I took a quick look and did not see the source on my copy of the CD.
If SCO did not make any changes to the source and it compiled out of the box, are they required to host the source or is just pointing back to their source, samba.org, sufficient?
I maxed out a Dell 2650 at less than $15K, and you know an order of 600 computers is going to get your AT LEAST 25% off.
Right. Like Dell has a 25% markup on their servers. Please. I would be very suprised if Dell's margins were >10%. Once apon a time they were 30%, but not any longer. An order of 600 computers while considerable isn't going to get you 25% off. Now the free advertising that Dell gets would help, but even considering that, it's probably not 25%.
BTW, a 2650 is easily over $15 grand. After some playing around, I got one to $24,500 minus the OS and all the extra stuff (monitors, backup software, etc). Only the hardware that fits inside the case.
The GPL was the basis for law-suit. Just because it was settled out of court doesn't take anything away from that fact. Another strengthening.
Ah, but it does. It doesn't set a legal precidence. IBM can't come back and say see, this is what happened here in a very similiar case.
In a past life when I had a part time job as a life guard, I was told by my then employer YMCA that they had always settled drowning lawsuits out of court. Even the ones where obviously not their fault. The reason was that future lawsuits couldn't go back and say the jury awarded the victim's family $x million..we want $x+y million to settle.
I had a teacher that made us read that story in the 6th grade. She was a weird one.
For those who are to lazy to read the story, every head of house draws a slip of paper from a box. All the slips are blank with the exception of one that has a black dot. The family that chose the paper with the black dot all have to draw slips of paper, one of which also has a black dot. The one who gets the black dot gets stoned to death by the rest of the town.
Thu May 1 00:05:02 2003 - Tue Sep 30 23:55:04 2003 153.0 Days
May, July, and August all have 31 days and June and September both have 30. Add em up and you get 153 days. I'd say they haven't been updated for about 9 days...since the begining of the month. My guess is they update them at month end.
I'll have to check tomorrow with someone once I get to work but I believe that it's more then just an auxiliary function. It was a significant enough of a deployment that they were allowed to be apart of SCO's MAAC (Major Account Advisory Council). I was under the impression that while it wasn't running on the actual cash registers, it was running all the back office (accounting, inventory control, etc) functions.
Here's the view of SCO painted: 330 employees, 2+ million deployed units (no mention of OS breakdown - would be interesting to see what % of that is Caldera Linux), target market is small-ish business. Reference accounts seem to be franchised fast food & drug oriented. Think Pizza Hut & Wallgreens
I know McDonalds runs their stores on OpenServer. I beleive that CVS is the drugstore, but I may be mixing my references.
Broadband is popular with the non-/. crowd. A co-worker was bragging the other day about what movies she had downloaded so far. Decent broadband can get you current movies in 1-2 hours in Divx format. I've ripped several movies my toddles watch so that they don't destroy any more DVDs. 1200kbps video streams with full AC3 audio was around 1400megs. Easily downloadable over broadband.
Rips of actual DVDs transcoding them and removing features to fit into the 4.7GB limit of DVD+/-R take more time, but they are plentiful. Just about anything that comes out in stores is in alt.binaries.dvd(r) about the same time if not sooner.
Doh. So I'm a dumbass with egg on my face. I guess the one saving grace is the LinuxWorld article dated September 15th...but I guess that isn't even a saving grace as the judge ruled officially today that SCO is an ass I mean contractually right.
Seperate the men from the boys. Use random data. It's theoretically easy to recover the data when you just zero the drive.
When a drive writes data, areas next to the actual track also get set with a slight magnetic field. When you just zero the drive, those areas retain that slight field. Going back over that area, you just have to detect when you sense that slight field.
If you are on a given track that has been zero and you don't detect that field, it was a 0. If you do detect something, it was a 1. This is simplifing it, but you get the idea.
Write over the disk multiple times using random data. That way, hopefully any type of slight fields that were there from the original data would have changed. I beleive the recommended number of random passes is 7. There was an old/. article here that talks about just this.
