I'm sure you found this. The obvious first step for me is to connect the drive to a modern linux box, and capture an image of the hard drive, using something like:

dd if=/dev/sdc of=~/xenix.img conv=noerror,sync

And then trying to extract data from the disk image, with loop mounts or other freaky techniques. You can make lots of working copies of your original data - at least a few hundred before you start to run out of space on your thumb drive - so there's little risk. Heck, burn a copy off to CD or DVD, so you only have to do the dd capture once.

Good luck.

I think the DB-9 connector is a little big for what its doing though, I mean even a DB-15 monitor type connector is duplo size for 15 pins.
Maybe I just like Cisco to much, but it would be nice to have everyone just use the Cisco RJ-45 spec for serial connections, I hate when other router/switch vendors use RJ45 but the pins-outs are totally different so you have to find that special DB9 to RJ45 adapter for that 1 piece of gear, instead of using 1 of the Cisco adapters that you have laying everywhere.
Even if on the back of laptops they used RJ45 for serial and marked they would keep it around longer? the DB9 connector seems to big realistate wise to me I guess.
Then you could just use a regular RJ45 cable to connect between the 2, no need for some non-standard cable.

Also for those of you that use console servers allot, I still think the older Cisco access servers that many use for console servers now a days are better than any of the Linux server type solutions I have tried. The Cisco access devices supports telnet to each port, a real routing table that supports multiple gateways via static or even routing protocols like OSPF etc... also Tacacs+ auth if you need that.

The anti-nuclear crowd are full of crap when they say they want clean, safe energy. Coal is many times worse than Nuclear in all aspects.

I recommend people read or listen to this.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4092

In Mississippi they are no longer allowed to ask if you want to be an organ donor when renewing your drivers license, they default to "no". My mother found this out after she got her license renewed a few years ago and they had removed her organ donor status.

If you don't get contributor agreements you didn't get ownership of the contributed code. You can't assert a copyright on code you don't own. This was a key element in the SCO/Linux suit. SCO didn't own the code it was claiming infringement on.

A secure implementation of this would use some deterministic post-processing element (these days based on the AES-128 or SHA-256 primitives), so that even when the source of non-determinacy fails, you still get unpredictable output, as long as the cryptographic primitive has not been breached.

On the other hand, we still haven't got a good random number generator in our libc, and we can't just use RAND_bytes everywhere for licensing reasons. So our problems are far more mundane.

People decry ageism in regards to minors, while leaving out the fact that it also protects them. There are very few cases where a minor is held accountable for their actions in serious crimes and typically crimes committed by a minor are sealed and not permanent

Yeah I felt real protected when at age 20 I was charged with underage drinking. I faced a mandatory suspension of my license (even though I wasn't within 2 miles of a car) a large fine, mandatory alcohol counselling courses (paid by me) and potential jail time. That charge is open to whomever wants to do a background check on me. I have to report it EVERY TIME UNTIL I DIE whenever my security clearance comes up for renewal (no limitations on alcohol charges/arrests there).

You tell me that it's for my own protection. It is so nice to know that the government is there to control me for my own good.

A very similar system has been practiced by a supermarket chain in Russia as well (mostly selling electronics and other hardware) - kiosks to browse catalogs, order gives you a printout with a number, then you wait until it pops up on one of the screens around (there are plenty, with some "conveniently" tucked into the surrounding fast food shops), and finally head to the place where they will hand it out. It drives the price down by quite a bit, which is why the thing was very popular among those in the know.

Unfortunately, they operated on razor-thin profit margins, and didn't survive the recent economic crisis.

During a co-op job I worked on a very large multi-platform app (several million lines of code)

the team had an LXR setup to do project wide searching, however it was aging and having problems, and is a bit difficult to work with.
As a side project intended for a report once I was back on campus, I set up OpenGrok, which worked brilliantly, and was reasonably easy to configure, and nicer to use once we got it setup. The team liked it enough that they switched to that permanently.
both are open source, and were built to handle large code bases (LXR was built for the linux kernel, OpenGrok for when Sun open sourced Solaris).

Another one I had tried, which was very easy to setup was Gonzui. It's also open source, but didn't really handle the huge codebase as well as OpenGrok or LXR. For under 100k lines, it's probably fine, and the ease of setup may be worth it.

All three provide a web interface, and do indexing as a separate process from search, so we would re-index the code base nightly. works very well for larger teams, might be overkill for what you need though.

I suggest OP to check Beej's Guide for mandatory and advisory locks.

Seriously, I doubt it. English is far too irregular. A pogrom (sic) can only look for regularities, so will reward a particularly stilted style of english. Like "five paragraph themes". Maybe that will satisfy some in the ESL community, but it should not.

A simple test of any pgm is to see how it rates diverse examples of acknowledged great writing: Dickens, Steinbeck, Hardy and many others. You could even leave off poetry and mid.engl like Shakespeare. My guess is it will be pretty good at spotting gramatical errors, and horrible at spotting the far more troublesome logic, sequence and continuinty errors.

OTOH, my wife is an english prof and she spends an unreasonable time at home reading and grading students' papers. I'd love to have her back :) It is _much_ harder work reading papers than dropping scoring sheets into a scantron. She spends more time reading than her most lengthy student spends writing.

Fair use is a fact-intensive policy consideration. There are no absolute rules. You can point to various set of recommendations ("not more than 10%," etc. etc.), but those are guidelines or recommendations, not the law.

Whether or not the unlicensed use of a copyrighted work is fair use depends in every case on the facts of the case. It also depends on the policy considerations at stake.

There are four main factors (not "rules") that courts are required to consider when they evaluate a fair use defense, as spelled out in Â107 of the Copyright Act. They are (this isn't strictly quoting the act):
- the nature of the use, especially whether it is commercial, nonprofit, or educational
- the nature of the original copyrighted work
- the proportion of original work used
- the effect of use on the market/value for the original work.
BUT, while the courts are required, to consider these factors, they do not have to give them equal weight (and, they can consider other factors as well). It depends on the situation. A critical analysis of a copyrighted Haiku or other short poem could probably reproduce the whole poem. "Probably." That wouldn't be true if the critical analysis was an advertisement. Unless maybe if it was an advertisement for an academic literary journal published by a university.

The virtue of fair use is that it appeals to what is fair, not what is technical. But if you want to get technical, fair use is an equitable defense - in other words, an issue of equity, not of law. Look it up. That's why fair use is ambiguous. It's meant to be adapted to each situation as necessary. As for your point about needing a lawyer - tough shit. That's true of nearly every legal issue outside of small claims court. Your issue isn't with the complexity of fair use, your issue is with the fact that copyright infringement makes you liable for a civil lawsuit, not a criminal one, so you don't get a public defender/free lawyer.

How do you explain fair use to children? "Fair use" means you can use copyrighted works in ways that are "fair," whether or not you have permission. What fair means is up to the courts. You can then cite examples.

That doesn't fully explain the law, but thats not the point when trying to educate children about legal issues. It'd be pretty damn easy for the RIAA to say "you can do what's fair." Or, more accurately, "We'll won't sue you if you're fair with your use of our songs." Or, more accurately still, "We'll probably lose if we sue you for fair uses of our songs in ways we don't give you permission to do."