Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-04-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 03/31/2010 11:37 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: Well, Red Hat sued them, so they can't make that go away, and the main thing left in the IBM case is the IBM counterclaims. Whether they're liabilities or not (and they're major liabilities), the decision to stop them doesn't reside with TSCOG any

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-04-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 03/31/2010 11:37 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: Well, Red Hat sued them, so they can't make that go away, and the main thing left in the IBM case is the IBM counterclaims.  Whether they're liabilities or not (and they're major

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-04-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 04/01/2010 09:08 AM, Jeffry Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 03/31/2010 11:37 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: Well, Red Hat sued them, so they can't make that go away, and the main thing left in the IBM case is the IBM counterclaims.

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-04-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
Not entirely true. Novell waived the copyrights. TSOG still holds the contractual rights. While SMP, NUMA, and JFS were developed by IBM (and Sequent) under the strict terms of the original ATT contract these are considered derivative works. IBM needs to prove in court that the derivative

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-04-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
While SMP, NUMA, and JFS were developed by IBM (and Sequent) under the strict terms of the original ATT contract these are considered derivative works. IBM needs to prove in court that the derivative clause does not apply. They signed their perpetual contract with ATT before ATT sold USL to

[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: An Open-Source Involvement Engine - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-04-01

2010-04-01 Thread Bill McGonigle
[no dinner rsvp's, so skipping it this month] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org

April fools

2010-04-01 Thread Benjamin Scott
We interrupt your regularly scheduled off-topic discussions to bring you this message: http://xkcd.com/ is awesome today. I have found several Easter eggs so far (without cheating). -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: April fools

2010-04-01 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  We interrupt your regularly scheduled off-topic discussions to bring you this message:  http://xkcd.com/ is awesome today.  I have found several Easter eggs so far (without cheating). I'm afraid to look. XKCD

Re: April fools

2010-04-01 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  We interrupt your regularly scheduled off-topic discussions to bring you this message:  http://xkcd.com/ is awesome today.  I have found several

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-04-01 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 04/01/2010 11:25 AM, Jeffry Smith wrote: Only NUMA may not have the derivative clause - IBM DID have it, and the others are theirs. 2. IBM developed the linux JFS from theiir OS/2 JFS, which was a clean-room implementation of JFS. Despite what TSCOG claims, copyright does NOT cover

[GNHLUG] Vim - how to learn more - CentraLUG, April 5th

2010-04-01 Thread Ted Roche
The April meeting of the Central New Hampshire Linux User Group, CentraLUG, will be on Monday, April 5th, at the New Hampshire Technical Institute's Library, Room 146, starting at 7 PM. Directions and details always available at http://www.centralug.org Ted will talk about Vim the text editor.

NFS stops responding

2010-04-01 Thread Michael ODonnell
I've run out of clues (EBRAINTOOSMALL) trying to solve an NFS puzzle and could use some help getting unstuck. Analysis is awkward because the customers in question are trying to make what use they can of the machines even as these problems are ocurring around them, so reboots and other dramatic

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-01 Thread Michael ODonnell
Oops. I wrote: So, if I'm reading these tea leaves properly it's as if that lost the ability to recognize the reply to that request. [?!] ...but meant to say, [...]it's as if that client lost the ability[...] But, then, how could it be that all 3 machines seem to get into this state at more

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: Oops. I wrote: So, if I'm reading these tea leaves properly it's as if that lost the ability to recognize the reply to that request. [?!] ...but meant to say, [...]it's as if that client lost the ability[...] But, then, how could

NFS stops responding

2010-04-01 Thread Ric Werme
After machine A exhibited the problem I *think* I see evidence in /var/log/messages that the NFS client code has decided it never got a response from the server (B) to some NFS request, so it retransmits the request and (I think) it then concludes that the retransmitted request also went