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Dude, there are many linux users in galway? Ask on ILUG http://linux.ie/ some time.

Why don't you stop using Windows? I know that's not an option for everyone, but these days it's something you should consider. It's not like there aren't alternatives out there. There are! A Google search just turned up several blog posts that talk about Windows alternatives:

Langa Letter: Exploring Windows Alternatives
Avoid Windows Vista anti-piracy shenanigans by using BSD, OpenSolaris or Linux.
Mac OS X Leopard vs Microsoft Windows Vista
Dump Windows Update, use alternatives
Alternatives to Windows Software

I'm sure you could find a lot more information, too. So there's really no excuse for still using Windows, especially if there's really nothing keeping you from switching to one of the many alternatives.

A few years back I registered apfbiolectronics.com (APril fools bioelectronics. Made up a name and had a friend design a website about affordable medical devices for the masses

I took an arm crash dump at random from google and then posted a complaint to linux-kernel and linux-arm about how linux crashed and killed my test monkey and could they hurry up and fix it so we could move on with human trials.

• 2 offers for help
• 1 plea to scrap the project immediately in the name of all things good in this world (man I wish I still had that email).
• A thread debating the validity of my post
• Someone telling me that he hopes I used a scratch monkey
• Someone used my post to back up his bug report
• 12 days later someone posted a report on their lug's mailing list.
• Two YEARS later someone referenced it on the linux advocacy newsgroup

The sad thing is I'm never ever going to top that prank

The ability to play tetris while it copied packages to disc during installation!

There is a good article on LWN.net, but it's subscriber-only until Feb 9th: http://lwn.net/Articles/169797/

Here's an excerpt:

==BEGIN EXCERPT===

Another thing to keep in mind is that Linus can change his mind, even after seemingly painting himself into a corner with an absolute statement. One of your editor's favorite Linus pronouncements was issued almost exactly seven years ago. In response to a query on how to set up an i386 box with 4GB of memory, Linus stated:

Oh, the answer is very simple: it's not going to happen.

EVER.

You need more that 32 bits of address space to handle that kind of memory. This is not something I'm going to discuss further... This is not negotiable.

Less than one year later, Ingo Molnar's high memory patch was merged for 2.3.23.

===END EXCERPT---

There are a few things to keep in mind about DRM that have not been explained in a lot of the articles.

1. GPLv3 allows DRM that is controlled by the user, it only negates non-user-controlled-DRM.
2. non-user-controlled-DRM can take away the freedoms that the GPL is there to protect. GPL would not be doing it's job if it didn't prohibit non-user-controlled-DRM.

This was debated on ILUG yesterday. Here's the mail that started it: http://www.linux.ie/lists/pipermail/ilug/2006-Febr uary/086087.html

So it's worth keeping in mind that what Linus calls the GPLv3 is actually only the first discussion draft - but also, due to point #2 above, while changes may be made, I'd be pretty sure there will be DRM-combatting provisions in GPLv3.

Last I heard (admittedly sometime last year) they had found a likely solution in the ability to compile the Java stuff into binary for each platorm, I guess that didn't pan out.

Red Hat is getting OOo to play with the GNU compiler for java (gcj). They shipped OOo using gcj with Fedora Core 4, and according to the blog of the guy working on it, it seems OOo 2.0 will follow as well.

The FOSS community is solving the problem. See for yourself. He's trying to get the Java-only features working with gcj. The gcj developers are also adding more Java features to their compiler, too.

Whenever the FOSS community has a complaint, we voice it out for a while and then get to work. That's how we got the GNU project and freely available BSDs in the first place.

Believe it or not, but OO2 relying so heavily on Java is a problem, as Java is not free software.

From TFA:

Scott Carr, OO.o's quality assurance project co-lead pointed out, "OO.o will run perfectly well without any JVM, but if there is a JVM then it has to do checks to make sure what features are supported in the JVM as well as run various functions. These are only run in the presence of a JVM."

