Compile the source provided by SCO, and then do a checksum of the binary against the binary that they released from that code. You'd need to use the same compiler/environment, but I'd guess that that would work. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a programmer.
If somebody knows the IP and can post it here, maybe we can still get to it. Nameservers are helpful, but if the site is still up we can still get to it....
The real surprise in this story for me is that the Admin is not supposed to be able to copy data to a removable media device in 'Recovery Console'. What kind of inane thinking is that. If you're sitting in front of the computer, and you have root/Admin access, you should damn well be able to do whatever the hell you want. As a user, if I want to secure something, I make an encrypted disk image, and store secure stuff there. I want to be able to get at everything on my computer if I want to.
That's when I stopped reading. That's not a PDA, that's an undersized, underpowered laptop. A PDA should have a battery that at the minimum lasts a full day, so that the appointments for the day are accessible without recharging.
From a development point of view you may be correct. From a user's viewpoint you are dead wrong. It doesn't matter if your project has a wonderful UI, if it is different from the way everything else works, the user ends up wasting time learning how to do things your way. Consistency in the UI makes ALL programs easier to use. rather than the current smorgasbord of the linux desktop, where inevitably, you spend the first hour of using a new program figuring out how the damn thing works.
In contrast, on the mac, I KNOW that certain items are always going to be in the same place. muscle memory tells me how to save a file etc. Linux's command line functions have a similar consistency. How many times have you typed 'somecommand --help' without reading a man page to discover that it would work. How would you like a program that used '--options' instead. I'd be irritated.These little things add up over the course of a work day.
'Best Fit' has to be applied to the user experience as a whole, not just any one single application.
The legal remedy in the DOJ case should have involved abolishing all copyrights MS has to their interface so that KDE or (god forbid) the GNOME folks could clone the Chicago GUI. People would be comfortable with using Linux if it looked just like Windows.
I couldn't diagree more vehemently. What we need is a standard set of UI guidelines completely different from Mac and Windows. It works differently, and nothing will drive people nuts faster than things looking identical and working differently. From a UI perspective, that's nuts.
What I've always thought would have been the ideal solution would have been to force them to open up the specs to the document formats. We've got competitive products, what we need is the ability to say that "you will be able to access your last ten years of word documents, up to and including the one you finished today"
FYI: I had roughly 15 minutes to translate this article yesterday, and no spellchecker.
Well in those circumstances, I wouldn't have done it. It looks amateurish. If you had explained at the top of the articles what the circumstances were, people wouldn't have been critical. I've done translation, and I know how difficult it is. Please don't think I was trying to be mean. I admit it was a cheap joke, but it wasn't meant to be hurtful. Humor doesn't translate well, and I apologize if I offended you.
cheers, p.s. Thanks for posting the response instead of just leaving the negative mod. It allowed me to respond.
To whomever rated me flamebait, I was going for funny. If you had actually followed the link, you'd agree:
"In the penal trial against DVD-Jon, the case reached John Hoy, President and COO of DVD CCA Thursday morning. DVD CCA and Motion Pictures Association are the offended parts in the trial.
- I am calling from Oslo District Court, can you please call back us? Was the message on John Hoy's answering machine this morning. And when pohne contact finally was established between Oslo and Phoenix, Arizona, a statment on what Jon Johansen broke into followed."
Come on folks, virtually everybody in Scandinavia can read and write English, who the heck did that translation? It reads like it was translated from the original Japanese into English by a unilingual Cantonese speaker then translated into Norwegian by a drunken Scotsmen, only to be translated back into English by a committee of patent attorneys.
It would probably be easier to have people try and lobby the networks/stations to contribute theri schedules to a central source... once one of them is onboard, the rest won't want to be left out.... of course, TV Guide probably wouldn't be pleased by such a creature... hmmm. another idea is to create something to parse the signal sent to digital boxes that has local scheduloing..
Thanks, nice to know that it is relatively new, and I hadn't missed it for years or something. Hopefully it's paying for some of the bandwidth bill for Slashdot....
ACCOUNTING! Until there is a drop in replacement for the likes of Quickbooks or Simply Accounting for small and medium sized businesses, you will never, I repeat, never penetrate that huge market. I managed to get my business moved to Macs, but come January, I'm hooped due to Accountedge for the Mac getting killed in Canada by Intuit. There was no Linux alternative.
