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Nice study, I'll write about it on the news section of my wiki... but after reading the views of Steve Jones on BBC I really see no reason why the human genome should feel any urge to evolve at this point of history. I mean, we (at least here in the West) have food, have shelter, have political stability etc... Evolution usually happens for adapting to a dangerous environment, although mutation does occur at any time. It is a threatening environment that makes mutations become mainstream. The environment must actually cause people to die in order to make DNA mutations replicate on a massive scale. For example, in a global pandemic, only those with a "better" DNA would survive, causing the mutations that made the DNA "better" to become the new standard mainstream genome. While we currently may mutate at a faster rate (if we do), I see no motivation for a faster evolution. However, note that I haven't read the whole study yet, which I should do when I get some time.

As a user and contributor (and donor) of Wikipedia I prefer GFDL. Not that I don't like CC. But my first preference is GFDL, and CC is my second preference, that's all. Oh, and I actually dislike the idea of "any future versions" even in GFDL/GPL although I do see practical advantages. However, I also see practical advantages in GFDL-CC compatibility, as now many people will be able to mix Wikipedia content with CC-only content which is a good thing. What would be a BAD thing would be a total CC switch by Wikipedia and the departure from GFDL.

So, I essentially do welcome this compatibility but only marginally... In fact I don't want to see the Wikipedia community getting away from the FSF and the GNU's focus on idealism and purity. I'm an FSF Contributing Member as well, so maybe I'm just a bit biased, but that's just how I feel. Perhaps the future will prove that the GFDL-CC compatibility is more good than bad.

What I don't understand, however, is why it's the Wikimedia or a group of admins who get to choose licences, and not let the users themselves one-by-one do it. Wiki articles emerge after a series of edit wars and vandalisms, and yet they are readable and useful. Meaningfull and useful articles emerge even when large groups of trolls try to bring chaos. What if each wiki article had its own licence decided by the initial contributor? Trolls would surely use this to bring more chaos, and users with no knowledge would also do stupid things, but in the end I believe that useful articles would still emerge, and the licence would be the choice of the community as a whole rather than a few people with lots of social capital or prominence in the wiki community.

I believe a wiki must be built by its users rather than by a core admin team... that's the spirit of the wiki. So, why on earth should the admins force users to either accept a predefined licence or not contribute? This idea led me to allow my users on my wiki to choose the licence of their choice for the pages they create. Yeah I know at some point we will have a crazy mix of incompatible licences, but it is up to the users and their collective intelligence to decide how to use the feature of licensing choices. In the end I believe users as a community will make intelligent choices. That's the spirit of the swarm intelligence, after all, which is also the field of my academic research for my Master's... Give users some guidance, some rules of behaviour, apply the minimally possible central administration and let them free to do as they like.

I'd welcome the idea of letting users decide the licence they would like to be implemented in Wikipedia as well. Perhaps this could help more people to understand what licences are, and also see themselves how unreasonable the current copyright laws are, so perhaps more citizens could start demanding their representatives to start thinking about copyright reform or its total eradication... in my opinion copyright could be replaced by laws built on top of moral rights of authors where everyone is allowed to copy anything but only if the original author is prominently cited and credited. The more ordinary citizens get exposed to the silliness of copyright, the more they will demand changes from their governments.

Wikipedia could start doing that right now very easily. It just needs to remove the site-wide GFDL notice or add an "except where otherwise indicated" note after it, and then apply individual copyright notices on each article that is not GFDL. Of course, to maintain the freedom and the spirit of copyleft, Wikipedia and other wikis willing to use this approach could accept only a specific set of licences that meet certain criteria. For example, articles could be allowed to be either under the GFDL, the CC-By-SA, or the Free Art Licence, or any lcience in the spirit of DFSG, etc..

if your project does not infringe any copyrights and patents, then I can let you host it on my VPS (where I run Wikinerds.org) for a while, until you find a suitable full hosting account. Send me email if I can help you with this.

If it can be done, do it. No, really. Wikipedia's content (ALL OF IT) is under a license that lets you use it as long as you still retain the attribution to wikipedia.
The software it runs on is free, the content is free, all you have to do it duplicate it and then apply whatever silly editing rules you think will fix the problems with wikipedia.

