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I 2nd this statement. In fact, Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu have already begun doing things that undermine the idea of free software. For example, Ubuntu now ships with binary blobs in the kernel, non-free wireless drivers, and proprietary nvidia drivers (for which free alternatives readily exist.) See Scott James Remnant's blog for details. Likewise, it's been reported and substantiated that Mark Shuttleworth is preventing the Debian GNOME maintainer (who also works for Canonical) from updating GNOME packages until after Ubuntu LSO had shipped. Of the two top committees governing Ubuntu, the Ubuntu Community Council and the Technical Board, are both made up of Mark Shuttleworth and people he employs, and Shuttleworth has been given "benevolent dictator for life" status within the project. A lot of people do not trust Shuttleworth either, and some, such as Debian Developer, Otavio Salvador, have made comments like, "what he says and what he does are different." You should be wary of supporting Shuttleworth's efforts as there's good reason to question his commitment to the ideals of free software and to the interests of the rest of the community.

There is a mammoth amount of games out right now for the PC, Playstation 2 and Xbox 1.

If you (like I) am a nostalgia style gamer there's so much fun to be had.
Graphics and online aren't everything, for those of us who enjoy a good single player experience with a good storyline - graphics help but aren't the be all and end all.

I could go into naming all the games but I don't see much point, it's opinion which counts - the fact is the PS2 and Xbox are cheap, a PC which will run games from 1985 (yes 85) to 2000 is dirt cheap and that's 15 years of gaming right there.

Now, some of it is despicably bad and just unplayable (example, X-Wing 1, fantastic game but I re-tried it recently and sorry but 320x200 is no good - it's just TOO blocky, specially on the big screens we all own now)
However Monkey Island 1, Loom, even the 256 colour version of Zak McCracken are all perfectly good games despite being dead old.
There's No one Lives forever a nice FPS with, frankly a fucking great storyline - awesome camp humour and good gameplay - it's seriously like they packed about 15 bond movies into one game.

The PS1 games will work on the PS2 and well the Xbox may have the least games for it but it can be used for NES / SNES / other old console emulation and a media centre (plus KOTOR, Fable, Psychonauts, Beyond good and Evil, Jade Empire)

I for one intend to finish Wing Commander 3 soon - it's a great game also and yet any old crappy PC can run it now.

I would recommend people go to Metacritic and pull up their listing of top games on the platforms - then pick and chose what you like.
Also be sure to get a modified PS2 or Xbox and load the games to the hard disk, if you've purchased a second hand unit of either the laser assembly could be somewhat worn and the faster load times are the ONLY way to play games in my opinion, screw noisy, slow, seeking discs

Here's the blog of a chap I know who focuses primarily on older games for the cheap price.
(excellent game on the main page at the moment too)
http://roushimsx.livejournal.com/

Oh and the final good bulletpoint for you guys, the PS3, Xbox 360 and even the Wii will ALL still be there after you submerse yourself in a land of nostalgia for 6 months - only there will be MORE games, and CHEAPER games plus the systems could be cheaper too.
Personally, I'm hoping to hold out a good 12 - > 18 months.

Good luck.

You don't have to ban an entire server to ban one person.

I have an OpenID - it's http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ - if your site supported OpenID you could choose to whitelist that ID, and allow me to comment unscreened. You wouldn't have to also whitelist http://cheezygrrl76.livejournal.com/ - they're a separate ID hosted on the same server.

You don't have to ban an entire server to ban one person.

I have an OpenID - it's http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ - if your site supported OpenID you could choose to whitelist that ID, and allow me to comment unscreened. You wouldn't have to also whitelist http://cheezygrrl76.livejournal.com/ - they're a separate ID hosted on the same server.

Just came across this:

http://qwantz.livejournal.com/67153.html

Of course, I could post the YouTube link directly, but it's more fun to see what other Qwantz readers are saying about it. ;) It's a CBC news story from the pre-www days, spends a lot of time talking about usenet as if it's the entire internet.

Some hilarious lines in there, including "the deep desire to be rooted". That one's exactly three minutes in. Enjoy!

