You clearly didn't read my post too carefully, i don't care about your non-helpful statements about stuff, which happens to be a repetition of stuff i've already said.
I'm trying to get this thing to boot. the only thing that will format a filesystem larger than 32GB in fat32 is win9x, and dos. i don't have win9x, and dos's format is crying about not having enough memory.
because win2k/xp won't format a large fat32 partition (which technically, is a violation of the fat32 specs, apparently), HP's util won't work either.
and linux/bsd/whatever isn't going to help either, in case you're wondering. syslinux hates fat32 flat out, i can't be bothered making partitions to boot grub or lilo, and mkfs.vfat won't make a partition bootable.
Oh, and if you do some research about me, you'll know that using windows is something i do EXTREMELY rarely, but sometimes it's just part of my job, so don't accuse me of using a shoddy operating system, i'm just using a tool that should have been able to get the damned job done.
meh. don't need anything special for that, just grab steghide or something that compresses it into a bunch of jpegs, and just keep jpegs of a bucks night on the device:)
Because it's convenient for me to use a device I already have, and I like challenges. As for CDR's, you can't easily EDIT the dos files to test it as a startup floppy for a particular game that refuses to run under windows:)
Besides, things like Symantec Ghost would be handy in a setup where I had a large amount of usb storage handy, although i could do that easily with a bootable floppy.
it's the principle that counts however. I *should* be able to do it, hence I want to. I don't want to waste more money on a usb flash drive, which, ultimately, will probably die after being written to a certain number of times.
i'd be REALLY REALLY happy if someone found a way to make the iriver iHP-140 boot to say, dos or something.
I've tried a lot of things so far. HP's usb dongle boot formatter, booting with usb-enabled DOS floppies, short of actually installing winME to try that. Best that i can tell, not much likes formatting a bootable fat32 drive that's larger than 32G anymore:(
I even tried making a tiny 100MB partition at the end of the device, but haven't found anything that'll work long enough to format it and make it bootable #$@#$%!#. (the player didn't have any issues with this, mind you... )
If someone gets this working, and then devises a tool to easily make someone else's player bootable quickly and simply, I'd be eternally greatful.
This is what i get for throwing away the floppy drive, i guess:(
The player doesn't get a whole lot of control over how the operating system sees the attached disk. Once the usb plug goes in, the player basically enables a usb-storage-on-a-chip component and turns on the hard drive, so far as I know.
The operating system sees the entire disk, so you'd have a hard time hiding stuff, unless you convinced the drive to violate the low level formatting to get outside the accessible area or something once the player had been unplugged. i suppose you could mod the firmware to modify the drive and move the files to an unused portion of the disk or something, but that's hardly foolproof.
The only thing that prevents some of the older models from gaining new codecs is processing power, time, and in a few cases, lack of free space in the flash ROM for the new codec.
I'll be interested to see what the rockboxx stuff comes up with.
Some enterprising person found an entertaining workaround to the issue of broken shuffle.
He found that if you add a bunch of really short silent mp3's, the player will re'random'ize the shuffle if you delete one of them within the player with the latest firmware. just add about 10 of them, and delete them as you find the shuffle being repetitive.
Better than nothing for the time being.:)
Shuffle's not really something i use personally tho. OTF playlists would be nice, but about all i'm interested in eventually seeing is the gapless playback. currently the player has gap delete working (ie, removing silence from inside music files) but not a prebuffering system to start playing the next song immediately. it was never scheduled for the first of the two upcoming firmware releases anyway, tho.
You can boot from a usb dongle, provided it's not a large usb hard drive (it gets tricky if it is)
HP make a fantastic tool for quickly setting up an emergency usb boot dongle, all you need is a win9x emergency boot floppy disk (images can be found almost anywhere, as long as it's a bootable disk) and it'll reformat the usb dongle, set it up to boot, and almost any modern bios can boot from it.
probably not something i'd recommend for booting to flash a bios, but it is good in a pinch. add loadlin or syslinux to the mix, and you can also boot a miniature flash-based distro like puppy-dog linux for recovery:)
I've recently been doing research on this myself, because i wanted to use my iriver iHP-140 to boot my system to dos (or, failing that linux) yet i've run into WAY too many roadblocks: * syslinux cannot boot from fat32, and the drive is 40GB. (i can partition an extra partition in without detriment to the player, but that's kludgy) * the dos usb stack DUSE seems to take like 300KB of conventional ram, so i can't format the damned disk with system files without win9x, which i don't have currently. (format really wants more ram, oddly) * win2k can't format it to fat32, and can't make fat32 partitions bootable anyway.
