Certainly, hooking up on a modem was one of the things that made my computer cool compared to other people that didn't have one. Those were the days when you would dial up some BB and hear EEEEE aaaaaa iiiii shhhhhh oooo bong bong bing (you get the point....)
I remember cruising along with my 1200 baud modem why others were stuck with 300 baud! Too bad that these guys are now out in the cold (figuratively speaking, though maybe for some, literally) because it was modems that people used to first connect to the internet, not DSL or cable. Modems unfortunately will become nothing more than a tale that we can tell our grandkids about many years from now.
"Back in my day, we didn't have these fancy wireless petabit connections. We had to use 300 baud modems over the telephone (uphill, both ways by the way!) and we liked it!"
Maybe they've all bought licenses from SCO and therefore don't have to comply with the GPL?
I seriously doubt any embedded Linux manufacturer has bought a license from SCO. Didn't SCO once threaten embedded Linux manufacturers, like they have threatened just about everybody else? If I remember correctly, Darl went to Japan to a major embedded Linux conference there to drum up support for his illegal licensing scheme from embedded Linux manufacturers. I think the reception was less than warm.
As wrong as it is not distribute the source code to the embedded Linux these manufacturers are using, they are in no uncertain terms on the same level as SCO. They might be if they charged you for the product as well as charged you for the right to use the embedded Linux.
The article mentions that Love knew Darl from Novell and brought him on board at Caldera/SCO. Does anybody know what Darl did at Novell? I just wonder what was going through Ransom's head when he decided to hire Darl. Was Darl this superstar executive at Novell or was he the one that was always telling Novell "hey, our IP is being infringed somewhere, let's get on the suing bandwagon"?
I am just wondering what the legacy of Darl was at Novell that made him so suited to be CEO of some company that has morphed into one of the most hated entities in the IT world?
I also recommend that you run out to CompUSA quickly because I saw a copy of "SCO Unix in a Nutshell" on the discount shelf for only $5. You will need this after SCO goes out of business and you no longer have support.
It has come to our attention that there are a number of IP infringements occurring in your most wonderful country. To remedy this problems, it is recommended that you quickly submit a small token of appreciation in the form of a chek to cover your use of this so-called "Linux" operating system. Since we are aware that your country is actively developing a version "Linux", a monetary payment will cover your licenses for developing your inferior....I mean...most honorable OS.
Because we wish to maintain our most excellent relations with your people, we are offering a substantial discount on your licenses. If you act now before the end of the year, you may purchase the necessary 1.2 billion licenses for only 499 yuan. After the new year, the price will unfortunately have to increase to 699 yuan.
If possible, please submit your payment to my personal bank account in the Grand Cayman Islands. It is imperative that you act quickly and most importantly, do not say anything to the US government about this most honorable deal.
My most sincere respects
Darl McBride
P.S. After the new year, you may reach me personally in some South American country where the extradition laws are lax. I will be going by the name Diego Montoya.
First you decide that you need to take on one of the most powerful computer companies in the world thinking that you will make them roll over and pony up your extortion fee. IBM will basically make SCO eat their own lunch and then make SCO say "Thank you sir, may I have another".
Since that is not enough, you decide to pick on somebody else. Let's see...who might be using Linux that should just roll right over again....Oh, I know....Hollywood!!!
Yeah, those movie companies don't mind too much about paying extortion money to annoying gnat-like computer companies that have no legs to stand on. Excellent decision Darl. I am sure that Spielberg and his crew at Dreamworks and Lucas and others will surely just pay up, no questions asked.
SCO, I have to admit that you have some of the biggest balls in the computer industry. Unfortunately, your balls are filled with the hottest of air.
To think Boise and his fellows have been involved in some of the biggest bungles in legal history and they are none the poorer for it. Think about this guys "big" cases and his results.
