>> Here's the RFC for NTP if anyone is interested. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc...
That's for the current NTP 4; the original RFC for version 1 is https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc... from back in 1985 which demonstrates how far back this goes.
My town was one of those Google threatened to run fiber to. A couple of months later I get a postcard from AT&T offering gig fiber with no caps for what I was paying Comcrap for 80/10 over coax. I did the happy dance when I went to the local Comcrap storefront, handed them back their boxes AND INSISTED ON A RECEIPT for same
The only drawback has been their "residential gateway" box which does 802.1x auth to their head-end plant so replacing with my own router is not an option. I did set up a separate wifi box as an AP to help with signal strength.
FWIW, we took the grandkids to Legoland Florida a couple months back (between Orlando & Tampa), and the on-site hotel had shaded parking areas covered with solar panels. Someone apparently has a clue. https://www.tampaelectric.com/...
The nation most associated with spam call centers finds itself the victim of spam texts to its own people. Shocked, shocked I say... [/s]
Um, given that Carter was one of Rickover's original Navy nukes, and had to help deal with the reactor meltdown at Canada's Chalk River plant, he might have had some insight into the problems of running reactors for extended periods. [/s]
"Anti-grooming"?!?
The phrasing in the bill specifically says no discussion of gender identity or orientation "in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
This gives parents an "in" to dispute any sort of sexual education they feel doesn't meet their beliefs ("Pray away the gay"...), and leaves schools open for any number of legal challenges about instruction for older students.
Given the number of protests, lawsuits challenging the provisions, etc etc (and I live in FL) the "widespread support" is questionable...
the phrasing in the bill specifically says no discussion of gender identity or orientation "in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
This gives parents an "in" to dispute any sort of sexual education they feel doesn't meet their beliefs, and leaves schools open for any number of legal challenges about instruction for older students.
During Sylvester McCoy's tenure, script writer Andrew Cartmel had proposed a backstory to restore some mystery to the Doctor's past by making him basically Rassillon's engineer when the Time Lords were beginning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . This was hinted at in some of the last McCoy stories but never fleshed out before the old series ended.
The Timeless Child storyline in Whittaker's time was an attempt to take this idea of the Doctor being unique among the Time Lords even further by making him/her someone from an alternate universe and the source of their regenerative abilities; they also showed a number of previously unknown prior incarnations as a member of a Gallifreyan 'black-ops' team and having a forced regeneration and mindwipe between assignments. THIS was a seriously huge retcon to the existing canon and was received very badly by the fandom. Frankly I'm happy if Davies comes up with some way to undo this.
There's been enough outcry in the farm-belt states about vendor lock-in (John Deere seems to be the chief offender here) that at least some of this may get through; NO Congress-critter, even from mostly-urban states, wants to be on the record as voting against farmers. That may at least get a foot in the door for other similar bills later on, if not now.
My Large Employer started calling us back into the office this autumn; at present I'm only seeing about 20-25% occupancy on my floor and still WFH 1-2 days a week, as is my immediate manager. I understand from teammates in other locations they're seeing similar things. We had to invest heavily in VPN infrastructure at the start of the pandemic, so at this point we're already set up for a large percentage of remote workers.
I suspect the higher-ups are going to see this, look at the costs to maintain floor space that's seriously underused, and consolidate space to a LOT fewer buildings. The hit to the property management firms is going to be serious.
a) troll
b) As a former Netscaper, I've stuck with FF as much as possible out of loyalty. Yes Chrome is the dominant browser and I use it in some circumstances but my primary browser is still Firefox.
the AT&T codebase didn't have native TCP/IP networking support until Sun's contributions were folded into SysV.
After being slammed on the stolen-code accusation, SCOX claimed a broken business deal over Project Monterey (IBM & Santa Cruz co-developing UNIX for IA-64/Itanium aka "Itanic" for how quickly it sank in the market); Santa Cruz sold out to Caldera and IBM used the change-of-control clause to walk, since they hadn't been consulted at the time. The code IBM took back was stuff they'd brought in from AIX & Sequent anyway so nothing to claim there.
SCOX had their heads handed to them in the Novell slander-of-title case when the original lawyers confirmed from their own notes at the time that no, copyrights never transferred to Santa Cruz so SCOX never had them either, so no grounds to sue over infringement. Novell immediately mooted any copyright charges against IBM.
The IBM suit and the other accessory cases such as Red Hat's were about to be judged, presumably against SCOX, when they filed Ch. 11 to preserve what cash they had. They spun off unXis n/k/a Xinuos as a software operation, and kept the never-ending lawsuit expecting to get something, somehow, from IBM.
Xinuos went from a rent-an-office in the Bay Area to an incubator park in USVI, moved the underlying kernel to BSD, and this spring launched their own version of the suit after claiming at the spinoff they had no interest in litigation. Guess supporting an OS associated with frivolous lawsuits against customers wasn't as profitable as they thought. This settlement will likely scuttle their own case once it comes up, or at least one can hope so.
XINUOS DELENDA EST!!
>> Isn't Xinuos using basically the same claims against IBM now?
Going to be harder for them given a) this settlement saying "there's no there, there" and b) that they've migrated off the AT&T/USL/Novell/Microfocus/... codebase to FreeBSD, so what was "stolen" from *that* that they can make claims against?
Updated tagline:
XINUOS DELENDA EST!!
There's still a ton of educational software that is specific to Windows, so at best Chromebooks can act as a remote client to a Windows session Somewhere Else. As said above, that slice of the market is likely full at this point, and connectivity issues through the pandemic have shown up the primary issue with using Chromebooks. Combine that with the chip shortages and it's no surprise the sales are down.
Microsoft is offering a supported OpenJDK build for Windows, Mac & Linux.
Amazon is offering their "Corretto" build of OpenJDK for Windows, Mac & Linux.
Red Hat is offering a supported OpenJDK build for RHEL and, if you're running their middleware on it, Windows.
If you're already on the hook to Oracle for other s/w, it may make sense to go ahead and get your Java support from them too, but otherwise ?
They bought out Sun intending to monetize Java. Android took over the mobile space, their laissez-faire attitude on updates led to being effectively forced to hand off the EE spec to Eclipse (with a sour-grapes dig requiring the javax -> jakarta namespace fork), and their push for commercial licensing has led to competitors giving away the codebase Oracle's build is based around. Another prime example of Oracle shooting themselves in the foot.
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