I have a hard time with man - yes, it's full-on documentation, but 19 times out of 20, I don't need the 15 highly obscure switches for a command, I just need the command in its simplest form.
What man is missing is an example section, e.g., "To find all files with mary in the title, use ls -R *mary*" or whatever; "to find all files modified in the last 10 days do..."
I will say right out that perhaps such a facility exists, but I am unaware. I am a GUI user of Linux (SuSE 9.1 X86_64) and my command line skills have rusted since I lived in VMS 20 years ago...
Tell you what. You make your choices, I'll make mine, and the free market will see which is most important to consumers.
Oh wait, that already happened. That's why Main Street boutique shops with 100% markup didn't survive Wal*Mart.
If "service" was truly more important to people, they would have refused to buy at Wal*Mart and Wal*Mart would have gone under. The truth is, that box of cereal is identical whether I buy it at Mom 'n' Pop's Full Service Grocery (which by the way only stocks 10 varieties) or Wal*Mart (which stocks 125 varieties). Can the Wal*Mart teenaged stockboy answer a question about my cereal? No. And neither can Mom or Pop.
I get more choices and lower prices. Isn't that the economic ideal?
Their service seems to be carrying Brian Wilson's album "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" http://beta.music.msn.com/album/?album=10179237, that won't be released until 12/25/2025. I haven't checked ITMS to see if they are carrying releases that far in advance...
Hail hail Maximum PC. When I get an issue my whole family knows I'm gone for an hour when I get home from work. It's the only magazine I subscribe to that I read -everything- in.
I love the attitude. They like balls-out, great hardware and software with no pretense of cost justification. If it costs USD$1,000 for 2 more FPS, then bring it on, baby! They are the only ones who understand that upgrading is an addiction, not a way to improve a tool to accomplish work.
The parent article claimed: "and has dismissed the case". The CASE was not dismissed. The Motion To Remand was denied, the Motion To Dismiss was denied based on falsity, and the Motion to Dismiss was granted as to pleading of special damages. The -case- was not dismissed. Nothing was, in fact, dismissed - motions were either denied or granted.
RTFA - the request to remand to state court was denied. Novell's motion to dismiss was also denied.
It will be fun to hear the special damages they will come up with. If Novell had not created a "cloud of ownership", they could have what, doubled their SCOsource revenue from $11,000 to $22,000?!?
I have two main machines (and eight second tier machines spread around the house), one runs Windows XP SP2RC1, the other runs Linux (Suse 9.1 X86_64). The Windows machine does video editing, SAS programming, and gaming, the Linux machine does day to day tasks (email, surfing, network backups, Open Office).
My windows machines never crash or hang. My Linux machine never crashes either, though X hangs a lot, but that's recoverable in a heartbeat. My firewall rules them all, and in a secure zone binds them.
Why run a linux machine at all? To stay current, learn new things, new viewpoints, new technologies. For the challenge of getting things working in a new paradigm. For the feeling of success of setting up my first truly successful Linux box, instead of my 20th Windows box.
Linux isn't for every task, but neither is Windows. I am not fond of BG, but I'm also not fond of RMS. Both preach that their viewpoint is RIGHT, and any other is WRONG. Free (libre) software is not viral and is not a violation of the Constitution. Proprietary software is not morally wrong.
Our goal should be to avoid a monoculture based around ANY system.
In the USA, rates are set based exclusively on loss experience - more claims = higher rates. Even if you've lost 90% of your net worth due to market fluctuations, that is not the basis of a rate increase. Period. In every state in the USA.
The same idiocy that afflicts the medical system (criminally high malparactice awards by juries who don't have a clue) affects even auto insurance rates - every moron who files a US$500 claim for a car paint scratch or loose board on their house hurts everyone else.
And everyone who serves on a jury that gives these awards because they believe "the insurance companies are looting us", or who laugh as they file a fradulent or frivolous claim, should rejoice when their rates increase, because they are the ones who caused it.
Not every insurance company is even legally allowed to make a profit - even some biggies like State Farm are mutual companies, which means no profits, no stockholders, no dividends.
IBM has alleged that SCO copied parts of GNU/Linux into its products, such as the Linux Personality module.
WHY ISN'T SCO OFFERING ITS CUSTOMERS INDEMNIFICATION AGAINST IBM'S CLAIMS???????
