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It was a small Bay Area pharmacy that used Rx30, which ran on NT.

> There is a pretty hard core attitude shift in ipv6 that thou shalt not
> static assign addresses. Dynamic / multicast DNS to the rescue, etc.

Idiot internet hippies... sigh. The way around that is to assign fixed IPV6 link-local addresses in your hosts file. See https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/428331-ipv6-crash-course-for-linux

> Let's say you have three PCs in your little link-local LAN:
> fatfreddy, phineas, and franklin. You can use these fine
> hostnames over IPv6 as easy as pie. You'll make identical
> entries in the /etc/hosts file of each PC, like this:
>
> fe80::20b:6aff:feef:7e8d fatfreddy
> fe80::221:97ff:feed:ef01 phineas
> fe80::3f1:4baf:a7dd:ba4f franklin
>
> Now you can ping6 by hostname:
>
> $ ping6 -I eth0 phineas
> PING phineas(phineas) from fe80::221:97ff:feed:ef01 eth0: 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from phineas: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=17.3 ms

LibreOffice has revision functionality

The People at Suse say it is, and is already supported in SLES 11 SP2 :
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/677226-suse-linux-says-btrfs-is-ready-to-rock

Apparently SUSE Enterprise Linux thinks so, as of last week.

https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/systems-management/677226-suse-linux-says-btrfs-is-ready-to-rock

Exactly. You can turn it off in the privacy settings of the control center, you can use a desktop other than Unity, or you can remove the shopping lens package and then blacklist it to prevent re-installation of it.

Since you mentioned 'Inception' I thought I'd comment that I found and installed an app on my N900 called "realitycheck"
http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/n900-desktop-widget-lucid-dreaming-reality-check.html

The app is rather simple: its just a reminder app.
The mechanism is to look at your hand, then look away, then look at your hand again.

The idea behind it is that what one does a lot of when awake creeps into our dreams and you will dream about looking at your hand, 2x.

The reason this is important is that lucid dreaming is controlled by the right hemi of the brain; the visual, emotional side.
The left (logical) hemi tries to interpret what the right side is experiencing (emotional memories expressed in images).

When you look at your hand the second time in your dream, your hand will be deformed because the left hemi doesnt have time to process the info fast enough. So, like the top that never winds down, the dreamer knows, in their dream, that they are dreaming.
This is the point where they have the ability to control their dream.

Site like howtoforge nixcraft and Linux foundation (official site of Linux) and others have done a great job. On other hand Q and A site like serverfault is a great for *nix problem. Why bother about linux.org? Just go to google and search..

...as it is incapable of simply passing a network url to the movie application.

Presumably a side-effect of KIO slaves.

In answering my own email, I found this article that gives a number of good sounding choices for open source calendaring systems, that you could pair with a great email server like postfix.

How bummed are you gonna be when you realize that the Linux Foundation offers the same bullshit advice to prospective Linux users?

It's no wonder, then, that when Windows users are finally able to break their chains and experience freedom on a Linux desktop, they stare at me in disbelief when I tell them to lay that burden down. They are reluctant to stop totin' that load. They have come to expect to pay a toll for a modicum of security.

I try to explain that permissions on Linux make such tribute unnecessary. Without quibbling over the definitions of viruses and trojans, I tell them that neither can execute on your machine unless you explicitly give them permission to do so.

On Linux, there is built-in protection against such craft. Newly deposited files from your email client or Web browser are not given execute privileges. Cleverly renaming executable files as something else doesn't matter, because Linux and its applications don't depend on file extensions to identify the properties of a file, so they won't mistakenly execute malware as they interact with it.

Misleading claims and false advertising by virus protection rackets to the contrary, you simply don't need antivirus products to keep your Linux box free of malware.

How's that egg taste? I assume some got in your mouth, because it's certainly everywhere else on your face!

Fio

https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/442451-inspecting-disk-io-performance-with-fio
http://www.obsecurities.com/reviews/5-fio-flexible-io-tester-review

Dear Mr Gates,

I have noticed how fond you are of the excellent efforts of the Khan Academy to disseminate knowledge to anyone for free.

