what is a BOF?what is a BOF?
BOF stands for Birds Of a Feather, it’s an informal session run at a conference usually without any formal approval by the people who run the conference. Often conferences have[...]
A Strange Interpretation of the US Constitution About CopyrightA Strange Interpretation of the US Constitution About Copyright
In a blog on infoworld the following strange statement appeared: The US Constitution is clear that the reason for copyright/patent/etc. is to benefit creators of property, not users of property.[...]
BSD vs GPL licencesBSD vs GPL licences
James Dumay writes about Theo’s latest flame-war. One interesting part of the debate was Theo’s response to this comment: > We can dual license our code though and that is[...]
New Debian release and new DPLNew Debian release and new DPL
Ingo Juergensmann has blogged in detail about the new release and the new DPL. Sam Hocevar ran for DPL on a platform based on some significant new changes. It will[...]
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blogger sucks!blogger sucks!
If I enter “a < b” in blogger then it works, but if I want the < symbol to be next to some other text (EG for a #include line[...]
heartbeat – what defines a cluster?heartbeat – what defines a cluster?
In Debian bug 418210 there is discussion of what constitutes a cluster. I believe that the node configuration lines in the config file /etc/ha.d/ha.cf should authoritatively define what is in[...]
SE Linux – not too difficult for new usersSE Linux – not too difficult for new users
At http://tanso.net/selinux/ Jan-Frode Myklebust has documented his work in creating new SE Linux policy to run Googleearth on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. He discussed this with us on #selinux[...]
mini-cyclonemini-cyclone
This morning after having had my car parked in the sun for a couple of hours I poured water on the rear window to cool it (as described in this[...]
wikiskywikisky
http://wikisky.org/ is like google maps but looking up! It’s cool, check it out! No related posts.[...]
Linux Tour BusLinux Tour Bus
I have seen buses used for tours that contain bunk beds. If one or more such buses were hired then a group of Linux people could go on a moving[...]