SCO has shown that they believe that indemnifying customers over alleged violations of IP is critical to a business. Why won't they offer it themselves?
I nominate Darl McBride. He has an intimate knowledge of the Linux kernel, intellectual property issues, and has a relationship with the Linux developer community.
Have someone in an Eastern Bloc country post the code, after some strategic bulk renames within the source files. Give the modules new names, change non-code related comments (e.g., author), and post away. If posted from a.RU server, and distributed via kazaa, who can trace it?
In other news, SCO today filed a lawsuit against Marc Andreesen, charging that the NCSA team used Unix source code in their browser code in Mosaic, and all subsequent versions of all browsers violate SCO's intellectual property.
When asked for comment on whether Safari was at risk, Apple CEO Steve Jobs replied, "Nah, we offered them a free, unlimited iTunes account in exchange for a perpetual license. They snapped it up."
If 40% of developers are developing for Linux, where are the commercial apps? The big ones seem to be a handful. Freshmeat is great but doesn't represent the huge crashing wave of developer support. We all have our short list of apps we wish were ported.
I have a very hard time with this article - (1) no methodology is given, so the results are as suspect as Microsoft funded surveys; and (2) if 40% of all developers of all sizes are focusing on Windows, wouldn't driver support be 1000% better?
Nick appears to be dressing up wishes in the emporer's clothing of misleading "facts". Again. Anyone else remember his weekly diatribes of the vast superiority and impending market conversion to OS/2 in Infoworld?
Many/. readers may not remember the days before email in the workplace (heck, many/. readers may not yet be in the workplace).
Did everyone have face to face conversations, relationships were built, understanding blossomed, conflicts avoided, before email came along and sentenced us to digital solitary confinement?
No.
People wrote memos. Know what "cc" means on the email you send? Carbon Copy, from the old typewriter and carbon paper days. Memos were typed by secretaries (who inevitably had stained hands from the carbon paper), and sent via interoffice mail to the recipient, or slipped onto chairs or under doors late at night if particularly conflict laden.
Discussions were drawn out over weeks instead of hours, with each memo salvo taking a day or two.
Email doesn't allow us to avoid our co-workers - trust me, that that invented long before digital anything. It just gives us a lower environmental impact way of doing it.
Does email provide us with interruption time shifting, as the article suggests? Yes, but so does going through one's paper "in-bin".
Nothing new, just faster, more efficient, lower cost, lower impact time wasting.
What if anytime someone downloads crap they post a transaction to a distributed list of bad IP addresses Kazaa et. al. maintains and automatically updates. Kazaa writes a record on your own system of the poison source's IP address or Kazaa equivalent. This file is shared, and Kazaa sees the lists of everyone else, and sends notifies of new addresses out to the new network. If enough users post an IP address as a source of bad music (quantitatively bad, not qualitatively bad), the source address is automatically filtered out. Ya gotta figure that if 5,000 people post an IP is a poison provider, it probably is.
If the threshhold is high enough, the poison providers won't be able to block all of us.
Kazaa automatically shares and updates the poison IP list in the background, while nothing else is going on.
We could even have high bandwith users volunteer to continuously download poison to/dev/null to make the poison providers think they are very successful in getting their "product" out.
It's utterly pointless to whine about "I want more privacy!" or "I'm ready for a little less convenience!". If that's true, then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
NOT write your local MP/congressman.
NOT publish incensed diatribes on web sites of already like-minded people.
NOT bitch on blogs about the sordid state of affairs.
GET OFF THE GRID.
Don't wanna? Too bad for you then. It's easy, if you really want to:
(1) Stop using checks, credit cards and debit cards. Use cash and money orders.
(2) Only use the internet from libraries and public places.
(3) Switch ID's very often when you do use the Net.
(4) Only use pay phones and disposable cell phones (the prepay kind). Change your number often.
(5) If you have a PC (and I mean PC, not a Mac or Sparc) in the house, do everything from inside a VMWare session, which you restore clean each use. This means creating a virtual machine, copying the machine to a new location, and every PC use, copy the VM over and start fresh. Store all docs on external media.
(6) Get off the public utility grid. In the US, form corporations to buy property, and do not have utilities (i.e., use candles).
If you're serious about wanting privacy, then take matters into your own hands. Complaining that we SHOULDN'T track everyone's activity is a waste of time. If it's possible, and marginally legal, someone will do it.