Hell, someone has even written a tutorial on setting up your own copy of wikipedia.
Do that, and you can edit it however you want, with whatever rules you want. It'll be just like wikipedia, but you can change the rules!
Oh, but you won't have wikipedia's legion of editors! Your copy won't really as good as wikipedia without that, will it?
Oh, wait. Maybe that's why wikipedia is as big as it is... because of the editing rules! Many other rules have been tried. Wikipedia is as big as it is because THESE RULES WORK. But go ahead and set up a copy with your rules. If it's better than wikipedia, people will use it as much as they use wikipedia now.

But I rather doubt you'll be able to convince the wikipedia community to change the very things that make wikipedia wikipedia, but you're welcome to try. Anyone can edit, after all.
For now, at least. We'll see if that's still true after you explain your amazing scheme to fix wikipedia.

Recently I came across a cool article on the geek/nerd definition (by googling for "it differs from"...)
http://portal.wikinerds.org/nerds-and-geeks-defini tion
There are many ppl out there trying to differentiate between the two "species". Personally I find that earthlink add's definition extremely annoying: "A geek gets it done, while a nerd doesn't", whatever...
This article adds to the discussion of geek vs nerd.

This means that the software is provided to the users in object code, or binary executable form, which only the computer can understand. Since the source code (which is human-readable) is not given, users of the software will not be free to "tinker" with it, and the utility is not free/libre open-source software (FLOSS). An example of closed-source software is the Microsoft Windows operating system, while a well-known free/open-source operating system is GNU/Linux.
A number of people in the free/libre software community feel that software should be free and have no owners. When FLOSS advocates say "free software" they refer to freedom, not price, as explained in Richard Stallman's essay The GNU GPL and the American Way: "The Free Software Movement was founded in 1984, but its inspiration comes from the ideals of 1776: freedom, community, and voluntary cooperation. This is what leads to free enterprise, to free speech, and to free software" (1776 refers to the US Declaration of Independence). In fact many corporations are selling free software and make a profit without denying the user to study, modify, and redistribute the software.
Wikipedia uses the GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL), a free documentation licence written by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for publishing software manuals and other literary works that readers can copy, modify, and redistribute under the same licence (a concept known as copyleft, also used in licences commonly used for free software, such as GPL). The open content and FLOSS (free/libre open-source software) movements are closely interelated and their philosophy is very similar. Although Answers Corporation has the legal right to not release its source code (given the current laws), one would expect Wikimedia Foundation to show greater support for free software or open source.
On 23 July 2005 Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales said in an mailing list email that "we must avoid file formats that can not be used by legal free software". This decision caused Wikipedians to publish their spoken articles in the Ogg Vorbis format, which is free of patents, unlike the MP3 format which is patented by Thomson SA. The free and open formats advocates share the same ideals with the free/libre open-source software and open content movements. One has to wonder why Wikipedia supported free formats but failed to support free software by dealing with a closed-source software producer. The deal has already generated intense discussion in Wikipedia, as well as a long discussion on Slashdot.

Unfortunately the gray means both "no data" AND "less than 5% unemployment".

According to the original website, the data comes from the IMF, which only has information for 29 countries available.

So, for example, they have data on the UK (4.8%) and Japan (4.7%), but not China (except for Tiawan, if you count that as part of China, at 4.6%). But all of those are colored the same - both ones with no data and ones below 5%.

So, yeah, there isn't a lot of data available, but there's more available than the map shows.

here you can find another tutorial, although it's a bit old now.

I have covered this news with an article which you can copy under the GFDL or Creative Commons.

I am outraged with MySQL AB after I learnt they do business with SCO. As a result, I plan to migrate my website's databases from MySQL 4.1 to PostgreSQL 8.0/8.1, and I concentrate on PostgreSQL support in my software projects. MySQL is wrong if they believe they can have the support of the free/libre open-source software communities and have relations with SCO at the same time. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system which offers great programmability through its native programming language PL/PgSQL, as well as through several other language bindings (for PHP, Java, Perl, even sh). PostgreSQL is BSD-licensed and supported by a community of free software developers, while MySQL is supported by a corporation, MySQL AB, which sells proprietary licenses.

