If you want justice:
1) SCO will no longer be able to argue to the Bankruptcy court that it still has a reasonable chance of success with their litigation, so they will be forced to focus their resources. They can no longer rely on plausibility of winning their IBM case, because they essentially have no case now. Not to mention, there's now a good whack of counterclaims that IBM will be drawing out of them, and they're basically entirely crippled now. The Judge gave them the option to waive their IBM suit, and if they don't take that opportunity then they risk getting sued by Novell as well, meaning they're going to be in mad mad debt even longer.
2) SCO shares are worth a nickel. That's right, 5 cents. You could probably buy a whole big-ass chunk of the company right now if you really wanted to, but who would? You have a literally bankrupt company with tons in debts, looking to accumulate a whole bunch more debts through litigation, that is currently being administered by a court-appointed trustee. So all you'd be getting is debt and zero power to fix it.
3) If SCO does decide to appeal this, then at this point it's going to start costing Boies-Schiller, the law office that accepted this bullshit case in the first place. So now THEY get a financial lesson out of all of this too - don't take pump-and-dump schemes, and don't enter into law cases without first KNOWING that your client has evidence. Personally I'd actually LIKE to see this appeal happen just so Boies-Schiller can suffer as well.

The reason this case has drawn out as long as it has is because the legal system DOES work. They gave SCO enough rope to hang themselves with, and SCO took every last inch. Rather than cut their losses when any of the billions of evident signs that they were going down - when they were ruled by a judge to not own the copyright, when they were ruled by a JURY they didn't own the copyright, when they declared bankruptcy, etc. etc. etc. All this has added up to their current state: A dead company, and all of its owners in a SERIOUS amount of debt. If they cut their losses and settled then a lot of where they are now could have been avoided. But they refused to swallow their pride. And now they have a worthless company that nobody will buy, and a product that has no resources to keep it going, and no feasible plan to crawl out. Justice has been served. So if it ties up the courts for a little bit longer, all it's going to do is drive them deeper and deeper, as well as all the people that surround it. All of the chief executives' reputations have been tarnished. It'll be a long time before anybody does business again with Darl McBride before thinking twice, thrice, or sixteen times about it.

They've lost. They're over. They have no recovery. They're dead already. This is just the final crushing fatality blow. Don't think Justice hasn't been served, it has.

The only people hurt by another appeal are the lawyers at this point, so yeah, let them. I want to see these fuckers. rot.

You really think they'll do the latter? It seems like it would just take a lot less man-hours (read: money) to just make it so that you provide the PIN through the only platform available (read: iTunes) to do so, thus negating the user experience for anybody not on Windows or Mac.

If I jailbreak my iPod touch, my warranty is voided. That's what.

it suits me just fine.

To be honest, I'd be happy with just keeping the home drive as-is - it's never given me issues (except in Amarok where every upgrade or so it would reset my library... that's what I get for using KDE apps... back to rhythmbox for me!). The only issues I ever got was when I just repointed my repositories to the new distro and upgraded that way.

Only reason I go through the hassle of creating the new user is because I want to check out what neat new features have come in by default.

That's what I like about linux - is that I can make it as much of a hassle as I'm comfortable with. If I really want to turn my brain off, then I can reformat my home dir every time. But I configure a lot of shit to work very specifically for me, so I don't want to have to keep reconfiguring everything. Seems a lot easier for me just to keep my home drive kicking around.

Most windows apps wouldn't give me that option. If I wanted to move from XP to Win7 I'd have to completely copy over my Documents & Settings folder, and then start rearranging into the appropriate Win7 folders. Most of my shortcuts would stop working so I'd just have to make new ones. Just seems like a lot more of a headache for power users.

My approach isn't for everybody, but I'm not everybody. I'm the kind of guy who uses shell scripts to clean up his mp3 collection, and likes to install programs at the commandline because synaptic takes too freaking long. Sure, you don't NEED it to run linux effectively, but I'm a stickler for doing things the quick advanced way.

