Austin, in general, is a pretty cool place. And actually cool enough to visit at that time of year.
July, August (especially) and September are the worst months in Austin. October is pleasant, however. Probably late September wouldn't be too bad.
Other interesting Austin area things: a couple of nearby state parks (especially the Enchanted Rock cave), the Congress bridge bat colony (eh), sixth street area (Antones' or the Paramount), cliffdiving, hippie hollow, tubing on the nearby Guadalupe River, etc.
..why does this story get posted on/. ? A good 50% of the people I know and work with have lost their jobs for a bank that I work for. The jobs were outsourced to india, but I guess having a national bank who outsources to India isn't noteworthy because it's not 100% tech related, like IBM.
Yep, that's pretty much the reasoning. Sorry about the layoffs, btw.
I'm glad I haven't written any big GPL apps or contributed as much as some to the open source world, as I would be seriously pissed off (and a little upset maybe) that my goodwill and hours spent contributing were being eroded by money grabbing, whiny corporations.
You should also be glad that Linus and the gang don't share your point of view.
What is the delay in getting SCO to court with IBM so they actually have to SHOW US what they are claiming violates their contract with IBM and / or their IP ?
Remember how long it took to get Microsoft into court, let alone get something vaguely resembling a ruling? Courts are slow. We'll be lucky if this is resolved in 5 years.
What a great way to totally avoid his actual question. And no, I don't know the real answer either.
And on that note, I propose that you don't know history one bit. Never in our nation's history have heroes run away and abandoned their homeland. Only the cowards.
Damn straight! You don't even have to be Einstein to know.. uhm...
I remember that election. From your representation of their positions, they were both right. The economy was improving, and it was also still in bad shape. (kind of the same situation as today.) Bad economies don't get presidents re-elected. That's about it.
we'll see the 2.6 kernel in Mandrake 23.2 in the year 2019..
Given Mandrake's penchant for advertising "ships with 2.4.xx" when it's really just a heavily-patched pre-release, I'm suprised they haven't already started shipping "2.6".
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I'll confirm for the Fry's in Austin TX. Plenty RH, Suse, and (Free,Net)BSD boxes. They had a couple old copies of Mandrake 9.0 around. Sorry, not buying that.
And Fry's carries TuxRacer, fergodssake. (good game, too.)
A mysterious contract amendment with Novel was discovered, with just the right wording to bolster SCO's case..... All these and more SCO statements have been competely reversed now.
I wasn't aware that the amendment had been discredited. Link?
The SEC probably isn't going to listen to a random linux user who doesn't happen like what SCO's doing and before SCO's share price has dropped dramatically.
OTOH I bet they *will* listen to hundreds of SCOX investors after they get bilked.
Ya know, the prez of IBM ought to go purchase some old dusty copy of Caldera OpenLinux that someone forgot to pee on/burn/mutilate. (You know they're not exactly flying off the shelves right now.) Then IBM becomes a SCO Linux customer, and this whole freakin' lawsuit goes away.
By exposing each and every of SCO's top-level managers as being associated and willing participants in this mess their chances of ever again be employeed in a top-level management position (at least in this industry) are highly decreased
I think they may have cushy jobs waiting for them at MS, unless they're indicted for criminal fraud.
But I'd agree you can probably rule out actual top-level management, unless you're talking about the local Dairy Queen.
I can't figure why Caldera hired McBride in the first place, after he sued his former company while still working for them.
Oh, if you wanted a horrible paperwork audit trail, you could make people include a signed document stating "I am the copyright holder for submitted code" or something like that
Ummm you do know that is basically what the FSF insists on right? Well, ok, actually it's a copyright assignment statement. Anyone who (for instance) contributes to GCC also must contribute to that paper trail, so to speak.
That trail means that the FSF GNU utilities have their collective ass covered much better than the linux kernel. Note I am not saying the FSF policy is a good thing.. just that it helps in this case.
part of the draw of working on OSS is to get away from all the icky lawyers and legal documents
Maybe *this* is how OSS and Free Software are different:-)
That's technically incorrect. There was an original linux "license" that Linus ditched for the GPL right around version 0.12. It forbade redistribution for a profit, which among other things basically prevented CD vendors from redistributing Linux.
See the RELNOTES-0.01 and RELNOTES-0.12 files under here
The IT industry in YOUR city must be isolated, insular and incestuous
Well, I'll just go ahead and assume that you believe most cities aren't like that. I haven't personally run into ex-coworkers, unless you count the 2-3 people who were re-hired by the same company they left. But quite a few here have.
For comparison's sake, I work near Austin TX. What's your city?
No offence meant, but you really speak like the average insecure tech robot. The world is NOT a small place.
True, but it turns out a city *is* a small place. 1/2 the people at my current work know each other from previous jobs. So I'd have to agree with the grandparent post. In general, but especially if you'd rather not move, try to minimize the bridge-burning.
Look IBM settled (they might, I bet they would if SCO offered to settle for a undisclosed ($1) amount)
If I were IBM I wouldn't settle for a red cent, at least if I cared about my "linux on everything" business strategy. It gives SCO too much control and invites other lawsuits.