So, to use www.example.com as their Identifier, but have Consumers actually verify http://exampleuser.livejournal.com/ with the Identity Provider located at http://www.livejournal.com/openid/server.bml, they'd add the following tags to the HEAD section of the HTML document returned when fetching their Identifier URL.

Now, when a Consumer sees that, it'll talk to http://www.livejournal.com/openid/server.bml and ask if the End User is exampleuser.livejournal.com, never mentioning www.example.com anywhere on the wire.

How the End User authenticates to their Identity Provider is outside of the scope of OpenID Authenticaiton.

So, to use www.example.com as their Identifier, but have Consumers actually verify http://exampleuser.livejournal.com/ with the Identity Provider located at http://www.livejournal.com/openid/server.bml, they'd add the following tags to the HEAD section of the HTML document returned when fetching their Identifier URL.

Now, when a Consumer sees that, it'll talk to http://www.livejournal.com/openid/server.bml and ask if the End User is exampleuser.livejournal.com, never mentioning www.example.com anywhere on the wire.

How the End User authenticates to their Identity Provider is outside of the scope of OpenID Authenticaiton.

So, to use www.example.com as their Identifier, but have Consumers actually verify http://exampleuser.livejournal.com/ with the Identity Provider located at http://www.livejournal.com/openid/server.bml, they'd add the following tags to the HEAD section of the HTML document returned when fetching their Identifier URL.

Now, when a Consumer sees that, it'll talk to http://www.livejournal.com/openid/server.bml and ask if the End User is exampleuser.livejournal.com, never mentioning www.example.com anywhere on the wire.

How the End User authenticates to their Identity Provider is outside of the scope of OpenID Authenticaiton.

I'd read before here and there that Saugus, MA has been experimenting with the OpenDocument format for a (relative) long time. Does anyone know what the outcome there was? Is ODF still being used in Saugus?

Whatever happened to ODF in Saugus, MA? I heard they were using it long ago, are they still?

Considering that the name "Zune" translates to "FUCK" in Hebrew... Not joking. http://herenot.livejournal.com/29371.html

I blame it on Microsoft's alienation of the all-important Hebrew-speaking market.

Hmm... kicking OLPCs around is a popular sport?

If you're Bill Gates, it sure is.

(My reply is here.)

Zach Stroum (Nitendo dude) has a pretty good review of the game. Mentions the same issue.

This could interest you then... optimus_project: OM3 Plays Pong.

OMG! They "destroyed it" by supporting the keyboard design the overwhelming majority of people are used to

Some of the comments on the images published here are really funny. It's like some restaurant would decide to publish chef's thoughts on a new soup receipe, and some folks would look at the process and say, 'Gee, he pours water in! We will never dine here!'

Reaction in the comments: But this is the internet, why else would you be posting this if not to hear my windbag opinion of how you should run your enterprise?

:)

It looks like it is a quiet keyboard.

Their technical blog has a lot of information on the keyboard and its design. Very interesting.

I was thinking something more along the lines of Flowers, as with loveable Jack

=)

You get what you pay for..

From 1999 to 2001 they applied for and were granted LCA's for 230 H-1B's..
Top H-1B wage 62,000 (2).. lowest wage 31,000(10) average wage ~38,000..
Add in another 56 LCA's for green cards(1999-2000).. top wage 60,500 average wage ~40,000.

Note: The Zazona.com database stopped collecting LCA records back in 2002..

Here is a link to Madison Wisconsin Blog about Epic Systems.. read it and be informed..

Want to know how much the government want to believe in terrorists EVERYWHERE?

Read this.

Yes, and Fedora Core 5 ships with Mono, which is almost certainly covered by one or more Microsoft patents.

Will Novell quietly drop out of OIN now that Microsoft have paid them? We shall see.

I copied Trade Sports's chart from 12:32 a.m. to 1:56 a.m. to my blog.
Looks like the plunge happened at 1 a.m.

It turns out that the crown jewels of OIN's collection, the Commerce One patents (covering a bunch of XML stuff), were contributed by Novell.