It's just that nobody's programmed it to be user-friendly yet.

Welcome to OSS. Don't like it, rewrite it.

That feature is set on a device-by-device basis. If you set it not to auto-sync on the first time you hook up your device to iTunes, then you can actually pull music from ANYBODY's library, not just your own.

But yeah, I always used that feature, so the Rhythmbox interface works just perfectly for me.

Not being able to talk with Linux is one of the things that has kept me off iPods for years. I finally liked the features of the iPod touch and buckled, and used it in Virtualbox under windows/iTunes (so I didn't have to jailbreak it).

Now, finally, Rhythmbox can seamlessly put music on my iPod. If they take that functionality away, then that oft-publicized letter that Jobs put forth touting open standards as an excuse for not supporting Flash is going to be exposed as pure and utter hogwash.

#1 feature that has me blown away: full iPod Touch/iPhone support in Rhythmbox, without jailbreaking. Seriously, this was the one thing that kept me from buying an iPod touch for so long... I eventually decided to just bite the bullet and find _SOME_ fix that works... ultimately going with just using iTunes within Virtualbox. But then I hooked up my iTouch after upgrading to Lucid and was about to go launch Virtualbox and test that was still working fine... but saw my iTouch, with its designated name, listed in Rhythmbox....

I'm sitting there going, "No.... they didn't...." so I try to drag one of the songs in my library over to my iPod.... and boosh! They did!

Only problem I found though was that when I moved a couple tracks over that had "Unknown" as album title, it actually made everything else with "Unknown" as the album title inaccessible on the iPod. seems though this only has to do with stuff that was added via iTunes... so if I remove the song and then re-add it in rhythmbox, it's perfectly fine.

It's a bit of a weird bug, but easily worked past, and now means that I no longer need to keep going into Windows/iTunes to load stuff onto my iPod. Great jerb!

Also, while I'm not a _huge_ fan of the new default theme (window control buttons on the right pls) I did end up picking one of the new themes that suited my tastes, and I honestly am not looking back at all. I keep saying this every time I upgrade, but best linux yet.

But it's a little bit in-between.

I do a fresh install, but maintain my /home partition as-is. I make my regular username my default root-accessible (via gksu/sudo) one, but then once I've installed, I create a new user named after the release (hardy, jaunty, lucid, etc.). Then, I log into my default account. Using the icons on my desktop, I then install my non-standard apps (audacity, gimp, vlc, easytag, nicotine, etc.).

Once I've basically got my computer up to where I was before, then I log into my version-specific account which creates a fresh profile, and I start to check out the differences - themes, feature updates, new defaults - for all my apps I regularly use. If I see anything I like, I hop over to my default profile and adjust. If I see anything I don't, then I just don't bother changing my current settings.

Has worked fantastic for my last 3 upgrades (please note that I never go with mid-release upgrades.... while the .04 series almost always include a ton of improvements, I find more often than not the .10 upgrades will break at least one thing).

Stated like someone who has never understood the frustrations of being hosted on a friend's hobby server.

And it might seem a little ironic, but I find that computer techies, for all their avenues of communication that they have, tend to be the HARDEST people to track down when you need them.

... was seducing an enemy agent.

*sigh* This is why we can't have nice things.

I find they usually go up by a half a degree, actually.

... without Bing there is no competition.

The Search Engine market is HUGE. Yahoo's been around forever, and the only way that google ousted them was by having a better product.

Microsoft just plain doesn't deliver to the consumer. Algorithms alone don't make a search engine. I like google because right away on the first page I get straightforward results, usually a wikipedia article, images and videos with thumbnails, news results, a pdf-to-html converter, etc. etc. etc.

First result I seem to always get on bing is ebay. Yeah, google has ads, but they don't hide them amidst the regular results, they keep them off to the side.

Google still just has a better product. Microsoft can complain about proper competition when they have a product that competes.

In secondary school, however, your TA only has about 150 papers to mark,

Damnit. This is supposed to be post-secondary.