So, "relying so heavily on Java" isn't the case at all. Next point!

Oh, they shouldn't use Sun stuff at all? From Caolán McNamara's blog:

This gcj request asks for the addition of java.awt.Frame.createBufferStrategy which is all that is missing from gcj to build the java canvas stuff. (Though the canvas module contains a pile of spurious imports of sun.awt which are unnecessary and can be removed, not that there's much point right now, if a createBufferStrategy becomes available then removing the sun.awt from the canvas/java .javas is all that's outstanding)

So, it doesn't use Sun-specific stuff, and the only gcj problem is something that gcj doesn't support... and it runs fine without a JVM in the first place...

Why are we still talking about this?

Doug

no app in it's right mind should be directly calling sun.*, for obvious reasons. If you find code in OO which does, then maybe there will be cause for complaint.

There is code in OOo which uses com.sun classes. Quite a lot of it.

Caolan McNamara is working on building OOo on GCJ. Right on his blog there you can see several examples listed, e.g: ./hsqldb/makefile.mk is breaking due to sun.security.action.GetPropertyAction being missing.

Ok? Noone is saying it's all Sun's fault here. But part of it is.

It seems that people are getting upset at looking at the imports in the code without realizing that THEY ARE NEVER USED!!! Again, I refer you to the blog entry, but for those of you too lazy:

This gcj request asks for the addition of java.awt.Frame.createBufferStrategy which is all that is missing from gcj to build the java canvas stuff. (Though the canvas module contains a pile of spurious imports of sun.awt which are unnecessary and can be removed, not that there's much point right now, if a createBufferStrategy becomes available then removing the sun.awt from the canvas/java .javas is all that's outstanding)

Nothing to see here, just move along. More jumping the gun rather than investigating things to completion.

I can't wait to figure out what will (won't?) build with GCC 4.0.0. (One thing's for sure... JDK and OOo won't.)

FYI: Red Hat has a guy working full-time on building OOo on GCJ. His blog.. Not that everything works straight out-of-the-box. But it's not like nothing works either.

(And from what I've heard, you can't expect it to work out of the box either. Sun's coders have done a terrible job and adding all kinds of dependencies on undocumented Sun-internal classes. So it probably doesn't work on Apple's JDK either, and that one is Sun-approved!)

As noted here and here, it actually looks like there's been a LOT of progress in getting OpenOffice.org to run on open source software / Free software implementations of Java. Perhaps just make "must run on an open source Java implementation" one of the blocking bugs for OpenOffice.org, and don't ship until it works.

I'm still not convinced.

If it was a problem, then a search for camera hacks should return the go.php from my recent blog entry about that site.
I use 302s all over the place when linking to external sites you see.
The first link of that search should be http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://camerahac ks.com/ if the 302 redirects really stole content! Even searching for go.php camera hacks only returns one link: a post where I was discussing referer spam.
I don't think it's a problem.

What is a real problem, is websites showing googlebot a plain page full of keywords and then when a real visitor visits, redirect them to an ad clicker. I came across that this morning!

I'm still not convinced.

If it was a problem, then a search for camera hacks should return the go.php from my recent blog entry about that site.
I use 302s all over the place when linking to external sites you see.
The first link of that search should be http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/go.php?http://camerahac ks.com/ if the 302 redirects really stole content! Even searching for go.php camera hacks only returns one link: a post where I was discussing referer spam.
I don't think it's a problem.

What is a real problem, is websites showing googlebot a plain page full of keywords and then when a real visitor visits, redirect them to an ad clicker. I came across that this morning!

From previous reports, the patch was originally hosted at www.stanford.edu/~joeio - the user is Irene Joe, a graduate law student at Stanford.

I can't imagine that anyone would be stupid enough to link themselves with this so obviously, so the person behind all this must have hijacked her account. Perhaps he/she hijacked Mr Jackson's as well?

