"And before you whine to me about how hard their job is, A: they have the badges, guns, big sticks, and the ability to put people in a cage, and B: they knew the job was dangerous when they took it," jah, man, I saw that on Carlos Mencia last night, too!:-)
[Conectiva provides entree] to South American markets.
Aside from Brasilian Portugues, where precisely are the Castillian (spanish, for the laymen) box sets for sale off the.br or.com Conectiva sites?
They're supposed to dominate the South American market (overwhelmingly spanish parlante) with their wares, but several months ago I went searching for a box set (or an ftp site of same) for some spanish language friends and I could not find anything geared toward a spanish speaker. WTF.
Brasil is not South America. If it's there, somewhere poking around both sites, and googling fiercely yielded nothing.
I am learning C and wanting to seriously get into embedded systems (I searched Oreilly but its sparse), can someone knowledgeable point me into a series of books, and websites, give me some great advise to begin down the path of apprenticeship and onto expertise? Much obliged if you would; and if you would moderate this post up just till it starts getting replies.
I will ditto that sentiment, strongly! As Google folk will no doubt be reading the feedback.
Since the netnews service revamp a few months back, I keep thinking and cursing: Gad! This is a f_ck_ng improvement?! They are tone deaf on this one. Bring the old iteration back, please. I have fa.linux.kernel and more to read.
And I'm supposed to admire them for that? Would they mind if I broke into their house, stole their computer, and left a note saying I didn't believe in private property?
If you can trivially make infinite *perfect copies* of my house, my computer help yourself. Take perfect copies of my wife too, while you are at it, please. *badumbum*
I just flew in from New York, boy, are my arms tires. *kaching*
It is a good price point, and looking around the accompanying WalMart links you see added RAM, other models with Wi-Fi, etc. Mind you, they are still enticingly priced---an extra $50, or an extra $100, etc. respectively. Even an option for an AMD Athlon 64 CPU. However.
The Wi-fi is built-in, on the mobo. Fine. But, WTF is it? And will it work under Open/Free/Net-BSD? That is not a trivial matter? If it wont run them, it would be wasted money, for me. I have no idea what Faustian bargain, or licensing amnesia, Lindows(?) is offering for its OS, its bundled drivers, etc.? Mandrake has/does include Wi-Fi firmware that is not free. While I don't give a sh_t about that, I take under advisement that in the same vain, thus, wireless specs are unavailable, opaque, and therefore un-available to another free *nix. Plainly put, the sh_t might not run under OpenBSD, which matters to me.
BTW, the more expensive, better AMD machines, for an extra ~$100 include not a *nix, but Windows XP. WalMart, boobie, come on, save at least, pass on at least, a good chunk of change by nixing or offering a better alternative. Weasely sh_t like that is how you guys destroy the competition, do a little destroying for me.
These includes things like a nonexec stack, a chrooted apache, a reduction in the number of setuid binaries
Ahemmm! set[ug]id, both. Also, the addition of Provos' systrace(1), which has been coming along for some time is tres cool, man. Listen, read:
Systrace enforces system call policies for applications by constraining the application's access to the system. The policy is generated interactively. Operations not covered by the policy raise an alarm and allow an user to refine the currently configured policy.
Provos' (the author) systrace webpage on the subject.
CTS. Someone bitched about the installer, and how cooler it'd be, how more ``popular'' OBSD'd be if it came with a purdier installer, cotton candy, and power seats. This flies in the face of how OBSD developers feel about the audience of their OS. `Fuck popular! Popular only brings unwashed numbers and wastes time; they don't handhold anyone.' `Read gaddammit, read!' `If you wont read the fucking excellent manpages, or wont read other included documentation, if you wont search list archives for the same repeated questions (and they will be if you are that stupid) you're a fucking slacker, if you read them and don't understand them, you're a fucking luser.' Sound like an OS that gives a shit about being popular or tolerant of stupid newcomers? I don't think so.
If you're prepared to do the hard work, not expecting handholding and waste anyone's time, you'll be alright. Not for everyone, as it should be.
