Erk, you are right. It still *is* ancient, tho, it hasn't been necessary to write your own malloc in a long time AFAIK.
I shouldn't have been modded up for that. My post is what happens when you work OT for too many days and can't think straight anymore:) This one may be the same *warning* tired geek...:^(
The fact that the code in question won't compile suggests to me that it's so ancient it hasn't been supported in compilers since well before the 2.x series (which I've compiled on my systems).
It's a shame that all this info can't be directed to the stock-owners in such a way that they understand it. If so, and if any of them have any sense, SCO would take a huge hit.
I've found it very telling that since we told the SCO tech support back in May that we were switching over to a different OS, they are not answering calls from us (or promising to get back to us and not doing so). We've had to hire a temp contract database guy to get thru the change.
I'm not in the decision making process here, but a couple people have been keeping me up on what's going on, and I gather that corporate is very, very pissed off at SCO and is considering a breach of contract lawsuit (our support contract runs for another two years).
The law has created so many other creative way to shake down a mark.
Yep, and with little legal recourse if you don't have the resources to fight a battle against a lot of expensive lawyers.
The legal system has been thoroughly hijacked. 'ware thee, who might want to start your own business nowadays. Getting started in selling things has nothing on what it might cost if you infringe some nebulous concept out there...even selling lemonade in front of your parents house could result in "licensing fees".
personal comment
Fuckers. Greedy, arrogant, self-serving, fuckers. I hope you all rot in hell. I sincerely hope there is a place you will rot in, because you are not likely to get the justice you deserve.
What the hell, SCO is suing everybody on the planet anyway...they're not all named in the lawsuit or the FUD, but it amounts to the same thing...they might as well...
Given what McBride and company are doing, did they seriously think they wouldn't get attacked by the Black Hat community as well as everyone else? Morons.
OTOH they may have been counting on it.
The Gripping Hand is, if they were, it's not exactly the response they were looking for - came months late. Mayhaps they were figuring they'd get slammed like the RIAA does and could use it as PR FUD then? Whoops, guys, sorry that reality screwed your expectations.
Satan: Hell, Darl. Where did you think you would go? You're one of us, and will start at a very high rank here.
Darl: Mmmmm. Um, ok. Guess I don't have much choice.
Satan: That's right, Darl, you don't. Now for your first assignment -
Darl (eagerly): Yes? Yes? Do I get to check in the souls of all those evil linux users?
Satan: Well, no, not exactly.
Darl: Communications with the stockbrokers who helped me so much? Helping other people discover the joys of hell? What!?
Satan. Shut up, Darl. No, your first job will be tending our OpenPit Server -
Darl: Finally! I knew I'd get a chance to show off what I know! All those open source fanatics will have to bow to ME!
Satan: Quit interrupting me. *Blasts Darl*
Darl (meekly): Ow! Ok, ok. So what is the OpenPit server?
Satan: The OpenPit server monitors the burning and torture of those wonderfully evil stock manipulators and IP thieves. You have shown much experience in that field, and we're glad to have you on board.
Darl: Well, I guess that doesn't sound so bad. So where do I report to work?
Satan: The Admin terminal is located in the middle of the OpenPit, of course. You have to be able to directly supervise from the middle of the thousand degree flames. Get going, now....
If the debris/matter wavefront from the explosion impacted the hull with sufficient density and energy, you'd hear it. Just like you'd hear a micrometeorite impacting the hull.
You might also hear very fast hull heating from high energy particles, although I'm not sure what it'd sound like.
Nukes *do* have a shockwave in vacuum, but it's mostly high energy photons and a very small amount of high energy debris (from the bomb casing) traveling behind the EM front. Yeah, not like in atmosphere. But it does exist. (How do you think that a supernova causes damage to the objects in it's vicinity?)
"but no one would seriously try to call actual matter hitting you "sound.""
Oh? So if 20 grams or so of micrometeorite hit the shuttle at 15 km/s, nobody would hear the impact on the hull? Vibrations transmitted from the hull to the air inside would be audible. What they would sound like would depend on the resonance characteristics of the hull and the absorption characteristics of the inside of the craft.
If something material actually *hits* the material of your craft, with air inside it, the vacuum outside is irrelevant.
Slashdot Mirror
What would you win? Free crack?
realityshunt
Erk, you are right. It still *is* ancient, tho, it hasn't been necessary to write your own malloc in a long time AFAIK.
:) This one may be the same *warning* tired geek... :^(
I shouldn't have been modded up for that. My post is what happens when you work OT for too many days and can't think straight anymore
realityshunt
Universal seems to be waking up. A little bit, anyway, with their announcement that they are dropping CD prices.
A candle in a hellish, stormy darkness....but still a candle. We'll see if it stays lit, or gets snuffed out.
realityshunt
The fact that the code in question won't compile suggests to me that it's so ancient it hasn't been supported in compilers since well before the 2.x series (which I've compiled on my systems).
It's a shame that all this info can't be directed to the stock-owners in such a way that they understand it. If so, and if any of them have any sense, SCO would take a huge hit.
realityshunt
I've found it very telling that since we told the SCO tech support back in May that we were switching over to a different OS, they are not answering calls from us (or promising to get back to us and not doing so). We've had to hire a temp contract database guy to get thru the change.
I'm not in the decision making process here, but a couple people have been keeping me up on what's going on, and I gather that corporate is very, very pissed off at SCO and is considering a breach of contract lawsuit (our support contract runs for another two years).
realityshunt
The law has created so many other creative way to shake down a mark.
Yep, and with little legal recourse if you don't have the resources to fight a battle against a lot of expensive lawyers.
