In Bankruptcy Court, SCO never listed Caldera Linux as an asset. When the Unix assets were sold to Unxis (now Xinuos), Caldera Linux was not included. Which means that SCO still retains ownership of "OpenLinux".
R.E. money for lawsuits, one of the sillier things David Boies did was to set up a capped fee arrangement with SCO. Meaning that all the lawyer fees for the services of Boies, Schiller, and Flexner are already paid, so no future payments needed.
I always liked the red "racing stripes" on the mouse buttons on my first two Thinkpads. Unfortunately IBM/Lenovo left them off my X60S (which is what I am using right now). If they've been restored, however, I will probably consider a Thinkpad again in the future after this machine gets too old.
I had a Multics account way back - used it solve problem sets in Physical Chemistry. It would be cool to resurrect my account, but I don't remember the password. Is there a password reset function?
Curiously, it was easier to muck with punched cards on the IBM mainframe than it was to deal with the Selectric typewriters on Multics. In both cases, you were reliant on printed output, and a line printer could spew out paper much faster than an electric typewriter.
VMS was a well engineered OS, very robust, but exceedinglhy pedantic, making tasks that should have been simple (e.g., adding a new native command) excessively complicated. Its reliance on proprietary hardware that could not keep up with competing RISC systems did not help either.
Song is not asking for his money back. Why? Because cable companies (and others) normally insert an aribitration clause into their agreements to cover such situations, which would require Song to submit his dispute to arbitration (which would cost much more than the amount that could be recovered). Instead, Song is asking for injunctive relief - basically asking that Charter not charge him in the future. Why would he do so? Let's read a bit more of the agreement:
"Only claims for money damages may be submitted to arbitration; claims for INJUNCTIVE ORDERS or similar relief MUST be brought in a COURT..."
Charter basically demands that Song hale it into court. Nice job, Charter lawyers.
I have BayTrail a Z3735F machine and agree that it is a pain. Still, a default install of Debian Jessie (which does handle 64-bit CPU and 32-bit firmware out of the box) plus a kernel upgrade was enough to get it running just fine. On the positive side, it only cost around $130, needs no internal fan, weight less than 1 kg, and battery life is about 10 hrs.
Linux here as well, both at home and at work (now going on 20 years). As always, there is that one Windoze-only piece of software that i occassionally need at work, but the sysadmins are responsible for keeping that box updated.
I learned it by taking a class. Machine, Assembly, high-level. The arguments were all about which language to learn. Punched cards - the best way to enter code - no upper/lower case, so shift keys put numbers and special symbols onto regular letters. Much faster than stupid keyboards of today.
Back in the day of free maps from gas stations, the ones from Esso (made by General Drafting Co.) were considered the best. I still have my copy of "New England Road Map" from 1988 (this one made for Shaw's Supermarkets, not Exxon). AAA maps are also quite good, but my local AAA is now closed.
The only audit I ever ran into came from Adobe, and it was for some product that I had signed off on the requisition for someone who ended up never using it anyway, but it was still my job to track down the original P.O. Not a huge deal, but it was a waste of a few hours along with accompanying anxiety. My solution to prevent a recurrence in the future: I will never approve a requisition for any product from Adobe ever again.
It all sounds so familiar. Why would that be? Oh yes. Oracle is a purveyor of databases software. The SCO Group used to be a purveyor of operating system software. However, it eventually upped its claims against IBM to at least $5 billion. Not far short of Oracle's demand for $9.3 billion. Where is SCO now?
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf4/IB... "Today SCO is, as the Court is aware, in a LIQUIDATION process... It started out as a Chapter 11, became a Chapter 7 going back to 2007. These claims are the last, really the only asset remaining of SCO."
Oracle is threatening to become the new SCO.
Would you recommend a product from a company that is on a path to Chapter 7?
The lawsuits that SCO filed against other companies are all resolved. It lost against Novell and DaimlerChrysler and settled out of court against AutoZone (apparently getting a chunk of change from the latter).
The only other pending lawsuit is Red Hat against SCO, and that case is adminstratively closed, likely to never be reopened.