If anyone's found a way to easily make a large usb disk bootable to dos without resorting to win9x, i'd like to see it, almost every method i've tried has failed.
anyway,
HP's fantastical usb boot-maker tool: Here at hp.com (there's also another one that's 28 megs, but that includes bios flashing stuff for HP laptops)
But the thing that dissuades me from using windows are two separate reasons.
Being an australian, i dislike supporting a foreign company (foreign non-profit orgs are another matter, so i'm a debian user).
Other reason is that i'm simply far more efficient in linux than in windows. i can get stuff done, get the software i need, work as a unix-alike system administrator much more efficiently when i'm using a unixalike myself.
Interestingly, the iriver iHP series claims that it's got a three to five year battery life with "normal"* use.
The use of a lithium-polymer battery is supposed to help here, since the electrolyte doesn't decay as rapidly. 10 hours of battery life (give or take) isn't too shabby either (and i do get this, i'm using it right now well into its 6th hour)
Now, i don't know about you, but i'd much prefer three years over 1, but the battery in the iriver doesn't appear to be easily replaced (by users), so i'm kinda up shit creek when it does eventually die.
ashridah
* note, this is according to iriver's FAQ. here. take with appropriately sized grain of salt, their definition of 'normal use' is fairly small.
Of course, you get what you pay for, and the li-poly batteries do actually cost a bit more (and so does the ihp range)
If this substance doesn't actually get things "wet" i assume you mean it doesn't form a proper surface with the material, that gets maintained by hydrostatic attraction (the kinds of things that holds water droplets against gravity, and causes capillary action in thin plates, trees, etc).
If this is the case, just how is it going to be effective at removing heat from substances, if it doesn't actually fill in the nooks and crannies that your average surface has, where most of the inefficiency of a normal heatsink kicks in?
You'd be far better off just coating the entire thing in a non-electrical-condutive material that was a good heat conductor, and then just pour water into it, or a type of mineral oil, and cool appropriately.
there's no way you can enforce license compliance, you can only enforce the restrictions copyright law normally gives the work. either they voluntarily go opensource, or they ditch the code and/or pay the real developers. Since it's such a grass-roots set of standard definitions and constructs, i really doubt that's going to be necessary. the code's more or less the same (if not in style at least functionality) in pretty much every unixalike.
There are for example [...] the famous nvidia drivers which work only on i386.
Shenanigans! SHENANIGANS!
(Example following)
$ ncftp download1.nvidia.com Connecting to 216.228.115.24... Logging in... Anonymous user logged in. Logged in to download1.nvidia.com. ncftp / > ls [...] XFree86/ [...] ncftp / > cd XFree86 ncftp/XFree86 > ls FreeBSD-x86/ Linux-x86/ [...] Linux-ia64/ Linux-x86-64/ [...] ncftp/XFree86 >
There you go! ia64 is not i386, regardless of what RISC loving zealots will scream about, and x86-64 is not i386 either. and what's more, FreeBSD is also not linux.
I declare your statement partially false on two fronts!
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS Say Y here if you want to run Linux from within an existing DOS partition of your hard drive. The advantage of this is that you can get away without repartitioning your hard drive (which often implies backing everything up and restoring afterwards) and hence you're able to quickly try out Linux or show it to your friends; the disadvantage is that Linux becomes susceptible to DOS viruses and that UMSDOS is somewhat slower than ext2fs. Another use of UMSDOS is to write files with long unix filenames to MSDOS floppies; it also allows Unix-style soft-links and owner/permissions of files on MSDOS floppies. You will need a program called umssync in order to make use of UMSDOS; read
<file:Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt>.
From memory, there's still a distro around called 'PHAT linux' or something like that that will install to a fat32 partition and use loadlin+umsdos to work inside the filesystem. Don't know if it's still active, could well be, not so useful now that people use ntfs even on 'home' systems.
The kind who only has to read through LKML to realise that a potential root bug was discovered in september, but wasn't fixed in 2.4.22, and doesn't appear to have been backported to the kernel?
Except that vnc cheats, and uses change tiles from the screen, NOT of each individual window, and definently ignores the way events interact, except at a more basic level. You'll notice this effect when you're seriously lagged. it'll waste time redrawing linearly, instead of letting the applications group events into batches.
That's why vnc tends to emulate an entire desktop. Things that are infront, behind, in focus, or whatever are drawn to a buffer on the remote server, and updates for the buffer are sent, regardless of wether the update is just a redraw of something that had been seen previously, but hidden.
