In 1979, Microsoft licensed UNIX directly from AT&T, but couldn't license the UNIX name, so it called its UNIX variant Microsoft XENIX.
XENIX was originally developed on a DEC Virtual Address Extension (VAX) running the Virtual Memory System (VMS) and a PDP-11 running UNIX V7, albeit now using Microsoft's own in-house minicomputers, and then converted into assembly language specific to the new 16-bit Motorola 68000 and Intel 8086 microprocessors. This put XENIX at the high end of the microcomputer market, which was still dominated by 8-bit machines, but well below the lowest end of the minicomputer market.
In 1979, brothers Doug and Larry Michels founded the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) as a UNIX porting and consulting company using venture capital from Microsoft, which handed over all further development of Microsoft XENIX to SCO.
I've had the +1 modifier for months on this account.
I choose not to use it, because it allows me to post 'controversial' comments and get bitchslapped, but keep my +1 mod when I want it, because I get modded up to 2 often enough to counteract the downmods.
Further I see a lot of retarded bullshit get posted with the +1 'just becuz I canz' or whatever. There are a LOT of dumb fucks with the +1 modifier, ya know.
You can set your profile to have the 'No Karma Bonus' checked by default, ya know. Here, I'll uncheck it for this comment, 'just becuz'.
The people you can go to who will fix your carb-based engine are all nearing retirement. It's cool if you're a motorhead or know one who can help you with your car, but otherwise you're S.O.L.
I drove a '72 beetle for many years and loved being able to fix it myself. I remember spending a lot of my time 'fixing it myself' however. My '93 Saturn seldom requires any attention at all.
Microsoft has done pretty good on the reputation of Windows 2000. The only people who I have heard 'testify' about bugs and problems they've experienced with W2K are people who I'd equally expect to have problems with Linux or NetBSD or anything else.
Ya know, you'll void your warranty by not keeping that thing in a heated garage....
I haven't allowed 'power locks' or 'power windows' or power-anything-unnecessary on any of my cars since I was a kid back in the 60's. I still remember that camping trip when we couldn't get the 'power window' down on the tailgate of the station wagon.
Maybe it's a grudge that I have. Or maybe it's that I drive cars until they're 15+ years old and the spiffy bits would fsck up before then.
The only social risk that 'gangland shootings and murder' represent is that decaying dead bodies of gang members represent vector points for the breeding of virulent bacteria and disease. If those folks killed themselves all off cleanly without leaving decaying bodies, I am sure the police would be none too pleased. It's a waste of police resources to try to prevent, or arrest the perpetrators of gang-on-gang crime. Let 'em rip free and wild and let Darwin do his work. Pinch the most successful 'winning' killers after they've cleaned up their underworld for us.
No, I think he's referring to the other stuff from 1984, namely that the government can and does retract all printed newspapers and books and updates the history written in them at will.
Honestly, if people are going to rant about ever-closer dystopian futures, why not look a little deeper. The society of 'orgy porgy' infantilism that Aldous Huxley warned against in Brave New World is far closer in our 'sexually liberated' society. Then again, all the knobs rant about coming from that book is testtube babies.
The way High School teachers who forcefeed little snippets of Orwell and Huxley ignore the obvious anti-Stalinism in Orwell's work and the anti-cultural-infantilism in Huxley's work, one wonders if they are simply stupid or if it's a deliberate attempt to blunt the thrust of those works by corrupting the message.
Most people who use that option to bypass having to enter the password every time they turn their computer on have their computer situated in their home. Nobody can physically access the computer unless they break and enter. In most such circumstances it's highly unlikely their computer will be 'broken into' because of the no-password-needed feature, at least not before far worse things have happened to their property.
Security-freak geeks are on the wrong side of public sentiment on this one. People don't want nor need draconian security features on computer systems they have in their own homes. There's a notion out there that they should be chastized for lax security practices that reeks of smug zeal.
The Slashdot editors recycle things like this to keep a steady page-hit count going. They have banner revenue targets even on slow days like today when most USians are bloated and lazy after the traditional Thanksgiving Feast.
However, most of the big 'Unix' thrusts these days, at least the ones championed vocally, are of operating systems wrapped up in big gargantuan desktop projects that make Emacs look tiny by comparison.
That isn't my defintion for the 'damn-fool years.'
My definition is "that period of time when a young person thinks that he knows a lot more than the older more experienced people around him." Losing vision and no longer having dreams and aspirations has nothing to do with that. A key to being a productive and creative person is discovering you don't 'know it all' and figuring out how to weave your voice into the culture you are a part of.
....for jive-ass 'cool' culture to be seen for what it is.
Young people have a need to rebel against something. The important thing is to get through the damn-fool years without taking it too far.
Commercial games that latch on and make 'cool' seem not so cool help nudge people into a reaility. It helps keep people from going too far. Though sometimes the feeling that they way you've been acting is jive-ass nonsense can drive people further.
It's all fun, kids. Have yours, but try not to permanently damage the tissue.
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I've had the +1 modifier for months on this account.
I choose not to use it, because it allows me to post 'controversial' comments and get bitchslapped, but keep my +1 mod when I want it, because I get modded up to 2 often enough to counteract the downmods.
Further I see a lot of retarded bullshit get posted with the +1 'just becuz I canz' or whatever. There are a LOT of dumb fucks with the +1 modifier, ya know.
You can set your profile to have the 'No Karma Bonus' checked by default, ya know. Here, I'll uncheck it for this comment, 'just becuz'.
The people you can go to who will fix your carb-based engine are all nearing retirement. It's cool if you're a motorhead or know one who can help you with your car, but otherwise you're S.O.L.
