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It has taken nearly a decade, but SCO’s hard-fought but ultimately ludicrous legal campaign against Linux is finally winding down, seemingly for good. The company, now know as The SCO Group (TSG), filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection this week, conceding that there’s no longer any hope of a reorganization under Chapter 11. Its only option now is liquidation. Both feet in the grave and still swinging wildly at IBM for allegedly “devaluing” its version of Unix.
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SCO had the greatest collection of douchebags.
I am surprised it is still alive.
Somebody please drive a stake through its heart.
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Vivic wrote: Somebody please drive a stake through its heart.
Maybe a silver bullet too
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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I did some research into what they were doing, and had to think "WTF? That makes no sense!". I seriously think they were just money/power crazed nutcases with no moral or common sense. And on the topic of 'Common' sense, why is it so rare these days? I think the name should be changed to 'uncommon sense'.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Zac Greve wrote: . And on the topic of 'Common' sense, why is it so rare these days?
I don't know, but I think exactly the same when I hear about more patent bullshit, especially from Crapple and Microsoft.
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True.
And what is your sig supposed to be? I have wondered about it for some time.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry
Read more at BrainyQuote[ ^]
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Only people who are interested in electronics are likely to recognise it
It's a circuit diagram[^] (and another link[^]) of the tuning circuit[^] of a radio
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With very little effort and cost you can set up an automated and trustworthy backup system. I can only assume most people don’t back up their data because they are either lazy, unsure where to start, don’t see a need, or all of the above. Assuming Mat Honan’s horror story gives you the motivation for backing up, here are some tips on how to set up a rock-solid backup system. This is Mac-centric, but Windows has very good built-in backup tools, too.
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Shawn Blanc wrote:
I always buy LaCie enclosures because they’re reliable and good looking. I buy Western Digital drives because I like their logo. (And they've never died on me.)
/ravi
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The big news is Pay with Square being deployed across Starbucks — and it is, indeed, big. At the moment, Pay with Square is accepted at around 40,000 locations — mostly neighborhood businesses such as independent coffee shops, restaurants and beauty salons. The agreement with Starbucks will put it in a major nationwide chain for the first time, and therefore puts it in closer competition with Google Wallet, which is already accepted at Home Depot, Office Depot, Starbucks rival Peet’s, Macy’s, RadioShack, 7-Eleven and other major merchants. But Google Wallet has a major gotcha: You need one of a handful of Android phones with built-in NFC technology. Mul-ti-pass. Mul-ti-paaass.
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At Build, we’ll dive deep to cover all the areas you care about. How to design and build beautiful Windows 8 apps. How to sell your apps in the Windows 8 Store and make money. And much more. It sold out in an hour, but you'll still be able to watch online.
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Alsup calls for disclosure of any media getting paid to cover this summer's trial [ITworld]
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Today I’m happy to announce the debut of the Windows Phone Dev Center, the new online home for Windows Phone developers. The site, an evolution of our retired App Hub developer portal, is designed to provide everything you need to build, publish, and manage apps for Windows Phones around the world. The result of months of careful planning and attention to your feedback, it has new features to help make Windows Phone app development faster and more profitable. App Hub is dead. Long live the Dev Center.
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More than 50 years ago, Kirsch took a picture of his infant son and scanned it into a computer. It was the first digital image: a grainy, black-and-white baby picture that literally changed the way we view the world. With it, the smoothness of images captured on film was shattered to bits. The square pixel became the norm, thanks in part to Kirsch, and the world got a little bit rougher around the edges. Science is still grappling with the limits set by the square pixel.
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Microsoft has stated that its hands were clean. Kildall maintained that QDOS, and subsequently MS-DOS, had been directly copied from CP/M and thus infringed on his copyright. But until now there’s been no way to conduct a reliable examination of the software itself, to look inside MS-DOS for the fingerprints of CP/M, and settle the issue once and for all. My company’s CodeSuite forensic software lets us look inside operating systems and other software for fingerprints of other programs. And I applied it to finally answer the question: Did Bill Gates steal the heart of DOS? ...with the candlestick, in the drawing room!
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I have to say that this was one of the most interesting articles I've read. I didn't expect a lot from it, but it turned out to be a cracker.
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I found the link to the software forensics tool to be interesting as well. I've always have been interested in this area.
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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please kindly consider my slight improvement
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Annoying article. If the answer is NO don't spend 3 pages on how you got to it.
Reminds me bad news shows. "Did hamsters cause 9/11? Tune in at 11pm to find out."
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My 1 - thanks for spoiling the read!
Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut
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Vader is Luke's father.
Soylent green is people.
Rosebud was a sled.
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And for the sense of humour (can I borrow some?) +5 here, +4 on previous post - since I agree with the sentiment.
Ah! Perhaps I will watch that movie about 'people' after all..
Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut
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Whilst our cluster size isn't really comparable with the largest Hadoop deployments in the medical or physics fields, at just under 1 PetaByte and doubling in size every 3 months, it's probably a lot larger than the average amount of data most companies have to deal with. Since the announcement of our closed alpha, the demand for historical Twitter access has been huge, so we knew early on that we couldn't release a service that would collapse with just a couple of queries or that took forever to process data: if you start a query now, you don't want results in 15 days. Because the data keeps growing and growing and...
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Advertisers love the AR because it involves users having to physically interact with a product: pick up a cereal box and you are 3/4 of the way to buying it. For most applications however, AR is still a gimmick. Having to wave your phone around at an object to play a game is a huge hassle. A compelling business case hasn’t been made yet–this is evidenced by the fact that most AR conferences feel more like amateur science fairs than bustling hives of commerce. AR Is Still A Gimmick
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