What we're basically saying is that the GPL's clause requiring us to release our code cannot be enforced. Individual owners of code may contact us and ask that we cease and desist using or redistributing their code and we will make a good faith effort to come into compliance and make minimal reparations based on the value of the code, which is little to nothing.
In the case of IBM contributing our code to Linux, the damage is far, far greater, and so we will ask for compensation through similar mechanisms, but the value is in the billions, not hundreds or thousands as would be the case of most Linux code which has already been widely disclosed.
My company rewards employees by enlisting their IP in the broadest and most questionably interpreted ways possible to fight the good fight. We use your inventions to battle against Linux piracy and BSD-thieving Apple Republicans.
Hi, I'm Darl McBride. And here at SCO, we Think Different(tm).
Just pick a value, then tell the ID sellers and the USB forum mailing lists that you'll be using it and it's up to them whether they plan to sell the value to anyone else knowing that it's already in use.
I suspect you won't make friends by doing this, but I also suspect the value you choose won't be sold to anyone else.:-)
Just to put this in perspective, that's fewer than 100 per US state. Even Abacus Publishing's Atari ST and Commodore Amiga programming books used to sell more units than this during their first week of release!
As the article mentions, the Atari Jaguar did almost exactly as well during its first week, and I think the comparison is apt.:-)
Roll your own RPMs, DEBs, whatever, then install them on the target machine. There are automated tools for building these packages already -- I'm not sure I see the issue here.
You can also do this with the BSDs by changing the target directory for make install to be a new filesystem you're creating to image elsewhere.
Bluetooth is a neat technology, however most of the Bluetooth stacks for Windows are still quite weak. Operation is inconsistent with the rest of the system.
Unless Microsoft adds mainstream Bluetooth support or empowers another developer to do this, it may never be fully accepted.
Bluetooth is a breeze on the Mac, and it's about as painless as 802.11b for Linux, but those two markets simply aren't enough to support the kind of varied peripheral market that's needed for this to blossom.
This is about as foolish as comparing megahertz, and PC folks still don't get it: Mac SPECmarks and PC SPECmarks are completely different, a Mac SPECmark is significantly bigger, with more SPECs per mark. You're comparing Apples to... well... I dunno, the PC is just fruity.
That's exceptionally cool. The first time I ran across that, I'll admit that I felt pretty clever -- like I'd surely tried something nobody else had thought to try before.
I wish a bit of that kind of social engineering went into modern OSes. The Windows BSOD, KDE firebomb dialog, etc only serve to worsen the sinking feeling that comes with lost data. With the logo bit, it actually felt ever so slightly rewarding.
As this thing unravels, there's really only one question left unanswered:
Does anyone know of a country with no extradition treaties? Chris wants to go to the South Pacific, but as a speaker of Asian languages, I was more thinking....
As far as the G5 goes, what other PC, PC mind you, can you have 8-gigs of ram on or that comes stock wither SATA drives?! None yet.
Hit Google, search for "sata xeon workstation" for 6,330 hits. The first few links I visisted were PCs with SATA and capable of more than 8 gigs of RAM for less than the price of a G5. Most Xeon chipsets, and many Pentium IV chipsets allow 36-bit addressing, if you didn't know. (The 32-bit barrier was a non-issue as early as 2000.)
If the results degrade as you go on down the Google list, and only 1 in 100 are systems for sale, that's still nearly a hundred different SATA 8g PCs for you to choose from, and you can certainly build them yourself as well.
The G5 is interesting for many reasons, but this isn't one of them.
If you're merely blocking these IPs, then of course they're using your secondary -- that's what the secondary is for, it's for when the first can't be reached.
Instead of blocking mail from an IP address, you should accept and discard the mail. If you don't even open a socket, or if you reject with one of many generic messages, most any mail package will continue with the secondary.
I think that the reason why Sun's sinking is that they spent too much on R&D and not enough on marketing. I believe that the reason why Dell is still profitable is that they kept their R&D to minimum, thus reducing their expenses.
