No, not all of us support actions like this against SCO. It does drag people down to their level acting like this, but in the end, frustration does that to people. Not everyone, but some.
SCO has now, for a full 12 months, made threat after threat, claim after claim, that they can't backup, but there's no way to stop them. People get frustrated by their continuous whining.
A fly buzzing around my head annoys me. Usually, I'll slap it and kill it. That's taking me down to far below its level, but it's satisfying. Given several hundred million people annoyed with SCO, I'm surprised more haven't acted this way towards them.
Doesn't aluminum also conduct near as well as silver? could it be used in a paste for a fraction of a cost?
I know I've used aluminum foil between a heatsink and CPU before, and it's worked just as well for keeping the CPU temperature down as any thermal paste.
> SCO will be in very hot water, because it could be seen as > a violation of a court order.
But is there anything that can be done to SCO directly when it comes to violating a court order? What's the worst? a fine? the case is kicked out? They'll still keep suing and litigating and making press releases until there's no more money to do so, or they're forced to shut up about their claims by whatever part of the legal system can do so. So far they've played very close to the edge with respect to real legal action, and it's all been "we are going to sue" and "we have a licence ready to sell" and "you will need indemnification", but they haven't done more than that. So far, that's all press release, but it's a very effective way of spreading FUD, and they can keep that up for a long time.
The cynic in me believes that when January 23 comes around and SCO haven't fully complied with the court order, the judge will nevertheless grant them some leeway, and it'll be another few months until SCO has to again cough anything up. They'll keep up the press releases in the meantime, for sure.
I think SCO is in this for a long time, and they won't go away. Judging by 2003 and the last month's efforts, they will stick about and sue anyone and everything vaguely related to them.
And when their stock finally takes a plummet back under a dollar... they'll sue their investors and anyone who ever traded on them!
I guess it's a smart move by them to get in first before Novell acted. If Novell had acted in suing SCO for claiming to own Novell's UNIX when they didn't, it would give the worldwide impression that SCO is using IP illegally. As SCO has taken the first step of taking legal action against Novell, it now looks all the more (even if only to the clown troup of DiDio and Deutschebank) like SCO is the one working to protect THEIR ip.
Hell, Amiga could pack up their offices, move out, and do nothing but release press releases for another five years and nobody would notice any difference, there would be the same amount of Actual Released Product
I hate to tell you this, but they did that in the middle of last year, they have no offices and all their equipment was auctioned off.
When I come across people who obfuscate their email addresses on purpose, I deobfuscate them and enter their email addresses in spammer's "opt out" pages, just to prove it doesn't work.
Now that's an Amiga attitude! If you were living in 1993 what you say might be relevant, but none of us exist in the past. It's 2004. The fastest Amiga that can run a real, released AmigaOS is what, a PPC604? yes. It's a PPC604. Don't go counting the AmigaOne and it's generic G3 or G4 motherboard because then you're falling into the typical Amiga trap of living for vaporware. Perhaps when AmigaOS4 is actually released and not a "Beta that will be here next month!!" you can only be 5 years behind the times.
In fact, the amiga, to this day, is the ONLY computer that can run Mac software on a 68060, the FASTEST 680x0 CPU ever made
That is a lie. 68060 adaptors work just fine in a Quadra 630 and will boot and use the macOS without problem. Making a big deal about the FASTEST 680x0 CPU is irrelevant when, by the time a 68060 was released, the rest of the world was using 200MHz+ Pentiums and PowerPCs. Behind the times yet again.
If you wish to use that argument, then you may as well use it against yourself. The PC is, to this day, the only computer that can run Amiga software on a *insert favorite x86 CPU name here*, the FASTEST x86 CPU ever made. What's the point?
This says a lot about good documentation and decent ease of use. I've seen many perfectly intelligent people come up against the brick wall of Zope's usability, and sit there scratching their heads going "wtf?". Luckily zope IS very powerful, otherwise it'd never end up being used.
While it's testament to the skills of the plone team that now there's a solution, and indeed that's the OSS way - if a solution is needed someone will write it - the years that zope's existed WITHOUT some kind of help it desperately needed is telling.
> Potentially costing as much as $1400, how much is your > peace and quiet worth?
I'd value it highly, but not that high. Almost all of my computing life has been spent around equipment with fans, drives or printers that clatter whirr hum or otherwise make other white noise underneath. That's stretching back to the late 1970s.
