We will crush the war mongering Linux using infidels, as Afghanistan was invaded by Soviet Union, the Soviet Union was communist, and obviously Linux comes from communist bastards as the x comes from Karl Marx.
Or, shorter: The Linux infidels are committing suicide by the thousands against SCO's walls! We will beat them!
Darl said in his letter that this was only the first of many letters... Is Darl going to try and rebutt Linus' statement in the next letter, or is he going to go spread more FUD?
I wonder if I can "borrow" one of those newfangled tactical nukes you can fit in a briefcase.... I think everyone agrees that a tactical nuke would be useful against this location....
This so-called IT manager keeps Java off his desktop because it crashes the system.
Maybe the IT manager means the Java interpreter (the one available at java.com) rather than individual Java programs?
Anyway, I completely agree with you. I routinely run the latest Sun Java interpreters on my computers without any problems. Hell, even my ol' Windows 98 compaq armada runs Java fine.
Walmart contributes 10% to CHINA's GDP. Read it in Forbes a few issues back. No way Walmart could be such a giant in the U.S. Hell, even MS doesn't contribute that much.
AT&T spun off Bell Labs as part of Lucent Technologies. I'm not sure if AT&T still has a research lab, but the Bell Labs name went to Lucent, along with most of their stuff.
I don't what much about the computer hardware side of things, but I know Java, and I don't remember anything in the Java or Sun classes that allow you to connect straight to the parallel or printer port.... Did Sun provide the classes or did these guys write their own, because I wouldn't mind being able to interface directly with ports...
Your comment would be funny, except that Latin really does have a tiny vocabulary... A 500 word Latin vocabulary is a considerable bit. Like pulcher and bella can mean beautiful, pretty, handsome, etc, depending on the context it's used in.
Before I start, I have to say that I am a pokemon fanatic (and proud of it too). I own a copy of Ruby, a copy of Sapphire, two Golds, one Crystal, one Silver, one Yellow, Blue, and Red. The wallpaper on all my computers is Pokemon themed, and I'm currently listening to the song "The Game" from the Totally Pokemon music CD.
Okay, rant mode on.
As soon as RS (Ruby/Sapphire) were released, I just *knew* there were going to be problems with the internal clock. I mean, how long could that battery last? And now we find out that there is a year limit to the berries? What idiot thought this up, or didn't plan for the eventuality that the game could surpass a year in usage? I have several thousand hours of play on my games (split among all my games, of course). For those of you who don't know, berries are a VERY important part of the game. Berries allow a pokemon to regain health by itself; otherwise, you have to skip a turn in battle to pull a potion out of your pack and apply it. And berries have to be mixed to create PokeBlocks, which up a Pokemon's stats. The PokeBlocks are also necessary in the Safari Zone, where you can't battle pokemon - pokemon to capture a pokemon, you have to throw stones and pokeblocks to entice the pokemon into getting into a pokeball.
I'm not a networking guy by any stretch of the imagination, but I imagine it wouldn't take much more than what you described. Better yet, scatter email addresses NOBODY should be using for legitimate mail, then all connections should be tarpitted. How much does a few gig of ram cost?
I saw the previous/. posting when it came up (doing some homework for Latin late at night) and I immediately took the liberty of taking scoletters.com and scoletter.com. I'm hoping to post a huge rebuttal to everything Darly says. See my sig for more anti SCO stuff.
Did anyone notice SCO changed the design of their site? Previously, it was mostly a scummish yellow, but now they adopted a yellow on blue design. Now I have to overhaul my site design... (see sig)
Seriously, what a worthless review. It's all fluff and puff, and no actual substance. Next time, try reviewing a book that doesn't talk about "invisible" garbage.
Until Bush grants NASA a good chunk of cash (35 - 45 billion sounds about right) and somehow passes a law preventing the next administration from rolling back the grant, I won't be convinced. What if he just spouts rhetoric, then never funds it fully (remember fuel cell cars in the state of the union)? It's just a load of hyperbole until that time.
NASA needs to *know* that the cash will be available to fund crazy stuff, stuff that's way out there. We'll have to rebuild/repair quite a bit, launch facilities, bigger rockets, a massive hiring spree (NASA's hemorrhaged quite a few talented people in the last decade).
If this is for real, perhaps I'll switch my major (from cs, of course) to someone more related to space....
