FW: Good article on how the nether world is attacking Linux

2004-05-21 Thread Beinert, William
cross-post -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 6:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Good article on how the nether world is attacking Linux http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ --

Re: Sysadmin catches 419 scammer

2004-04-06 Thread Beinert, William
A shame the police were so restrained when subduing him -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Ford Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Sysadmin catches 419 scammer A hart-warming story...

Re: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Beinert, William
Also look at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ I'm also contemplating getting a Linux laptop...going to develop some free sw as I travel around in my retirement freedom. Bill -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, February

Re: PayPal Scam

2004-02-09 Thread Beinert, William
This kind of 'phishing' is quite common, and is used with addesses harvested in any way the spammer can get them. I get over 100 spams, including phishes, at an e-mail address I have never ever used in any public context. Citibank, e-bay and PayPal have had to send out announcements to their

Re: SCO sues Novell

2004-01-28 Thread Beinert, William
Every coffee maker I have ever seen pours water near the boiling point over the grounds. The temperature of the warmers is what affects how hot it is when it is poured into the cup. And I suspect people getting coffee to go find value in hotter initial temperatures, since the coffee will still

Re: SCO sues Novell

2004-01-26 Thread Beinert, William
And it's McDonald's fault she's stupid enough to put hot coffee in her crotch... maybe all that junk food lowered her IQ, and she should sue for that too... -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Cox Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:30 PM To:

Re: SCO sues Novell

2004-01-21 Thread Beinert, William
I wouldn't give those lawyers any credit for getting MS a free pass. MS lost the case on the facts, and their lawyers let them make fools of themselves - remember the rigged demo, and Gates' statement the he didn't mark a message 'high importance' - the computer did. The decision was

Re: Gartner on SCO

2003-11-20 Thread Beinert, William
People pay big bucks to hear Gartner say that SCO has no viable software business, and has gone into the IP litigation business. When will Boies have a seat on the board? Bill -Original Message- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:19 PM To:

Re: Linux ready for the desktop: IBM

2003-11-17 Thread Beinert, William
I exported my largest 123 for OS/2 spreadsheet as an XLS format, for import into OO. Some of it survived. The charts did not Bill -Original Message- From: Jim Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux ready for

Re: [OT] US constitution (was RE: SCO Attacks Open Source License )

2003-11-05 Thread Beinert, William
Stop this aspect of it... And f*rt as you leave the room -Original Message- From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] US constitution (was RE: SCO Attacks Open Source License ) you conveniently

Re: SCO Attacks Open Source License

2003-11-04 Thread Beinert, William
Adopting a US style Constitution would be a start... but then you'd have start looking up the back end of a rodent... Bill Beinert Systems Programming Con Edison When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs! When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet

Re: Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE

2003-11-04 Thread Beinert, William
Think Novell has learned that buying companies isn't enough? That you actually have to integrate and enhance them. Novell has blown more opportunities than (insert disgusting metaphor here). Bill -Original Message- From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November

Re: SCO Attacks Open Source License

2003-11-04 Thread Beinert, William
Unfortunately, that opinion is shared by many US citizens -Original Message- From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SCO Attacks Open Source License The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with

Re: SCO CEO's letter to Open Source Community

2003-09-09 Thread Beinert, William
In my opinion, McBride (lowlife, sniveling dog that he is) nevertheless makes a valid point: that if Open Source does not have a mechanism in place to prevent a repetition of the SGI developer's violation of IP, then large enterprises will not take the risk of using it. Why use an OS if it

Re: Showdown looms for SCO-IBM?

2003-06-13 Thread Beinert, William
Total value of the company is $129 Million - up from $40M before the suit. After they lose the case, it will be a penny stock, and we can buy it and GPL all of its IP. Bill -Original Message- From: Lionel Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: The meddling continues:

2003-06-10 Thread Beinert, William
I read in another post that MS does not plan to continue GeCad's current offerings. Bill -Original Message- From: Joe Poole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The meddling continues: GeCad software made a name for itself by

Re: 1000th z800 Sold

2003-03-07 Thread Beinert, William
I didn't think you could get a linux only z800. I thought you had to have at least one zOS enabled engine. Bill -Original Message- From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 1000th z800 Sold See:

Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?

2003-03-06 Thread Beinert, William
This is most excellent! I am installing Redhat, and the image files are different.. Should I replace SYS1.LINUX.TAPEIPL.IKR and SYS1.LINUX.INITRD with tapeinrd.img tapekrnl.img? And will the boot process be expecting to read the parmfile in ASCII? Thanks Bill -Original

Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?

2003-03-06 Thread Beinert, William
. The parmfile can be in ASCII or EBCDIC. (At least that _used_ to be true.) Mark Post -Original Message- From: Beinert, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR? This is most excellent! I am

Installing Red Hat 7.2 on an LPAR?

2003-03-04 Thread Beinert, William
After downloading Redhat 7.2 onto my workstation and reading the doc, I decided to to an FTP install. At the HMC, I discover it is on an isolated network segment, and cannot (and will never) see my PC. Plan B: install from CD-ROM. But the doc refers to a Load from CDROM or Server icon on the

Re: Microsoft proud of XP compatibility

2003-02-25 Thread Beinert, William
I think I live on a different planet than these people. I have programs I wrote on OS/2 1.2 that still run on Warp4. I have programs 30 years old that still run on OS/390 2.10 And it's not just MS. I installed a genealogy app last fall on RH Linux 7.2. I upgraded to RH 8.0 a month ago. And the

Re: so correct me if I am wrong

2003-02-21 Thread Beinert, William
The question is Is $45K less than what I would have to spend on an alternative architecture? How many Wintel or Sun boxes is that? You get a lot for free with Linux, but it still might not be enough to run production workloads. Bill -Original Message- From: Eric Bielefeld

Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel? - thanks

2003-02-06 Thread Beinert, William
Thanks. Knoppix is what I was looking for. Bill -Original Message- From: Rod Furey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel? CD based SuSE Live Eval - as mentioned in Michael's

OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel?

2003-02-05 Thread Beinert, William
There was discussion (I think on this list) of a CDROM that allowed someone to boot and run Linux from a CDROM without installing Linux. I didn't pay much attention at the time, but now I think I know someone who could benefit from this. Can anyone refresh my memory? thanks Bill Beinert

Re: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x?

2003-01-28 Thread Beinert, William
7.2 is at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/s390/ Bill -Original Message- From: Alex Leyva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Redhat 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, s390, s390x? Hi all, im downloading Redhat 7.1, but now im

Re: System Installation Suite on zSeries ?

2003-01-27 Thread Beinert, William
You might want to look at Levanta, which I saw recently at LinuxWorld... http://www.linuxcare.com/products/levanta/features.epl Bill -Original Message- From: Seifert, Harald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: System