R.E. IBM, SCO will undoubtedly file an appeal, so saying that that SCO is absolutely dead is still premature. Kind of like that Monty Python skit https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Groklaw is not completely closed down - just running in stealth mode. All the recent court filings still show up there. Other updates show up now and again. Note that the link in the summary to the decision itself takes you to... groklaw. Commentary and discussions do continue on other boards and forums, but not with the same focus that groklaw brought.
Just finished giving three talks in three days at three different locations / venues, where I needed to connect my laptop to the overhead projector. In every case the primary connector to the projector was VGA. Fortunately my clunky, old-fashioned, outdated laptop (actually, an old netbook) has a VGA port, so hooking up was always straightforward.
The cheapo models were made of plastic, but the debate at the time was whether the best models were of bamboo or magnesium construction. Mine is made of bamboo. There was also an elitism factor - how many scales does your slide rule have? Whether you used them or not was irrelevant.
The one thing slide rules do not do naturally is plain old addition and subtraction. There are multiple hacks (e.g., antilogs) and it was a competitive challenge to find the "best" way. Seem to recall that my method used the S and T scales.
Breakdown of timing for my most recent flight (yesterday):
Travel time to airport: 90 minutes (normal time 20 minutes, but it was rush hour. A Taylor Swift concert on the way was not a problem.) Time in airport, including ground hold time due to weather at destination: 210 minutes (normal 60 minutes) Actual flight time: 70 minutes (normal time 50 minutes) Time from touchdown to exiting the parking lot: 90 minutes (normal 30 minutes - airport operations stinks late at night) Drive home: 90 minutes (normally 60 minutes, but weather and detours factored in).
Basically, 9 hr total travel time for a nominal 50 minute flight. Driving time is slightly shorter.
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In Bankruptcy Court, SCO never listed Caldera Linux as an asset. When the Unix assets were sold to Unxis (now Xinuos), Caldera Linux was not included. Which means that SCO still retains ownership of "OpenLinux".
R.E. money for lawsuits, one of the sillier things David Boies did was to set up a capped fee arrangement with SCO. Meaning that all the lawyer fees for the services of Boies, Schiller, and Flexner are already paid, so no future payments needed.
Jeff Wise has long claimed that MH370 was hijacked by Putin and flown North, in an elaborate "spoof".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Nevermind your opinion of the Daily Mail - in this case, it nailed the story.
The crab-apple tree is shedding, and the yard is utterly infested with #$%^&*!@ flying insects. Yet more fake news.
I always liked the red "racing stripes" on the mouse buttons on my first two Thinkpads. Unfortunately IBM/Lenovo left them off my X60S (which is what I am using right now). If they've been restored, however, I will probably consider a Thinkpad again in the future after this machine gets too old.
I had a Multics account way back - used it solve problem sets in Physical Chemistry. It would be cool to resurrect my account, but I don't remember the password. Is there a password reset function?
"No, No, these are the GOOD kind of bacteria."
Curiously, it was easier to muck with punched cards on the IBM mainframe than it was to deal with the Selectric typewriters on Multics. In both cases, you were reliant on printed output, and a line printer could spew out paper much faster than an electric typewriter.
VMS was a well engineered OS, very robust, but exceedinglhy pedantic, making tasks that should have been simple (e.g., adding a new native command) excessively complicated. Its reliance on proprietary hardware that could not keep up with competing RISC systems did not help either.
Song is not asking for his money back. Why? Because cable companies (and others) normally insert an aribitration clause into their agreements to cover such situations, which would require Song to submit his dispute to arbitration (which would cost much more than the amount that could be recovered). Instead, Song is asking for injunctive relief - basically asking that Charter not charge him in the future. Why would he do so? Let's read a bit more of the agreement:
"Only claims for money damages may be submitted to arbitration; claims for INJUNCTIVE ORDERS or similar relief MUST be brought in a COURT ..."
Charter basically demands that Song hale it into court. Nice job, Charter lawyers.
The MacRumors article is based on another article from Slice Intelligence. Gotta like this finding:
"Those who ordered the new MacBook Pro look strikingly similar to the early adopters who bought the Apple Watch on release."
So how is the Apple Watch fairing these days?
I have BayTrail a Z3735F machine and agree that it is a pain. Still, a default install of Debian Jessie (which does handle 64-bit CPU and 32-bit firmware out of the box) plus a kernel upgrade was enough to get it running just fine. On the positive side, it only cost around $130, needs no internal fan, weight less than 1 kg, and battery life is about 10 hrs.
