However after 8 years, SCO vs Novell finally had its day in court, and SCO lost. A federal jury decided today that Novell owns the Unix copyrights.
SCO's stock didn't do so well today.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Jury says Novell Owns Unix Copyrights, Not SCO Group
For about 80% of the time I've worked for Novell, the SCO vs Novell lawsuit has been going on. It's hard to remember a time before the lawsuit.
However after 8 years, SCO vs Novell finally had its day in court, and SCO lost. A federal jury decided today that Novell owns the Unix copyrights.
SCO's stock didn't do so well today.
However after 8 years, SCO vs Novell finally had its day in court, and SCO lost. A federal jury decided today that Novell owns the Unix copyrights.
SCO's stock didn't do so well today.
Monday, March 22, 2010
BrainShare 2010
BrainShare is back.
Last year, due to the economy, BrainShare (Novell's yearly technical conference in SLC, UT) was cancelled. BrainShare's been going for 20+ years, so it was a downer that it was cancelled. It's always fun to get away from the office for a week and work at BrainShare in SLC.
Over the last few years at BrainShare, I've helped teach a number of technical sessions, however I've always been the 2nd presenter. (Where the 1st presenter created the presentation, then asked me to help teach.) Although I had helped revise presentation, I had never actually submitted the idea, it been accepted and then create the presentations myself.
However this year I decided to submit a few ideas for a technical session I wanted to teach on Privileged User Manager (the new product I took over about 9 months ago). I submitted two ideas, but they were combined into one session.
In addition to the technical session, I also helped man a booth for the product and showed demos to customers.
This is the only picture I captured. It's the back of Rich, a co-worker of mine from the UK, and the booth that I spent most of my time at.
BrainShare was fun, but very tiring. I drove back and forth each day. Not sure I could ever commute an hour each way. A typical day was leaving the house by 6:30am-7:00am and getting home around 7pm or 8pm.
Last year, due to the economy, BrainShare (Novell's yearly technical conference in SLC, UT) was cancelled. BrainShare's been going for 20+ years, so it was a downer that it was cancelled. It's always fun to get away from the office for a week and work at BrainShare in SLC.
Over the last few years at BrainShare, I've helped teach a number of technical sessions, however I've always been the 2nd presenter. (Where the 1st presenter created the presentation, then asked me to help teach.) Although I had helped revise presentation, I had never actually submitted the idea, it been accepted and then create the presentations myself.
However this year I decided to submit a few ideas for a technical session I wanted to teach on Privileged User Manager (the new product I took over about 9 months ago). I submitted two ideas, but they were combined into one session.
In addition to the technical session, I also helped man a booth for the product and showed demos to customers.
This is the only picture I captured. It's the back of Rich, a co-worker of mine from the UK, and the booth that I spent most of my time at.
BrainShare was fun, but very tiring. I drove back and forth each day. Not sure I could ever commute an hour each way. A typical day was leaving the house by 6:30am-7:00am and getting home around 7pm or 8pm.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
We have a flowering pear tree in our front yard. Years ago (before we bought the house) the original owners allowed a shoot to come off of the roots (with the roots being a real pear tree). So we have a flowering pear with the main trunk of the tree being a real pear. The problem is, the pear tree would drop it's fruit and make a mess. So I decided to finally take the pear trunk down and leave the flowering pear (even though there is a huge whole in the middle of the tree now.
Deni came out to watch and took this action picture of me cleaning up afterwards.
Deni came out to watch and took this action picture of me cleaning up afterwards.
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Old faithful
My dad called me and asked me to go on one last ice fishing trip. Typically March is considered the end of the season for ice fishing, so we thought we'd make one last attempt.
Sydney was the only that would come with me. Sydney and I spent the night at dad's house and left early (6:30am) Saturday morning. We hadn't fished up at Strawberry Reservoir this year and thought we'd try out luck there.
We got there around 8am and it was bitterly cold. But we quickly got the holes drilled and the tent setup (and as you can see the heater on for Sydney.)
Sydney and I fished in the tent. The fish weren't biting, but we were able to catch one fish. I hooked it, then handed the pole to Sydney. She was reeling it in and finally asked me for help as it was difficult to reel in. After taking the pole back, a few cranks of the reel and a nice size fish appeared at the bottom of the ice hole. (Ice was about 22 inches thick).
The only bad thing about fishing at Strawberry Reservoir is everything 15 inches to 22 inches has to be thrown back, which is just about everything you catch.
Sydney was the only that would come with me. Sydney and I spent the night at dad's house and left early (6:30am) Saturday morning. We hadn't fished up at Strawberry Reservoir this year and thought we'd try out luck there.
We got there around 8am and it was bitterly cold. But we quickly got the holes drilled and the tent setup (and as you can see the heater on for Sydney.)
Sydney and I fished in the tent. The fish weren't biting, but we were able to catch one fish. I hooked it, then handed the pole to Sydney. She was reeling it in and finally asked me for help as it was difficult to reel in. After taking the pole back, a few cranks of the reel and a nice size fish appeared at the bottom of the ice hole. (Ice was about 22 inches thick).
The only bad thing about fishing at Strawberry Reservoir is everything 15 inches to 22 inches has to be thrown back, which is just about everything you catch.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Oil...check. Eggs....check
I recently change my work schedule to accommodate some odd timezones. In doing so, I don't see the kids in the morning, but get home close to when they get out of school. As I drove home Sydney called me. She had called to ask me to help her make brownies. I told her I would help her when I got home, then asked her to get everything. When I arrived home, I found this.
Sydney was ready and from the looks of the back of this brownie mix, she had checked her list twice. I had a fun time with her making brownies.
It's tradition in our family to leave a little of the brownies in the bowl as a "reward" after the brownies are cooking.
Syd with her reward all over her face. (Syd also lost her first tooth this week.)
Sydney was ready and from the looks of the back of this brownie mix, she had checked her list twice. I had a fun time with her making brownies.
It's tradition in our family to leave a little of the brownies in the bowl as a "reward" after the brownies are cooking.
Syd with her reward all over her face. (Syd also lost her first tooth this week.)
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