On a few occasions I've had a chance to use an entirely silent machine, one of which was a 700MHz iMac belonging to a dear friend, who has since sold it on for a G4 model. When I used it however, the sound from the HD was undiscernable, and with no fan inside it was genuinely silent. Browsing online and emailing while it was raining gently outside was an experience, at my own desk I often have no idea it's been raining for hours as I've been working with the white noise from at least two PC cases.
If I could have genuine silence again, I would. I'm considering putting all the noisy components in another room and cabling through the wall for the KVM.
The silence is well worth it. Perhaps if I won the lottery I'd invest in $1400 per case for it, but not on my current salary.
As a note about fully mapping mercury, it seems to be one of the forgotten planets nobody talks about much, but has had some attention in the past.
Still, there are some interesting Mariner shots of the planet online. Not quite half has been mapped yet, but there's some interesting features that make it unique.
Europe is a completely different story to the US when it comes to how they'll handle companies talking crap. So far it's just the UK and Italy, but if they try to push any further they'll run into problems.
Like Germany, there is a lot more restriction in many parts of europe of what is allowed to be said. "Free Speech" may not exist as a constitutionally bound concept in many parts of europe, if you don't have the responsibility to back it up. SCO simply don't have that.
Along with the general anti-american attitude of much of europe I see it far more likely a country will tell SCO to piss right off until they have solid proof, putting the burden on SCO to play their hand and get the legal wrangling out of the way before they can play the media with their lies, half truths and misinformation
> Sorry, you're gonna be out of luck. All of the titanium > powerbooks have the CPU soldiered(sp?) directly to the > motherboard.
The same as the eMac processor that was upgraded from 800 to 1333mhz. TiBooks can be overclocked in the same fashion by moving resistors around but I would guess not as much as an eMac. The heat sink in an emac is gigantic.
The SCO vs Linux legal battle took another turn today, as the SCO group plans action against Caldera, it's former self, for releasing their alleged IP. In a move that stunned the rest of the industry, SCO is effectively suing itself for initiating distribution of SCO IP as GPL code. SCO says they are assured of winning the case as they have all of the evidence and can present it in court.
SCO claimed that, to defend itself against such charges, it will be making gratuitous use of the OSDL defense fund.
According to reviews, there are no differences (same scores, same clock speed)
If this is the case, then functionally they're the same in the way they work. To me, that's acceptable. In the auto world for example, it's often been the case that components are switched somewhere in the middle of a model run, with a functionally equivalent part. Years down the track one or the other may prove to be the better lasting part, but as sold and for the purpose they're advertised for - if they work they same they are the same
OK, there is a level of trust, and perhaps I'm blinded by believing open source developers are more trustworthy than MS, just by nature. And yes, apache, linux itself, KDE etc, have all demonstrated trustworthiness.
I should have clarified a point, too. I don't believe a small business, or small company, can really get much benefit out of having full access to source code for say, an office app. It may help with some patches for quick fixing of bugs if they have a diligent IT person, or happen to luck upon someone who has the capability to work on extra features.
However something the size of the entire israeli government should, IMHO, be perfectly capable of bringing in their own (even fulltime) developers who can do some full scale customizing of applications as needed. Across deployments of tens of thousands of workstations, I'd see this as viable.
> Money is not everything. Balmmer made a trip down > under to cut pricing to Telstra - Telstra is scrapping > Windows desktop for different solution. Israel > government's NO seems firm.
Nail on the head. Money isn't everything, but TRUST is. No matter what a company like MS says, no matter what contracts may seem to say, Any manager worth their salt will know for sure that getting caught up with MS is a trap. Sure, they might get office components separately for a year or two, but Microsoft's record has shown they WILL find a way to drag you back into their line.
Open source solutions take the need to trust away from microsoft and puts it in your own pocket. You don't need to trust "oss developers" as, in the end, you can just be one yourself.
Whatever happens, it's good to see that at least someone is standing fast against the Microsoft juggernau
What will be better is the result of this standing fast. Until recently, the FUD of "Linux is actually pricier than MS in the long run" didn't have a great deal of examples to look at to disprove it.
If, in 2 years, the entire israeli government is still using OSS, hasn't paid license fees, is upgrading as they need and patching as they need, from open source solutions, and finds it's a saving, that's a very demontratable large scale deployment that screams out...