MS anti-trust......he "won" (and I use won very loosely)
2000 pres election.....enuff said
SCO....talk about hitching your wagon to a broken down pony
But even though his legal genius is not serving him, he will still be stinky rich. Much richer than the vast majority of people who pour their heart and soul into Linux and the Linux community while he and his incompetent lackeys try to rape the Linux community on behalf of the SCO assholes.
There is truly little justice in the world. It is unfortunate that he will not be able to join McBride and his crew in Federal-pound-them-in-the-ass prison. That would be justice.
The Army chooses Linux to build the soldier of the future but the Department of Homeland Security chooses Windows. Maybe the Army can protect us from the Department of Homeland Security!
If you look at the difference #3 and #4 on the list, you see it is quite small. The G5 should be capable of more than a little better performance than a Xeon (which is the #3 cluster) in floating point. Some good tweaking will increase the efficiency this preliminary number is just over 40% theoretical, which largely points to a lack of optimization for that cluster.
The way it would create a security and privacy risk is that you would be at risk because your privacy would be interrupted by Ashcroft's stormtroopers weilding the DMCA in their hand. They would put your personal security at risk by opening a can of Patriot Act whoop ass. That's how.
I was going to write a comment on this but after thinking about how absurd this is, I am completely stumped. Thank you MS, you have completely sucked the witty comebacks out of me with this one.
I wonder who at Jupiter Research will get canned for this report. Surely MS has some pull somewhere to get the author of this blasphemous report fired.
that the Alpha is being put out to pasture. This is one amazing chip and it was at one time lightyears ahead of anything Intel put out. I honestly believe that HP is making a mistake here by ditching this chip. Sure R&D costs of chip design and production are enormous but HP is hitching their wagon to the Itanic? At least use AMD and their good processors, especially the encouraging new 64 bit chip. The Itanium is about to truly become the laughstock of the microprocessor world.
If HP (and before Compaq and before them DEC) had played their cards right, the Alpha could have been a major player and taken on Intel seriously. About the only thing Intel has going for them is their ability to produce chips cheaply because of the sheer numbers. We can argue the merits of Xeon and other P4 derivatives another time but it is just a real disappointment that HP is doing this.
You can call Netscape, but as long as it is associated with AOL, it will be a spam magnet. In my experience, the only worse than AOL and their spam problems is Hotmail run by you know who.
With this service, it will now only cost you $9.95/month to have an inbox filled with 200 spam messages instead of the normal $24.95/month. Way to go AOL for lowering the price of receiving spam!
My first computer was an Atari 400. Man was that a crappy computer but at the time it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I could play Zaxxon after loading it up from my cassette player. It would only take about 12 minutes to load it up and then I would play about 15 minutes and be bored to death with it. But still it was cool because I load up computer games with the cassette player AND play my music (though not at the same time...too bad).
The other thing about that computer was the hard keyboard. Trying to type in a program from Compute! magazine was brutal. I think I got a repetitive stress injury from typing on thing...but don't get me wrong, it was cool and fun.
You do reach a point where the nuclear binding force requirement is too much to hold all the protons and neutrons together in the nucleus. The nuclear binding force is necessary to overcome the repulsions of the individual protons in the nucleus. In essence, the neutrons act as mini-buffers between all the positively charged protons but after a certain number, the repulsive forces become greater than the nuclear binding energy. This energy requirement is why as you move from "lighter" radioactive elements such as uranium to darmstadtium, the half-lives decrease exponentially. Uranium isotopes have half-lives measured in billions of years while I suspect the half-life of element 110 is measured in milliseconds to microseconds. The nuclear binding energy requirement is too great to make a long-living stable nucleus.
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You need support for an office suite because people undoubtedly will call and ask "Where is that paper-clip thingy? I need some help from it."
Sad but true.
Certainly, hooking up on a modem was one of the things that made my computer cool compared to other people that didn't have one. Those were the days when you would dial up some BB and hear EEEEE aaaaaa iiiii shhhhhh oooo bong bong bing (you get the point....)