Dell really represents a different market. They're a desktop provider first and a server provider second. Sun are the reverse.
I think Dell and Gateway's biggest success has been in pretty much cloning the IBM of the 80s, only at a fraction of the price. When you were buying IBM, you knew you were buying hardware that would last forever along with full support for as long as you were willing to pay for it.
Dell did exactly what IBM did, but did it with the same cheap parts you could get from anyone else. In the desktop market, you can get away with this much much much more than you can in the server market.
It sounds obvious and par for the course today, but it wasn't until
the 90s that a lot of high-end tech companies realized they could
boost sales an order of magnitude with wide-spread advertising and
clever PR games. It worked well for them, and the companies that never
learned large-scale marketing are dead and gone. (DEC, Data General
were two good examples.) That was while tech was new, and anything was
a step up from no automation at all.
Unfortunately, many companies then made advertising and PR their
primary products, slashing R&D because they thought they'd had their budget strategies
wrong all along. Sun was king of this, apparently thinking a strong
brand was what sold systems, not leading edge technology. Engineering
went into the toilet, and now while Sun's still good at a few things,
all but their most insanely-priced hardware is nothing better than
what you get with off-the-shelf commodity components.
Today, people are researching to upgrade and evolve their server
networks, not just grabbing the first implementation they think they
understand. And that means it takes a lot more than McNealy's I-wanna-be-Steve-Jobs song and
dance to sell product.
...for a Pfuca Happy Hacker with ALPS (Northgate) switches.
The Pfuca keyboard has full sized keys but combines the special keys with normal keys via a laptop-like "Function" modifier key. Hold Fn-1 for F1, Fn-Backspace for delete, etc. It's faster than moving to the off-home positions once you get used to it.
The Northgate keyboards had the beautiful IBM-like clicky action, only a little firmer. When you get that kind of tactile and audible feedback, you end up typing significantly faster. The switches in the Northgate boards are caled "ALPS switches," and you can find other keyboards that have them as well, but nothing with a layout so efficient as the Happy Hacker!
Just because I'm posting as Darl doesn't mean I'm trolling. The article left off a critical page, without which the recipe would be tough to use.
You, on the other hand, post anonymously because you're afraid of the moderators' response to your trolling. If you're even a little bit sure of yourself, post logged-in so they can show you what the think.
We've been served! "Backards?" It's on Silly Putty
on
Homemade Silly Putty
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· Score: 0, Insightful
Isn't silly putty a copyright circumvention tool? This should be regulated before it
gets out of hand.
Funny.:-)
I don't know about that holding up, but Silly Putty is a registered trademark,
and umn.edu should be reflecting that. They should be calling this "a Silly Putty(R)-like
substance" before "Binney & Smith Source" goes after them for $3 billion USD.
The Silly Putty(R) recipe refers to the slime recipe for the actual production procedures.
It's not linked in the Slashdot writeup or on the umn.edu Silly Putty page, so I've linked
it here.
Do you have any evidence whatsoever that these are the folks who called you? Even once?
They choose to call me, they choose to inconvenience me
Just make sure you establish that bit you're taking as a fact before you jump on board and dial the toll-free number like the rest of the slashbots. THINK before acting, man.
Slashdot Mirror
In the case of IBM contributing our code to Linux, the damage is far, far greater, and so we will ask for compensation through similar mechanisms, but the value is in the billions, not hundreds or thousands as would be the case of most Linux code which has already been widely disclosed.
Hi, I'm Darl McBride. And here at SCO, we Think Different (tm).
I suspect you won't make friends by doing this, but I also suspect the value you choose won't be sold to anyone else. :-)
And I just finally passed my Microsoft LANManager VB Client/Server Programming certification tests!
As the article mentions, the Atari Jaguar did almost exactly as well during its first week, and I think the comparison is apt. :-)
You can also do this with the BSDs by changing the target directory for make install to be a new filesystem you're creating to image elsewhere.