I have extra new copies of Official OpenBSD CDs, selling them for a song, too.;) It comes with a dozen OBSD stickers (not sold anywhere else), printed installation instructions, which make installing OBSD a breeze for those not use to this new OS. Just that is worth the price of the regular priced CDROMs, but I'm selling them way below that. $10.98. See sig for details.
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Good point! Amazon with its used-books, blaze-new-trails attitude would -seem- a good venue for these unmined, though small, profits. Then again, the nefarious principals behind these issues aren't a bunch of prissy librarians, but pillage, rape and burn types, err, I mean legislate-protect-my-old-business-model corporate types, err good ole American^W [borderless] businessmen. Adam Smith should spin in his coffin. *sigh* Still, there's a ravenous bunch of mothers to be catered to there, the musicians, their scene, `I'd rather not eat then not hear music that day' adolescents.
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Now a dispute is churning around credit for a modern scientific breakthrough: packet switching, the technology that breaks all data that travels over the Internet into discrete bundles that are then sent along various paths around the network and reassembled at their destination.
Aside from computer scientists, few people had heard of packet switching, much less its 1960's origins, until the 1990's. Then the Internet moved from academia into the home and the office, and histories of its development began to appear.
It was about that time that Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles, began to stake his claim to having been the father of packet switching. In 1996 he set up a Web page on the university's site that describes him as the "Inventor of the Internet Technology" and credits him with "having created the basic principles of packet switching."
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But, don't skip what the counterpoint from those in the know said, printed a few weeks later in the Letters section to the Times.
Convince Apple to include Ogg Vorbis support on the iPod.
Or they can be dicks like the CDDB a$$holes/fiasco, and force, erm, creatively license, mp3 licensees to either choose mp3 capability or ogg vorbis, but not both.
The whole connotation of this newsline is mistaken! Read Rasterman's response, clarification to this story.
RE: <http://www.rasterman.com/pages/news.html>
July 23, 2002
I just love all the people of this world who have opinions on thngs but never actually arw willing to stick anything behind them.
Let me clarify some of the following: Interview and the wonders of Slashdot and the ability to look beyond the tips of their noses when reading anything on slashdot - most of the comments there are made before anyone has actually READ anything.
Anyway - for the few level headed enough to 1. actually have contributed ever to linux or any part of it and not just spouted out words but not had the gust to back them with code and effort, they might actually see where I'm coming from.
The desktop market share windows has isn't going away. It's entrenched. Everyone I speak to who isnt' a linux head says "yeah - heard of linux - i know its meant to be stable, but I can't use my apps on it". It's not a mattre they will be happy with openoffice, or be happy with whatever equivalent there is - they want THAT PARTICULAR APP.
Also not to mention the ease of use windows has. You plug in a new usb device, or a new card or anything. It detects it - find the driver or asks you for the disk you got in the box, and bingo. On linux? HA! Good luck. Half the time I need to do endless reserach first to see if its supported - and even if it is, half the time I have to do some obscure hunting for code I need to compile and specially configure. The average person doesnt want to do this - and rightly, shouldn't. I won't stop using linux. I still use it as my desktop. I know many others do. But linux isn't goint to beat microsoft. it isnt' going to take the majority share of the desktopmarkent. I never said it was dead. I said Linux has lost. It's not going to win. It's going to remain the minority holder on the desktop. In that respect I see it as a loss. I'ts not dead. Just because you lose doesn't mean you die - but you don't get the victory.
Also I haven't stopped working on stuff. I haven't stopped on E. I'm not bitter or have sour grapes. Did I not say KDE and GNOME were doing a good job? Did I ever start Enlightenment with the aim to become an easy to use desktop for the masses? I never did. I never claimed such. Anyone who says so is putting words in my mouth. E was always a toy project. It is my toy. I get to push boundaires and explore ideas using it. It only ever made it to open source to anyones desktop other than mine because people pestered me after seeing screenshots.
Also people just didn't get my point. I'm saying the future Isn't a desktop at all - the encumbent (windows) on the desktop will stay, but the future isnt a desktop computer at all - it isnt a nasty mess of a desktop with taskbar and a screen and a mouse and keyboard. I'm not the first to say this by any means - and I won't be the last. Devices (such as pda's and he likes) now have the grunt that desktops had years ago. They are what I see as he future. Devices you use for a limited set of things that fit in your pocket, have no wires ad always work. Have a look at the i-mode and ketai phenomenon in Japan. Most people just want to do things - they don't care how - be it viia windows or linux. Whichever way works. The techies like us care how - but what I'm saying is we are the minority. the mass market where linux can be on everyonees desk is not via the pc desktop - you want linux everywhere? put it on their phones, in their cars, on their trains, on their watches. That's how you will get that.
