we have too far for DSL, we have about 15 within the DSL coverage area.
For a long time, the telephone company said that they had no intention of replacing the old switches with new switches unless they were completely destroyed by fire or something.
So it kind of caught us by surprise when they suddenly started advertising DSL the other day.
If they did that where I live, they could get by with a 5 inch diagonal screen mounted on a wall.
Of course, that's not going to happen. We don't have much in the way of crime -- our biggest problem is usually someone failing to stop at a stop sign.
The sheriff's department usually only comes out for funerals. One time, rather than drive out to check something out, they saved the trip out by asking me if I could look into it and let them know if there was anything they needed to worry about.
Does this mean that the United States should invade Mexico and take part of it for the U.S. since the Apache's range once included part of what is now Mexico?
Maybe much of France should be transferred to Germany since Hitler invaded it in just the last century?
And by all means, let's give part of China back to the Japanese.
It would make just as much sense.
Maybe you mean something like in exchanging diplomats?
I think that Tibet was a very secluded area that rarely allowed any outsiders in. The last thing they would have wanted was to exchange diplomats or have foreign embassies present. So from that point of view, you might be technically correct, but only technically correct.
But in fact, Tibet was recognized as an independent country. If a mountaineer wanted permission to climb Everest from the north, he needed Tibet's permission, not China's. And that permission was not often given.
China's claim to Tibet, as far as I understand, is that a Chinese baby was taken to Tibet to become the Dalai Lama at one point.
I really don't understand this murderous hatred of spammers. What they do is incredibly annoying and costs businesses a lot of money, but have they ever killed anyone?
Rarely, but yes.
One of the sometime purposes of 419 spam is to lure you into Nigeria or some other country where you may be kidnapped and held for ransom. There has been instances of people being murdered.
Slashdot Mirror
I installed SFU on a machine running Windows 2000 and tried it out. It was so pathetically slow that it didn't stay on there very long. Has anyone else actually tried it out? Maybe I missed something.
Is that really illegal if there is no fraud involved?
Provided that you don't use a real e-mail address, just who is harmed?
I typically set up a real e-mail address on an e-mail server that automagically sends everything to /dev/null.
For example, if I had example.com, there would be a shredder@example.com address. And many of the people on that domain would know the address and could use it as they wished.
I've never bothered to look to see how much, if any, e-mail these accounts actually receive.
Use RAID to increase your on-line availability.
RAID does not a backup system make. You still need backups.
For increased on-line availability, how about a good distribued file system with several servers? And, of course, back everything up anyway.
You could store the data quite reliably in much less space with a good quality laser printer.
I've heard of someone who did it with very tiny forward and back slashes. The paper reportedly looked gray but a good laser scanner could pick it up without problem.
What would be really interesting would be an informal contest to see who could store the most data in a single page of paper.
You must be a stranger around here.
Anyway, at least nobody has suggested paper tape.
I've considered getting some of those hard drive trays that let you treat a regular internal hard drive as a removable drive.
One tray for each hard drive used for copies of the backup files and keep the two latest hard drives in a bank deposit box 35 miles away.
Tapes can be pretty dependable, but you need a better quality tape system than that typically sold for PC backups. The 20 GB tapes are just not that dependable.
If I had the money, at a minimum I'd get a tape drive that could handle the 200 GB (uncompressed) tapes. Something like IBM's LTO Gen-2 Tape Library. That should run a bit less than $6,000.
For that matter, if I won the lottery, my first purchase would probably be a top of the line tape backup system instead of a the usual new car.
Since I can't afford it, I use DVDs and CDs for backups. They are a pain in the neck and are not that dependable, but I keep backups up to a year on DVD+RW so if one fails, hopefully the others will have the data.
Instead of writing directly to the DVD writer, I write the backups to disk and then copy the backup sets to the DVDs.
I also keep a complete current backup of nearly everything important on a seperate computer.
Years ago, I worked for a company that ended up laying everyone off and filing for bankruptcy. The president of the company and I were doing our best to pull it out of bankruptcy. One day we took a computer and monitor over to someone's office to do a demonstration of our software and capabilities. They guy we did the demonstration for was the former chairman of the board for the biggest employer in the major city in which the company was located. To get to his office, we had to take an escalator to the second floor and than an elevator up to his office. When we were leaving, I was carrying the monitor and the president of the company was pushing a dolly loaded with the computer. At the escalator, we decided that I'd go down, set the monitor down, and go back up to help with the computer. A few feet from the bottom of the escalator, I heard a loud thump, thump, thump behind me. At the bottom, I stepped to the side just in time to see the computer go past me. The president of the company had decided not to wait and started down the escalator with the dolly in front of him. Within a few feet, the computer had come off the front of the dolly and took off down the escalator on its own. The strange thing was that the computer worked fine in spite of a big hole in the case. I suspect that if I'd put a plastic cover over the hole, it might have been classified as a case mod.