I'm very excited to have found two more projects that should really be up your alley. You will probably want to donate billions to them right away!

They are very much in line with what the Khan Academy is trying to accomplish, but they are working at another perspective of knowledge.

They are about fascilitating the dissemination, creation and construction of knowledge and information on computing hardware:

http://gnu.org/

http://linux.com/

They are Free and Open instructions for computers (machines to process data with). With these free of cost and Free as in freedom software projects and the excellent efforts of the Khan Academy, all the children of Earth (with access to computing hardware - that is yet another avenue you could look into) can really get a leg up.

Sincerelly,
Dr Pointer-Outer-Of-Obvious-Ironies-Dinkelspiel

Haha, nicely done!

Dear Mr Gates,

I have noticed how fond you are of the excellent efforts of the Khan Academy to disseminate knowledge to anyone for free.

I'm very excited to have found two more projects that should really be up your alley. You will probably want to donate billions to them right away!

They are very much in line with what the Khan Academy is trying to accomplish, but they are working at another perspective of knowledge.

They are about fascilitating the dissemination, creation and construction of knowledge and information on computing hardware:

http://gnu.org/

http://linux.com/

They are Free and Open instructions for computers (machines to process data with). With these free of cost and Free as in freedom software projects and the excellent efforts of the Khan Academy, all the children of Earth (with access to computing hardware - that is yet another avenue you could look into) can really get a leg up.

Sincerelly,
Dr Pointer-Outer-Of-Obvious-Ironies-Dinkelspiel

Blah blah blah

Blah blah blah

linus photogenic yeah.. right... https://www.linux.com/news/galleries/1-linus-torvalds-in-pictures/24

It has RAID1 and RAID10-like modes at least:

https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/371623-weekend-project-get-started-with-btrfs

So far I'm seeing that Windows 8 is going to have a lot of features that Linux has had for years. As a simple break down:

Portable Workspaces: You have always been able to move your workspace in Linux, using tar, gnuzip, bzip etc....
WinFS: A SQL based file system, http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/127055
Internet Explorer 10: Still going with there broken old browser, have yet to see IE actually work as well as Firefox or Chrome
Download Filter: Download Filter, How about securing the system first
Guest Mode: Linux has had this for years, as well as a no-buddy user
ISO Mounting: Linux has had the BEST mounting support of any file system hands down.
PDF Support: Linux has had this for years, gnome has had it, KDE has had it
Modern Windows Task Manager: We like to call this TOP, but I guess Microsoft will just rename it

The rest of the features just seem to be interface updates for graphics, it's really not needed,. So Windows 8 is looking like Windows 7 with updates that Linux users enjoy and updating the GUI. The only big problem is that lack of file system support, lets see Ext3 / Ext2 etc.... Can't wait to see the rest of the new features Windows is going to have.

... you might want to check the following links, regarding Libre Software ICT projects in Africa:

Kabissa: http://kabissa.org/
Lix' Malawi project site: http://lix.cc/malawi
Lix' Malawi blog: http://blog.lix.cc/malawi
Linux Magazine article: http://www.linux.com/articles/60357
Project presentation at hacker congress (german): http://chaosradio.ccc.de/23c3_m4v_1638.html
Interesting study by TAB (German parliament): http://www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/en/publications/books/cori-2009-118.html

rgrds, MC

The heading "Microsoft just want to say Happy Birthday!" on the linux.com page with the video posted by MicrosoftGermany is about as close as I could find.

The heading "Microsoft just want to say Happy Birthday!" on the linux.com page with the video posted by MicrosoftGermany is about as close as I could find.

Sibling beat me to it. For additional evidence: in the Youtube posting, there is a link to the Linux Foundation site with that video ( Happy Birthday ). On LF's site, the author is listed as Microsoft Germany.

The video's page at the Linux Foundation, also linked to prominently in the YouTube description: http://video.linux.com/video/2127

The author is "MicrosoftGermany". It's conceivable that it's a fake, but I doubt it.