I am a marketer. I make a living building profiles of consumers and tailoring messages for them. I can buy, for most Amercians, and some Australians, lists with your address, income, # children, ages and genders of children, value of your house, income of your neighbors, your age, interests, hobbies, education, assets, your past addresses spanning roughly 10-20 years, how long you've lived at your address, how often you improve your property, what catalogs you buy from and how often, a decent guess at your ethnicity, and nearly anything else. The only thing that amazes me is that we're not further than we are in knowing everything about you.
Because there's an important fact that college students et. al. need to be aware of - big brother is not the government building spy lists of data on you to further their nefarious control over you. Big brother is marketers for whom it is financially critical to know everything about you. Politics may change, but economics rarely do.
Can someone with one of these CD's report the addresses they try to write to, and we add a map to 127.0.0.0 in the HOSTS file? That works with all kinds of spyware (e.g., doubleclick, redsherriff).
Better yet, can someone distribute a universal HOSTS file of all known spyware and update often? I'd pay for the privilege. AdAware may be a good vehicle.
My TRS-80 Model II (look that one up, kids) has an 8 inch floppy - 500K of raw bit-storing power. It laughs at your measly cassette tape storage system!
Imagine the scenario - "send in this coupon and you will receive a free widget".
You the consumer look at it, and say, "Hey, I don't have to give an account number or anything! They don't have any codes or anything! I could even give my work address, or a fake name, and they won't be able to tie it back to me!"
Wrong, we have your data codes embedded IN OUR OWN LOGO.
We know exactly who you are, we know what you respond to, and you better believe, you will get a ton more of this stuff if you do respond.
We've been doing this for years... For real.
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I only have 110 baud, you insensitve clod!
Please direct all replies to Compuserve ID 72240,2510.
Depends on the usage. From the Miriam Webster Dictionary:
USAGE: The noun affect is sometimes mistakenly used for effect. Except when your topic is psychology, you will seldom need the noun affect.
I have a hard time with man - yes, it's full-on documentation, but 19 times out of 20, I don't need the 15 highly obscure switches for a command, I just need the command in its simplest form.
What man is missing is an example section, e.g., "To find all files with mary in the title, use ls -R *mary*" or whatever; "to find all files modified in the last 10 days do..."
I will say right out that perhaps such a facility exists, but I am unaware. I am a GUI user of Linux (SuSE 9.1 X86_64) and my command line skills have rusted since I lived in VMS 20 years ago...
Tell you what. You make your choices, I'll make mine, and the free market will see which is most important to consumers.
Oh wait, that already happened. That's why Main Street boutique shops with 100% markup didn't survive Wal*Mart.
If "service" was truly more important to people, they would have refused to buy at Wal*Mart and Wal*Mart would have gone under. The truth is, that box of cereal is identical whether I buy it at Mom 'n' Pop's Full Service Grocery (which by the way only stocks 10 varieties) or Wal*Mart (which stocks 125 varieties). Can the Wal*Mart teenaged stockboy answer a question about my cereal? No. And neither can Mom or Pop.
I get more choices and lower prices. Isn't that the economic ideal?
Their service seems to be carrying Brian Wilson's album "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" http://beta.music.msn.com/album/?album=10179237, that won't be released until 12/25/2025. I haven't checked ITMS to see if they are carrying releases that far in advance...
Hail hail Maximum PC. When I get an issue my whole family knows I'm gone for an hour when I get home from work. It's the only magazine I subscribe to that I read -everything- in.
I love the attitude. They like balls-out, great hardware and software with no pretense of cost justification. If it costs USD$1,000 for 2 more FPS, then bring it on, baby! They are the only ones who understand that upgrading is an addiction, not a way to improve a tool to accomplish work.
The parent article claimed: "and has dismissed the case". The CASE was not dismissed. The Motion To Remand was denied, the Motion To Dismiss was denied based on falsity, and the Motion to Dismiss was granted as to pleading of special damages. The -case- was not dismissed. Nothing was, in fact, dismissed - motions were either denied or granted.
RTFA: Your Volley!
RTFA - the request to remand to state court was denied. Novell's motion to dismiss was also denied.
It will be fun to hear the special damages they will come up with. If Novell had not created a "cloud of ownership", they could have what, doubled their SCOsource revenue from $11,000 to $22,000?!?