OK, so maybe it's not spyware per se, but my Dell 5150 came with two programs, DSLog and Dell Support, that try to connect to the Internet about half an hour to an hour after the computer boots up. And they try to connect simultaneously, which is the suspicious part. Who knows what info Dell Support could be sending, and who cares about DSLog. Even when I let Dell Support connect to the internet, it almost always pops up a little bubble saying there are new alerts and garbage like that. The alerts are just virus warnings, etc. It just got so irritating that I had ZoneAlarm ban all connections from those two programs.
In the case of JFS, they not only distributed Linux with JFS, one of Caldera's employees, Christoph Hellwig, contributed code to JFS...
So? You would think that since Caldera itself sold GPL'ed stuff, that would stop SCO from suing, period. But it hasn't.
They could simply say that Hellwig was doing this in his spare time, or that he and his boss were coding for Linux in their spare time. The problem here is, Hellwig is a peon. Just another worker bee. Doesn't matter what employees do, it's a question of whether the top executive know. Did they know what Hellwig was doing? Did they realize all the implications? Those are the real questions. And here we enter the realm of plausible deniability (lawyers can jump in to correct me anytime now). Did the executives know what one worker bee was doing? Hell no! Why do they care what one of their workers was doing in his free time?
Wake me up when Hellwig's boss's boss's boss's boss knew about the problem, understood the implications, wrote a letter, and forwarded it to his boss, who then fired it up through management to the upper echelons.
There's just no way a library would buy such obscure and expensive books on datastoragetechnologies when they could be buying children's books, novels, and reference books, which have far wider appeal than stuff on data storage technologies. Anyway, isn't this what the Net's for? To get otherwise obscure, expensive information cheaply and efficiently?
Slashdot Mirror
What about:
We will crush the war mongering Linux using infidels, as Afghanistan was invaded by Soviet Union, the Soviet Union was communist, and obviously Linux comes from communist bastards as the x comes from Karl Marx.
Or, shorter: The Linux infidels are committing suicide by the thousands against SCO's walls! We will beat them!
ANyone else wanna have a go??
Darl said in his letter that this was only the first of many letters... Is Darl going to try and rebutt Linus' statement in the next letter, or is he going to go spread more FUD?
I wonder if I can "borrow" one of those newfangled tactical nukes you can fit in a briefcase.... I think everyone agrees that a tactical nuke would be useful against this location....
What about their relatives emails? Family's? Friends? Just start emailing away...
This so-called IT manager keeps Java off his desktop because it crashes the system.
Maybe the IT manager means the Java interpreter (the one available at java.com) rather than individual Java programs?
Anyway, I completely agree with you. I routinely run the latest Sun Java interpreters on my computers without any problems. Hell, even my ol' Windows 98 compaq armada runs Java fine.
Walmart contributes 10% to CHINA's GDP. Read it in Forbes a few issues back. No way Walmart could be such a giant in the U.S. Hell, even MS doesn't contribute that much.
AT&T spun off Bell Labs as part of Lucent Technologies. I'm not sure if AT&T still has a research lab, but the Bell Labs name went to Lucent, along with most of their stuff.
Don't click on it! It's an animated GIF... and the second pic has serious problems...
I don't what much about the computer hardware side of things, but I know Java, and I don't remember anything in the Java or Sun classes that allow you to connect straight to the parallel or printer port.... Did Sun provide the classes or did these guys write their own, because I wouldn't mind being able to interface directly with ports...
Yeah, tell me about it. Just sum, esse, sumus have a zillion different forms.
Your comment would be funny, except that Latin really does have a tiny vocabulary... A 500 word Latin vocabulary is a considerable bit. Like pulcher and bella can mean beautiful, pretty, handsome, etc, depending on the context it's used in.
Let me guess: YAAL? (You Are A Lawyer?)
P.S. Darl == Jerry Springer == Colombian drug dealer == Bin Laden == (1/2)(French President Jacques Chirac
SEE my sig on my opinion on the sco matter. Perhaps I'll put the above on the website.
And already /.'ed. Doesn't anyone have a mirror?
What about Java? I recall someone doing a foot shooting joke about that earlier.....
Before I start, I have to say that I am a pokemon fanatic (and proud of it too). I own a copy of Ruby, a copy of Sapphire, two Golds, one Crystal, one Silver, one Yellow, Blue, and Red. The wallpaper on all my computers is Pokemon themed, and I'm currently listening to the song "The Game" from the Totally Pokemon music CD.
Okay, rant mode on.