Yeah -- was just looking for a comment from someone else on this. Indeed, I couldn't find any documentation on the linux.com's website on this video

So how exactly do we know that Microsoft sent this, other than TFA saying:

Among the well-wishers that have made submissions is one that would not necessarily be expected: Microsoft has posted an animated video congratulating the free operating system.

How this "h-online" website found that Microsoft posted the video is unknown.

Actually, I just noticed it was posted to the Linux Video site by MicrosoftGermany. Wonder how much the mothership knew about this one?

strange, even video.linux.com embeds only the youtube clip...

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/152262 http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/154149 One of those must have a api...

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/152262 http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/154149 One of those must have a api...

With both RHEL6 and Debian Squeeze on their own versions of 2.6.32, as well as the last Ubuntu LTS 10.04, that version will effectively be the end of the 2.6 line for many places if version numbers jump like this. The kernel versions actively targeted by the -stable team are the only ones some people (including me) are interested in, and this cluster of distributions on 2.6.32 is a good thing in my book. The main issues I'm seeing in newer kernels that I'm concerned about backports of are the continued fixes to weird ext4 bugs happening in newer kernels. Keep those coming, backport drivers for the most common hardware out there, and the rest of the kernel development can march along without me being so worried about it. (Context disclaimer: I worry about PostgreSQL database servers for a living, so my customers are more paranoid about stability than most)

The eventual release of btrfs is one of the things I'd would be glad to see happen only in a kernel that's clearly labeled part of new, less stable development. New filesystems are one of the hardest things to get right, and there's no other class of bugs as likely to lead to major loss of data.

Leahy is beyond corrupt and firmly in the pockets of the MafiAA - essentially he's the new RIAA hand-puppet in Congress.

He's actually worse than Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) was.

What we need is major campaign finance reform to get rid of all the backdoor contribution scams going on. But good luck getting that to happen - especially with the 5 senile delinquent conservatives on the Supreme Court having struck down the last few attempts at campaign finance reform!

I really don't know why people bother with all this MS-based virus-infected crap when they can run debian/ubuntu/mint and have 25000+ tested, verified apps from a trustworthy source.

Like OpenSSL and UnrealIRCD?

have you tried WINE?

Seriously - you run Java under Wine?

have you tried WINE?

Oracle is also one of the top Linux code contributors, popping in more code than even the Linux Foundation (see Table 9): Xen, YAST, NFS on IPv6, "data=guarded" for ext3, Asynchronous IO kernel subsystem, and more. Not surprisingly, most of what Oracle contributes is germane to Orafcle DB & apps, no different from every other contributor working on something he is specifically interested in or in need of.

Oracle contributed Xen to Linux? The boys in Cambridge are going to be scratching their heads at that one. Also, Novell is probably going to be alarmed that Oracle put their setup tool, YaST, into the kernel.

Oracle is also one of the top Linux code contributors, popping in more code than even the Linux Foundation (see Table 9): Xen, YAST, NFS on IPv6, "data=guarded" for ext3, Asynchronous IO kernel subsystem, and more. Not surprisingly, most of what Oracle contributes is germane to Orafcle DB & apps, no different from every other contributor working on something he is specifically interested in or in need of.

Larry's a cunt and I'm not about to defend him, but Oracle-the-company (whose decisions are made by Ellison) knows exactly what the fuck they're doing, and if you understood how they think you not only wouldn't have been surprised at the acquisitions of Sun and BEA but you'd have a pretty good idea of who's going next.

Oh, one more thing: to really compete with PhotoShop, Gimp would need professional color calibration features. But there seem to be IP issues, and incorporating them into GIMP would be problematic. Again, I am not an expert on these issues. But as I understand it, high bit depths are planned for GIMP, but Pantone color features are not.

http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/49236

steveha

I'm not certain that it's being too paranoid to think it's deliberate sabotage. OTOH, the developers could just be arrogant pricks.

