• Notice of Conventional Filing of Exhibits to SCO's Memorandum In Support of SCO's Motion for Partial Summary on SCO's Third Cause of Action for Breach of Contract
• IBM's Motion for Leave to File Additional Declarations In Support of Motions for Summary Judgment and [Proposed] Order Granting IBM's Motion for Leave to File Additional Declarations in Support of Motions for Summary Judgment
• Supplemental Declaration of Todd M. Shaughnessy, Declaration of Ralf Flaxa [Exhibit 598], Supplemental Declaration of Roger C. Swanson [Exhibit 599]
• SCO's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment on SCO's Third Cause of Action, For Breach of Contract
• Motion for Summary Judgment on IBM's Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Counterclaims
• SCO's Motion for Summary Judgment on IBM's Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Counterclaims
• SCO's Motion for Relief for IBM's Spoliation of Evidence and [Proposed] Order Granting SCO's Motion for Relief for IBM's Spoliation of Evidence

Order Granting in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1961947,00.asp?kc=ewnws051506dtx1k0000599

over at eWeek.  It is a comparison of different operating systems and how they are approaching trusted computing issues.  Within the context of the article, it is about making sure an application is only doing what it is allowed to do (part of the effort to improve security).  The article looked at Solaris, Red Hat, and SuSE operating systems.  I'm not familiar with Solaris, so can't say much about it.  For Red Hat they were looking at the SE Linux framework and for SuSE it was something else (can't recall the acronym) that they control through the AppArmor application.

Near the end the covered MS a bit, noting that they are concentrating on the desktop.  At Y! SCOX I commented that MS servers were apparently SOL.

walterbyrd replied and indicated others might think the Linux desktop is SOL since Linux focuses on the server.  He then pointed to this article from the WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114727136610348924-Et3a0yO82d_xJdMWN_y8xKXLl7c_20060521.html? mod=blogs

Alas, the Y! posting server is unreachable for me at the moment, so I have to respond here.  I wanted walter to realize that my comment about MS servers being SOL was within the context of the article I referenced - trusted computing and enhanced security.  As far as I know, the same security options available on the Linux platforms are there for either server or desktop systems.  As the article noted though, it appears MS'es efforts are only tied to securing the desktop better and not the server.

As for the WSJ article, what can I say?  Yet another article from someone who has decided that because a particular OS does not do what they want it to do, that makes it unacceptable for most other users.  I'm debating whether I even want to bother putting together a response.

http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5613250391.html

Q&A: Avanade's CEO weighs in on Microsoft, open-source, ODF (that's actually the second page)

And noted this quote about ODF:

Do you see any interest by companies to adopt the OpenDocument standard? I haven't seen any interest. Anything that's government-sponsored, ask yourself, is it still around?

Another good one was:

Since most of your clients are big Microsoft users, how much Linux do you see? Linux is mostly about replacing Unix. Sometimes you see a customer want to use Linux for real foundation services like directory, or file and print. But not often.

What do I know though.  Unlike Avande, I'm not over half-owned by Microsoft.

I recently upgraded to SuSE 10.1 on my main desktop.  Running KDE 3.5.3 and my main e-mail client is Kontact.  However, since the upgrade, Kontact has become pretty much useless as it crashes everytime I try to switch from Mail to anything else (e.g. calendar, todo's, notes, summary, etc.).  Crashes when I exit (which is rare).  Also getting a crash whenever I try to sync an IMAP account.

Very frustrating.  I've submitted several bug reports with the backtraces attached to the KDE folks, but that is getting me nowhere (either they are too busy, can't really figure out what is wrong, or think the problem has been resolved?).  I've done some research on the 'net, but I have not found anything to help.

I'm thinking about trying to uninstall Kontact and then reinstall it.  I'm a bit concerned about losing my e-mails and everything else (I've backed them up, but worried about getting them imported back in).

Any suggestions? Thoughts? Hints?

Thanks!

SCO v Novell, Memorandum Decision and Order (Document 139)

"...It won't be IP-Wars, because I feel I was censored there. ..."

Thanks,

Thanks,

Jeff

For directions and further details, see:

http://www.stllinux.org/