As soon as RS (Ruby/Sapphire) were released, I just *knew* there were going to be problems with the internal clock. I mean, how long could that battery last? And now we find out that there is a year limit to the berries? What idiot thought this up, or didn't plan for the eventuality that the game could surpass a year in usage? I have several thousand hours of play on my games (split among all my games, of course). For those of you who don't know, berries are a VERY important part of the game. Berries allow a pokemon to regain health by itself; otherwise, you have to skip a turn in battle to pull a potion out of your pack and apply it. And berries have to be mixed to create PokeBlocks, which up a Pokemon's stats. The PokeBlocks are also necessary in the Safari Zone, where you can't battle pokemon - pokemon to capture a pokemon, you have to throw stones and pokeblocks to entice the pokemon into getting into a pokeball.
*deep breath*
Okay, rant mode off
Yeah, tell me about it. I have filled bookcases just with my Lego creations, and even though I'm 18, I still get the Lego mail order catalog....
I'm not a networking guy by any stretch of the imagination, but I imagine it wouldn't take much more than what you described. Better yet, scatter email addresses NOBODY should be using for legitimate mail, then all connections should be tarpitted. How much does a few gig of ram cost?
I saw the previous /. posting when it came up (doing some homework for Latin late at night) and I immediately took the liberty of taking scoletters.com and scoletter.com. I'm hoping to post a huge rebuttal to everything Darly says. See my sig for more anti SCO stuff.
Did anyone notice SCO changed the design of their site? Previously, it was mostly a scummish yellow, but now they adopted a yellow on blue design. Now I have to overhaul my site design... (see sig)
Amazon has it for $13.27
Seriously, what a worthless review. It's all fluff and puff, and no actual substance. Next time, try reviewing a book that doesn't talk about "invisible" garbage.
Until Bush grants NASA a good chunk of cash (35 - 45 billion sounds about right) and somehow passes a law preventing the next administration from rolling back the grant, I won't be convinced. What if he just spouts rhetoric, then never funds it fully (remember fuel cell cars in the state of the union)? It's just a load of hyperbole until that time.
NASA needs to *know* that the cash will be available to fund crazy stuff, stuff that's way out there. We'll have to rebuild/repair quite a bit, launch facilities, bigger rockets, a massive hiring spree (NASA's hemorrhaged quite a few talented people in the last decade).
If this is for real, perhaps I'll switch my major (from cs, of course) to someone more related to space....
Wait at least a few weeks. Everybody will start linking to the .net one, Google will spider them, then assign .net the higher ranking.
OK, so maybe it's not spyware per se, but my Dell 5150 came with two programs, DSLog and Dell Support, that try to connect to the Internet about half an hour to an hour after the computer boots up. And they try to connect simultaneously, which is the suspicious part. Who knows what info Dell Support could be sending, and who cares about DSLog. Even when I let Dell Support connect to the internet, it almost always pops up a little bubble saying there are new alerts and garbage like that. The alerts are just virus warnings, etc. It just got so irritating that I had ZoneAlarm ban all connections from those two programs.
In the case of JFS, they not only distributed Linux with JFS, one of Caldera's employees, Christoph Hellwig, contributed code to JFS...
So? You would think that since Caldera itself sold GPL'ed stuff, that would stop SCO from suing, period. But it hasn't.
They could simply say that Hellwig was doing this in his spare time, or that he and his boss were coding for Linux in their spare time. The problem here is, Hellwig is a peon. Just another worker bee. Doesn't matter what employees do, it's a question of whether the top executive know. Did they know what Hellwig was doing? Did they realize all the implications? Those are the real questions. And here we enter the realm of plausible deniability (lawyers can jump in to correct me anytime now). Did the executives know what one worker bee was doing? Hell no! Why do they care what one of their workers was doing in his free time?
Wake me up when Hellwig's boss's boss's boss's boss knew about the problem, understood the implications, wrote a letter, and forwarded it to his boss, who then fired it up through management to the upper echelons.
ibmlawsuit.com, googlesuit.com
What is the kid researching data storage technology doing in the library in the first place? The Net would have much more up to date information than a library would. A quick search on Google reveals almost 6 million results for "data storage technology". While, admittedly, many of the are for online storage services such as XDrive, or manufacturers such as Seagate or APS Tech, there are still quite a few diamonds, such as a webpage about IBM's Millipede storage technology, a Network Computing article on storage disasters, a Bell Labs press release on holographic data storage, etc.
There's just no way a library would buy such obscure and expensive books on data storage technologies when they could be buying children's books, novels, and reference books, which have far wider appeal than stuff on data storage technologies. Anyway, isn't this what the Net's for? To get otherwise obscure, expensive information cheaply and efficiently?