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Stories and comments across the archive that link to verio.net.
Stories · 6
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Dow vs. Parody
tres3 writes "I stumbled across this item on Wired about Verio cutting off The Thing's Internet access after seven years of service. It seems that The Yes Men have upset DOW Chemical with their parody press release concerning a poison gas leak at the Union Carbide plant (now owned by Dow) in Bhopal, India, in 1984, that killed thousands. It was posted by RTMark.com, one of hundreds of customers (mostly artists and political activists) of The Thing, but has gone missing following the DMCA claims by DOW. Some European sites are now hosting the site here and here (slightly different). What really sent me into orbit was Dow's response to all of this. While writing this submission I noticed that I have become a victim of The Yes Men and "Dow's" response is actually one of their parodies! :-) The story is still valid but the only thing I could find that really came from DOW was the DMCA complaint (pdf) to Verio. To add insult to injury (and death (pun intended)) Dow has committed a reprehensible act, even for corporate America, by suing the survivors for ten years of income ($10,000) for protesting Dow's failure to clean up the mess. Greenpeace has set up a site for you to protest this action." We did an earlier story on this. -
FreeBSD Plays Big Role on the Internet
ocipio writes "The article on sfgate.com discusses the use of FreeBSD on the largest Internet companies in the world. FreeBSD is used by Yahoo!, Hotmail, MindSpring, UUNet, and Verio. BSD will also get an indirect boost next year as Apple releases Mac OS X. Comparing the BSD family to Linux, BSDi's Rose said, "We think we have a product that's more reliable, scalable and robust for high-performance, infrastructure-grade computing." Yahoo!'s Chief David Filo agrees, noting he couldn't imagine moving to a proprietary system. " -
A Real Wearable?
RudeDude wrote in to send us a link to a real wearable computer and says " It's a full PC that you wear as a belt, or drop into the dock and use as your desktop... now I only wonder if we could get it (MediaGX) to run Linux instead of *shudder* Win95. Base price is about $3000. Mommy, gimmee!! " -
Linux-Cold Fusion Interest
Don Rude sent a letter to us, asking the Linux community to give him a hunk of yer collective mind about potentially porting Cold Fusion into an Apache module. More info was in a past article. -
Linux-Cold Fusion Interest
Don Rude sent a letter to us, asking the Linux community to give him a hunk of yer collective mind about potentially porting Cold Fusion into an Apache module. More info was in a past article. -
XStandards
fractality writes "With the recent chatter about standardization, it is apparent that some are simply not looking in the right places. A group of people from Verio South Florida have begun one of the most unified and viable XStandard projects. While it is still under development, expect to see this effort start to make headlines. Besides the obvious standardization project, xwindows.org is also an excellent X distribution site."