"It Worked Here"
Israel's standing fast and adopting the full open source solution will make it easier for other countries and companies to find an excuse to stand fast.
Because not everyone reads slashdot and even of those who do not everyone would adjust their card. It's a marketing decision that they feel they'd be able to sell more at a lower speed and lower clock and make the higher more expensive one more desirable Even if the entire web community knew about it not everyone would know or attempt and they would just sell enough.
On the other hands maybe they suddenly have some underclocked ones that will now sell through the roof as all geeks are buying them, and they get to sell thousands more cards all ones they don't have to honor the guarantee for because they were overclocked when they failed
I think that depends what the tradeoff is. Why would the cpu have such a high power output from a 90nm process? Either it's a huge cache inside, or there is more than one core. That sounds exciting. It may be very hot running but it has the advantage of space.
Just which applications this finds use in, I cannot tell.
I would be very suprised if they could actually "prove" the existance of such waves. Gravity is such a weak force compared to the other three (strong, weak, and electromagnetic) that pulsars light-years upon light-years away would be washed out by the gravitational effects of, well, the rest of the universe!
Im reminded of a description of gravity thats less like light waves travelling through a clear free universe, to light waves travelling through a muddy fog. We can feel the suns presense on a overcast and foggy day but can only get a abstract idea of its directio, no specifics, no edge to shadows and coming from all directions.
Maybe the universe is there to mean to "fog out" those gravity waves
I live in an area where there are often dust storms for part of the year.
That makes for a completely different light to that of a day overcast with clouds. generally clouds will completely remove distinct shadows, whereas red dust in the air will give an eerie dull appearance to the light, but keep much of the definition in shadows. Exactly like the mars image shows.
The sky may look "overcasted" but anyone commenting that the cast from a dust storm is anything like that from an overcast cloudy day has rocks in their head. (martian or terran will do either way)
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...they get to give SCO a great fat middle finger
No, not all of us support actions like this against SCO. It does drag people down to their level acting like this, but in the end, frustration does that to people. Not everyone, but some.
SCO has now, for a full 12 months, made threat after threat, claim after claim, that they can't backup, but there's no way to stop them. People get frustrated by their continuous whining.
A fly buzzing around my head annoys me. Usually, I'll slap it and kill it. That's taking me down to far below its level, but it's satisfying. Given several hundred million people annoyed with SCO, I'm surprised more haven't acted this way towards them.
LOL! Amiga users, still reinventing history after 19 years
Doesn't aluminum also conduct near as well as silver? could it be used in a paste for a fraction of a cost?
I know I've used aluminum foil between a heatsink and CPU before, and it's worked just as well for keeping the CPU temperature down as any thermal paste.
> SCO will be in very hot water, because it could be seen as
> a violation of a court order.
But is there anything that can be done to SCO directly when it comes to violating a court order? What's the worst? a fine? the case is kicked out? They'll still keep suing and litigating and making press releases until there's no more money to do so, or they're forced to shut up about their claims by whatever part of the legal system can do so. So far they've played very close to the edge with respect to real legal action, and it's all been "we are going to sue" and "we have a licence ready to sell" and "you will need indemnification", but they haven't done more than that. So far, that's all press release, but it's a very effective way of spreading FUD, and they can keep that up for a long time.
The cynic in me believes that when January 23 comes around and SCO haven't fully complied with the court order, the judge will nevertheless grant them some leeway, and it'll be another few months until SCO has to again cough anything up. They'll keep up the press releases in the meantime, for sure.
I think SCO is in this for a long time, and they won't go away. Judging by 2003 and the last month's efforts, they will stick about and sue anyone and everything vaguely related to them.
And when their stock finally takes a plummet back under a dollar... they'll sue their investors and anyone who ever traded on them!
I guess it's a smart move by them to get in first before Novell acted. If Novell had acted in suing SCO for claiming to own Novell's UNIX when they didn't, it would give the worldwide impression that SCO is using IP illegally. As SCO has taken the first step of taking legal action against Novell, it now looks all the more (even if only to the clown troup of DiDio and Deutschebank) like SCO is the one working to protect THEIR ip.
Hell, Amiga could pack up their offices, move out, and do nothing but release press releases for another five years and nobody would notice any difference, there would be the same amount of Actual Released Product
I hate to tell you this, but they did that in the middle of last year, they have no offices and all their equipment was auctioned off.