The legal system has been thoroughly hijacked. 'ware thee, who might want to start your own business nowadays. Getting started in selling things has nothing on what it might cost if you infringe some nebulous concept out there...even selling lemonade in front of your parents house could result in "licensing fees".
personal comment
Fuckers. Greedy, arrogant, self-serving, fuckers. I hope you all rot in hell. I sincerely hope there is a place you will rot in, because you are not likely to get the justice you deserve.
/personal comment
realityshunt
I'd like to vote " Mr. Darl McBride (704524)" the top funniest slashdot troll since Mohammed Al-Sharif.
Needs a poll, dammit!!!
Funniest Slashdot Troll
1) Mr. Darl McBride (704524)
2) Mohammed Al-Sharif
3) ???
4) Oh, dammit I've run out of ideas.
5) Ob: Cowboy Neal
6) Ob2:Creative Goatse posts...
Argh! Too much work in the last week! Help! My sense of humor is fractured! I need a comedian! Carlin, quick! I need a comedian!
reality shunt'ed by Guinness
LOL
realityshunt'ed
Slashdot needs a +1 "Funny but True" moderation.....
Sigh. 10 more days to the end of OpenServer at work! Yay!
realityshunt
I see somebody has read Hunter Thompson
realityshunt
Yeah, sending it back to them is the same as copying it (it's a reproduction of the original work) and they'll nail your ass on that one too.
RIAA: Next victim, please...
realityshunt
"At the end of the day, the manner in which the RIAA conducts business is legal"
But abuse of a monopoly position in the market is not. Not like they are likely to get seriously penalized for it....
realityshunt
That's what happens when one types too fsat :)
realityshunt
Sure, spammers are jerks, we can laugh at them and make fun of them, but don't you have any sense of decency?
Not when that word is mentioned, no. The s******* word makes me froth at the mouth.
realityshunt
OT:
Although I'm an athiest, I like your sig.
realityshunt
"All Your Base" is pronounced dead several times every day, yet it's 15 minutes of fame continue for some reason...
Truly a great American ico...er, never mind.
realityshunt
Come on now, the mental image of Darl devouring Mormons is too funny to resist...
realityshunt
Or the huge crush of customers coming to them once they start getting their "license fees"?
One more piece of evidence that they are simply P^D stock.
realityshunt
What the hell, SCO is suing everybody on the planet anyway...they're not all named in the lawsuit or the FUD, but it amounts to the same thing...they might as well...
realityshunt
Given what McBride and company are doing, did they seriously think they wouldn't get attacked by the Black Hat community as well as everyone else? Morons.
OTOH they may have been counting on it.
The Gripping Hand is, if they were, it's not exactly the response they were looking for - came months late. Mayhaps they were figuring they'd get slammed like the RIAA does and could use it as PR FUD then? Whoops, guys, sorry that reality screwed your expectations.
realityshunt
Schwing! LOL!
Spelchekr? We don ned no stinkin spelchecr!
realityshunt
If you're on dialup, it's useful. On broadband it really isn't necessary.
Just my 0.02
realityshunt
Darl tees off with the solid gold driver...
Flash! Wham! Blam! Blackness......
Satan: Hello, Darl.
Darl: WTF? Where am I?
Satan: Hell, Darl. Where did you think you would go? You're one of us, and will start at a very high rank here.
Darl: Mmmmm. Um, ok. Guess I don't have much choice.
Satan: That's right, Darl, you don't. Now for your first assignment -
Darl (eagerly): Yes? Yes? Do I get to check in the souls of all those evil linux users?
Satan: Well, no, not exactly.
Darl: Communications with the stockbrokers who helped me so much? Helping other people discover the joys of hell? What!?
Satan. Shut up, Darl. No, your first job will be tending our OpenPit Server -
Darl: Finally! I knew I'd get a chance to show off what I know! All those open source fanatics will have to bow to ME!
Satan: Quit interrupting me. *Blasts Darl*
Darl (meekly): Ow! Ok, ok. So what is the OpenPit server?
Satan: The OpenPit server monitors the burning and torture of those wonderfully evil stock manipulators and IP thieves. You have shown much experience in that field, and we're glad to have you on board.
Darl: Well, I guess that doesn't sound so bad. So where do I report to work?
Satan: The Admin terminal is located in the middle of the OpenPit, of course. You have to be able to directly supervise from the middle of the thousand degree flames. Get going, now....
Darl: Ulp...
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realityshunt
If I want to see "bad science," I don't go to a theatre. I go to the undergrad labs ;-)
:)
Yeah, sometimes the explosions are *very* realistic
realityshunt
If the debris/matter wavefront from the explosion impacted the hull with sufficient density and energy, you'd hear it. Just like you'd hear a micrometeorite impacting the hull.
You might also hear very fast hull heating from high energy particles, although I'm not sure what it'd sound like.
Nukes *do* have a shockwave in vacuum, but it's mostly high energy photons and a very small amount of high energy debris (from the bomb casing) traveling behind the EM front. Yeah, not like in atmosphere. But it does exist. (How do you think that a supernova causes damage to the objects in it's vicinity?)
"but no one would seriously try to call actual matter hitting you "sound.""
Oh? So if 20 grams or so of micrometeorite hit the shuttle at 15 km/s, nobody would hear the impact on the hull? Vibrations transmitted from the hull to the air inside would be audible. What they would sound like would depend on the resonance characteristics of the hull and the absorption characteristics of the inside of the craft.
If something material actually *hits* the material of your craft, with air inside it, the vacuum outside is irrelevant.
realityshunt