I have two main machines (and eight second tier machines spread around the house), one runs Windows XP SP2RC1, the other runs Linux (Suse 9.1 X86_64). The Windows machine does video editing, SAS programming, and gaming, the Linux machine does day to day tasks (email, surfing, network backups, Open Office).
My windows machines never crash or hang. My Linux machine never crashes either, though X hangs a lot, but that's recoverable in a heartbeat. My firewall rules them all, and in a secure zone binds them.
Why run a linux machine at all? To stay current, learn new things, new viewpoints, new technologies. For the challenge of getting things working in a new paradigm. For the feeling of success of setting up my first truly successful Linux box, instead of my 20th Windows box.
Linux isn't for every task, but neither is Windows. I am not fond of BG, but I'm also not fond of RMS. Both preach that their viewpoint is RIGHT, and any other is WRONG. Free (libre) software is not viral and is not a violation of the Constitution. Proprietary software is not morally wrong.
Our goal should be to avoid a monoculture based around ANY system.
Can't we all just get along?
Mine at work is 44TB, DB/2 for AIX, running on an RS/6000 system with 128 nodes. DSS only.
But I work for a really huge US company who doesn't talk to the media much.
It makes me wonder how many really huge ones are also flying "under the radar screen". Such as SCO's database of all Linux users, perhaps...
In the USA, rates are set based exclusively on loss experience - more claims = higher rates. Even if you've lost 90% of your net worth due to market fluctuations, that is not the basis of a rate increase. Period. In every state in the USA.
The same idiocy that afflicts the medical system (criminally high malparactice awards by juries who don't have a clue) affects even auto insurance rates - every moron who files a US$500 claim for a car paint scratch or loose board on their house hurts everyone else.
And everyone who serves on a jury that gives these awards because they believe "the insurance companies are looting us", or who laugh as they file a fradulent or frivolous claim, should rejoice when their rates increase, because they are the ones who caused it.
Not every insurance company is even legally allowed to make a profit - even some biggies like State Farm are mutual companies, which means no profits, no stockholders, no dividends.
IBM has alleged that SCO copied parts of GNU/Linux into its products, such as the Linux Personality module.
WHY ISN'T SCO OFFERING ITS CUSTOMERS INDEMNIFICATION AGAINST IBM'S CLAIMS???????
SCO has shown that they believe that indemnifying customers over alleged violations of IP is critical to a business. Why won't they offer it themselves?
I nominate Darl McBride. He has an intimate knowledge of the Linux kernel, intellectual property issues, and has a relationship with the Linux developer community.
Have someone in an Eastern Bloc country post the code, after some strategic bulk renames within the source files. Give the modules new names, change non-code related comments (e.g., author), and post away. If posted from a .RU server, and distributed via kazaa, who can trace it?
When asked for comment on whether Safari was at risk, Apple CEO Steve Jobs replied, "Nah, we offered them a free, unlimited iTunes account in exchange for a perpetual license. They snapped it up."
All your code are belong to us.
--- SCO Group
Thanks for the pr0n link.
Shame on whoever modded this up.
If 40% of developers are developing for Linux, where are the commercial apps? The big ones seem to be a handful. Freshmeat is great but doesn't represent the huge crashing wave of developer support. We all have our short list of apps we wish were ported.
I have a very hard time with this article - (1) no methodology is given, so the results are as suspect as Microsoft funded surveys; and (2) if 40% of all developers of all sizes are focusing on Windows, wouldn't driver support be 1000% better?
Nick appears to be dressing up wishes in the emporer's clothing of misleading "facts". Again. Anyone else remember his weekly diatribes of the vast superiority and impending market conversion to OS/2 in Infoworld?
Many /. readers may not remember the days before email in the workplace (heck, many /. readers may not yet be in the workplace).
Did everyone have face to face conversations, relationships were built, understanding blossomed, conflicts avoided, before email came along and sentenced us to digital solitary confinement?
No.
People wrote memos. Know what "cc" means on the email you send? Carbon Copy, from the old typewriter and carbon paper days. Memos were typed by secretaries (who inevitably had stained hands from the carbon paper), and sent via interoffice mail to the recipient, or slipped onto chairs or under doors late at night if particularly conflict laden.
