Sure, if you're scooting down the green runs that works just fine, but when you're out the back in avalanche country it pays to think very carrefully about where you go and how you get there. Certainly you must focus on the course you travel, but selecting your course requires a large degree of care.
I know that in business it's down to risk management, but if you really need 24/7 support to keep your database running, that tells me your DB Admins aren't up to the task, and that your DB Software is too flakey. Afterall, it's just another piece of software...
I've also heard that the wishes and dreams can be fairly powerful tools as well. However, results may vary due to unfulfilled wishes and crushed dreams.
Two months at a software engineering shop? C'mon, half of the staff there can probably do a large chunk of what you do. They're either knowingly taking advatage or they're fucking with the new guy. Either way, get some backbone and tell them you either get an additional helper, or cancel some of the non-essential jobs you've got to do. Let them make the choice between more moeny or less work... Or quit and let someone else do it...
IBM is an evil corporation, don't get me wrong, but it's nice to see them excercising a little enlightened self interest and playing chicken with SCO.
I dunno about the evil-ness of IBM, but...
I pictured an IBM semi-trailer rumbling down the highway, with an SCO chicken (looked like Darl with feathers) standing at the other end of a straight, squaking furiously at the oncoming behemoth. The chicken doesn't stand a chance.
Yup. There's been talk recently of a Pacific Economic Union too. Good for NZ, and others, but I'm not sure what's in it Aussie. It was there idea too...
let's throw everything at the wall and see what sticks
Here's one: How about withdrawing 2.4 code, and the kernel team suing SCO for breach of copyright / GNU license, due to SCO's mis-use of everything in Linux that ISN'T theirs? Remember that SCO isn't claiming to own ALL of Linux, just parts of it, yet have and are distributing ALL of it. If they're saying the GPL doesn't apply to their code, they're breaking the license by distributing Linus' et al's code along with it.
Development would (temporarily?) cease, and any chance of a Linux revenue stream is gone. See how much they like law suits then.
They're going after small fish because if they step into the ring with RedHat, IBM, or any decently sized company, they'll lose. They know it, and that's why they haven't gone there. They won't go there until one of the bigger players forces their hand. I hope it happens soon, because this shit is getting old real fast. I think they're hoping to get some funds from scared/ignorant/"risk-managing" folks, and that it will bolster their perceived value - eg, their value in the stock market.
It's bullshit, and I hope the EFF/RedHat/IBM steps up and looks after the first person they try to sue.
The point is that your $20 dollar case probably sounds like a jet plane taking off, possibly overheats occassionally, and if a fan fails you're screwed. This one doesn't have those problems.
These also look a lot, um, cooler. In an ugly-modern kind of way.
How about a worm that propogates around and closes ports behind it? Maybe something that enables the WinXP firewall as it goes. It doesn't have to be destructive to be useful.
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Not even close. It runs on x86, PPC, ARM, SuperH and MIPS.
Sure, if you're scooting down the green runs that works just fine, but when you're out the back in avalanche country it pays to think very carrefully about where you go and how you get there. Certainly you must focus on the course you travel, but selecting your course requires a large degree of care.
I know that in business it's down to risk management, but if you really need 24/7 support to keep your database running, that tells me your DB Admins aren't up to the task, and that your DB Software is too flakey. Afterall, it's just another piece of software...
I've also heard that the wishes and dreams can be fairly powerful tools as well. However, results may vary due to unfulfilled wishes and crushed dreams.
And Corporate Executives. :-(
Two months at a software engineering shop? C'mon, half of the staff there can probably do a large chunk of what you do. They're either knowingly taking advatage or they're fucking with the new guy. Either way, get some backbone and tell them you either get an additional helper, or cancel some of the non-essential jobs you've got to do. Let them make the choice between more moeny or less work... Or quit and let someone else do it...
I was thinking how much easier my life would be if my computer could give head. I think I'll stick with my Executive Secretary, thanks.
Hmmm. She told me I was the only one.
The students are actually PAYING to be their University's slaves. I guess that makes it legal, if somewhat masochistic.
Side note: I wonder if my postgrad supervisor would make good dominatrix...
Slapping? Or Fapping?
IBM is an evil corporation, don't get me wrong, but it's nice to see them excercising a little enlightened self interest and playing chicken with SCO.
I dunno about the evil-ness of IBM, but...
I pictured an IBM semi-trailer rumbling down the highway, with an SCO chicken (looked like Darl with feathers) standing at the other end of a straight, squaking furiously at the oncoming behemoth. The chicken doesn't stand a chance.
It's not bull. I'm running Mozilla 1.4 and keep getting redirected/bounced around to 1 of 2 "Retype your password" pages.
I hope it's just coincidence that my Mozilla just stopped being able to login to Hotmail.
Yup. There's been talk recently of a Pacific Economic Union too. Good for NZ, and others, but I'm not sure what's in it Aussie. It was there idea too...
I read that as, "a picture of their CEO with a circled noose."
let's throw everything at the wall and see what sticks
Here's one: How about withdrawing 2.4 code, and the kernel team suing SCO for breach of copyright / GNU license, due to SCO's mis-use of everything in Linux that ISN'T theirs? Remember that SCO isn't claiming to own ALL of Linux, just parts of it, yet have and are distributing ALL of it. If they're saying the GPL doesn't apply to their code, they're breaking the license by distributing Linus' et al's code along with it.
Development would (temporarily?) cease, and any chance of a Linux revenue stream is gone. See how much they like law suits then.
It's more like maintenance than development. New features are very unlikely to be added, but bug and security fixes still get addressed.
What do you mean, "yet"?
They can't.
They're going after small fish because if they step into the ring with RedHat, IBM, or any decently sized company, they'll lose. They know it, and that's why they haven't gone there. They won't go there until one of the bigger players forces their hand. I hope it happens soon, because this shit is getting old real fast. I think they're hoping to get some funds from scared/ignorant/"risk-managing" folks, and that it will bolster their perceived value - eg, their value in the stock market.
It's bullshit, and I hope the EFF/RedHat/IBM steps up and looks after the first person they try to sue.
World to SCO: Fuck you.
No love lost here then...
Massey University is in New Zealand. And New Zealand is not a State of Australia (yet?). Perhaps we can brush up on our geography skills...
The point is that your $20 dollar case probably sounds like a jet plane taking off, possibly overheats occassionally, and if a fan fails you're screwed. This one doesn't have those problems.
These also look a lot, um, cooler. In an ugly-modern kind of way.
How about a worm that propogates around and closes ports behind it? Maybe something that enables the WinXP firewall as it goes. It doesn't have to be destructive to be useful.
Anyone noticed that SCO execs have been selling their Options this last week or so - and it's costing them to do it. All seems a bit sus to me...
If that quote is accurate, they're talking about something that happened LAST YEAR. There's no way such a move would've made it under the radar.
SCOX tanking in... 5... 4... 3... 2...
Good point. Surely this would blow off any EULA type update licenses. How can you agree to an automatic update you didn't even know about?