I dunno about your company, but where I work, and a number of other places I know of (friends work there, ex-employment, etc...) there's a lot of stuff on the web-- time cards, change management systems, computer-based training, employee locaterators... and it all requires MSIE. It's either ActiveX, or uses proprietary MSIE broken HTML, or what-have-you, because the webmonkeys that created it know everyone has a Windows box on their desk so they could do it the easy way instead of the right way.

I've posted a little more on this on my site.

"software patents are NOT a NATIONAL issue"

Here's where you can find info on thttpd running CGIs.

It appears, from their benchmarks, that performance running test C CGI's is very good for thttpd.

Seems like it might be best for simpler scripts, tough, as it appears that CGI execution is serialized, so "...one long running
script will block all other requests." Here's another explanation.

I read an email sent from an MEP to the ILUG, saying that she was dead against it.

link to the email

Apparently they're British and European. There was an investagative TV program a few weeks ago, and the Nigerian spammers were operating out of Amsterdam and London

Between this and this are you satisfied this isn't a joke?

Between this and this are you satisfied this isn't a joke?

http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2004-January/00 9863.html

Takes a bit to get into the discussion though

Relavent system has 2TB of data(6TB space), max recorded throughput is 550Mb/s, over 20000 concurrent http requests.

Here is a post about this story. It's even worse then you describe in every way. This guy set out to snare people looking for the Windows Source code into downloading a linux kernel from his torrent, and he even used slashdot to get people to it in the first place by posting here. The fun part was when he discovered his dsl was down thanks to a valentine legal letter from MS (included in linked post).

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

On 2nd February just before 8am RTE Radio 1 in Ireland (the semi-state national broadcasters primary radio station) had an interview with a director of a computer training company here in Ireland. The piece was brought to the attention of the Irish Linux Users Group which subsequently picked apart the "computer experts" opinions. You can see a full transcript of the interview here, listen to the piece from rte themselves here or you can look through the threads on the mailing list to find an ogg transcoding of the interview.

The most controversial quote from the interview was:

the people who are behind this virus I would suspect are people who, who, em, are promoting what is called Open Sof... Open, eh, eh, .... Open System Software

we are done discussing this with Mr. Campbell, that we appreciate RTE's clarification and that we consider the matter closed.

There is an "attempt" to uniform the toolkit layer with the Xt library provided with X11. I guess you already know this, but I thought it was worth mentioning it, and add that using it had been dismissed by the Qt and Gtk folks, because of portability concerns (as stated here ).

I don't know if they've even tried to use Xt. I wish the gtk team had, because gtk real aim now is to provide a toolkit for the gnome desktop, which is designed to be used above X11. If they really tried, I'd really like to know why they dropped it (a quick search through google didn't bring much interesting things).

Really, even BSA don't want to touch it. Check out this.

My dad knows about google. Anyone who's been online more than an hour knows about it. Not all of them know what a 'url' is or even remember a non-simple url when they do.
"What's your email address? Oh! It's W W W dot ..."

That's alright, because I tell people to go to google and search for my name, donncha and they'll find my blog!

The Irish Linux users site is also down in protest.

So that's why Linux.ie built a teraserver.

We wanted a large >= 1TB file server mostly to store backups.
http://www.linux.ie/articles/teraserver/background .php.

Conspiracy!

So that's why Linux.ie built a teraserver.

We wanted a large >= 1TB file server mostly to store backups.
http://www.linux.ie/articles/teraserver/background .php.

Conspiracy!

Here's the link properly Here

Looks like he's acutally tricking IIS into increasing the priority of the particular thread your running on. Nifty, maybe a new exploit. But patentable, 1.5 Million lines of code?? The kids still a fraud.

Although, my first analysis about him just upping the win-modem task priority still might just work.

The best information i have been able to find on this topic is from ILUG (Irish Linux Users Group) some of whom actually attended the show.

http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2003-January/05 3624.html

Well I was at the show on Saturday, and apparently from the blurb on the stand
it would appear that the speedup is achived by increasing your priority on
the server.