According to last month's statistics of my site, 13.9% of its visitors used GNU/Linux and 37.1% used Firefox. MSIE was used only by 41% of the users, while Windows was used by 69%.

How many times are you going to plug your own craptastic wiki on this discussion?

My personal favorite article on your wiki:

http://jnana.wikinerds.org/index.php/Food

...you are free to come to my wiki JnanaBase which has only one policy: You are free to do whatever you want within the minimum possible legal and decency limitations. The goal of the project is to document all information that exists in the universe, thus creating a copy of our brain (we will later organise and manage all that information with some special software we develop). Yes, you can write an article about your business or even a biography for your dog, as long as the information is useful and accurate. We created this project as an alternative to Wikipedia because we believe that there should be no limits in information.

...and in nerdy websites IE comes second or very close to Firefox. That's what the statistics from my site show.

The US Copyright Office asks whether we would have any problem if we were required to use Microsoft Internet Explorer in order to pre-register a work. I sent them an email explaining why this would be a bad thing. Please help me prevent an MSIE-only US Copyright Office website by sending them your views on this issue. Together with more information and links about this issue, you can find my letter on my blog and use it as a base for your letter. The government of Norway recently embraced open formats, it would be a pity to see US government sites to require MSIE!

My advice is to continue managing your own hardware. Having my own rack hardware in my property and my own dedicated Internet fat pipes, while being able to modify and hack the systems in any way I want is my dream. True, I'm a nerd, but I can't imagine anyone not enjoying changing some RAM or a SCSI hard disk occasionally. It may mean you may have more downtime and maybe even lose some money if your servers support your business, but money isn't everything in this world, there is happiness too, and I personally love to delve deep into hardware.

But because I'm not a yuppie I do not own my own servers, dataroom, and fat pipe. Therefore, when I wanted to start my website, I had to buy the services of a webhosting firm.

I chose WestHost (the link leads to my affiliate page for them, their website is www.westhost.com) which is based in Utah, USA. I have my website hosted there for a year and I really like their immediate support. When you send them an e-mail you can usually except an answer within hours. The services they offer are VPS and dedicated servers, all with ssh access of course, but I am not sure whether they do colocation. It's not a big firm, I think it's family-owned, but they have a beautiful professional datacenter (they have photos somewhere on their site) with P4-3GHz servers with Redhat-based OS (equiped with a nice control panel they have developed) and a very useful forum where existing customers and prospective new customers can discuss, so perhaps you can go there and ask us (the existing customers) about our experiences with them.

Therefore if I was in your shoes, I would first reconsider and try to continue managing my own hardware, and if I could not, then I would ask WestHost whether they can help you.

here is the complete PDF file with the ruling, I found it from The Supreme Court website.

Although I live in the other side of the Atlantic, I wrote about this issue on my blog. I read most of the ruling, and I didn't like it.

Here's what happened:

1. New London is a small city which had high unemployment and declining population levels lately. In 1996 the Federal Government closed a facility which employed 1500 people there, so something had to be done to boost the local economy, especially in Fort Trumbull.
2. The NLDC (New London Development Corporation) was authorised by the State in January 1998 to help with the situation. NLDC is a private non-profit entity, but its members are not elected by the people.
3. The city/NLDC wanted to create a state park with marinas, maybe a parking, and hotels etc, in Fort Trumbull.
4. In February, the pharmaceutical megacorp Pfizer announced it would build a $300 million research facility next to Fort Trumbull. That would create new jobs, so it was good news.
5. Oopps! But there was a problem: Some land needed for the state park was the property of individuals. This property included residential homes as well as investment homes. NLDC was authorised to buy the necessary land from the people. That's ok, but there are bad news too: NLDC was authorised by the city to seize property too!
6. Some people (Kelo et al.) disliked the idea that their beautiful home would be destroyed to allow Pfizer open its facility near there. One of these people was born and lived in their home for their whole lives. NLDC said it would seize their homes and provide compensation. The people remembered the last sentence of the Fifth Amendment: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation". They went to the courts. Their problem is not with the compensation, they don't want higher compensation, it's a matter of principle, about the definition of "public use". Why a Pfizer facility would be of any "public use"? Of course it would be beneficial for the city's economy and create jobs, but is this enough to justify home seizure for "public use"? I personally would say: No! (but IANAL - I am not a lawyer).
7. Some time the matter reached the Supreme Court of the United States. It decided 5-4 to allow the city/NLDC to seize the property. Too bad: Now corporations have a way to use your land for their factory, if a city government can prove that it would generate more tax revenue, jobs etc than your home. Theoretically the land would still be public property, but in practice some private entity is using it. Do you see the problem? Gov takes your land and allows someone else to use it because it says he can use it more productively than you.
8. Dissenting Justice O'Connor, J., said in his opinion to the Supreme Court: "Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result" (I quoted from Supreme Court of United States case 04-108, O'Connor, J., dissenting, 13, in page 39, I added the emphasis myself).