Linux here as well, both at home and at work (now going on 20 years). As always, there is that one Windoze-only piece of software that i occassionally need at work, but the sysadmins are responsible for keeping that box updated.
I learned it by taking a class. Machine, Assembly, high-level. The arguments were all about which language to learn. Punched cards - the best way to enter code - no upper/lower case, so shift keys put numbers and special symbols onto regular letters. Much faster than stupid keyboards of today.
Back in the day of free maps from gas stations, the ones from Esso (made by General Drafting Co.) were considered the best. I still have my copy of "New England Road Map" from 1988 (this one made for Shaw's Supermarkets, not Exxon). AAA maps are also quite good, but my local AAA is now closed.
The only audit I ever ran into came from Adobe, and it was for some product that I had signed off on the requisition for someone who ended up never using it anyway, but it was still my job to track down the original P.O. Not a huge deal, but it was a waste of a few hours along with accompanying anxiety. My solution to prevent a recurrence in the future: I will never approve a requisition for any product from Adobe ever again.
Come on now, what could go wrong? Well, OK
http://www.footballzebras.com/...
It all sounds so familiar. Why would that be? Oh yes. Oracle is a purveyor of databases software. The SCO Group used to be a purveyor of operating system software. However, it eventually upped its claims against IBM to at least $5 billion. Not far short of Oracle's demand for $9.3 billion. Where is SCO now?
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf4/IB... ... It started out as a Chapter 11, became a Chapter 7 going back to 2007. These claims are the last, really the only asset remaining of SCO."
"Today SCO is, as the Court is aware, in a LIQUIDATION process
Oracle is threatening to become the new SCO.
Would you recommend a product from a company that is on a path to Chapter 7?
The lawsuits that SCO filed against other companies are all resolved. It lost against Novell and DaimlerChrysler and settled out of court against AutoZone (apparently getting a chunk of change from the latter).
The only other pending lawsuit is Red Hat against SCO, and that case is adminstratively closed, likely to never be reopened.
R.E. IBM, SCO will undoubtedly file an appeal, so saying that that SCO is absolutely dead is still premature. Kind of like that Monty Python skit https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Groklaw is not completely closed down - just running in stealth mode. All the recent court filings still show up there. Other updates show up now and again. Note that the link in the summary to the decision itself takes you to ... groklaw. Commentary and discussions do continue on other boards and forums, but not with the same focus that groklaw brought.
Just finished giving three talks in three days at three different locations / venues, where I needed to connect my laptop to the overhead projector. In every case the primary connector to the projector was VGA. Fortunately my clunky, old-fashioned, outdated laptop (actually, an old netbook) has a VGA port, so hooking up was always straightforward.
What does Skylake have to offer?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
The author recommends three projects as having good UI and UX:
SASS: http://sass-lang.com/
Bower: http://bower.io/
Ember: http://emberjs.com/
These projects have two things in common: their websites suck, and I've never heard of them before. (Well, Bower's website is OK).
Before USB, I don't think there was any connector that would let you download wine straight from the vineyard. Quite revolutionary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1
To be honest, doesn't need much management.
The cheapo models were made of plastic, but the debate at the time was whether the best models were of bamboo or magnesium construction. Mine is made of bamboo. There was also an elitism factor - how many scales does your slide rule have? Whether you used them or not was irrelevant.
The one thing slide rules do not do naturally is plain old addition and subtraction. There are multiple hacks (e.g., antilogs) and it was a competitive challenge to find the "best" way. Seem to recall that my method used the S and T scales.
Breakdown of timing for my most recent flight (yesterday):
Travel time to airport: 90 minutes (normal time 20 minutes, but it was rush hour. A Taylor Swift concert on the way was not a problem.)
Time in airport, including ground hold time due to weather at destination: 210 minutes (normal 60 minutes)
Actual flight time: 70 minutes (normal time 50 minutes)
Time from touchdown to exiting the parking lot: 90 minutes (normal 30 minutes - airport operations stinks late at night)
Drive home: 90 minutes (normally 60 minutes, but weather and detours factored in).
Basically, 9 hr total travel time for a nominal 50 minute flight. Driving time is slightly shorter.
"Throw everything at the wall to see what sticks"
Will any of these things survive?