I guess it just proves your point but!
Here's what I do.
When I come across people who obfuscate their email addresses on purpose, I deobfuscate them and enter their email addresses in spammer's "opt out" pages, just to prove it doesn't work.
And quite dangerous.
I mean, really, who expects this to work
Now that's an Amiga attitude! If you were living in 1993 what you say might be relevant, but none of us exist in the past. It's 2004. The fastest Amiga that can run a real, released AmigaOS is what, a PPC604? yes. It's a PPC604. Don't go counting the AmigaOne and it's generic G3 or G4 motherboard because then you're falling into the typical Amiga trap of living for vaporware. Perhaps when AmigaOS4 is actually released and not a "Beta that will be here next month!!" you can only be 5 years behind the times.
In fact, the amiga, to this day, is the ONLY computer that can run Mac software on a 68060, the FASTEST 680x0 CPU ever made
That is a lie. 68060 adaptors work just fine in a Quadra 630 and will boot and use the macOS without problem. Making a big deal about the FASTEST 680x0 CPU is irrelevant when, by the time a 68060 was released, the rest of the world was using 200MHz+ Pentiums and PowerPCs. Behind the times yet again.
If you wish to use that argument, then you may as well use it against yourself. The PC is, to this day, the only computer that can run Amiga software on a *insert favorite x86 CPU name here*, the FASTEST x86 CPU ever made. What's the point?
This says a lot about good documentation and decent ease of use. I've seen many perfectly intelligent people come up against the brick wall of Zope's usability, and sit there scratching their heads going "wtf?". Luckily zope IS very powerful, otherwise it'd never end up being used.
While it's testament to the skills of the plone team that now there's a solution, and indeed that's the OSS way - if a solution is needed someone will write it - the years that zope's existed WITHOUT some kind of help it desperately needed is telling.
> Potentially costing as much as $1400, how much is your
> peace and quiet worth?
I'd value it highly, but not that high. Almost all of my computing life has been spent around equipment with fans, drives or printers that clatter whirr hum or otherwise make other white noise underneath. That's stretching back to the late 1970s.
On a few occasions I've had a chance to use an entirely silent machine, one of which was a 700MHz iMac belonging to a dear friend, who has since sold it on for a G4 model. When I used it however, the sound from the HD was undiscernable, and with no fan inside it was genuinely silent. Browsing online and emailing while it was raining gently outside was an experience, at my own desk I often have no idea it's been raining for hours as I've been working with the white noise from at least two PC cases.
If I could have genuine silence again, I would. I'm considering putting all the noisy components in another room and cabling through the wall for the KVM.
The silence is well worth it. Perhaps if I won the lottery I'd invest in $1400 per case for it, but not on my current salary.
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As a note about fully mapping mercury, it seems to be one of the forgotten planets nobody talks about much, but has had some attention in the past.
Still, there are some interesting Mariner shots of the planet online. Not quite half has been mapped yet, but there's some interesting features that make it unique.
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Europe is a completely different story to the US when it comes to how they'll handle companies talking crap. So far it's just the UK and Italy, but if they try to push any further they'll run into problems.
Like Germany, there is a lot more restriction in many parts of europe of what is allowed to be said. "Free Speech" may not exist as a constitutionally bound concept in many parts of europe, if you don't have the responsibility to back it up. SCO simply don't have that.
Along with the general anti-american attitude of much of europe I see it far more likely a country will tell SCO to piss right off until they have solid proof, putting the burden on SCO to play their hand and get the legal wrangling out of the way before they can play the media with their lies, half truths and misinformation
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Hey give the guy a break. All he's saying is his machine isn't 10 years out of date like everyone else thinks
it's only 5 years out of date!
> Sorry, you're gonna be out of luck. All of the titanium
> powerbooks have the CPU soldiered(sp?) directly to the
> motherboard.
The same as the eMac processor that was upgraded from 800 to 1333mhz. TiBooks can be overclocked in the same fashion by moving resistors around but I would guess not as much as an eMac. The heat sink in an emac is gigantic.
The SCO vs Linux legal battle took another turn today, as the SCO group plans action against Caldera, it's former self, for releasing their alleged IP. In a move that stunned the rest of the industry, SCO is effectively suing itself for initiating distribution of SCO IP as GPL code. SCO says they are assured of winning the case as they have all of the evidence and can present it in court.