Me neither.
Maybe he's referring to an expiration of the options. If the options were getting ready to expire, you would either have to exercise the options or lose them.
Are the options actually transferable?
Also, note that they might exercise their options before they expire. At least, my impression is that stock options generally are good only for some period of time and if not exercised during that time period, cannot be exercised later.
I thought that the real power was that the person with the options had a fixed price to buy shares. If he purchased the shares outright, besides the tax considerations, he would lose money if the value of the stock declined. But with options, he isn't out anything if the value of the stock declines. But he benefits from any increase in value.
A company that has the best interest of its employees at heart will encourage stock ownership by employees if it thinks the value of stock will increase.Are you sure about that?
I thought that you only had to pay taxes on the difference between the price you sold them out and the price you bought them at.
For example, if you pay $10 per share for the stock and sold them at $15 per share, the taxes on the sale of the share would only be on the difference, $5, instead of the entire $15 per share.
And, of course, the amount of the tax from the sale of the shares would depend on how long you kept them (capital gains).
How about popcorn?
The bank a block away from my office serves popcorn.
Maybe the local bank here should patent that.
At a previous job, there used to be a nearby diner that was rarely busy in the afternoon. I used to regularly go over there and drink ice tea for a couple hours while reading computer manuals.
At my current job, there really is nowhere suitable to go. The local public library is only half a block away, but it is only open a few hours a week and really doesn't have any good place to sit down and concentrate without interruption.
What I would really like is a reading room/library with comfortable chairs, good lights, both desks and coffee-type tables, no telephones, no computers, and good insulation to keep outside sounds out.
About the closest thing we have to that is a hot tub. It is comfortable, the lights are okay, and there are no telephones are computers in htere, but there are no desks or tables so if what you are reading slips, it gets soaking wet.
I'd go.
I've thought about working in Saudi Arabia before, but have never pursued it. Someone I knew years ago spent time there and loved it.
Of course, I'd try to be somewhat careful about my safety even at the best of times.
As long as I'm a student each fall, I can get major medical insurance from the university and pay student insurance rates.
Next year will be my 19th year of college.
My thoughts exactly.
I think that they could claim the interest on the license fees for that difference in time.
In the decision, the judge clearly indicated his ideas about SCO's chance of prevailing on the ownership of the copyright.
Remember that the same judge is also hearing SCO vs IBM.
Nope.
There are several things that must be shown for a slander of title to succeed. If any one of these are not proven, then the entire claim fails.
What the judge is saying is that even if all of the other elements of a slander of title were proven, SCO's inability to specify specific damages would certainly decide the case in Novell's favor. Thus, there is no need to hear the case at all. For SCO to prevail, they must show specific damages in addition to the other elements.
Therefore, even if SCO prevailed on all the other issues, they would still fail because they of the lack of specific damages.
Under normal circumstances, this decision would be a strong signal to the plaintiff that they should work out some kind of deal with the defendant.
Actually, we do sell wireless services in the area.
It's kind of strange, though. Very few of our wireless customers live out of town. The ones who want the extra speed live in town where DSL is just now available. For every wireless customer we have too far for DSL, we have about 15 within the DSL coverage area.
We're thinking more of the reseller route.
For a long time, the telephone company said that they had no intention of replacing the old switches with new switches unless they were completely destroyed by fire or something.
So it kind of caught us by surprise when they suddenly started advertising DSL the other day.
If they did that where I live, they could get by with a 5 inch diagonal screen mounted on a wall.
Of course, that's not going to happen. We don't have much in the way of crime -- our biggest problem is usually someone failing to stop at a stop sign.
The sheriff's department usually only comes out for funerals. One time, rather than drive out to check something out, they saved the trip out by asking me if I could look into it and let them know if there was anything they needed to worry about.
Does this mean that the United States should invade Mexico and take part of it for the U.S. since the Apache's range once included part of what is now Mexico? Maybe much of France should be transferred to Germany since Hitler invaded it in just the last century? And by all means, let's give part of China back to the Japanese. It would make just as much sense.
What? Do you have cites to back up that claim?
Maybe you mean something like in exchanging diplomats?
I think that Tibet was a very secluded area that rarely allowed any outsiders in. The last thing they would have wanted was to exchange diplomats or have foreign embassies present. So from that point of view, you might be technically correct, but only technically correct.
But in fact, Tibet was recognized as an independent country. If a mountaineer wanted permission to climb Everest from the north, he needed Tibet's permission, not China's. And that permission was not often given.
China's claim to Tibet, as far as I understand, is that a Chinese baby was taken to Tibet to become the Dalai Lama at one point.
Rarely, but yes.
One of the sometime purposes of 419 spam is to lure you into Nigeria or some other country where you may be kidnapped and held for ransom. There has been instances of people being murdered.