I wrote this overview quickly from my memory after reading most of the 04-108 ruling. I encourage you to read it, too, as it contains many interesting references to other court rulings too.

Linux 2.6.12 has a driver for GSM PCMCIA cards, which will enable GNU/Linux laptop owners to wirelessly surf on the Web via a cellular Internet connection, without the hassle of manually installing the hardware using modprobe and AT commands.

Another developer who also received a cease-and-desist letter from the same company is Zeb, who developed PxLinux (a port of PxScan/PxView). I interviewed him just now. Read the interview with Zeb

It was already slow for me:

The interview was completed through IRC chat. The whole text is released under a "verbatim copying" licence, so we encourage you to re-publish it if you wish (see the full licence at the end).

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Hello, please introduce yourself and briefly describe the utilities you developed.

Alexander Noé: I'm Alexander Noé:, currently studying computer science at TU-Chemnitz. The utilities PxScan/PxView i've developed perform error scans on Plextor PX-712/716 and Plextor Premium drives. The tests are the same, but PlexTools had some handling I didn't like, for example you can run several tests on DVDs, but in PlexTools you couldn't trigger them at once, but rather had to trigger one test at one time. My goal was just to make all that more convenient.

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: You received a letter via email about these utilities. Who sent the letter and what did it say?

Alexander Noé: The letter was sent by lawyers working for Shinano Kenshi. The Lawyers claim those utilities would violate their clients rights.

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Have you replied to this letter?

Alexander Noé: No, I haven't.

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Why do you think the lawyers sent this letter, and what are their requests?

Alexander Noé: Plextor maybe sees me as competitor. However, they don't offer any Linux version, neither free nor for money, so I have absolutely no idea what their problem with pxlinux could possibly be. They demand that I cease-and-desist from any further infringements, and demand that I comply a list of all steps I've taken to ensure that their clients' rights will no longer be infringed.

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Have you contacted a professional lawyer yet? Did you receive any legal advice?

Alexander Noé: A professional lawyer said that in his opinion, none of the accusations made by Shinano are justified.

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Is the letter confidential, can you post it for everyone to see?

Alexander Noé: The letter itself is not explicitely marked as such, but I'm not sure if I have the right to publish an email sent to me in general without the sender agreeing on this.

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: In the last years there are increasingly more legal problems for free/libre/open-source software projects. Now software patents may be introduced in Europe. What are your views on this issue?

Alexander Noé: I *really* hope that software patents will not be introduced, but I can't do much about it... as I don't really understand lawyer and politician language, like most people, I can hardly assess the consequences software patents would cause, but it wouldn't make life of free developers easier.

Have your say! Discuss in Wikinerds Forum (unregistered users are welcome).

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: What do you plan to do now?

Alexander Noé: I'm waiting what will happen....

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: Anything more you want to say?

Alexander Noé: Considering that Plextor did, not long ago, announce that they would be supporting open-source, I really wonder what all this is supposed to be about. Either they support open-source, or at least "tolerate" it, or they don't.

Nikolaos S. Karastathis: The interview appears to be finished. Thank you very much!

The text of this article is Copyright (C) 2005 by Alexander Noé and Nikolaos S. Karastathis. Verbatim copying and redistribution of the entire text of this article are permitted provided this notice is preserved and a reference to its original location is provided: http://portal.wikinerds.org/interview-alex-noe-200 5jun

Please link to GPLFlash from your website. You may use an unofficial logo I created, download it here.

