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  1. Internet Archive in a cargo container by yppiz · · Score: 3, Informative · on Sun To Unveil Project Blackbox
    The Internet Archive has a related design that would allow them to ship functional copies of the archive anywhere in the world. It's called the Petabox and it's designed to operate in a shipping container, just add external power, bandwidth, and cooling.


    --Pat

  2. Re:Chi-Tribune could have been cool... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Slashback: Cheaters, Spammers, Chessmen
    Chicago Tribune could have been cool, too bad they have fired or driven away all of the hard-core techies. All they have left is Jim Coates, the "Dvorak of Chicago".

    For example, look at the dates on the articles in the Linux section... they went from every four weeks in 1999, to every six weeks, to all-but-never. Or consider their "Silicon Prairie" print magazine, which had a Ask The Linux Geeks column... until the whole project was dropped.

    The unwritten corporate policy at Tribune is "No Linux". In some divisions, installing an unapproved operating system will get you fired, in others, you just get a stern talking to from the network people.

  3. UFO Chicago Hardware Swap by Nater · · Score: 3, Informative · on What Do You Do With Old Computer Parts?

    Check your local geek clubs. UFO (Users of Free Operating Systems) Chicago has a list of its members' idle hardware. I sold an old SCSI drive and video card that I've been holding onto for a few years for just about market value to another UFO member.

  4. Re:Pardon Me by Nater · · Score: 2 · on A Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband In New York

    Softroad, as far as I can tell, is completely dead. The group I'm working with is UFO Chicago (Users of Free Operating systems) and I've taken to calling our community networking project the Wireless Working Group (UFO-WWG). UFO-WWG doesn't have it's own web page.

    About my user info... No, that's not my email, and I like it that way. Thanks for the heads up on the web page, that link's been dead for some time now.

  5. Lawsuit On What Grounds? by Carnage4Life · · Score: 2 · on On The Linux Culture and Money

    Why don't the developers get together for a class action lawsuit and at least get a slice of the pie?

    Thanks for identifying yourself as a newbie not only to Slasdot but also to Linux as well. A quick intro is necessary...Firstly I'd like to know what grounds you want them to sue Redhat on?
    Due to the nature of the GPL the developers that have contributed to the linux kernel and the Redhat distro have no beef with Redhat. Redhat has not violated the GPL in any way so that cannot be a reason to sue.
    Secondly Redhat hires/supports a couple of the core kernel developers and thus these people have no more reason to sue Redhat than an employee of Dell, eBay, Microsoft or any other multibillion dollar company who draws a salary. Does this mean we can all sue our employers because our company's make millions in revenue while most of us make less than $100k a year? Thirdly Redhat did let developers get a slice of the pie with the letter...read about this here and here.

    Now the only question I have to ask is; exactly how and for what reasons are developers going to sue Redhat?

    It's one thing to bust your ass for your own greater glory, but how can you sit back and watch someone else profit handsomely from someone else's labor?
    If you got the letter you have profitted handsomely since the IPO. If you didn't get the letter, I remember Redhat hovered between 40 & 80 for a few weeks, this would have been a good time to show solidarity for linux and invest in yourself (assuming you're an OSS developer for linux)....and you'd be profitting handsomely as well.

    Finally and most importantly, OSS developers i have met were not and are still not in it for the money. I write code and give it away because I like writing code and I want people to use it and if they find any bugs and fix them whooopeee .
    Lawsuit, paaah.

    Bad Command Or File Name

  6. Floor is free and take a look at this URL by seva · · Score: 1 · on LUG Invites for Spring COMDEX

    Floor is free, Linus' keynote is free,

    There is no reason to pay for it unless you want to go to those Linux Global Summit sessions.

    Take a look at this URL btw:
    Chicago LUG Consortium's COMDEX/Spring Page

    /Seva