Unless Microsoft adds mainstream Bluetooth support or empowers another developer to do this, it may never be fully accepted.
Bluetooth is a breeze on the Mac, and it's about as painless as 802.11b for Linux, but those two markets simply aren't enough to support the kind of varied peripheral market that's needed for this to blossom.
This is about as foolish as comparing megahertz, and PC folks still don't get it: Mac SPECmarks and PC SPECmarks are completely different, a Mac SPECmark is significantly bigger, with more SPECs per mark. You're comparing Apples to... well... I dunno, the PC is just fruity.
I wish a bit of that kind of social engineering went into modern OSes. The Windows BSOD, KDE firebomb dialog, etc only serve to worsen the sinking feeling that comes with lost data. With the logo bit, it actually felt ever so slightly rewarding.
Some heads up next time, Commodore people.
congratulations, you've found a bug. *hang*
If the document is protected against printing, Reader won't print it.
There's a mirror of the ogg here, should the original get slashdotted -- it's 17 megs.
Does anyone know of a country with no extradition treaties? Chris wants to go to the South Pacific, but as a speaker of Asian languages, I was more thinking....
If the results degrade as you go on down the Google list, and only 1 in 100 are systems for sale, that's still nearly a hundred different SATA 8g PCs for you to choose from, and you can certainly build them yourself as well.
The G5 is interesting for many reasons, but this isn't one of them.
Instead of blocking mail from an IP address, you should accept and discard the mail. If you don't even open a socket, or if you reject with one of many generic messages, most any mail package will continue with the secondary.
Dell really represents a different market. They're a desktop provider first and a server provider second. Sun are the reverse.
I think Dell and Gateway's biggest success has been in pretty much cloning the IBM of the 80s, only at a fraction of the price. When you were buying IBM, you knew you were buying hardware that would last forever along with full support for as long as you were willing to pay for it.
Dell did exactly what IBM did, but did it with the same cheap parts you could get from anyone else. In the desktop market, you can get away with this much much much more than you can in the server market.
Unfortunately, many companies then made advertising and PR their primary products, slashing R&D because they thought they'd had their budget strategies wrong all along. Sun was king of this, apparently thinking a strong brand was what sold systems, not leading edge technology. Engineering went into the toilet, and now while Sun's still good at a few things, all but their most insanely-priced hardware is nothing better than what you get with off-the-shelf commodity components.
Today, people are researching to upgrade and evolve their server networks, not just grabbing the first implementation they think they understand. And that means it takes a lot more than McNealy's I-wanna-be-Steve-Jobs song and dance to sell product.
The Pfuca keyboard has full sized keys but combines the special keys with normal keys via a laptop-like "Function" modifier key. Hold Fn-1 for F1, Fn-Backspace for delete, etc. It's faster than moving to the off-home positions once you get used to it.
The Northgate keyboards had the beautiful IBM-like clicky action, only a little firmer. When you get that kind of tactile and audible feedback, you end up typing significantly faster. The switches in the Northgate boards are caled "ALPS switches," and you can find other keyboards that have them as well, but nothing with a layout so efficient as the Happy Hacker!
You, on the other hand, post anonymously because you're afraid of the moderators' response to your trolling. If you're even a little bit sure of yourself, post logged-in so they can show you what the think.
Funny. :-)
I don't know about that holding up, but Silly Putty is a registered trademark, and umn.edu should be reflecting that. They should be calling this "a Silly Putty(R)-like substance" before "Binney & Smith Source" goes after them for $3 billion USD.
Another slime recipe can be found here as well.
I'm taking a few moments to pray for you -- I can only guess that you are going through troubled times.
Mod parent up!!!
They choose to call me, they choose to inconvenience me
Just make sure you establish that bit you're taking as a fact before you jump on board and dial the toll-free number like the rest of the slashbots. THINK before acting, man.