I use this 3G PCMCIA card which plug ins in any laptop and works just like a modem (with AT commands). It connects to the cellular network, either in UMTS/3G/CDMA mode (384kbit) or in GPRS mode (45kbit). It can switch between 3G and GPRS dynamically on-the-fly. I even post to my blog using a laptop when I am on the bus! It's a really awesome product and service and it costs 30 Euro per month, with 40MB monthly usage (extra MBs cost more). It's great for reading slashdot while you are on the bus or outside in cafes and parks. And yes, it even works on GNU/Linux!

I use this 3G PCMCIA card which plug ins in any laptop and works just like a modem (with AT commands). It connects to the cellular network, either in UMTS/3G/CDMA mode (384kbit) or in GPRS mode (45kbit). It can switch between 3G and GPRS dynamically on-the-fly. I even post to my blog using a laptop when I am on the bus! It's a really awesome product and service and it costs 30 Euro per month, with 40MB monthly usage (extra MBs cost more). It's great for reading slashdot while you are on the bus or outside in cafes and parks. And yes, it even works on GNU/Linux!

Porting to minor platforms is good because it allows them to compete more fairly against monopolies. Here is my blog post on this.

Most IT workers don't have the necessary time and money to study academic literature, as they prefer to invest all of their resources to survive in the modern fast-pace high-demanding corporate world. As one of my university professors told us, only the rich have time to actually learn the sciences and study academic literature. If you need to work in order to have food on the table, you will prefer to study something that will benefit you immediately, such as industry white papers and how-to guides. In the modern world where everyone is seeking the money, scientific papers often won't benefit you for years, until you find a way to commercialise the new findings. This is exactly what the corporations want: Lots of IT workers trained in programming and networking but without the slightest knowledge of the underlying sciences. Corporations don't like philosophers and scientists, because they cannot be easily manipulated by the boss; they want you to be a code monkey. But knowledge liberates, and code monkeys can take their life in their hands if they learn the sciences and become philosophers. This is part of what I want to achieve with my site, Wikinerds.org: to assist those who are seeking liberation through knowledge.

Linux is just a kernel and we can get another one. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD for example.

No one has bothered to put together a BSD/linux yet. It might be because BSD sucks, I don't know; I don't know anything about BSD. But it can be done if anyone was interested.

The Hurd is not maturing nicely. All it can do at the moment is print out an exclamation mark with the banner program. With the decision to use a different microkernel they set development back by years. For the curious there is a Hurd live cd that does very little.

I always try to release under libre licences and open-source whatever I can, including my university assignments. Recently a professor asked us to program an Eliza-like chatbot, software that lets the user to discuss with a computer. He joked "the perfect language for chatbots is Perl, but you won't learn a new language just to write one program, will you?". I did: I was fascinated with the idea of learning a new language just to finish a university assignment, and I learnt Perl and finished the chatbot (including documentation) in 3 days. Now I published it under a permissive licence (BSD-like) and you can download the complete source code.

Right now I am working on my B.Sc. individual project and dissertation, doing research and evaluation of modern content management systems and wikis, as well as developing my own wiki-CMS, and I intent to release it to the libre software community too.

I encourage all students and employees to publish your work under libre licences, such as GPL, BSD or Creative-Commons, if this is allowed by your university or employer.

we found that bacteria can live after 32000 years in frozen condition and we are considering the possibility of Martian bacteria, but we still don't know all bacteria living on Earth. We explore other planets and we know very little about our own planet. For example, we recently identified three new bacteria species by closely examining publicly available DNA data. It is surprisingly how easily we can look at a DNA sequence and miss vital information in it. All that data were available to all scientists, but just one understood that there were new species footprints hiding in them.

It uses JavaScript and requires client-side support. It also sends XML to the client. In my opinion, the Web should be based on server-side scripting, not client-side. I analysed my thought on my blog.

I, for one, like to follow such self-destructive policies. I run a site which has a policy of placing as many links as possible (in my view every word should be a link). Whenever I see that I site has a no-linking policy, I remember it and I disallow any links to it from my site. In this way I help them to kill themselves by destroying their Google pagerank, and I am very happy for that. Let them die by their own stupidity. The Web cannot be Free without links!

I just finished writing my article on this topic. Don't forget to visit the links I give in the end which include information about the ranges of North Korean missiles.