Because of numerous indications that these unannounced changes have had very significant impacts on a wide range of Internet users and applications, ICANN on 19 September 2003 asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend these changes, and return to the previous behavior of.com and.net, until more information could be gathered on the impact of these changes. On 21 September 2003, VeriSign refused to honor that request. In the time since then, ICANN has had further opportunity to consider the technical and practical consequences of these changes, and to evaluate whether these unilateral actions by VeriSign were consistent with its contractual obligations to ICANN.
Based on the information currently available to us, it appears that these changes have had a substantial adverse effect on the core operation of the DNS, on the stability of the Internet, and on the relevant domains, and may have additional adverse effects in the future. These effects appear to be significant, including effects on web browsing, certain email services and applications, sequenced lookup services and a pervasive problem of incompatibility with other established protocols. In addition, the responses of various persons and entities to the changes made by VeriSign may themselves adversely affect the continued effective functioning of the Internet, the DNS and the.com and.net domains. Under these circumstances, the only prudent course of action consistent with ICANN's coordination mission is to insist that VeriSign suspend these changes pending further evaluation and study, including (but certainly not limited to) the public meeting already scheduled by ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee on 7 October in Washington, D.C.
You also should have finished your quote with the next paragraph:
If, on the other hand, these ongoing evaluations confirm the claimed adverse effects on the Internet, the DNS or the.com and.net domains that have been publicized to date, or raise new concerns of that type, those concerns will have to be resolved prior to any reintroduction of these changes. If any such concerns cannot be resolved, and VeriSign continues to seek to implement the service, it will be necessary to make recourse to the dispute resolution provisions of the two agreements.
I think that ICANN is handling this excellently. Bascially ICANN first requested that VS stop...which VS didn't. Since several weeks have passed and it has become clear as to how many things VS action has broken, ICANN is now demanding that the cease. Think of it as a temporary injunction.
ICANN is not permanently banning them from doing the wildcard, but rather demanding that they stop until everyone can get to gether and examine the real impact. After that examination, then they will make the final determination on what to do. They aren't just flat out saying what to do without listening to things.
I understand where you are coming from...but I think SGI was just playing it safe. They found duplicate code. They could have just taken the path of least resistance and found that Linux already had duplicate functions that would do the same thing. Why bother going to the legal research to find if/when it was made PD when you can just use existing code that is known to be good.
Actually, I think it's the opposite. I think SCO is the playground bully. It sat there trying to pick a fight with someone. One day, that person was IBM and decided to stand up and fight back. At that point, IBM started whailing on SCO.
I would imagine that SCO will now start crying how they are just this small company trying to eek by and IBM just came out of no where and started picking on them when SCO was just doing good things.
A goose is a female goose. Yeah I know it's recursive and definitions can't have the word they are defining in the definition, but live with it. My friend Merriam Webster said so.
A gander is a male goose.
So in other words, what is good for the female is also good for the male.
But with bittorrent, there is still a single point of failure, the tracker. Just look at some of the major pirate trackers that are no longer around. They just got overwhelmed both in bandwidth and processing capabilities.
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I took a quick look and did not see the source on my copy of the CD.
If SCO did not make any changes to the source and it compiled out of the box, are they required to host the source or is just pointing back to their source, samba.org, sufficient?
Not personally, but my good friend Mr. Wayback does here.
BTW, a 2650 is easily over $15 grand. After some playing around, I got one to $24,500 minus the OS and all the extra stuff (monitors, backup software, etc). Only the hardware that fits inside the case.
In a past life when I had a part time job as a life guard, I was told by my then employer YMCA that they had always settled drowning lawsuits out of court. Even the ones where obviously not their fault. The reason was that future lawsuits couldn't go back and say the jury awarded the victim's family $x million..we want $x+y million to settle.
I had a teacher that made us read that story in the 6th grade. She was a weird one.
For those who are to lazy to read the story, every head of house draws a slip of paper from a box. All the slips are blank with the exception of one that has a black dot. The family that chose the paper with the black dot all have to draw slips of paper, one of which also has a black dot. The one who gets the black dot gets stoned to death by the rest of the town.
