If I apply your logic, the share price of a stock is more likely to go to infinity if it is shorted than if it were purchased long.
Which stocks have reached an infinite price? When you factor in those stocks trading for infinity with the rest of the market, you'll get the probability of infinite loss potential. Right now, I know of no stock selling for infinity (not even Microsoft), so I'm guessing that the potential for infinite loss is less than infinitesimal - zero, if you like.
You don't buy stock and short it. When you short a stock, you borrow it from somebody else, sell it, buy it back at the lower price and return it to the original owner (with interest). Borrow, sell, buy, return. That's what is involved in a short.
As far as I know, SCO has nothing to do with Unix code. I doubt they have the chops to steal somebody's code and incorporate it into Unix. They just bought rights and are attempting a legal shakedown.
Nice, I've been meaning to give FreeBSD a try. My spare box has a hacked up AMD T-Bird that I tried (unsuccessfully) overclocking. Damn, the OCing never goes as smoothly as indicated in those articles.:^)
Kinda weird acting although I did install Solaris 9 x86 on it. Maybe some of that weirdness is Solaris choking on this weirded out CPU and mobo that isn't on Sun's (short) HCL.
What is the point of NVidia drivers if you can't add a half decent 3d game in the cd. You can't really swap cd's either because those Live distributions take absolute control of your cd drive. You can't remove the disc even if u wanted to.
You are forgetting about the cool 3-D screen savers. Actually, I don't think MandrakeMove is an appropriate OS for games. And from what I understand and read in the Mandrake propaganda, you can swap the cd. Of course, somebody else will have to verify or debunk this claim as I'm too busy playing Quake III.
Stability is not a function of the Linux distro and the level of security is a choice (or tradeoff) to be made by the user/administrator of the system. IMHO, all distros are fairly comparable and Slackware 9.1 running the stable 2.4.22 kernel and KDE is not inherently more stable or more secure than Mandrake or Red Hat. If you like, you can kill all unnecessary services, build a custom kernel, kill the GUI, kill X, and whatever else you don't like about Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE et al. to bump your performance (as is done with many Linux servers).
Even if you don't delete all the gingerbread, you can still administer your Linux system from the commandline as some functions like editing your bootloader are still more efficiently performed on the CLI. The GUI tools are smart, highly specialized editors of the config files anyway.
Well, sometimes I need to do something, something silly and not worthy of a full blown gui-based application which would be overkill. I needed to help me record the contents of hundreds of cdroms with their filenames, file date, file size, cd volume name, extension, subdirectory location on a file that I could import into a database. There may be some old *nix app that does that but I don't really have the time to search for it and anything I find would probably be lacking in some area. My solution is to fire up kwrite (I never liked vi for anything other than editing) and write a script to do that for me.
Shell scripting may seem to be eclipsed by perl and python but it still has its (modest) place in the *nix environment. Plus scripts are still being used for many admin tasks despite the existence of may GUI tools.
The SCO lawsuit and the financial shenanigans of Enron and Worldcom are hardly comparable. Enron and Worldcom committed fraud with bogus accounting to make their businesses look better than they actually were so as to prop up company share price and keep top executives well compensated. SCO's lawsuit is an attempt to salvage a fading business by glomming onto a the rising success of Linux.
The effect of the financial scandals may tar the accounting and treasury employees of Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia, etc. but employees not directly linkable to the scandals are less likely to be affected, especially since so many of them have suffered financially in their 401Ks. As for l'affaire SCO, I'm not sure of whom one can pin responsiblity except for McBride and his top lieutenants.
I agree that the reviewer wasn't able to impart a sense of Solaris 9 x86 capabilities. However, I think that the review is right on in giving you a sense of what it is like for a non-Solaris user to install and use Solaris for the first time. I too have recently installed Solaris 9 x86 on an el cheapo Pentium III clone board. I have no idea if the board was on Sun's HCL but I rather doubt it.
Without any documentation whatsoever and having only disks 1 & 2, it took me 3 attempts to load the OS. It would have been two attempts had I understood the first part of the intallation menu better. I too found out that I had to format the entire harddisk to get Solaris to boot. When it did boot, I too found out that I had not network access. No biggie, though. I had to put in resolv.conf and manually add the default gateway with route. Of course, it took me a little time to discover that it didn't have a resolv.conf and also to figure out how Solaris named the ethernet card. I suspect the reviewer was not knowledgeable about how to configure his network. I don't really blame him because the installation menu confirmations seemed to indicate that all was going to be well in networking set-up.
I was surprised at how relatively clutter free the/etc directory was in Solaris. I suppose if it were running KDE or GNOME instead of CDE the directory would look much like my Linux box.
I suspect alot of users who will be installing Solaris 9 x86 will as inexperienced as I and the reviewer (well, maybe as inexperienced as I am). I was doing it to satisfy my curiousity about the rarefied air in which Solaris dwells. I don't know if I could get Solaris running as a desktop workstation, but I'll be trying to install it on a less dated (but by no means cutting edge) Athlon system. My only concern is that I want to make it a multi-OS system (BSD/Solaris/Slack or Gentoo).
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Americans drink shitty beer because we don't know any better (well, some do and some are cheapskates).
If I apply your logic, the share price of a stock is more likely to go to infinity if it is shorted than if it were purchased long.
Which stocks have reached an infinite price? When you factor in those stocks trading for infinity with the rest of the market, you'll get the probability of infinite loss potential. Right now, I know of no stock selling for infinity (not even Microsoft), so I'm guessing that the potential for infinite loss is less than infinitesimal - zero, if you like.