You can learn why a fourth servicing mission is necessary by reading my article. I say: "several components of Hubble, most probably its batteries, are expected to stop operating in the next 2-4 years" and "HST was designed to be maintained with servicing missions operated from space shuttles every few years" (i.e. it is impossible to keep Hubble there without launching servicing missions, we need to fix its orbit and replace components every few years). In addition, the gyroscopes will also stop working, but I think the most important problem will be its batteries (Hubble can work with just 2 or 3 gyroscopes, but not with dead batteries).

I think we all need to support free software projects. I personally paid money to get the original Slackware 10 CDs from the Slackware Store and I have put some Slackware propaganda on my site. You can also buy t-shirts from their store or join them and report bugs. Another way to help is to show ZipSlack to your friends, if they still use Windows, so that they can familiarise themselves with a GNU/Linux system without repartitioning their disk. You can also subscribe and get Slackware CDs whenever they release a new version.

You can also find more info on how to support free software projects in general by reading this FAQ.

As I have already written in my article, the White House has no intention to pay for a fourth servicing mission, and I doubt it will pay for a new telescope. They seem to prefer to spend $80 billion for Iraq. Very simply, science isn't in the roadmap of Washington anymore. However, if anybody is willing to advocate a servicing mission, I can help.

As I have already written in my article, the White House has no intention to pay for a fourth servicing mission, and I doubt it will pay for a new telescope. They seem to prefer to spend $80 billion for Iraq. Very simply, science isn't in the roadmap of Washington anymore. However, if anybody is willing to advocate a servicing mission, I can help.

I have written an informative article about Hubble on my site.

About SVG: If you read my article on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 6 you will see that I mention "Improved support for SVG". So, Mozilla 1.8 already has better SVG support.

Now we need a Linus Torvalds version 2.0 to build a free open-source P2P Beowulf cluster over the Internet.

Imagine playing Doom 3 on a P-II, with the graphics being rendered by an Athlon64 somewhere in the Internet.

Now that many computers are connected to the Internet with fast DSL connections, it would be very beneficial for all if someone could start such a project.

The basic software already exists and it is in the public domain: MPI.

I explain this idea in more detail on my blog.

Konqie is faster not only in loading webpages but also in application startup time.

I am afraid that many people could use the nofollow tag in a commercial way. I have outlined my thought in my blog. What do you think about this possibility?

Mozilla 2.0 is not ready yet, but in the mean time Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 6 has been released. It has better support for XForms, CSS3, SVG and is more compatible with Solaris. I wrote some info about it here.

If you are interested, I have included a bit more info about this news here.

I have founded a federation of wikis (called Wikinerds.org) that use this idea. Every article has a maintainer who ensures it is of high quality. For more information, see this page.

You can read more info about this here

[funny]People seem to trust M$ so much that they refuse to use any product not built by them. I wonder how much would it cost to buy the M$ and Windows trademarks. We could all of us donate a portion of the money and then give it to M$ in order to buy the rights to their trademarks. Then, we could market a version of GNU/Linux or *BSD as "Microsoft GNU Windows" or "Microsoft BSD Windows". In fact, KGX is not more difficult to use than Windoze. Most users wouldn't even understand the difference if they were told that KGX is a special version of Microsoft Windows.[/funny]

I believe that video card manufacturers should embrace dual-core GPU designs. I don't think that dual video cards will ever become mainstream and will always remain an expensive high-end solution. A dual-core GPU, on the other hand, may even turn all single-core designs obsolete. Read more in my blog.

I propose to stop using frames and always click the "no frames" option in every website which provides it. If you believe that frames are evil, please read my relevant blog entry and say all over the world that you hate frames. Perhaps we can make a difference and teach webdevelopers that frames are annoying.

I am a user of Slackware and I have paid for the 4-CD set of Slackware 10.0 although I could download it - it is a very good distro and I reccomend it for *nix veterans and servers. I paid for it because I wanted to support the project and thank Patrick for this great software. Now I learn that Patrick is ill and I feel too nervous. If I was a doctor I would be willing to treat him for free but unfortunately I am just a Computer Science student. I am sure that the libre software community appreciates Slackware and, together with me, we all wish the best for Patrick.

Not everyone is happy with Firefox... See this and this.

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