Last I heard, Viacom wants Dish to carry Nickelodeon's GAS channel or some such... and Dish said no, so Viacom said you can't carry anything then unless you pay us more money. So then Dish ran crying monopoly and... now I will have no CBS or UPN since I get the Boston feeds. I don't have any big connection to Dish except my hardware investment, but I can't blame Dish for the problem (since I tend to dislike monopolies myself). Changing to DTV seems like caving to Viacom's corporate muscle...
Luckily this "central tree" is actually a distributed mirror, so a simple emerge sync will get your portage tree back in shape if you're one of 20 or so people who happened to sync to this server after it was compromised...
Actually, it wasn't even a Gentoo machine... "This box is not an official Gentoo infrastructure box and is instead donated by a sponsor". I don't know if Gentoo requires server admins to use IDS or something similar if this was just a good admin running the mirror. I guess we'll know when (if?) Gentoo tells us who was running the box.
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Actually, he always signed his name "E. E. Cummings". There was a big todo (which included his wife) over the issue.
http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm
Last I heard, Viacom wants Dish to carry Nickelodeon's GAS channel or some such... and Dish said no, so Viacom said you can't carry anything then unless you pay us more money. So then Dish ran crying monopoly and... now I will have no CBS or UPN since I get the Boston feeds. I don't have any big connection to Dish except my hardware investment, but I can't blame Dish for the problem (since I tend to dislike monopolies myself). Changing to DTV seems like caving to Viacom's corporate muscle...
Luckily this "central tree" is actually a distributed mirror, so a simple emerge sync will get your portage tree back in shape if you're one of 20 or so people who happened to sync to this server after it was compromised...
Actually, it wasn't even a Gentoo machine... "This box is not an official Gentoo infrastructure box and is instead donated by a sponsor". I don't know if Gentoo requires server admins to use IDS or something similar if this was just a good admin running the mirror. I guess we'll know when (if?) Gentoo tells us who was running the box.