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But bring your own lube!

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Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

It would be really cool if the Redhat Network supported the Content-Addressable Web so that we could automatically download our ISOs from the closests avaliable mirrors, and even download from multiple mirrors in parallel.

Stay tuned for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference where we will be unveiling a companion set of technologies to the CAW that will change distribution of open source content forever!

If anyone wants to know more about CAW before the conference, please contact me at justin_at_onionnetworks_dot_com

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Justin Chapweske, Onion Networks

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Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

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Examples of the excellent community spirit within that movement that will help us bring down the evil, illegal Microsoft monopoly: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

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Examples of the excellent community spirit within that movement that will help us bring down the evil, illegal Microsoft monopoly: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

Valuable information about the FreeSoftware/OpenSource/Linux movements and their excellent, superior software can be found here, here, here, here and here.

Examples of the excellent community spirit within that movement that will help us bring down the evil, illegal Microsoft monopoly: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

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Examples of the excellent community spirit within that movement that will help us bring down the evil, illegal Microsoft monopoly: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

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Examples of the excellent community spirit within that movement that will help us bring down the evil, illegal Microsoft monopoly: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar and void of ethics.

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Examples of the excellent community spirit within that movement that will help us bring down the evil, illegal Microsoft monopoly: here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar.

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Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar.

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Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar.

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Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar.

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Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

Michael Sims is a liar.

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Support Free Software! Buy a mug or t-shirt today! This is how open source morons earn their money, you know! By being beggars!

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I really don't want to choose between AOL and MSN in the future, so keep up the free source!

> I guess you're new to the world of Linux

Actually, no. I'm not. Please read what I wrote and please take into consideration the smiley.

In any case, here's someone else who had the same thoughts/reaction as I had upon hearing the news: Andy Oram in an article on O'Reilly Net. Scroll to the second-to-last paragraph.

You and I and everyone here at /. may know that Linux != RedHat, but to many people outside the community RedHat is a very strong brand name and may very well be the only Linux distro they know of. If AOL should impose some kind of content control mechanisms on the RedHat distribution this could have a serious impact on how Joe Sixpack views Linux as an OS.

If you're in an area with relatively
good line
of sight to some central
landmark, you could possibly set up
some seriously fun packet radio or
point-to-point 802.11 network feeds.

There are some past articles like
this one that mention point to point
solutions, and places like
this and
this
that have antenna designs for 802.11
that go a pretty good distance...

The most important article:
Realtime data mirroring under Linux

And some other resources...
The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (AMANDA)
Creating Filesystem Backups with 'rsync'
Linux Backup

In the software/internet field, I think that the main problem is not that prior art is not found -- in a new field it may not exist -- but that the obviousness criterion is not tested.

IANAL, but AIUI, in order to be patentable, an invention must be both novel and non-obvious. But read this interview in which the Director of the US Patent Office demonstrated quite clearly that he did not understand the difference between these two concepts.

It appears that the US Patent Office believes that obviousness can be ascertained by determining whether there is any prior art. Of course obviousness is much harder to prove conclusively. But until they understand that an invention has to satisfy both of these criteria separately, we will continue to get more ridiculous software and e-businness patents.

Not too long ago we had another story on these lines and I posted my opinion. When I reached the first argument raised by dalke against public code my repost was straight to fingers so here I am.

By restricting redistribution rights my company can receive additional revenue

I want to experiment with a modification to the DSSP algorithm

Does it really help the public to have people spend another decade rewriting existing software solely so it can be released with an open source license?

This is the nub of the argument, I say that public money should not be used to buy private money but used to fund the social purpose of learning, dalke says if it could make money it should be allowed. This is a truly american atitude (not to say it does not exist elsewhere, but it is an american creation) in that while most other societies would have seen the choice as public or private, now a choice for surrupticiously funding your economy by subsidising private ventures is quite acceptable, why? Allowing the university to sell itself is fine, but allowing it to fund what it sells with public money AND stop people from distributing it serves purely capitalistic purposes and not the greater good (and if you want to believe that capitalism is more important than greater good thats your bag not mine).

Granted, if the idea is that *all* software written which is funded by public money were to be open sourced, then Mr. Dalke has a point. But surely, it is a trivial exercise to modify the proposal to say, for example, that all software that is derived from proprietary software cannot fall under this order.

IMHO, if an idea is unworkable in its present form, see if you can modify the idea to fit reality before tossing the baby out with the bathwater.

Cool! If you like, let me know how your new iMac works out for you; I'll do the same. You can reach me at russellwgordon AT yahoo DOT com .

A few of my co-workers are sitting on the fence, but as of this moment I have no one to directly trade tech tips with (except users via various community websites). Lately I've been checking out the O'Reilly Network Mac DevCenter. It has a lot of lucid, informative articles on the Mac power-user side of things.

Cheers! :)

Slash, software that is used for many Web sites (including Slashdot), has a vulnerability that can be exploited to gain access to any account, including those of administrators. Versions of Slash that are vulnerable include 2.1.x, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, and some versions available through CVS. Slash versions 2.0.x and earlier are not vulnerable.

It is recommended that affected users upgrade to Slash version 2.2.3 or the latest CVS version as soon as possible and disable admin.pl and users.pl until the upgrade has been made. Once Slash has been upgraded, users should check their users seclev field to insure that no unauthorized user has a value equal to or greater than 100, and should change their passwords.

That's Apple Fever. A $1,299 UNIX work station? If Genetech bought 1,000, there must be something to them.

Read this

It is happening and O'Reilly knows it. He wouldn't embrace something if he didn't see the potential.

Just think how Apple has transformed the computing experience since 1998. Love them or hate them, the iMac and OSX are the best things that has happened to computers in a long time. they have forced other companies to play catch up. Got them off dead center.

the Linux community must also thank Apple for getting people to think outside the MS box.

I know that the Mozilla guys want it to be called an application virtual machine. I still don't think that Mozilla is appropriate for this, an ICQ client perhaps but not this. It'd be interesting to see how well OEone has done it. I can't see it being better than a purpose written desktop manager though. IMHO, this is between markets. It's too expensive to be an internet appliance and it's too limited to be desktop PC.

Microsoft is porting .NET to FreeBSD. How does that help them establish "Windows Everywhere"? They aren't suing or threatening Miguel for his Mono project: in fact, they seem to be encouraging it (or amused by it) judging by the interview with him on MSDN.

C# is a nice, clean platform for Windows GUI development. And ASP.NET is cool enough to give IIS a feature edge (as opposed to a security edge) over Apache. Not that the Apache group couldn't create something like Tomcat to serve ASP.NET from Apache, mind you. .NET is, after all, an open standard.

Microsoft needs .NET because Microsoft's customers want an easier way to develop. Period. Apple developers love coding for Apple. Linux developers love, well, anything anti-Microsoft. And Windows developers--God help them--should be able to enjoy Windows development. Having actually written an app or two using the CLR I assure you that it is much more enjoyable than MFC.

IANAWT (I am not a Windows Troll). I am a BSD user looking forward to .NET on BSD. I am a Perl coder looking forward to Perl.NET. And yes, I use and code on Windows at work. And for these reasons, it's very cool to have .NET.

Yet another victory for Lynx users. When was the last time you heard of a terminal-based text-only browser bringing down a Unix system? ;)

Just this week, actually.
It's PINE not Lynx that's affected, but it is a terminal-based text-only app that has a problem opening urls.

You can read the article I wrote on the O'Reilly site