SCO claimed that, to defend itself against such charges, it will be making gratuitous use of the OSDL defense fund.
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According to reviews, there are no differences (same scores, same clock speed)
If this is the case, then functionally they're the same in the way they work. To me, that's acceptable. In the auto world for example, it's often been the case that components are switched somewhere in the middle of a model run, with a functionally equivalent part. Years down the track one or the other may prove to be the better lasting part, but as sold and for the purpose they're advertised for - if they work they same they are the same
(unless I'm missing something)
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The biggest highlight for me is getting rid of the fat pervert in the MSN butterfly wings, and replacing him with this improved model
I might just turn up to the next CES
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OK, there is a level of trust, and perhaps I'm blinded by believing open source developers are more trustworthy than MS, just by nature. And yes, apache, linux itself, KDE etc, have all demonstrated trustworthiness.
I should have clarified a point, too. I don't believe a small business, or small company, can really get much benefit out of having full access to source code for say, an office app. It may help with some patches for quick fixing of bugs if they have a diligent IT person, or happen to luck upon someone who has the capability to work on extra features.
However something the size of the entire israeli government should, IMHO, be perfectly capable of bringing in their own (even fulltime) developers who can do some full scale customizing of applications as needed. Across deployments of tens of thousands of workstations, I'd see this as viable.
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> Money is not everything. Balmmer made a trip down
> under to cut pricing to Telstra - Telstra is scrapping
> Windows desktop for different solution. Israel
> government's NO seems firm.
Nail on the head. Money isn't everything, but TRUST is. No matter what a company like MS says, no matter what contracts may seem to say, Any manager worth their salt will know for sure that getting caught up with MS is a trap. Sure, they might get office components separately for a year or two, but Microsoft's record has shown they WILL find a way to drag you back into their line.
Open source solutions take the need to trust away from microsoft and puts it in your own pocket. You don't need to trust "oss developers" as, in the end, you can just be one yourself.
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Whatever happens, it's good to see that at least someone is standing fast against the Microsoft juggernau
What will be better is the result of this standing fast. Until recently, the FUD of "Linux is actually pricier than MS in the long run" didn't have a great deal of examples to look at to disprove it.
If, in 2 years, the entire israeli government is still using OSS, hasn't paid license fees, is upgrading as they need and patching as they need, from open source solutions, and finds it's a saving, that's a very demontratable large scale deployment that screams out...
"It Worked Here"
Israel's standing fast and adopting the full open source solution will make it easier for other countries and companies to find an excuse to stand fast.
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Because not everyone reads slashdot and even of those who do not everyone would adjust their card. It's a marketing decision that they feel they'd be able to sell more at a lower speed and lower clock and make the higher more expensive one more desirable Even if the entire web community knew about it not everyone would know or attempt and they would just sell enough.
On the other hands maybe they suddenly have some underclocked ones that will now sell through the roof as all geeks are buying them, and they get to sell thousands more cards all ones they don't have to honor the guarantee for because they were overclocked when they failed
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> Now, it seems like they've lost that advantage.
I think that depends what the tradeoff is. Why would the cpu have such a high power output from a 90nm process? Either it's a huge cache inside, or there is more than one core. That sounds exciting. It may be very hot running but it has the advantage of space.
Just which applications this finds use in, I cannot tell.
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I would be very suprised if they could actually "prove" the existance of such waves. Gravity is such a weak force compared to the other three (strong, weak, and electromagnetic) that pulsars light-years upon light-years away would be washed out by the gravitational effects of, well, the rest of the universe!
Im reminded of a description of gravity thats less like light waves travelling through a clear free universe, to light waves travelling through a muddy fog. We can feel the suns presense on a overcast and foggy day but can only get a abstract idea of its directio, no specifics, no edge to shadows and coming from all directions.
Maybe the universe is there to mean to "fog out" those gravity waves
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I live in an area where there are often dust storms for part of the year.
That makes for a completely different light to that of a day overcast with clouds. generally clouds will completely remove distinct shadows, whereas red dust in the air will give an eerie dull appearance to the light, but keep much of the definition in shadows. Exactly like the mars image shows.
The sky may look "overcasted" but anyone commenting that the cast from a dust storm is anything like that from an overcast cloudy day has rocks in their head. (martian or terran will do either way)