Only if you are Mitch Kapor. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with him. Founder of Lotus, Co Founder of the EFF, basically, somebody who typically Gets Things Done®.
Not just the smarter one, but also the spammers from every other country. Looking at my Junk box, I'd say that 90% is from Korea, 5% Russia, and the rest is unknown. In other words, yipee skipee.
"Operating Systems Used to Access Google - July 2002" Mac 4% Linux 1% Other 4% the rest being windows.
This gives the totals, but I suspect that once you remove the school and home users, and are left with corporate users, then the figures in the article are probably correct.
33. (1) Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an Act of Parliament or of the legislature, as the case may be, that the Act or a provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding a provision included in section 2 or sections 7 to 15 of this Charter. Operation of exception (2) An Act or a provision of an Act in respect of which a declaration made under this section is in effect shall have such operation as it would have but for the provision of this Charter referred to in the declaration. Five year limitation (3) A declaration made under subsection (1) shall cease to have effect five years after it comes into force or on such earlier date as may be specified in the declaration. Re-enactment (4) Parliament or the legislature of a province may re-enact a declaration made under subsection (1). Five year limitation (5) Subsection (3) applies in respect of a re-enactment made under subsection (4).
The end result... we don't have inalienable rights. Trudeau fucked us on that one.
are you both on crack? emeralds and opals? for a ring to be worn every day! Christ on a crutch... two of the most fragile stones ever to be overpriced... goddam... for emerald substitute a really nice tsavorite garnet... as for opal, well... protect it well or you are going to break it.... and make sure it's not a doublet or triplet... or it'll delaminate eventually.
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Compile the source provided by SCO, and then do a checksum of the binary against the binary that they released from that code. You'd need to use the same compiler/environment, but I'd guess that that would work.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a programmer.
If somebody knows the IP and can post it here, maybe we can still get to it. Nameservers are helpful, but if the site is still up we can still get to it....
The real surprise in this story for me is that the Admin is not supposed to be able to copy data to a removable media device in 'Recovery Console'. What kind of inane thinking is that. If you're sitting in front of the computer, and you have root/Admin access, you should damn well be able to do whatever the hell you want. As a user, if I want to secure something, I make an encrypted disk image, and store secure stuff there. I want to be able to get at everything on my computer if I want to.
pfft.
That's when I stopped reading. That's not a PDA, that's an undersized, underpowered laptop. A PDA should have a battery that at the minimum lasts a full day, so that the appointments for the day are accessible without recharging.
that's my 2cents.
The IOCCC is an ASCII modern art competition right?
From a development point of view you may be correct. From a user's viewpoint you are dead wrong. It doesn't matter if your project has a wonderful UI, if it is different from the way everything else works, the user ends up wasting time learning how to do things your way.
Consistency in the UI makes ALL programs easier to use. rather than the current smorgasbord of the linux desktop, where inevitably, you spend the first hour of using a new program figuring out how the damn thing works.
In contrast, on the mac, I KNOW that certain items are always going to be in the same place. muscle memory tells me how to save a file etc. Linux's command line functions have a similar consistency. How many times have you typed 'somecommand --help' without reading a man page to discover that it would work. How would you like a program that used '--options' instead. I'd be irritated.These little things add up over the course of a work day.
'Best Fit' has to be applied to the user experience as a whole, not just any one single application.
cheers!
GPL licensing is anathema to them, but they seem to enjoy using BSD licensing....
The legal remedy in the DOJ case should have involved abolishing all copyrights MS has to their interface so that KDE or (god forbid) the GNOME folks could clone the Chicago GUI. People would be comfortable with using Linux if it looked just like Windows.
I couldn't diagree more vehemently. What we need is a standard set of UI guidelines completely different from Mac and Windows. It works differently, and nothing will drive people nuts faster than things looking identical and working differently. From a UI perspective, that's nuts.
What I've always thought would have been the ideal solution would have been to force them to open up the specs to the document formats. We've got competitive products, what we need is the ability to say that "you will be able to access your last ten years of word documents, up to and including the one you finished today"
FYI: I had roughly 15 minutes to translate this article yesterday, and no spellchecker.