Now, in case you haven't noticed, X operates differently to this, individual applications can mask out the events that they want, and ignore redraws selectively, although, quite often, as someone else mentioned, programmers rarely take this into account, and redraw more than they need to.
A caching proxy for X will eliminate redraws that AREN'T different, and potentially, recall changes that are the same as they were some previous time. If the proxy understands the X protocol, you can work at the window/event level, not at the screen level, and keep within the normal X paradigm.
Not only that, but windows can still only select the events they care about, and the client side will react accordingly, as you want them to, as you GET with Citrix, where you can run an individual app without a full login shell, with the added bonus of lower bandwidth usage.
Bring it on, especially if it maintains a progressively decaying backbuffer it can use to recall chunks.:)
"obviously this kid has created the reactor in order to forward his terrorist agenda of underming U.S. society by blowing up SCO"
Uh... I'm not sure you've thought that through.
What exactly are you going to do with the byproduct of hydrogen fusion? you do know that that'll be helium, right? And that proceeding to continue fusion on the resulting helium will take more power, higher temperatures, and greater pressure? And if you keep right on going, you eventually start LOSING energy to the reaction, because the efficiency drops off past (from memory) carbon12 or so? (hrm. must double-check my chemistry, only been 5 or so years:) )
He could float a giant air baloon around SCO's offices with a picture of Darl pulling his pants down, I suppose, which would be a perfectly good use of helium, but it's not going to go BANG.:) (see simpsons episode, regarding the comet)
nevermind that that wasn't fusion, they were creating hydrogen, using water as a fuel. they'd worked out an energising frequency that caused the bonds of the water molecule to break (supposedly) without wasting energy.
i did mention supposedly.
it was supposed to be self-sustaining... except no-one thought to turn off the laser? what gives?:)
"If the Linux kernel is truly infringing on SCO's UNIX copyrights, why doesn't SCO ask a judge to issue an injunction against kernel.org/mirrors to stop them from distributing it."
Because they *KNOW* it didn't work for AT&T. If they fail there, before they've made their fortune, then they lose face, and probably suffer similar comments from the judges that AT&T got, which will more or less destroy them.
At that point, the stockpumping game ends, and it becomes a wild ride to the bottom, at which point, I'll probably be able to drop 100 dollars (AUD) and buy sco outright.
If I do, I'm going to change the direction of the company, and start making novelty plastic butts to sell for 50 cents under the SCO name.
Oh, and opensource unixware. Not that anyone wants it.... except possible to turn it into a giant ascii-text-shaded poster of 'HAHAHAH, SUCK SCO, I 0WN3D J00'
Perhaps you need to ask an accountant for their opinion here, because this really sounds like a 'it's not familiar, ergo, it sucks' rant.
One of my collegues got his father (certified accountant of australia) to use gnucash. said accountant was VERY impressed with how much smarter gnucash was to use, and how much the druids helped. I'd do the same if i could get my father (a chartered accountant) to actually fucking sit in one place before running off.
obviously, if it doesn't do what you want, don't use it, or better yet, HELP SO IT DOES.
I'd be interested to know where you get your information from. At least one australian distributor of xbox mod chips has been sued into oblivion that i know of, if not several more.
I'm sad to say that the government here in Australia happily pays lip service to America's godawful copyright laws, and what's more, we've got far FAR less 'fair use' rights to media than you do (we're not actually even allowed to create 'backups' of copyrighted media).
Go live in europe. We're better off than america is, but not by much.
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You clearly didn't read my post too carefully, i don't care about your non-helpful statements about stuff, which happens to be a repetition of stuff i've already said.
I'm trying to get this thing to boot. the only thing that will format a filesystem larger than 32GB in fat32 is win9x, and dos. i don't have win9x, and dos's format is crying about not having enough memory.
because win2k/xp won't format a large fat32 partition (which technically, is a violation of the fat32 specs, apparently), HP's util won't work either.
and linux/bsd/whatever isn't going to help either, in case you're wondering. syslinux hates fat32 flat out, i can't be bothered making partitions to boot grub or lilo, and mkfs.vfat won't make a partition bootable.
Oh, and if you do some research about me, you'll know that using windows is something i do EXTREMELY rarely, but sometimes it's just part of my job, so don't accuse me of using a shoddy operating system, i'm just using a tool that should have been able to get the damned job done.
ashridah
Oh. you mean steganography?