I will continue to use Linux on my desktops because I like it. I will continue to develop for X because I like it. I will continue to use Linux on my laptop because I like it. I will do it because "I can" and because "I want to". But I will not go thnking that linux will take over the worlds desktop computers. But it has a fair go in other arenas.
So those of you who though I'd given up - no way. I've just switched game plan. I never was a Linux visionary - never wanted to be, never asked to be - people just seem to have said I am. I am going to leave being a visionary and politicla activist to others. I say things how I see them. Take everything I say with a grain of salt - invariably its me trying to make a point. I'm a realist and I'm into the practical of things.
Let me state the obvious, but, that somehow gets past most folks. Donate to Debian, SPI: monies, equipment, bandwidth. I would urge monies, it's the most fungible commodity of all. The work of the developers is free, as well as gratis, but funding will help the day come sooner when the stable branch is filled with recent debs/packages. As is, the experienced folks run Testing, Unstable as a stop gap, but the crux of the issue is lack of resources. Fund the project. I do. A $20 check at least once every six months is my suggestion. If you're an OBSD user, you'll be used to the cycle of support on that OS. You contribute/pay not to get a CDROM, but to fund an effort. It's noble, baby.
The NY Times had a very good article depicting this topic 2002/05/09. Here's one good site, selling the blank cards, and the hardware programmers for them when they get zapped by the sat TV companies, etc. Check out the Usenet groups on this subject, e.g., alt.satellite.tv.crypt.
To sum it up, the techie user can purchase blank cards, shipped to anywhere in the world; buy a card hardware-programmer to reset the card when it gets periodically zapped by the tv companies; you can easily get new programming updates to defeat said electronic zaps/bombs/bullets/pulses via the Web from fellow pirates^Wunathorized users. Oh, originally, blank cards where had by the layman from low-balled Walmart dss receiver offers. Walmart specials, iow, where had for $100USD+, the cards were ripped out, and the receiver itself was discarded. Read the piece, it'll become clearer.
I was having lunch yesterday, feeling quiet, I came across the Prayer Channel, and enjoyed some ten minutes of Benedictine Monks' chanting. All very Chant. Couple of hours later a SW trailer flashed by and the thought dawned on me. What that light-and-gizmo cold artifice needs is some tradition back in the story. As modern Japan embraced modernity it nevers veered far off from ritual, ceremony, tradition: dress, philosophy {Tao}, custom, buddhism.
Saw pm the other day, or was it an aotc trailer recently? I can't tell, don't much care to recollect, but, I noticed that either one had some Damien {Omen} music score happening. WTF! No one else's mentioned it. How inappropriate.
Regardless. Lucas ought to have included, should include in the future, work somehow into the plot some Gregorain chanting, and some buddhist chanting as well. If you've ever heard Tibetan monks chanting, the aum mantra, man! that is the sound of the universe.
RoadRunner chooses not to honor this common practice
Ahhh. That's the rub, but don't you see. They're violating a common norm. Their foolish actions are legal, but, are not moral---if it'll help you, see it in those terms.
Ultimately people will vote with their feet and loud mouths. That's as it should be. Is what the story submitter is driving toward, and why users say: Pizha!
Zulu time is still zulu time! Zulu time is the term used by the Western/NATO militaries to signify UTC {nee, GMT}; also it is the phonetic term used in military alphabetic phonetics. To wit, alpha, bravo, charlie... zulu.
So, don't whip out an ISO spec or an RFC to bolster what everyone, and their parking court judge will interpret as non-sense.
Example. You're standing one 11:59:59PM moment on Friday night for your honey to arrive. You look up an instant later as s/he arrives, and yell out: You made it, it's 12:00:00PM!