Well in those circumstances, I wouldn't have done it. It looks amateurish. If you had explained at the top of the articles what the circumstances were, people wouldn't have been critical. I've done translation, and I know how difficult it is. Please don't think I was trying to be mean. I admit it was a cheap joke, but it wasn't meant to be hurtful. Humor doesn't translate well, and I apologize if I offended you.
cheers,
p.s. Thanks for posting the response instead of just leaving the negative mod. It allowed me to respond.
To whomever rated me flamebait, I was going for funny. If you had actually followed the link, you'd agree:
"In the penal trial against DVD-Jon, the case reached John Hoy, President and COO of DVD CCA Thursday morning. DVD CCA and Motion Pictures Association are the offended parts in the trial.
- I am calling from Oslo District Court, can you please call back us? Was the message on John Hoy's answering machine this morning. And when pohne contact finally was established between Oslo and Phoenix, Arizona, a statment on what Jon Johansen broke into followed."
Come on, that's Funny!
Come on folks, virtually everybody in Scandinavia can read and write English, who the heck did that translation? It reads like it was translated from the original Japanese into English by a unilingual Cantonese speaker then translated into Norwegian by a drunken Scotsmen, only to be translated back into English by a committee of patent attorneys.
It would probably be easier to have people try and lobby the networks/stations to contribute theri schedules to a central source ... once one of them is onboard, the rest won't want to be left out.... of course, TV Guide probably wouldn't be pleased by such a creature...
hmmm.
another idea is to create something to parse the signal sent to digital boxes that has local scheduloing..
Thanks, nice to know that it is relatively new, and I hadn't missed it for years or something. Hopefully it's paying for some of the bandwidth bill for Slashdot....
or is that pricegrabber link under the realted links new....
ACCOUNTING!
Until there is a drop in replacement for the likes of Quickbooks or Simply Accounting for small and medium sized businesses, you will never, I repeat, never penetrate that huge market.
I managed to get my business moved to Macs, but come January, I'm hooped due to Accountedge for the Mac getting killed in Canada by Intuit.
There was no Linux alternative.
one of the most annoying things about IE5.x on Mac OS is that it doesn't provide any method of choosing a stylesheet.
Umm, Preferences=>Web Content It's right there in the page content section
Microsoft normally sucks donkey balls through a straw, but I like their mice, and IE for the Mac....
Thanks... I haven't had a good belly laugh in a while.
Only if you are Mitch Kapor. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with him. Founder of Lotus, Co Founder of the EFF, basically, somebody who typically Gets Things Done®.
Why would apple want to move from the Big Apple??
Not just the smarter one, but also the spammers from every other country. Looking at my Junk box, I'd say that 90% is from Korea, 5% Russia, and the rest is unknown. In other words, yipee skipee.
"Operating Systems Used to Access Google - July 2002"
Mac 4%
Linux 1%
Other 4%
the rest being windows.
This gives the totals, but I suspect that once you remove the school and home users, and are left with corporate users, then the figures in the article are probably correct.
From our Charter:
33. (1) Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an Act of Parliament or of the legislature, as the case may be, that the Act or a provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding a provision included in section 2 or sections 7 to 15 of this Charter.
Operation of exception (2) An Act or a provision of an Act in respect of which a declaration made under this section is in effect shall have such operation as it would have but for the provision of this Charter referred to in the declaration.
Five year limitation (3) A declaration made under subsection (1) shall cease to have effect five years after it comes into force or on such earlier date as may be specified in the declaration.
Re-enactment (4) Parliament or the legislature of a province may re-enact a declaration made under subsection (1).
Five year limitation (5) Subsection (3) applies in respect of a re-enactment made under subsection (4).
The end result... we don't have inalienable rights. Trudeau fucked us on that one.
Odd, Internet Explorer 5.2 is the newest mac version...
Hey, some of is 6'3" 225lb people are good losers...
m0nkyman, who sucks eggs at quake but enjoys it nonetheless...
are you both on crack? emeralds and opals? for a ring to be worn every day! Christ on a crutch... two of the most fragile stones ever to be overpriced... goddam... for emerald substitute a really nice tsavorite garnet... as for opal, well... protect it well or you are going to break it.... and make sure it's not a doublet or triplet... or it'll delaminate eventually.