Be the signal

11 Comments

1. CraigMaloney
   Posted November 15, 2007 at 08:47 | Permalink

   Even better, if you have an unsupported OS, your only official course of action for a DST patch is to upgrade your OS. Apparently they’ve clubbed together some other patches into this patch.

   Way to go SCO!

2. dflkgjj
   Posted November 15, 2007 at 08:51 | Permalink

   I thought it was a fake, until I looked at their site. Cute!

3. Daniele
   Posted November 15, 2007 at 09:07 | Permalink

   I don’t get, it perhaps the patch fixes that bug between keyboard and chair… I mean the patch could be a text file reading “adjust it manually and disable the auto DTS”… no eh? they are serious. -_-‘

4. Piotr
   Posted November 15, 2007 at 09:11 | Permalink

   Well spotted! You’ve made my day! :-)

5. Chris Cunningham
   Posted November 15, 2007 at 09:42 | Permalink

   The amusing thing here is that people who don’t get employed to deal with the fallout of DST patching honestly think it’s a trivial job. Elderly Unixen do _not_ like to be told what time it is.

   - Chris

6. Aaron Toponce
   Posted November 15, 2007 at 10:12 | Permalink

   Morons.

   /me shakes his head not surprised

7. James Henstridge
   Posted November 15, 2007 at 13:26 | Permalink

   Looking at the patch, they appear to be using the same tzinfo data that everyone else is using.

   So it’d be a bit cheeky if they turned around and charged for that data specifically (as opposed to other fixes).

8. nisknisk
   Posted November 15, 2007 at 13:41 | Permalink

   Warning! those who download and apply the patch are not suppose to adjust their wristwatch for daylight savings without paying royalties to SCO. If you adjust your wristwatch your vioaletting/vialetting/viaoletting (damn! pick the correct spelling from the dictionary) intellectual property rights of SCO which are leased from some other company.

9. Jasper
   Posted November 15, 2007 at 13:45 | Permalink

   WOW… an update? kind of late,would be nice to have it last year. but anyways, it is as easy as editing the /etc/timezone file..

10. Leon Brooks
    Posted November 15, 2007 at 15:10 | Permalink

    apt-get install timezone-2007 ?

11. karol
    Posted November 15, 2007 at 18:45 | Permalink

    check this out:

    http://www.sco.com/successes/

    and what you get?

    Document Not Found

    To find the document you’re looking for, please see our company sitemap

    what a coincidence :)