So your connection can do 7.5k per sec, but the server is only giving you 2.5k
per sec, increase priority, and get 7.5k (300% or thereabouts).

Of couse this appears to work best if the server uses (and I quote) "Windows
INet controls".

YMMV

--
John Allen,

There are various other threads which are very similar to what has been discussed here.

While the topic is vaguely Ireland related i may as well mention Guadec will be in Ireland this year!

google webquotes is awesome. it is just so useful in what i do from time to time: research companies or commercial technology.

but it's like a lawsuit magnet. argh. i fear it will cause more problems then it will solve.

in the meantime, why does the irish linux user's group show up in hotwired japan? (found via: this search)

just to reply to myself, i was getting distracted by stuff as i typed. so that's why i forgot to mention lots of hard work by liam and others. this is particularly important since i shot liam in the eye with a nerf gun! sorry!

and a few irish linux users were there though i hope more will go. for those linux users in ireland who havn't been paying attention, this is your user's group.

...city did not renew a maintenance contract with IBM because it cost more than the PC network.

Considering all cost caused by administration, crashing PC servers, viruses and such things, i'd rather assume, that running an AS/400 box is much cheaper than running a PC network.

Especially database administration (including backup/restore) is much easier on an AS/400, because the database is integrated into the operating system (and vice versa).

Even Microsoft tried to replace 23 AS/400 boxes with 1200 NT-Servers in 1999/2000, and they couldn't make it run, so they are back on the AS/400s now.
(Read the full story, an article called "IBM's Frank Soltis, uncensored":
http://k-lug.org/pipermail/klug/2000-October/00657 9.html
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2000-November/0 25445.html)

regards,
octogen

A am clueless why moderators keep spending points in this. but the facts:
-She (a "cow is a she?") posted as Anonymos Coward. So it was no karma whore. However it would have been better to mirror it and post a link.
-kernelTrap is /.'ed now(badly!)
-Why waste moderation points points on this? Moderate the trolls down. Moderate gems up, leave the rest, don't push an agenda.
-Read the article first before moderation,(if the moderator did this you would have found out is was /.'ed.)

Some interviews i filtered: (if i say post links i should support this)

1999 linux weekly
1999 from c't (german)
june 2000, linux journal
Nov 2000 linux.ei
and a /.
aug 99 /.

Back on 3rd Oct a post was made to the Irish Linux Users Groups Social Mailing list supplying simply the URL errorcom.com. Unfortunatley within about 48 hours the site was gone. A bit of digging discovered that the site was created by a minor and one phonecall to the person whose credit card purchased the domain from Irelands former/still monopolistic telco who it was parodying had the site taken down :-( Now luckily there are lots of people in Ireland who care about the state of our telecommunications industry so mirrors sprang up nearly instantly, but alas the domain is gone. You can see the site at here as it was mirrored right/left and center within minutes of going down, because every Irish telecoms user can see the humour! If you want to see some more of it yourself you may also want to look at Eircom themselves and maybe Irish Director of Telecommunications Regulations.

The key here is that one phonecall which stated the site was "very offensive" and threatened to take further action and this fair satire dissappeared in a puff of smoke. To prove how important this site was, please find the I-Stream which was set to Launch at the Beginning of November (amidst publicity, freephone publicity numbers +3531800512128. Unfortunatley as Eircom knew would happen the ODTR prevented the launch as Eircom had not agreed wholesale prices for the I-Stream Service. As Errorcom carefully informs you, I-Stream is a Eircom brand name for the broadband technology commonly known as Always Delayed Slightly Longer. At the current time the service is still not open for business, and will not be for at least one month after the agreement of wholesale structures by Eircom and the ODTR (so it is back to at least 8th February but more likely 6-12 months time).

It's time lawyers were employed by the courts, this sort of legal posturing and bullying based not on the law but how it can be used is wrong.