:)
meh. don't need anything special for that, just grab steghide or something that compresses it into a bunch of jpegs, and just keep jpegs of a bucks night on the device
ashridah
Because it's convenient for me to use a device I already have, and I like challenges. As for CDR's, you can't easily EDIT the dos files to test it as a startup floppy for a particular game that refuses to run under windows :)
Besides, things like Symantec Ghost would be handy in a setup where I had a large amount of usb storage handy, although i could do that easily with a bootable floppy.
it's the principle that counts however.
I *should* be able to do it, hence I want to. I don't want to waste more money on a usb flash drive, which, ultimately, will probably die after being written to a certain number of times.
ashridah
You know,
:(
:(
i'd be REALLY REALLY happy if someone found a way to make the iriver iHP-140 boot to say, dos or something.
I've tried a lot of things so far. HP's usb dongle boot formatter, booting with usb-enabled DOS floppies, short of actually installing winME to try that. Best that i can tell, not much likes formatting a bootable fat32 drive that's larger than 32G anymore
I even tried making a tiny 100MB partition at the end of the device, but haven't found anything that'll work long enough to format it and make it bootable #$@#$%!#. (the player didn't have any issues with this, mind you... )
If someone gets this working, and then devises a tool to easily make someone else's player bootable quickly and simply, I'd be eternally greatful.
This is what i get for throwing away the floppy drive, i guess
ashridah
The player doesn't get a whole lot of control over how the operating system sees the attached disk. Once the usb plug goes in, the player basically enables a usb-storage-on-a-chip component and turns on the hard drive, so far as I know.
The operating system sees the entire disk, so you'd have a hard time hiding stuff, unless you convinced the drive to violate the low level formatting to get outside the accessible area or something once the player had been unplugged.
i suppose you could mod the firmware to modify the drive and move the files to an unused portion of the disk or something, but that's hardly foolproof.
ashridah
yep, that's right.
The only thing that prevents some of the older models from gaining new codecs is processing power, time, and in a few cases, lack of free space in the flash ROM for the new codec.
I'll be interested to see what the rockboxx stuff comes up with.
ashridah
Some enterprising person found an entertaining workaround to the issue of broken shuffle.
:)
He found that if you add a bunch of really short silent mp3's, the player will re'random'ize the shuffle if you delete one of them within the player with the latest firmware. just add about 10 of them, and delete them as you find the shuffle being repetitive.
Better than nothing for the time being.
Shuffle's not really something i use personally tho. OTF playlists would be nice, but about all i'm interested in eventually seeing is the gapless playback. currently the player has gap delete working (ie, removing silence from inside music files) but not a prebuffering system to start playing the next song immediately. it was never scheduled for the first of the two upcoming firmware releases anyway, tho.
ashridah
You can boot from a usb dongle, provided it's not a large usb hard drive (it gets tricky if it is)
:)
HP make a fantastic tool for quickly setting up an emergency usb boot dongle, all you need is a win9x emergency boot floppy disk (images can be found almost anywhere, as long as it's a bootable disk) and it'll reformat the usb dongle, set it up to boot, and almost any modern bios can boot from it.
probably not something i'd recommend for booting to flash a bios, but it is good in a pinch. add loadlin or syslinux to the mix, and you can also boot a miniature flash-based distro like puppy-dog linux for recovery
I've recently been doing research on this myself, because i wanted to use my iriver iHP-140 to boot my system to dos (or, failing that linux) yet i've run into WAY too many roadblocks:
* syslinux cannot boot from fat32, and the drive is 40GB. (i can partition an extra partition in without detriment to the player, but that's kludgy)
* the dos usb stack DUSE seems to take like 300KB of conventional ram, so i can't format the damned disk with system files without win9x, which i don't have currently. (format really wants more ram, oddly)
* win2k can't format it to fat32, and can't make fat32 partitions bootable anyway.
If anyone's found a way to easily make a large usb disk bootable to dos without resorting to win9x, i'd like to see it, almost every method i've tried has failed.
anyway,
HP's fantastical usb boot-maker tool: Here at hp.com
(there's also another one that's 28 megs, but that includes bios flashing stuff for HP laptops)
ashridah
When you get down to it, the majority of pirated copies come from a small group of people.
if the watermark had gone unnoticed, they could have used it to track who's subscriptions were being used to distribute it, and wipe them out.
this isn't really a useful way to stop people sharing the software with their local mates, since that's much less likely to end up on p2p software.
ashridah
But the thing that dissuades me from using windows are two separate reasons.