May, July, and August all have 31 days and June and September both have 30. Add em up and you get 153 days. I'd say they haven't been updated for about 9 days...since the begining of the month. My guess is they update them at month end.
I'll have to check tomorrow with someone once I get to work but I believe that it's more then just an auxiliary function. It was a significant enough of a deployment that they were allowed to be apart of SCO's MAAC (Major Account Advisory Council). I was under the impression that while it wasn't running on the actual cash registers, it was running all the back office (accounting, inventory control, etc) functions.
Yes. POS is point of sale. Their "Retail Hardened POS solution" goes by a different name everwhere else...thin client.
Broadband is popular with the non-/. crowd. A co-worker was bragging the other day about what movies she had downloaded so far. Decent broadband can get you current movies in 1-2 hours in Divx format. I've ripped several movies my toddles watch so that they don't destroy any more DVDs. 1200kbps video streams with full AC3 audio was around 1400megs. Easily downloadable over broadband.
Rips of actual DVDs transcoding them and removing features to fit into the 4.7GB limit of DVD+/-R take more time, but they are plentiful. Just about anything that comes out in stores is in alt.binaries.dvd(r) about the same time if not sooner.
Doh. So I'm a dumbass with egg on my face. I guess the one saving grace is the LinuxWorld article dated September 15th...but I guess that isn't even a saving grace as the judge ruled officially today that SCO is an ass I mean contractually right.
The original /. article about the letter is here .
Better soak them over night. That was old news.
Seperate the men from the boys. Use random data. It's theoretically easy to recover the data when you just zero the drive.
/. article here that talks about just this.
When a drive writes data, areas next to the actual track also get set with a slight magnetic field. When you just zero the drive, those areas retain that slight field. Going back over that area, you just have to detect when you sense that slight field.
If you are on a given track that has been zero and you don't detect that field, it was a 0. If you do detect something, it was a 1. This is simplifing it, but you get the idea.
Write over the disk multiple times using random data. That way, hopefully any type of slight fields that were there from the original data would have changed. I beleive the recommended number of random passes is 7. There was an old
It's actually 20 technicians that have been with the company for 1 year a piece...
You also should have finished your quote with the next paragraph:
I think that ICANN is handling this excellently. Bascially ICANN first requested that VS stop...which VS didn't. Since several weeks have passed and it has become clear as to how many things VS action has broken, ICANN is now demanding that the cease. Think of it as a temporary injunction.
ICANN is not permanently banning them from doing the wildcard, but rather demanding that they stop until everyone can get to gether and examine the real impact. After that examination, then they will make the final determination on what to do. They aren't just flat out saying what to do without listening to things.
I understand where you are coming from...but I think SGI was just playing it safe. They found duplicate code. They could have just taken the path of least resistance and found that Linux already had duplicate functions that would do the same thing. Why bother going to the legal research to find if/when it was made PD when you can just use existing code that is known to be good.
I've always figured magentic media was disks and optical was discs. 3.5, 5.25, 8, etc magnetic media ("floppies") are disks. CD/DVDs are discs.
I have no idea where magneto optical disks/discs fit in there. Maybe they are discks?
Yeah...like we don't already have geeks theorizing about the symbolism of The Oracle.
He was just doign pseudocode. He doesn't want a SCO lawsuit since they own C++ and your syntax is C++ compatible.
Actually, I think it's the opposite. I think SCO is the playground bully. It sat there trying to pick a fight with someone. One day, that person was IBM and decided to stand up and fight back. At that point, IBM started whailing on SCO.
I would imagine that SCO will now start crying how they are just this small company trying to eek by and IBM just came out of no where and started picking on them when SCO was just doing good things.
They will have 9 months to think of something. Plenty of time.
A goose is a female goose. Yeah I know it's recursive and definitions can't have the word they are defining in the definition, but live with it. My friend Merriam Webster said so.
A gander is a male goose.
So in other words, what is good for the female is also good for the male.
But with bittorrent, there is still a single point of failure, the tracker. Just look at some of the major pirate trackers that are no longer around. They just got overwhelmed both in bandwidth and processing capabilities.