No way, Babe! ^ That's lunch time. Not midnight. You'd be talking nonsense, and the parking meter maid will slap you with a ticket, and the traffic court judge, as I said, will find against you. Look it up, there are court cases on just this very subject. Why do you think traffic signs around the 12AM and 12PM hour are no more, and read like so:... up to 11:59PM; or street cleaning begins at 11:59AM? To avoid the kind of confusion you fell into, or that is created in most people.
As I said originally, the Pooh guys should have simply said, = 23:59 UTC/GMT/Zulu/Universal Time Coordinated/Universal Coordinated Time. Pax.
To allow you to use your own vanity Organization header would only add confusion and defeats the spirit of the header.
What revisionist claptrap, silly ho. ~24 years of precedent flies in the face of that lapdog statement. Common practice is for that user-adjustable header to be optionally filled in by the ISP/news provider with their entity name IF the user leaves it blank! Oy vey. News clients for time immemorial have provided facilities for filling that field user-side, for a reason.
Make your silly case when the topic/s are the headers: NNTP-Posting-Host, X-Trace, X-Complaints-To.
Maybe this will teach the dvr manufacturers to make the core software, free software. Unleashing the genie from the bottle, gaining 3rd party developer help, removing Hollywood from their coattails, gaining hip factor, etc.
They ought to be profiting from providing scheduling information/tables, hardware sales, Jabber/XML connectivity hooks, etc. IOW, BUILD A BETTER PRODUCT and distinguish themselves from the pack, Tivo, ReplayTV. Or, keep playing the game of hoarding your own operating software and forever be kowtowing and or ducking the interruptions from the movie studio majors! No fast-forward, no mute, no networking, et cetera.
You will then have four weeks to complete your analysis and submit your report no later the 24:00 GMT [...]
There is no such hour. There is an infinitesimal amount of time between 23:59 and 00:00, but no 24:00 hour, ask any military guy/gal. They would've been better served by saying instead, ``no later the 23:59.''
Jeez. I submitted this thing 6 hours earlier and was rejected. *sigh*
2002-04-20 06:27:35 [-0000] World (Fastest Super Computer) x 20: Japan 1, US (articles,news) (rejected)
The NY Times free reg.is reporting on Japan's thunderbolt in the supercomputing wars:
``Japanese laboratory has built the world's fastest computer, a machine so powerful that it matches the raw processing power of the 20 fastest American computers combined and far outstrips the previous leader, an I.B.M.-built machine.'' Quoting an American scientist on his schock at the news: `` `In some sense we have a Computenik on our hands,' said Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee computer scientist'' The piece is short on technical bits, but broaches on the _fad_(?) of American designers away from specialized CPUs and toward off-the-shelf versions. Hubris/complacent thinking, IOW. Heck, and I was feeling good about trying the new GNU/Linux beowulf distros out there just ten minuten ago. *yikees*
so they have to go down the route of intellectual property ownership, enforcement and RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory, whatever "reasonable" means) licensing fees.
lwn.net has a great tidbit on the fallacious conotation of this RAND term, vis-a-vis a complaint to the LWN editors from Richard Stallman:
[Quote LWN.net below. This is in the frontpage at the moment, it'll scroll off eventually, and wont be there for posterity. I can't find a better URL for it, however the date on the frontpage is 2002/04/11, in the future you might find it through that.]
Licensing terms: what's in a name? Richard Stallman recently objected to our use of the term "reasonable and non-discriminatory" to describe certain classes of software and patent licenses. These licenses, require a payment for the use of the patented technology; the RAND terms just ensure that everybody can use that technology for the same payment. According to Mr. Stallman, the name RAND is inappropriate because:
By requiring a fee for use, the license is clearly discriminatory against free software.
This discrimination, of course, is not reasonable.
Mr. Stallman's suggested term is "UFO" for "Uniform Fee Only."
BTW, I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, but the complete Stallman biography book, over at O'Reilly, is now available gratis, online!
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"And before you whine to me about how hard their job is, A: they have the badges, guns, big sticks, and the ability to put people in a cage, and B: they knew the job was dangerous when they took it," jah, man, I saw that on Carlos Mencia last night, too! :-)
just exclude ***themselves*** from being spidered / searched / archived / cached? Why, robots.txt exists for these uses. See http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topi
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
for further Google specific examples.