Discussions were drawn out over weeks instead of hours, with each memo salvo taking a day or two.
Email doesn't allow us to avoid our co-workers - trust me, that that invented long before digital anything. It just gives us a lower environmental impact way of doing it.
Does email provide us with interruption time shifting, as the article suggests? Yes, but so does going through one's paper "in-bin".
Nothing new, just faster, more efficient, lower cost, lower impact time wasting.
We all witnessed Admiral Kirk leveraging the ultimate backdoor in Wrath of Kahn!
If it's a good enough programming practice for the United Federation of Planets, it's good enough for me.
What if anytime someone downloads crap they post a transaction to a distributed list of bad IP addresses Kazaa et. al. maintains and automatically updates. Kazaa writes a record on your own system of the poison source's IP address or Kazaa equivalent. This file is shared, and Kazaa sees the lists of everyone else, and sends notifies of new addresses out to the new network. If enough users post an IP address as a source of bad music (quantitatively bad, not qualitatively bad), the source address is automatically filtered out. Ya gotta figure that if 5,000 people post an IP is a poison provider, it probably is.
/dev/null to make the poison providers think they are very successful in getting their "product" out.
If the threshhold is high enough, the poison providers won't be able to block all of us.
Kazaa automatically shares and updates the poison IP list in the background, while nothing else is going on.
We could even have high bandwith users volunteer to continuously download poison to
It's utterly pointless to whine about "I want more privacy!" or "I'm ready for a little less convenience!". If that's true, then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
NOT write your local MP/congressman.
NOT publish incensed diatribes on web sites of already like-minded people.
NOT bitch on blogs about the sordid state of affairs.
GET OFF THE GRID.
Don't wanna? Too bad for you then. It's easy, if you really want to:
(1) Stop using checks, credit cards and debit cards. Use cash and money orders.
(2) Only use the internet from libraries and public places.
(3) Switch ID's very often when you do use the Net.
(4) Only use pay phones and disposable cell phones (the prepay kind). Change your number often.
(5) If you have a PC (and I mean PC, not a Mac or Sparc) in the house, do everything from inside a VMWare session, which you restore clean each use. This means creating a virtual machine, copying the machine to a new location, and every PC use, copy the VM over and start fresh. Store all docs on external media.
(6) Get off the public utility grid. In the US, form corporations to buy property, and do not have utilities (i.e., use candles).
If you're serious about wanting privacy, then take matters into your own hands. Complaining that we SHOULDN'T track everyone's activity is a waste of time. If it's possible, and marginally legal, someone will do it.
I am a marketer. I make a living building profiles of consumers and tailoring messages for them. I can buy, for most Amercians, and some Australians, lists with your address, income, # children, ages and genders of children, value of your house, income of your neighbors, your age, interests, hobbies, education, assets, your past addresses spanning roughly 10-20 years, how long you've lived at your address, how often you improve your property, what catalogs you buy from and how often, a decent guess at your ethnicity, and nearly anything else. The only thing that amazes me is that we're not further than we are in knowing everything about you.
Because there's an important fact that college students et. al. need to be aware of - big brother is not the government building spy lists of data on you to further their nefarious control over you. Big brother is marketers for whom it is financially critical to know everything about you. Politics may change, but economics rarely do.
Tread lightly. I'm watching.
Can someone with one of these CD's report the addresses they try to write to, and we add a map to 127.0.0.0 in the HOSTS file? That works with all kinds of spyware (e.g., doubleclick, redsherriff).
Better yet, can someone distribute a universal HOSTS file of all known spyware and update often? I'd pay for the privilege. AdAware may be a good vehicle.
My TRS-80 Model II (look that one up, kids) has an 8 inch floppy - 500K of raw bit-storing power. It laughs at your measly cassette tape storage system!
Eric
*** Visicalc Rocks! ***
Have you actually TRIED this distro, or was this a knee-jerk reflex?
Imagine the scenario - "send in this coupon and you will receive a free widget". You the consumer look at it, and say, "Hey, I don't have to give an account number or anything! They don't have any codes or anything! I could even give my work address, or a fake name, and they won't be able to tie it back to me!" Wrong, we have your data codes embedded IN OUR OWN LOGO. We know exactly who you are, we know what you respond to, and you better believe, you will get a ton more of this stuff if you do respond. We've been doing this for years... For real.