Being an australian, i dislike supporting a foreign company (foreign non-profit orgs are another matter, so i'm a debian user).
Other reason is that i'm simply far more efficient in linux than in windows. i can get stuff done, get the software i need, work as a unix-alike system administrator much more efficiently when i'm using a unixalike myself.
ashridah
Incorrect.
:) )
:)
It changes the mac address sent out on every single frame. i use it here all the time.
I have to admit, my main workstation has ALWAYS had the same MAC address, namely, the one listed in your parent. (yeah, I know, cheap joke.
One of these days I'll go to a lan party where someone else has the same mac address.
luckily, they use decent gear that can detect things like rogue dhcp servers, so detecting a duplicate mac address won't be difficult.
ashridah
Interestingly, the iriver iHP series claims that it's got a three to five year battery life with "normal"* use.
The use of a lithium-polymer battery is supposed to help here, since the electrolyte doesn't decay as rapidly. 10 hours of battery life (give or take) isn't too shabby either (and i do get this, i'm using it right now well into its 6th hour)
Now, i don't know about you, but i'd much prefer three years over 1, but the battery in the iriver doesn't appear to be easily replaced (by users), so i'm kinda up shit creek when it does eventually die.
ashridah
* note, this is according to iriver's FAQ. here. take with appropriately sized grain of salt, their definition of 'normal use' is fairly small.
Of course, you get what you pay for, and the li-poly batteries do actually cost a bit more (and so does the ihp range)
If this substance doesn't actually get things "wet" i assume you mean it doesn't form a proper surface with the material, that gets maintained by hydrostatic attraction (the kinds of things that holds water droplets against gravity, and causes capillary action in thin plates, trees, etc).
If this is the case, just how is it going to be effective at removing heat from substances, if it doesn't actually fill in the nooks and crannies that your average surface has, where most of the inefficiency of a normal heatsink kicks in?
You'd be far better off just coating the entire thing in a non-electrical-condutive material that was a good heat conductor, and then just pour water into it, or a type of mineral oil, and cool appropriately.
ashridah
apparently no-one can read.
this is about the third time someone's mistaken the order of this sentence.
read it as "One wonders how the US government would react if a foreign nation tried [to extradite a US citizen from USA using ]a similar approach."
ashridah
You need a refresher course in copyright law.
there's no way you can enforce license compliance, you can only enforce the restrictions copyright law normally gives the work. either they voluntarily go opensource, or they ditch the code and/or pay the real developers.
Since it's such a grass-roots set of standard definitions and constructs, i really doubt that's going to be necessary. the code's more or less the same (if not in style at least functionality) in pretty much every unixalike.
ashridah
There are for example [...] the famous nvidia drivers which work only on i386.
/XFree86 > ls /XFree86 >
Shenanigans! SHENANIGANS!
(Example following)
$ ncftp download1.nvidia.com
Connecting to 216.228.115.24...
Logging in...
Anonymous user logged in.
Logged in to download1.nvidia.com.
ncftp / > ls
[...]
XFree86/
[...]
ncftp / > cd XFree86
ncftp
FreeBSD-x86/ Linux-x86/ [...] Linux-ia64/ Linux-x86-64/ [...]
ncftp
There you go!
ia64 is not i386, regardless of what RISC loving zealots will scream about, and x86-64 is not i386 either.
and what's more, FreeBSD is also not linux.
I declare your statement partially false on two fronts!
ashridah
taken from the Configure.help from linux 2.4.23:
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS
Say Y here if you want to run Linux from within an existing DOS partition of your hard drive. The advantage of this is that you can get away without repartitioning your hard drive (which often implies backing everything up and restoring afterwards) and hence you're able to quickly try out Linux or show it to your friends; the disadvantage is that Linux becomes susceptible to DOS viruses and that UMSDOS is somewhat slower than ext2fs. Another use of UMSDOS is to write files with long unix filenames to MSDOS floppies; it also allows Unix-style soft-links and owner/permissions of files on MSDOS floppies. You will need a program called umssync in order to make use of UMSDOS; read
<file:Documentation/filesystems/umsdos.txt>.
From memory, there's still a distro around called 'PHAT linux' or something like that that will install to a fat32 partition and use loadlin+umsdos to work inside the filesystem.
Don't know if it's still active, could well be, not so useful now that people use ntfs even on 'home' systems.
ashridah
The kind who only has to read through LKML to realise that a potential root bug was discovered in september, but wasn't fixed in 2.4.22, and doesn't appear to have been backported to the kernel?
ashridah
i'm sorry, would that be the 1Mbps that's bigger or smaller than the three plans as follows?