Or, can someone explain to me what I am missing from their rationale?
I eternally gave up on that turd when he sent me off to see "Purple Rain" in 1984! Refer someone else.
I don't want to mod this down; can somebody translate?
Aside from Brasilian Portugues, where precisely are the Castillian (spanish, for the laymen) box sets for sale off the .br or .com Conectiva sites?
They're supposed to dominate the South American market (overwhelmingly spanish parlante) with their wares, but several months ago I went searching for a box set (or an ftp site of same) for some spanish language friends and I could not find anything geared toward a spanish speaker. WTF.
Brasil is not South America. If it's there, somewhere poking around both sites, and googling fiercely yielded nothing.
I am learning C and wanting to seriously get into embedded systems (I searched Oreilly but its sparse), can someone knowledgeable point me into a series of books, and websites, give me some great advise to begin down the path of apprenticeship and onto expertise? Much obliged if you would; and if you would moderate this post up just till it starts getting replies.
I will ditto that sentiment, strongly! As Google folk will no doubt be reading the feedback.
Since the netnews service revamp a few months back, I keep thinking and cursing: Gad! This is a f_ck_ng improvement?! They are tone deaf on this one. Bring the old iteration back, please. I have fa.linux.kernel and more to read.
If you can trivially make infinite *perfect copies* of my house, my computer help yourself. Take perfect copies of my wife too, while you are at it, please. *badumbum*
I just flew in from New York, boy, are my arms tires. *kaching*
The Wi-fi is built-in, on the mobo. Fine. But, WTF is it? And will it work under Open/Free/Net-BSD? That is not a trivial matter? If it wont run them, it would be wasted money, for me. I have no idea what Faustian bargain, or licensing amnesia, Lindows(?) is offering for its OS, its bundled drivers, etc.? Mandrake has/does include Wi-Fi firmware that is not free. While I don't give a sh_t about that, I take under advisement that in the same vain, thus, wireless specs are unavailable, opaque, and therefore un-available to another free *nix. Plainly put, the sh_t might not run under OpenBSD, which matters to me.
You guys buy these things, and then fill us in, what are they running? What chipset? Is that CPU REALLY what WalMart CLAIMS? BEWARE
BTW, the more expensive, better AMD machines, for an extra ~$100 include not a *nix, but Windows XP. WalMart, boobie, come on, save at least, pass on at least, a good chunk of change by nixing or offering a better alternative. Weasely sh_t like that is how you guys destroy the competition, do a little destroying for me.
Ahemmm! set[ug]id, both. Also, the addition of Provos' systrace(1), which has been coming along for some time is tres cool, man. Listen, read:
Provos' (the author) systrace webpage on the subject.CTS. Someone bitched about the installer, and how cooler it'd be, how more ``popular'' OBSD'd be if it came with a purdier installer, cotton candy, and power seats. This flies in the face of how OBSD developers feel about the audience of their OS. `Fuck popular! Popular only brings unwashed numbers and wastes time; they don't handhold anyone.' `Read gaddammit, read!' `If you wont read the fucking excellent manpages, or wont read other included documentation, if you wont search list archives for the same repeated questions (and they will be if you are that stupid) you're a fucking slacker, if you read them and don't understand them, you're a fucking luser.' Sound like an OS that gives a shit about being popular or tolerant of stupid newcomers? I don't think so.
If you're prepared to do the hard work, not expecting handholding and waste anyone's time, you'll be alright. Not for everyone, as it should be.
I have extra new copies of Official OpenBSD CDs, selling them for a song, too.Is eBay the most appropriate venue for indies?
Good point! Amazon with its used-books, blaze-new-trails attitude would -seem- a good venue for these unmined, though small, profits. Then again, the nefarious principals behind these issues aren't a bunch of prissy librarians, but pillage, rape and burn types, err, I mean legislate-protect-my-old-business-model corporate types, err good ole American^W [borderless] businessmen. Adam Smith should spin in his coffin. *sigh* Still, there's a ravenous bunch of mothers to be catered to there, the musicians, their scene, `I'd rather not eat then not hear music that day' adolescents.
Or am I just full of shit? *hehehe* Probably!
The NY Times had a good article on this last year.