Again, I don't think that Novell can withdraw those patents or that the patents would be covered by Novell's agreement with MS but it is still an interesting twist.

As long as I work on the Fedora Project, Fedora will never compromise on the essential liberties of FOSS nor will it betray the community. But the price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. And unfortunately, some "leaders" of our community are willing to compromise liberty for short-term convenience. I am disgusted by people like this, and by Novell's betrayal of the community today.

Novell has effectively traded Long-Term Liberty for Short-Term Safety.

Red Hat supports causes that matter like providing the original seed money for Creative Commons. Or being a key partner in the anti-software patent movement during the miraculous last-minute turnaround at the European Parliament last year. I am proud to be part of an organization that demonstrates such moral and ethical commitment.

But ultimately, Red Hat cannot change the world alone. That is why the Fedora Project exists. We want to enable the community to work together to improve FOSS at a rapid pace, in partnership with the large and consistent contributions from our engineers. We strongly believe that this is the most effective way for the entire FOSS movement to advance. Yes, we made some big mistakes in our community relationship earlier, but we are learning, and continue to improve at an ever accelerating pace.

For these reasons that I urge the FOSS community to support the Fedora Project through volunteer contributions of time and effort. Or if you lack time to contribute, please consider monetary donations toward any of the shared causes that we are fighting for.

http://wtogami.livejournal.com/11305.html
Please read more in the original version in this blog entry.

Warren Togami
Founder, Fedora Project
Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

As long as I work on the Fedora Project, Fedora will never compromise on the essential liberties of FOSS nor will it betray the community. But the price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. And unfortunately, some "leaders" of our community are willing to compromise liberty for short-term convenience. I am disgusted by people like this, and by Novell's betrayal of the community today.

Novell has effectively traded Long-Term Liberty for Short-Term Safety.

Red Hat supports causes that matter like providing the original seed money for Creative Commons. Or being a key partner in the anti-software patent movement during the miraculous last-minute turnaround at the European Parliament last year. I am proud to be part of an organization that demonstrates such moral and ethical commitment.

But ultimately, Red Hat cannot change the world alone. That is why the Fedora Project exists. We want to enable the community to work together to improve FOSS at a rapid pace, in partnership with the large and consistent contributions from our engineers. We strongly believe that this is the most effective way for the entire FOSS movement to advance. Yes, we made some big mistakes in our community relationship earlier, but we are learning, and continue to improve at an ever accelerating pace.

For these reasons that I urge the FOSS community to support the Fedora Project through volunteer contributions of time and effort. Or if you lack time to contribute, please consider monetary donations toward any of the shared causes that we are fighting for.

http://wtogami.livejournal.com/11305.html
Please read more in the original version in this blog entry.

Warren Togami
Founder, Fedora Project
Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

Montevideo, Uruguay -- The New Yorker once ran a cartoon by Peter Steiner of two dogs, with one sitting at a computer keyboard saying to the other, ''On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.''

Nobody also knows you're Uruguay.

A tiny country of three million people, wedged between Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay has come from nowhere to partner with India's biggest technology company, Tata Consultancy Services, to create in just four years one of the largest outsourcing operations in Latin America.

Yes, when Tata's Indian employees in Mumbai are asleep, its 650 Uruguayan engineers and programmers now pick up the work and help run the computers and backroom operations for the likes of American Express, Procter & Gamble and some major U.S. banks -- all from Montevideo.

The firm runs on strict Tata principles, as if it were in Mumbai, so to see Uruguayans pretending to be Indians serving Americans is quite a scene. Said Rosina Marmion, 27, an Uruguayan manager, ''Our customers expect us to behave like Indians -- to react the same way.''

To people in Europe, this is absolutely nothing new. OTOH, we have somewhat more experience about the dark sides of certain "mass pilot" feelings. This is what I had to say about it shortly after 9/11 to a US citizen who, grappled by fear, had fallen in the trap of blindly following whatever the Leader said about external threats. (Yeah, the blog post is from 2004, but the text is older, and was a post of mine on what is now the alt.corel newsgroup.)