I drove a '72 beetle for many years and loved being able to fix it myself. I remember spending a lot of my time 'fixing it myself' however. My '93 Saturn seldom requires any attention at all.
Microsoft has done pretty good on the reputation of Windows 2000. The only people who I have heard 'testify' about bugs and problems they've experienced with W2K are people who I'd equally expect to have problems with Linux or NetBSD or anything else.
Ya know, you'll void your warranty by not keeping that thing in a heated garage....
I haven't allowed 'power locks' or 'power windows' or power-anything-unnecessary on any of my cars since I was a kid back in the 60's. I still remember that camping trip when we couldn't get the 'power window' down on the tailgate of the station wagon.
Maybe it's a grudge that I have. Or maybe it's that I drive cars until they're 15+ years old and the spiffy bits would fsck up before then.
I see you had to use your own +1 posting capability to get to a mod of 2. He got to '+5 funny' based on other people's response to what he typed.
So who's the loser here?
* It's really not that we respect your privacy... it is more that we just don't CARE what you do online.
Will you care what 'I' do online after my account is stolen or my box trojaned by a spammer??
Don't look now, but I think your social security number is etched into your butt plug.
Better clench down hard and try to abrade it off.
Thank goodness Paul Wellstone's corpse didn't win.
It's more accurate to say that Slashdot is run by trolls for trolls. There's lots of banner revenue in trolling suckahs, ya know.
Slashdot is at best neo-yellow journalism.
The only social risk that 'gangland shootings and murder' represent is that decaying dead bodies of gang members represent vector points for the breeding of virulent bacteria and disease. If those folks killed themselves all off cleanly without leaving decaying bodies, I am sure the police would be none too pleased. It's a waste of police resources to try to prevent, or arrest the perpetrators of gang-on-gang crime. Let 'em rip free and wild and let Darwin do his work. Pinch the most successful 'winning' killers after they've cleaned up their underworld for us.
heh
No, I think he's referring to the other stuff from 1984, namely that the government can and does retract all printed newspapers and books and updates the history written in them at will.
Honestly, if people are going to rant about ever-closer dystopian futures, why not look a little deeper. The society of 'orgy porgy' infantilism that Aldous Huxley warned against in Brave New World is far closer in our 'sexually liberated' society. Then again, all the knobs rant about coming from that book is testtube babies.
The way High School teachers who forcefeed little snippets of Orwell and Huxley ignore the obvious anti-Stalinism in Orwell's work and the anti-cultural-infantilism in Huxley's work, one wonders if they are simply stupid or if it's a deliberate attempt to blunt the thrust of those works by corrupting the message.
Most people who use that option to bypass having to enter the password every time they turn their computer on have their computer situated in their home. Nobody can physically access the computer unless they break and enter. In most such circumstances it's highly unlikely their computer will be 'broken into' because of the no-password-needed feature, at least not before far worse things have happened to their property.
Security-freak geeks are on the wrong side of public sentiment on this one. People don't want nor need draconian security features on computer systems they have in their own homes. There's a notion out there that they should be chastized for lax security practices that reeks of smug zeal.
The Slashdot editors recycle things like this to keep a steady page-hit count going. They have banner revenue targets even on slow days like today when most USians are bloated and lazy after the traditional Thanksgiving Feast.
That's traditional Unix philosphy.
However, most of the big 'Unix' thrusts these days, at least the ones championed vocally, are of operating systems wrapped up in big gargantuan desktop projects that make Emacs look tiny by comparison.
A slackware boot/root floppy set can have NFS support and has dd included.
Oh! I said 'floppy' there. We don't like floppies anymore, right?
Well, a Slackware boot CD will work too.
How much is the lastest game from a decade ago worth?
I recently sold a box of Sega Saturn games (CDs) on eBay. Went for about fifteen bucks.
'The Santa Cruz Operation' was a part of Microsoft.
And really, SCO didn't 'produce' Xenix in the first place. They ported the AT&T UNIX code to the 8086.
That isn't my defintion for the 'damn-fool years.'
My definition is "that period of time when a young person thinks that he knows a lot more than the older more experienced people around him." Losing vision and no longer having dreams and aspirations has nothing to do with that. A key to being a productive and creative person is discovering you don't 'know it all' and figuring out how to weave your voice into the culture you are a part of.
It's running OS 7.5.5 and I don't think is vulnerable to this root exploit.
It's a sweet machine for retro-ness. Sometimes when you're writing you just want a simple machine to get away from it all.
Okay, you made fun of my awkward syntax. I knew that was coming right after I hit the submit button.
"Where management isn't involved and/or overseeing 'the whole pie' you're talking about a mismanaged company."
The point is determining what servers the bulk of HTTP traffic is being delivered from.
It isn't 16,000 vanity sites and 'just because' Linux boxes that serve up the default apache page or pictures of case mods.
....for jive-ass 'cool' culture to be seen for what it is.
Young people have a need to rebel against something. The important thing is to get through the damn-fool years without taking it too far.
Commercial games that latch on and make 'cool' seem not so cool help nudge people into a reaility. It helps keep people from going too far. Though sometimes the feeling that they way you've been acting is jive-ass nonsense can drive people further.
It's all fun, kids. Have yours, but try not to permanently damage the tissue.
It's been a few years, but I know for a fact that Linus T. used to hold Powerpoint in pretty high esteem.
But my Linux Journal subscription lapsed over three years ago, so my Linus-isms are out of date.
Ummm, where management isn't 'the whole pie' you're talking about a mismanaged and out of control company.