RE: (http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/technology/cirBut, don't skip what the counterpoint from those in the know said, printed a few weeks later in the Letters section to the Times.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/technology/cirOr they can be dicks like the CDDB a$$holes/fiasco, and force, erm, creatively license, mp3 licensees to either choose mp3 capability or ogg vorbis, but not both.
RE: <http://www.rasterman.com/pages/news.html>
Let me state the obvious, but, that somehow gets past most folks. Donate to Debian, SPI: monies, equipment, bandwidth. I would urge monies, it's the most fungible commodity of all. The work of the developers is free, as well as gratis, but funding will help the day come sooner when the stable branch is filled with recent debs/packages. As is, the experienced folks run Testing, Unstable as a stop gap, but the crux of the issue is lack of resources. Fund the project. I do. A $20 check at least once every six months is my suggestion. If you're an OBSD user, you'll be used to the cycle of support on that OS. You contribute/pay not to get a CDROM, but to fund an effort. It's noble, baby.
To sum it up, the techie user can purchase blank cards, shipped to anywhere in the world; buy a card hardware-programmer to reset the card when it gets periodically zapped by the tv companies; you can easily get new programming updates to defeat said electronic zaps/bombs/bullets/pulses via the Web from fellow pirates^Wunathorized users. Oh, originally, blank cards where had by the layman from low-balled Walmart dss receiver offers. Walmart specials, iow, where had for $100USD+, the cards were ripped out, and the receiver itself was discarded. Read the piece, it'll become clearer.
Saw pm the other day, or was it an aotc trailer recently? I can't tell, don't much care to recollect, but, I noticed that either one had some Damien {Omen} music score happening. WTF! No one else's mentioned it. How inappropriate.
Regardless. Lucas ought to have included, should include in the future, work somehow into the plot some Gregorain chanting, and some buddhist chanting as well. If you've ever heard Tibetan monks chanting, the aum mantra, man! that is the sound of the universe.
And arent't the Jedi really just warrior monks?
Ultimately people will vote with their feet and loud mouths. That's as it should be. Is what the story submitter is driving toward, and why users say: Pizha!
So, don't whip out an ISO spec or an RFC to bolster what everyone, and their parking court judge will interpret as non-sense.
Example. You're standing one 11:59:59PM moment on Friday night for your honey to arrive. You look up an instant later as s/he arrives, and yell out: You made it, it's 12:00:00PM!
No way, Babe! ^ That's lunch time. Not midnight. You'd be talking nonsense, and the parking meter maid will slap you with a ticket, and the traffic court judge, as I said, will find against you. Look it up, there are court cases on just this very subject. Why do you think traffic signs around the 12AM and 12PM hour are no more, and read like so: ... up to 11:59PM; or street cleaning begins at 11:59AM? To avoid the kind of confusion you fell into, or that is created in most people.
As I said originally, the Pooh guys should have simply said, = 23:59 UTC/GMT/Zulu/Universal Time Coordinated/Universal Coordinated Time. Pax.
Make your silly case when the topic/s are the headers: NNTP-Posting-Host, X-Trace, X-Complaints-To.
They ought to be profiting from providing scheduling information/tables, hardware sales, Jabber/XML connectivity hooks, etc. IOW, BUILD A BETTER PRODUCT and distinguish themselves from the pack, Tivo, ReplayTV. Or, keep playing the game of hoarding your own operating software and forever be kowtowing and or ducking the interruptions from the movie studio majors! No fast-forward, no mute, no networking, et cetera.
2002-04-20 06:27:35 [-0000] World (Fastest Super Computer) x 20: Japan 1, US (articles,news) (rejected)
Suckmydick.Bah! I wanted to see the effing screenshots, so try this cached URL for them!
lwn.net has a great tidbit on the fallacious conotation of this RAND term, vis-a-vis a complaint to the LWN editors from Richard Stallman:
[Quote LWN.net below. This is in the frontpage at the moment, it'll scroll off eventually, and wont be there for posterity. I can't find a better URL for it, however the date on the frontpage is 2002/04/11, in the future you might find it through that.]
BTW, I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, but the complete Stallman biography book, over at O'Reilly, is now available gratis, online!