Everyone knows that if you're going to try to enforce your ridiculous patent, you don't file suit in your own jurisdiction or the defendants jurisdication. Real patent trolls file in the Eastern District of Texas. Had they done that, they would have gotten their settlement.
Exactly. File in E.D. of Texas, where nothing any tech company would care to touch is (a bunch of woods all within 3 hours of Houston, Dallas, or Shreveport, LA so no real reason for field offices/etc there). While Texas has lots of tech firms in the DFW, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston metros (the major cities of the 3 other court districts), the ED is pretty much a no man's land. If they had to file in say the West District in Austin or the North District in Dallas, they'd be screwed as the pool of jurors won't go along with their silly ideas like they do in Lufkin (their court of choice) or Texarkana.
From what I've been reading however, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has been smacking the hands of the ED judges a bit more on patent cases, especially on change of venue requests.
double the actual space required to hold the files for a "working copy"
True. However, using an export (svn export), you can just get a non-working copy of the code.
rsync is probably a better solution anyway. If you want to track what went into each release, maybe a subversion backend, with a cronjob to update everything to a rsync server.
the LiveJournal package and site offer exports to XML of all posts for a given month. You can also pull out the comments via a different point if that is a necessity, and then just hash them together. You can see the export here.
also, many of the clients that interface with the LJ servers can pull all the posts, comments, and other data.
LJ is one of the most powerful blogging systems out there. Fairly painless to set up (i got it working with gentoo in under an hour, debian is just apt-getting the packages and perl modules). If it can handle a 2 million+ user system (some closed source stuff, but most of that is not needed for your daily blog). And they are making tons of progress with FotoBilder, their open source photohosting service.
Brad and co. has made a heck of a system
Plus the LJ ethics are pretty good too (in the LJ social contract they state no ads ever!)
also, the gentoo-dev-sources ebuilds exist that are what one day will be gentoo-sources in a 2.6 version. they are marked as stable on x86.
That patchset is really nice since it contains some good patches for desktop work, such as bootsplash.
OK...so basically Forbes is bashing Linux and the FSF for protecting it's IP. Hrm...maybe they should bash the entire software industry for suing one another.
Furthermore, what good is the source code to a router? Most of the code they are using in it anyway will already be open. Only thing Broadcom/Cisco wrote more than likely was the modules to control the chipset.
It looks as if Gentoo recommends the Courier-IMAP server, but an emerge search IMAP returns cyrus, courier, and uw-imap (plus a patched version of uw-imap for virtual domains).
Students in HS's today see the same software (windows, office, VB, photoshop) every day. Any student who wants to learn about Linux, C, Perl, openoffice.org, GIMP is left out in the cold. When I graduated in 2001, my high school only had books on MS-DOS still. Basically, students need access to books on stuff other than what they see in the classroom. The best way to find this out is by going and asking a couple of knowledgable computer students (not the script-kiddie croud, the future CS majors) what they need access to. Buy that kind of stuff. That will help more than anything.
I do not totally agree with you on some points: Simpler setup with very few questions.
Ever try RedHat 8? I had it up and running in less time than it took me to upgrade to XP, including a full hard drive format.
System files are protected from inadvertent change.
Unless your running root, which any person with any understanding should not be, I would venture to say linux/unix does a much better job
Convenient, standardised help system with excellent searching and troubleshooting options
I dont know what version of windows your running, but from what ive seen you get several different help interfaces depending on how and when the help files were written.
Sure one could be brought to perform like the other, but that would take a damn long time.
Not exactly. Linux can do good file support/hardware with vendor support. May not be open source. OpenOffice is a good example of a good Office replacement. May not be exactly right, but unless MS was to open the Office file formats we can never get it exactly right.
5. The guy with the Lego site is probably tickled pink that his site just got a billion hits and probably doesn't mind things crawling to a halt for a while. It's his 15 minutes of internet fame.
Until he gets his bandwidth bill.....
A good search would reveal that the 200th Slashback fell a few slashbacks back...this is about the 230th (or 220th dependant on how you search, category or just searching for the word slashback in topics)
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Everyone knows that if you're going to try to enforce your ridiculous patent, you don't file suit in your own jurisdiction or the defendants jurisdication. Real patent trolls file in the Eastern District of Texas. Had they done that, they would have gotten their settlement.
Exactly. File in E.D. of Texas, where nothing any tech company would care to touch is (a bunch of woods all within 3 hours of Houston, Dallas, or Shreveport, LA so no real reason for field offices/etc there). While Texas has lots of tech firms in the DFW, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston metros (the major cities of the 3 other court districts), the ED is pretty much a no man's land. If they had to file in say the West District in Austin or the North District in Dallas, they'd be screwed as the pool of jurors won't go along with their silly ideas like they do in Lufkin (their court of choice) or Texarkana. From what I've been reading however, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has been smacking the hands of the ED judges a bit more on patent cases, especially on change of venue requests.
double the actual space required to hold the files for a "working copy"
True. However, using an export (svn export), you can just get a non-working copy of the code.
rsync is probably a better solution anyway. If you want to track what went into each release, maybe a subversion backend, with a cronjob to update everything to a rsync server.
by default, ssl cache is disabled on firefox.
also, many of the clients that interface with the LJ servers can pull all the posts, comments, and other data.
LJ is one of the most powerful blogging systems out there. Fairly painless to set up (i got it working with gentoo in under an hour, debian is just apt-getting the packages and perl modules). If it can handle a 2 million+ user system (some closed source stuff, but most of that is not needed for your daily blog). And they are making tons of progress with FotoBilder, their open source photohosting service. Brad and co. has made a heck of a system Plus the LJ ethics are pretty good too (in the LJ social contract they state no ads ever!)
also, the gentoo-dev-sources ebuilds exist that are what one day will be gentoo-sources in a 2.6 version. they are marked as stable on x86. That patchset is really nice since it contains some good patches for desktop work, such as bootsplash.
Furthermore, what good is the source code to a router? Most of the code they are using in it anyway will already be open. Only thing Broadcom/Cisco wrote more than likely was the modules to control the chipset.
Gentoo has a HOWTO using various packages here.
Students in HS's today see the same software (windows, office, VB, photoshop) every day. Any student who wants to learn about Linux, C, Perl, openoffice.org, GIMP is left out in the cold. When I graduated in 2001, my high school only had books on MS-DOS still. Basically, students need access to books on stuff other than what they see in the classroom. The best way to find this out is by going and asking a couple of knowledgable computer students (not the script-kiddie croud, the future CS majors) what they need access to. Buy that kind of stuff. That will help more than anything.
Simpler setup with very few questions.
Ever try RedHat 8? I had it up and running in less time than it took me to upgrade to XP, including a full hard drive format.
System files are protected from inadvertent change.
Unless your running root, which any person with any understanding should not be, I would venture to say linux/unix does a much better job
Convenient, standardised help system with excellent searching and troubleshooting options
I dont know what version of windows your running, but from what ive seen you get several different help interfaces depending on how and when the help files were written.
Not exactly. Linux can do good file support/hardware with vendor support. May not be open source. OpenOffice is a good example of a good Office replacement. May not be exactly right, but unless MS was to open the Office file formats we can never get it exactly right.
5. The guy with the Lego site is probably tickled pink that his site just got a billion hits and probably doesn't mind things crawling to a halt for a while. It's his 15 minutes of internet fame.
Until he gets his bandwidth bill.....
A good search would reveal that the 200th Slashback fell a few slashbacks back...this is about the 230th (or 220th dependant on how you search, category or just searching for the word slashback in topics)