I suppose it could be possible. Miguel de Icaza's obsession with Microsoft and .NET technologies are downright creepy, and it worries me that he seems to have a blind spot for the bigger picture - like freedom and openness, by mostly ignoring patent threats and Microsoft's murky history in such matters. Either that or he's a Microsoft plant, in which case Gnome would be a prime target for sabotage; it's the default desktop for many of the major distributions after all. Personally though, I think it's a little too far fetched and I believe the devs are just being pricks, here's a prime example. A Gnome dev actually replied to Linus Torvalds, in spanish no less, knowing full well Linus doesn't speak the language: "Linus, you don't know how to read Spanish, so are you an idiot too?" (see thread). I know for a fact that Linus speaks at least three languages so it's not like he linguistically challenged, and implying that he's an idiot for not speaking Spanish in particular just blows my mind. I'm not even sure what point the hispanic Gnome dev was trying to make but he sure came off as an incredibly arrogant prick, and he wasn't the only dev to do so IMO. So my money is on the Gnome devs being asshats. I'm sure a large number of Gnome developers are nice and reasonable people but there also seems to be quite a few rotten apples in there too.

Normal rules of time and space do not apply in Herr Blepp's briefcase.

See also an (overly?) praising review noting some changes that LibreOffice has made.

Interesting, you said Lunix... http://lng.sourceforge.net/ instead of Linux http://www.linux.com/

But Nokia only put out a small handful of revisions to the OS before it quit.

That might be a misunderstatement. Nokia didn't quite quit per se, just took a rather steep turn.

They are bringing out a MeeGo device this MWC, and the linux community seems to be quite excited.

In fact, just recently, Jim Zemlin (Executive Director of the Linux Foundation) gave a rather long presentation on Linux in general, and MeeGo in specific, in Japan. You may watch the video yourself[1], or read a summary on a nokia fansite[2].

Let's see, Nokia just might redeem it self.

[1]: http://video.linux.com/sites/all/modules/custom/os_video_player/mediaplayer.swf?file=http://video.linuxfoundation.org/sites/all/files/videos_local/MeeGo201012/ProG-1.flv

[2]: http://mynokiablog.com/2011/01/31/video-state-of-meego-community-new-businesses-with-jim-zemlin-50-min-meego-the-future-of-mobile/

Count your blessings they did not name it something more goofy then plod out an acronym that is far worse... Open Source developers have made some horrendous choices in naming their apps. Trust me, I could sit here and offer dozens of examples but I will leave you with only one. UCK. http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/146863 I'm just sayin'...

Please pardon my likely sheer ignorance (or even misunderstanding) on this topic, but how is it possible for someone to code a backdoor into encryption software in an open source project..? I mean, wouldn't someone notice..?

Like how everyone saw the UnrealIRCD trojan as soon as it was inserted in the source? Oh wait...

It's ironic that so many that don't like Fox or Newcorp pumped so much money into the organization by paying to see Avatar.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/avatar-leads-news-corp-to-us25bn-profit/story-fn65t1pq-1225901426210

That in mind, there's a bit of irony running into conservatives complaining that Avatar had a liberal agenda.

I guess it is also ironic to see those that like Newscorp and dislike MS-NBC liking Microsoft.

Maybe it's time for Microsoft to produce a movie, but what? I doubt they'd go for a remake of Antitrust.

http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/6854

Oeone took a shot at a Mozilla Office Suite before, well more of an everything suite home appliance.
http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/24499

They wrote the guts of Calender and donated it to Mozilla. The word processor part embedded Abiword http://abimoz.mozdev.org/index.html

"That's the word from the Linux Foundation's report on adoption trends. The report was conducted by the Yeoman Technology Group, and surveyed nearly 2,000 users picked by the Linux Foundation End User Council. The results released yesterday were culled from 387 respondents that are from the largest organizations -- companies with more than 500 employees and/or more than $500 million a year in revenue" link

"The Linux Foundation, in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group, recently conducted a survey of 1,948 Linux users. This invitation-only survey pool was comprised of the Linux Foundation End User Council as well as other companies, organizations and government agencies selected by The Linux Foundation and Yeoman" link

Plus you could run the 32-bit version of Flash on 64-bit Linux anyways, it's just more work:

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/142075

And I haven't had any trouble running any other 32-bit binary blobs.

Next stop, Sacramento!