I remember cruising along with my 1200 baud modem why others were stuck with 300 baud! Too bad that these guys are now out in the cold (figuratively speaking, though maybe for some, literally) because it was modems that people used to first connect to the internet, not DSL or cable. Modems unfortunately will become nothing more than a tale that we can tell our grandkids about many years from now.
"Back in my day, we didn't have these fancy wireless petabit connections. We had to use 300 baud modems over the telephone (uphill, both ways by the way!) and we liked it!"
Maybe they've all bought licenses from SCO and therefore don't have to comply with the GPL?
I seriously doubt any embedded Linux manufacturer has bought a license from SCO. Didn't SCO once threaten embedded Linux manufacturers, like they have threatened just about everybody else? If I remember correctly, Darl went to Japan to a major embedded Linux conference there to drum up support for his illegal licensing scheme from embedded Linux manufacturers. I think the reception was less than warm.
As wrong as it is not distribute the source code to the embedded Linux these manufacturers are using, they are in no uncertain terms on the same level as SCO. They might be if they charged you for the product as well as charged you for the right to use the embedded Linux.
The article mentions that Love knew Darl from Novell and brought him on board at Caldera/SCO. Does anybody know what Darl did at Novell? I just wonder what was going through Ransom's head when he decided to hire Darl. Was Darl this superstar executive at Novell or was he the one that was always telling Novell "hey, our IP is being infringed somewhere, let's get on the suing bandwagon"?
I am just wondering what the legacy of Darl was at Novell that made him so suited to be CEO of some company that has morphed into one of the most hated entities in the IT world?
I also recommend that you run out to CompUSA quickly because I saw a copy of "SCO Unix in a Nutshell" on the discount shelf for only $5. You will need this after SCO goes out of business and you no longer have support.
Dear Most Honorable Premier of China
It has come to our attention that there are a number of IP infringements occurring in your most wonderful country. To remedy this problems, it is recommended that you quickly submit a small token of appreciation in the form of a chek to cover your use of this so-called "Linux" operating system. Since we are aware that your country is actively developing a version "Linux", a monetary payment will cover your licenses for developing your inferior....I mean...most honorable OS.
Because we wish to maintain our most excellent relations with your people, we are offering a substantial discount on your licenses. If you act now before the end of the year, you may purchase the necessary 1.2 billion licenses for only 499 yuan. After the new year, the price will unfortunately have to increase to 699 yuan.
If possible, please submit your payment to my personal bank account in the Grand Cayman Islands. It is imperative that you act quickly and most importantly, do not say anything to the US government about this most honorable deal.
My most sincere respects
Darl McBride
P.S. After the new year, you may reach me personally in some South American country where the extradition laws are lax. I will be going by the name Diego Montoya.
If nothing else, SCO could sue Lucasfilm for using Linux in a very inappropriate way....digitally creating Jar Jar Binks
That has to be worth some amount of punitive damages...
First you decide that you need to take on one of the most powerful computer companies in the world thinking that you will make them roll over and pony up your extortion fee. IBM will basically make SCO eat their own lunch and then make SCO say "Thank you sir, may I have another".
Since that is not enough, you decide to pick on somebody else. Let's see...who might be using Linux that should just roll right over again....Oh, I know....Hollywood!!!
Yeah, those movie companies don't mind too much about paying extortion money to annoying gnat-like computer companies that have no legs to stand on. Excellent decision Darl. I am sure that Spielberg and his crew at Dreamworks and Lucas and others will surely just pay up, no questions asked.
SCO, I have to admit that you have some of the biggest balls in the computer industry. Unfortunately, your balls are filled with the hottest of air.
to use AIX? That is not Linux.
To think Boise and his fellows have been involved in some of the biggest bungles in legal history and they are none the poorer for it. Think about this guys "big" cases and his results.
MS anti-trust......he "won" (and I use won very loosely)
2000 pres election.....enuff said
SCO....talk about hitching your wagon to a broken down pony
But even though his legal genius is not serving him, he will still be stinky rich. Much richer than the vast majority of people who pour their heart and soul into Linux and the Linux community while he and his incompetent lackeys try to rape the Linux community on behalf of the SCO assholes.
