said Greg Madden: | My thought on the Caldera iso's, I have some, is that it is a Linux | license that SCO was denying existed. Just so. I have a couple boxes of Caldera CDs -- going back to when a non-free desktop called "Looking Glass" was the default -- and delighted in it when Darl McBride and his happy band of raiders said that the Linux that their company distributed was illegal. It was even funnier that after SCalderaO was sending letters to Linux users demanding payment there was still Linux available for free download on the SCO website. No matter the merits -- and I believe they had none -- they deserved to lose on grounds of stupidity. Last I heard, some lawyer discovered a dollar of SCO money not already in lawyers' hands and filed to reopen the lawsuit(s). -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com

said Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: | Looking back, was writing the book worth the efford? Despite the fact it | was fun writing ;-) Fun writing? Ha! I signed the contract to write the book at the end of June 1999 -- and the deadline for the completed 250,000-word, illustrated book was the end of July 1999. And I hit the deadline. Much coffee consumed that month. (I'd rather do it that way, though, than take a year or two to write a book -- because I cannot in a year make a book 12 times as good as one made in a month. And the books I've written before and since then each took a month to write, though some took longer than that to research.) -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com