Nonsense.

Microsoft's goal is to eliminate Linux as a threat to its survival. This means fracturing the market, capturing revenue from it where possible, and letting everyone know that it would be a real shame if you were to use Linux without paying them for it.

It's SCO all over again, except that with patents, this might actually have some teeth.

Microsoft has a long history of using licensing agreements to knife their so-called friends, and Novell is a friend to Microsoft only for so long as Microsoft is more worried about Red Hat than it is about Novell. If Novell actually does well in this deal, Microsoft will knock them down when the deal expires.

Microsoft is ruthless, that's why they are where they are. Nothing there has changed, except now they are aggressively moving to exploit the industry-wide monopoly of ideas that patent gives them, rather than the more limited (!) hundred-billion dollar monopoly they've enjoyed through copyright.

Yeah, but have you seen Allen's trading card?

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200611021 75508403
"Novell has effectively traded Long-Term Liberty for Short-Term Safety."
- me 2006/11/02

The Primary Goal of the Fedora Project:
Rapid Progress of Free & Open Source Software.

Red Hat engineering invests millions every year in FOSS development. These developers contribute in a great many ways to stimulate growth in the FOSS ecosystem and the community itself. Red Hat makes this investment for three key reasons:

• It makes business sense: A healthy relationship with community builds quality products faster, and with lower expense. It is indeed possible to make money and not compromise on values.
• Perhaps the technology leaders who made many of these key FOSS improvements are best able to support business customers.
• Many of the people at Red Hat believe in the ethical values of FOSS and the benefit that it brings to society.

As long as I work on the Fedora Project, Fedora will never compromise on the essential liberties of FOSS nor will it betray the community. But the price of liberty is not free, nor is it comfortable. And unfortunately, some "leaders" of our community are willing to compromise liberty for short-term convenience. I am disgusted by people like this, and by Novell's betrayal of the community today.

Red Hat supports causes that matter like providing the original seed money for Creative Commons. Or being a key partner in the anti-software patent movement during the miraculous last-minute turnaround at the European Parliament last year. I am proud to be part of an organization that demonstrates such moral and ethical commitment.

But ultimately, Red Hat cannot change the world alone. That is why the Fedora Project exists. We want to enable the community to work together to improve FOSS at a rapid pace, in partnership with the large and consistent contributions from our engineers. We strongly believe that this is the most effective way for the entire FOSS movement to advance. Yes, we made some big mistakes in our community relationship earlier, but we are learning, and continue to improve at an ever accelerating pace.

For these reasons that I urge the FOSS community to support the Fedora Project through volunteer contributions of time and effort. Or if you lack time to contribute, please consider monetary donations toward any of the shared causes that we are fighting for.

Contribute to Fedora
The Fedora Project needs your contributions in many ways. If you know how to make RPM packages, you can become a maintainer in Fedora Extras where you can contribute your favorite FOSS software into the central repository for all to benefit. We have many opportunities for even non-developers to get involved. We need help with things like Documentation, Artwork, or promoting Fedora in the Ambassadors team. Even simply using Fedora, responsibly reporting bugs in Bugzilla, and helping each other helps the entire community.

Donations
The Fedora Project does not need your money[1], but I hope that you would consider donating to one of the major charities that fight for your liber

As for thrashing due to memory limits - don't use swap space. Ante up for more memory and write your code so it fails gracefully if it is out of RAM.

Keep in mind Linux will kill processes which use "too much" RAM, nullifying graceful memory shortage recovery code. See: Memory overcommittal, or how to avoid the OOM killer.

In what industry isn't there a high rate of divorce?

Because kDawson loves you. Besides how many other women editors are there?

The article seems like a good one, though I think it may be a little too cautious. I would need to hear some real world examples before I would give up on incremental backups. Being able to store months worth of data seems so much better than being only able to store weeks because you aren't doing incremental backups.

I think his complaints are no longer relevant. rdiff-backup has a --compare-hash option, though I haven't checked the details. Maybe the author should give it another look...