There is truly little justice in the world. It is unfortunate that he will not be able to join McBride and his crew in Federal-pound-them-in-the-ass prison. That would be justice.
that we can't call Linux some form of music and have the RIAA go after SCO with the vigor they are chasing senior citizens and 13 year old girls with.
Physicists have truly run out of things useful to do.
The Army chooses Linux to build the soldier of the future but the Department of Homeland Security chooses Windows. Maybe the Army can protect us from the Department of Homeland Security!
If you look at the difference #3 and #4 on the list, you see it is quite small. The G5 should be capable of more than a little better performance than a Xeon (which is the #3 cluster) in floating point. Some good tweaking will increase the efficiency this preliminary number is just over 40% theoretical, which largely points to a lack of optimization for that cluster.
The way it would create a security and privacy risk is that you would be at risk because your privacy would be interrupted by Ashcroft's stormtroopers weilding the DMCA in their hand. They would put your personal security at risk by opening a can of Patriot Act whoop ass. That's how.
Govt: MS, you are not giving users a choice here.
MS: "But your honor, we are giving users a choice. They can use IE for shop for music online or just not shop."
Ahhhh, the MS way.
I was going to write a comment on this but after thinking about how absurd this is, I am completely stumped. Thank you MS, you have completely sucked the witty comebacks out of me with this one.
It's not a monopolistic powerplay to squeeze companies out of every dime possible by integrating clients and servers, it is a feature!
I wonder who at Jupiter Research will get canned for this report. Surely MS has some pull somewhere to get the author of this blasphemous report fired.
that the Alpha is being put out to pasture. This is one amazing chip and it was at one time lightyears ahead of anything Intel put out. I honestly believe that HP is making a mistake here by ditching this chip. Sure R&D costs of chip design and production are enormous but HP is hitching their wagon to the Itanic? At least use AMD and their good processors, especially the encouraging new 64 bit chip. The Itanium is about to truly become the laughstock of the microprocessor world.
If HP (and before Compaq and before them DEC) had played their cards right, the Alpha could have been a major player and taken on Intel seriously. About the only thing Intel has going for them is their ability to produce chips cheaply because of the sheer numbers. We can argue the merits of Xeon and other P4 derivatives another time but it is just a real disappointment that HP is doing this.
You can call Netscape, but as long as it is associated with AOL, it will be a spam magnet. In my experience, the only worse than AOL and their spam problems is Hotmail run by you know who.
With this service, it will now only cost you $9.95/month to have an inbox filled with 200 spam messages instead of the normal $24.95/month. Way to go AOL for lowering the price of receiving spam!
the Linux Counter is a who's who list of those that owe $699.
My first computer was an Atari 400. Man was that a crappy computer but at the time it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I could play Zaxxon after loading it up from my cassette player. It would only take about 12 minutes to load it up and then I would play about 15 minutes and be bored to death with it. But still it was cool because I load up computer games with the cassette player AND play my music (though not at the same time...too bad).
The other thing about that computer was the hard keyboard. Trying to type in a program from Compute! magazine was brutal. I think I got a repetitive stress injury from typing on thing...but don't get me wrong, it was cool and fun.
You do reach a point where the nuclear binding force requirement is too much to hold all the protons and neutrons together in the nucleus. The nuclear binding force is necessary to overcome the repulsions of the individual protons in the nucleus. In essence, the neutrons act as mini-buffers between all the positively charged protons but after a certain number, the repulsive forces become greater than the nuclear binding energy. This energy requirement is why as you move from "lighter" radioactive elements such as uranium to darmstadtium, the half-lives decrease exponentially. Uranium isotopes have half-lives measured in billions of years while I suspect the half-life of element 110 is measured in milliseconds to microseconds. The nuclear binding energy requirement is too great to make a long-living stable nucleus.
that element 110 is now Darmstadtium.
"Damn straightium it's Darmstadtium!"