You don't buy stock and short it. When you short a stock, you borrow it from somebody else, sell it, buy it back at the lower price and return it to the original owner (with interest). Borrow, sell, buy, return. That's what is involved in a short.
I was looking for a job with Google, but I'm not a cunning linguist. Alas, I'm just a master debater.
Well, I'm sure Microsoft has plenty of copies of BoB available for those seeking a truly "human" interface.
As far as I know, SCO has nothing to do with Unix code. I doubt they have the chops to steal somebody's code and incorporate it into Unix. They just bought rights and are attempting a legal shakedown.
Mod points are for those who long for attention.
Yeah, but is it derivative of SCO IP?
Nice, I've been meaning to give FreeBSD a try. My spare box has a hacked up AMD T-Bird that I tried (unsuccessfully) overclocking. Damn, the OCing never goes as smoothly as indicated in those articles. :^)
Kinda weird acting although I did install Solaris 9 x86 on it. Maybe some of that weirdness is Solaris choking on this weirded out CPU and mobo that isn't on Sun's (short) HCL.
The stupidity lies not in the things being patented but in the office granting the patent.
Just be glad that we're not being sued for IP infringement by the companies that have patents on genetic sequences.
What is the point of NVidia drivers if you can't add a half decent 3d game in the cd. You can't really swap cd's either because those Live distributions take absolute control of your cd drive. You can't remove the disc even if u wanted to.
You are forgetting about the cool 3-D screen savers. Actually, I don't think MandrakeMove is an appropriate OS for games. And from what I understand and read in the Mandrake propaganda, you can swap the cd. Of course, somebody else will have to verify or debunk this claim as I'm too busy playing Quake III.
Stability is not a function of the Linux distro and the level of security is a choice (or tradeoff) to be made by the user/administrator of the system. IMHO, all distros are fairly comparable and Slackware 9.1 running the stable 2.4.22 kernel and KDE is not inherently more stable or more secure than Mandrake or Red Hat. If you like, you can kill all unnecessary services, build a custom kernel, kill the GUI, kill X, and whatever else you don't like about Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE et al. to bump your performance (as is done with many Linux servers).
Even if you don't delete all the gingerbread, you can still administer your Linux system from the commandline as some functions like editing your bootloader are still more efficiently performed on the CLI. The GUI tools are smart, highly specialized editors of the config files anyway.
May I suggest Debian? Learn the joys of dselect. Or maybe not.
Same difference. Fyi, it's called the shebang.
Shebang, anyone?
Does it matter what the default shell is when a user can very easily change to his preferred shell?
Well, sometimes I need to do something, something silly and not worthy of a full blown gui-based application which would be overkill. I needed to help me record the contents of hundreds of cdroms with their filenames, file date, file size, cd volume name, extension, subdirectory location on a file that I could import into a database. There may be some old *nix app that does that but I don't really have the time to search for it and anything I find would probably be lacking in some area. My solution is to fire up kwrite (I never liked vi for anything other than editing) and write a script to do that for me. Shell scripting may seem to be eclipsed by perl and python but it still has its (modest) place in the *nix environment. Plus scripts are still being used for many admin tasks despite the existence of may GUI tools.
The SCO lawsuit and the financial shenanigans of Enron and Worldcom are hardly comparable. Enron and Worldcom committed fraud with bogus accounting to make their businesses look better than they actually were so as to prop up company share price and keep top executives well compensated. SCO's lawsuit is an attempt to salvage a fading business by glomming onto a the rising success of Linux.
The effect of the financial scandals may tar the accounting and treasury employees of Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia, etc. but employees not directly linkable to the scandals are less likely to be affected, especially since so many of them have suffered financially in their 401Ks. As for l'affaire SCO, I'm not sure of whom one can pin responsiblity except for McBride and his top lieutenants.
The HCL still needs to be bigger, a lot bigger.
What are the chances of Tux Racer being ported?
Get a VW.
I agree that the reviewer wasn't able to impart a sense of Solaris 9 x86 capabilities. However, I think that the review is right on in giving you a sense of what it is like for a non-Solaris user to install and use Solaris for the first time. I too have recently installed Solaris 9 x86 on an el cheapo Pentium III clone board. I have no idea if the board was on Sun's HCL but I rather doubt it. Without any documentation whatsoever and having only disks 1 & 2, it took me 3 attempts to load the OS. It would have been two attempts had I understood the first part of the intallation menu better. I too found out that I had to format the entire harddisk to get Solaris to boot. When it did boot, I too found out that I had not network access. No biggie, though. I had to put in resolv.conf and manually add the default gateway with route. Of course, it took me a little time to discover that it didn't have a resolv.conf and also to figure out how Solaris named the ethernet card. I suspect the reviewer was not knowledgeable about how to configure his network. I don't really blame him because the installation menu confirmations seemed to indicate that all was going to be well in networking set-up. I was surprised at how relatively clutter free the /etc directory was in Solaris. I suppose if it were running KDE or GNOME instead of CDE the directory would look much like my Linux box.
I suspect alot of users who will be installing Solaris 9 x86 will as inexperienced as I and the reviewer (well, maybe as inexperienced as I am). I was doing it to satisfy my curiousity about the rarefied air in which Solaris dwells. I don't know if I could get Solaris running as a desktop workstation, but I'll be trying to install it on a less dated (but by no means cutting edge) Athlon system. My only concern is that I want to make it a multi-OS system (BSD/Solaris/Slack or Gentoo).