Besides, if you have an accurate timeserver (you should! time is unbelievably important to software in general!), the timestamp check is pretty safe, barring maliciousness. And if your machine has been compromised, the data coming off it should not be trusted in general. This is just one more case of that.

One thing not mentioned is encryption. [...] Lately I have been using duplicity.

It seems like a great idea, but my impression was that it was missing a lot of the same love, care, testing, documentation, etc. that has been put into rdiff-backup. They're by the same guy, but he obviously has been concentrating largely on the one, and I don't believe they share any code.

Have you looked at brackup? It seems promising, anyway, but I haven't actually tried it. Maybe when it's a little more mature...

The Mozilla Corporation has said, "if you modify Firefox, you must let us approve the changes in order to call it Firefox."

Matthew Garrett, a Debian and Ubuntu developer, posted a well-thought reaction to this at http://mjg59.livejournal.com/68112.html. If the Linux kernel guys pursued the Mozilla Corporation's policy, you wouldn't have any GNU/Linux distributions - you'd have to call the Linux component something else, and where does that get the community?

Any code that went back into the tbird base would need have the standard mozilla tri-license (GPL, LGPL, MPL), so that would not affect Debian. However, Thunderbird and Seamonkey (and presumably Sunbird, Camino, etc.) have the exact same logo and trademark problems as Firefox. Just as Firefox will become IceWeasle, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey will likely become IceDove and IceApe.

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/2006/10/10/

Why? Matthew Garret says it best:

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/68112.html

Get with the program? Are you serious? Should we not patch Linux either? How 'bout X?

You should read Matthew Garrett's recent blog entry about why it's a good thing (for the Mozilla Corp, Debian, and the user community at large) for Debian (or anybody else) to be allowed to distribute patches. http://mjg59.livejournal.com/68112.html

Also, you should probably read this post to the Fedora devel list that shows that Mozilla's trademark policies are a real problem not just for Debian but for other distributors as well.

noah

I wrote a reply on my journal - but to summarize, the skepticism on price presupposes that governments would shoulder the entire cost of buying these machines. An obvious solution would be to either keep them the property of schools, that students take turns using, or sell them (probably subsidized) to students.

Orkut: Brazilians and nobody else.

That's interesting. To me, LiveJournal is Russians and little else. The share of Russians there is disproportionally large. There is such a pulling effect when just about everyone interesting and speaking the language posts in LiveJournal. My friend list has mag editors, media pundits and prominent public figures. As a result, LJ is the place to come for all the latest buzz in Russian.

LiveJournal: Trolls, drama queens and emo girls who are into cutting.

And jwz

Maybe not in general, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen: http://anniesj.livejournal.com/331112.html

For the sake of being a little on-topic: those predictions of the future are in some cases self-preventing! "Brave New World" and "1984" are examples of sci-fi scenarios unpleasant and memorable enough that people have actively and consciously worked to make sure the future isn't like that.

Anyway, Jakuta, Hi! I've been looking through some old e-mails after a hard drive crash, and found yours. I actually finished that little game demo (re: "I'm tired of being the hero"), such as it is, months ago. More info and the download are here. (Sorry for posting that here -- although it does involve sci-fi megalomania -- but I don't know how to contact you otherwise.)

no, none of those people are who the poster is saying they are. Here is a picture of Mischa, you can find it on his blog @ http://revmischa.livejournal.com/. I can't find any pictures of the MS guy's who were there, but that was totally not them, the parents post is a fraud.

no, none of those people are who the poster is saying they are. Here is a picture of Mischa, you can find it on his blog @ http://revmischa.livejournal.com/. I can't find any pictures of the MS guy's who were there, but that was totally not them, the parents post is a fraud.

I thought that most bloggers were high schoolers? Don't believe me, check out livejournal. The literary talent is so good, it's slashing. But don't fall into despair, there's always some hope.

I'll get my coat...

He also notes in his "best viewed in Internet Explorer" Livejournal that the "presentation is Saturday and we barely even know what we're talking about".

He also notes in his "best viewed in Internet Explorer" Livejournal that the "presentation is Saturday and we barely even know what we're talking about".