IBM can afford this lawsuit, provided they didn't copy any significant code and provided they figure out what to do w/the threatened revocation of their Unix license in a few days.
if you're so anal about your compression ratio, why not compress with a good compressor (like bzip2) and archive with a good archiver (like zip)?
Generally speaking, the algorithms used by "gzip" and "bzip2" compress better as they are given more data. So, compressing a tarball of plain files gives you better overall compression than making a tarball from a bunch of compressed files (which is basically zip's approach).
Zip'ing a bunch of bzip2'd files isn't a good compromise, because compressing a file twice may actually increase the size of the file (YMMV).
Hopefully this answers your question.
To recap: if you want max compression ratio and don't give a rat's ass about random access, you use.tar.bz2... if you care about random access, you use zip. Different solutions for different problems.
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July, August (especially) and September are the worst months in Austin. October is pleasant, however. Probably late September wouldn't be too bad.
Other interesting Austin area things: a couple of nearby state parks (especially the Enchanted Rock cave), the Congress bridge bat colony (eh), sixth street area (Antones' or the Paramount), cliffdiving, hippie hollow, tubing on the nearby Guadalupe River, etc.
Yep, that's pretty much the reasoning. Sorry about the layoffs, btw.
You should also be glad that Linus and the gang don't share your point of view.
Remember how long it took to get Microsoft into court, let alone get something vaguely resembling a ruling? Courts are slow. We'll be lucky if this is resolved in 5 years.
What a great way to totally avoid his actual question. And no, I don't know the real answer either.
Damn straight! You don't even have to be Einstein to know.. uhm...
I remember that election. From your representation of their positions, they were both right. The economy was improving, and it was also still in bad shape. (kind of the same situation as today.) Bad economies don't get presidents re-elected. That's about it.
Given Mandrake's penchant for advertising "ships with 2.4.xx" when it's really just a heavily-patched pre-release, I'm suprised they haven't already started shipping "2.6".
That said, I still run Mandrake at home.
It means you probably live in the same town I do. Maybe we're even related..
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And Fry's carries TuxRacer, fergodssake. (good game, too.)
I wasn't aware that the amendment had been discredited. Link?
OTOH I bet they *will* listen to hundreds of SCOX investors after they get bilked.
Even "normal" people can afford gigabit ethernet these days.
Ya know, the prez of IBM ought to go purchase some old dusty copy of Caldera OpenLinux that someone forgot to pee on/burn/mutilate. (You know they're not exactly flying off the shelves right now.) Then IBM becomes a SCO Linux customer, and this whole freakin' lawsuit goes away.
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I think they may have cushy jobs waiting for them at MS, unless they're indicted for criminal fraud.
But I'd agree you can probably rule out actual top-level management, unless you're talking about the local Dairy Queen.
I can't figure why Caldera hired McBride in the first place, after he sued his former company while still working for them.
Ummm you do know that is basically what the FSF insists on right? Well, ok, actually it's a copyright assignment statement. Anyone who (for instance) contributes to GCC also must contribute to that paper trail, so to speak.
That trail means that the FSF GNU utilities have their collective ass covered much better than the linux kernel. Note I am not saying the FSF policy is a good thing .. just that it helps in this case.
part of the draw of working on OSS is to get away from all the icky lawyers and legal documents
Maybe *this* is how OSS and Free Software are different :-)
Yeah, you could call AIX that.
That's technically incorrect. There was an original linux "license" that Linus ditched for the GPL right around version 0.12. It forbade redistribution for a profit, which among other things basically prevented CD vendors from redistributing Linux.
See the RELNOTES-0.01 and RELNOTES-0.12 files under here
Sorry, people don't like to be changed. As an example, "Have you let Jesus into your life?"
Well, I'll just go ahead and assume that you believe most cities aren't like that. I haven't personally run into ex-coworkers, unless you count the 2-3 people who were re-hired by the same company they left. But quite a few here have.
For comparison's sake, I work near Austin TX. What's your city?
True, but it turns out a city *is* a small place. 1/2 the people at my current work know each other from previous jobs. So I'd have to agree with the grandparent post. In general, but especially if you'd rather not move, try to minimize the bridge-burning.
If I were IBM I wouldn't settle for a red cent, at least if I cared about my "linux on everything" business strategy. It gives SCO too much control and invites other lawsuits.
IBM can afford this lawsuit, provided they didn't copy any significant code and provided they figure out what to do w/the threatened revocation of their Unix license in a few days.
Generally speaking, the algorithms used by "gzip" and "bzip2" compress better as they are given more data. So, compressing a tarball of plain files gives you better overall compression than making a tarball from a bunch of compressed files (which is basically zip's approach).
Zip'ing a bunch of bzip2'd files isn't a good compromise, because compressing a file twice may actually increase the size of the file (YMMV).
Hopefully this answers your question.
To recap: if you want max compression ratio and don't give a rat's ass about random access, you use .tar.bz2 ... if you care about random access, you use zip. Different solutions for different problems.
You know, there is this company called Wal-Mart. Maybe you've heard of it. I understand you can get a better deal there.
Serious answer: if that's what the market will pay, that's what they'll sell it for, regardless of cost. Witness Microsoft.
(But, whoTF would buy a $150 plain shirt? For that price, it oughta either be custom-tailored, or bulletproof.)