I feel slightly grubby in present company to admit that I have been
submitted as a co-inventor on a couple of patents arising from work I
did in two different places ... both were, I suppose, 'systems' rather
than specific bits of software. I'm not sure quite where the boundary
is there.
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Sorry,
I meant to say POLICYKIT rather than PackageKit.
Stephen D
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Thanks Victor.
The mists of time confused me somewhat but I was nearly there.
>From several other soutced it appears that Packagekit is also in the
firing line with this patent. I really do hope that SCOTUS see the light
and chuck this along with every other software paten into the great bit
2009/11/12 Victor Churchill :
Found it. It goes "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid *I* can't do that."
At least, that's what it says in that particular clip. There were
other bits of dialogue too...
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2009/11/12 Victor Churchill :
Actually the clip does not help answer the question.
It says "what d' you think you're doing, Dave?" which is neither here nor there.
I'm sure IMDB or something will have the answer.
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2009/11/12 Victor Churchill :
>
> I have it on this laptop as an MP3 on the old Win partition as an
> error message sound file, but haven't been there for a long time. I'll
> see if I can find it...
>
Intersting. I found it on the WinXP partition and copied it across:
vic...@pan:~/Desktop$ file dav
2009/11/12 Stephen Davies :
> Stuart
>
> Did HAL say this in 2001?
>
> "I'm sorry Dave, you can't do that"
I believe it was "I'm sorry, Dave; I can't let you do that"
I have it on this laptop as an MP3 on the old Win partition as an
error message sound file, but haven't been there for a long tim
Stuart
Did HAL say this in 2001?
"I'm sorry Dave, you can't do that"
I totally agree that whichever thing that are trying to get ownership of
it is a pretty silly patent and yes there is lots of prior art. Sadly
only those with mega deep pockets would even attempt to try to prove
them otherw
Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> Yes, it is dual-core. I know about top <1> for per-core stats, but I
> thought I read somewhere that the '%CPU' per-process column was an
> amalgamation of the two - can't find the reference now, of course!
The percentages in the section at the machine summary at the
On 11/11/09 16:51, Stephen Davies wrote:
> Microsoft has patented 'sudo'
No, they haven't.
From my reading (and indeed one of the comments on the thread) they've
patented a GUI for 'su', rather than sudo, with a scary (from a security
perspective) idea that they may just give you a list of use
Hmmm... If I understood the article correctly MS are now so proud of their
security flaws that they have started patenting them.
It seemed to me that the novel thing about msudo is that it displays a list of
users who have the rights to perform whatever action the current user can't.
(Somenas
2009/11/12 Alan Pope
> 2009/11/12 Hugo Mills :
> > If it's a dual-core machine, then you have 200% of a CPU available
> > to work with, and FF is taking 135% of a CPU total (i.e. it could be
> > maxing out one core, and using 35% of the time available on the
> > other).
> >
> > If it's a sing
2009/11/12 Hugo Mills :
> If it's a dual-core machine, then you have 200% of a CPU available
> to work with, and FF is taking 135% of a CPU total (i.e. it could be
> maxing out one core, and using 35% of the time available on the
> other).
>
> If it's a single-core machine, you've got problems.
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:00:50PM +, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> While running Iceweasel, my machine (3.00Ghz, 1.0 Mb IBM S50, Debian Lenny)
> suddenly became very sluggish. I ran top and found that firefox.bin was
> reported as consuming 135% of processor capacity! I killed the process and
>
Hi, all!
While running Iceweasel, my machine (3.00Ghz, 1.0 Mb IBM S50, Debian Lenny)
suddenly became very sluggish. I ran top and found that firefox.bin was
reported as consuming 135% of processor capacity! I killed the process and
everything returned to normal.
Now, I'm used to certain public fi
Taking the route of defending yourself when sued takes a huge bucketload
of money especially when it is a company the size of Microsoft on the
other end.
IMHO, until there is some form of escalating financial penalty for using
patents like this, the whole 'mobius strip' of lining the already de
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:00:58AM +, Ian Park wrote:
> I've been involved in technical advice in patent litigation for a while,
> and the tactic which is usually employed to deal with silly patents like
> that is to wait until the patent holder sues for infringement and then
> to present obvio
I've been involved in technical advice in patent litigation for a while,
and the tactic which is usually employed to deal with silly patents like
that is to wait until the patent holder sues for infringement and then
to present obvious prior art as the defence, to have the patent declared
invalid.
Sounds like good news to me
White House goes Open Source
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/10/27/white_house_goes_open_source.html
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