Home 1500 Lite 1500k/256k $119.95 8Gb
Home 1500 1500k/256k $149.95 9Gb/9Gb (18Gb total)
Home 1500 Plus 1500k/256k $199.95 14Gb/14Gb (28Gb total)
as seen here for example?
every single one of those is over 1Mbps.
ashridah
(ps, prices are in $AUD, and yes, data is expensive here, nothing new there.)
Except that vnc cheats, and uses change tiles from the screen, NOT of each individual window, and definently ignores the way events interact, except at a more basic level. You'll notice this effect when you're seriously lagged. it'll waste time redrawing linearly, instead of letting the applications group events into batches.
:)
That's why vnc tends to emulate an entire desktop. Things that are infront, behind, in focus, or whatever are drawn to a buffer on the remote server, and updates for the buffer are sent, regardless of wether the update is just a redraw of something that had been seen previously, but hidden.
Now, in case you haven't noticed, X operates differently to this, individual applications can mask out the events that they want, and ignore redraws selectively, although, quite often, as someone else mentioned, programmers rarely take this into account, and redraw more than they need to.
A caching proxy for X will eliminate redraws that AREN'T different, and potentially, recall changes that are the same as they were some previous time. If the proxy understands the X protocol, you can work at the window/event level, not at the screen level, and keep within the normal X paradigm.
Not only that, but windows can still only select the events they care about, and the client side will react accordingly, as you want them to, as you GET with Citrix, where you can run an individual app without a full login shell, with the added bonus of lower bandwidth usage.
Bring it on, especially if it maintains a progressively decaying backbuffer it can use to recall chunks.
ashridah
"obviously this kid has created the reactor in order to forward his terrorist agenda of underming U.S. society by blowing up SCO"
:) )
:)
Uh... I'm not sure you've thought that through.
What exactly are you going to do with the byproduct of hydrogen fusion? you do know that that'll be helium, right?
And that proceeding to continue fusion on the resulting helium will take more power, higher temperatures, and greater pressure?
And if you keep right on going, you eventually start LOSING energy to the reaction, because the efficiency drops off past (from memory) carbon12 or so? (hrm. must double-check my chemistry, only been 5 or so years
He could float a giant air baloon around SCO's offices with a picture of Darl pulling his pants down, I suppose, which would be a perfectly good use of helium, but it's not going to go BANG.
(see simpsons episode, regarding the comet)
ashridah
nevermind that that wasn't fusion, they were creating hydrogen, using water as a fuel.
:)
they'd worked out an energising frequency that caused the bonds of the water molecule to break (supposedly) without wasting energy.
i did mention supposedly.
it was supposed to be self-sustaining... except no-one thought to turn off the laser? what gives?
ashridah
"If the Linux kernel is truly infringing on SCO's UNIX copyrights, why doesn't SCO ask a judge to issue an injunction against kernel.org/mirrors to stop them from distributing it."
Because they *KNOW* it didn't work for AT&T. If they fail there, before they've made their fortune, then they lose face, and probably suffer similar comments from the judges that AT&T got, which will more or less destroy them.
At that point, the stockpumping game ends, and it becomes a wild ride to the bottom, at which point, I'll probably be able to drop 100 dollars (AUD) and buy sco outright.
If I do, I'm going to change the direction of the company, and start making novelty plastic butts to sell for 50 cents under the SCO name.
Oh, and opensource unixware. Not that anyone wants it.... except possible to turn it into a giant ascii-text-shaded poster of 'HAHAHAH, SUCK SCO, I 0WN3D J00'
ashridah
Perhaps you need to ask an accountant for their opinion here, because this really sounds like a 'it's not familiar, ergo, it sucks' rant.
One of my collegues got his father (certified accountant of australia) to use gnucash. said accountant was VERY impressed with how much smarter gnucash was to use, and how much the druids helped. I'd do the same if i could get my father (a chartered accountant) to actually fucking sit in one place before running off.
obviously, if it doesn't do what you want, don't use it, or better yet, HELP SO IT DOES.
ashridah
I'd be interested to know where you get your information from.
At least one australian distributor of xbox mod chips has been sued into oblivion that i know of, if not several more.
I'm sad to say that the government here in Australia happily pays lip service to America's godawful copyright laws, and what's more, we've got far FAR less 'fair use' rights to media than you do (we're not actually even allowed to create 'backups' of copyrighted media).
Go live in europe. We're better off than america is, but not by much.
ashridah