Linux doesn’t exist. Duh, how could it not have been more obvious. Linux is just a conspiracy put out by the Finnish government in an attempt to become the next super power. It could have worked, too, if it weren’t for some SCO lawyers meddling in business that is supposedly theirs to meddle in.
But in all seriousness, come on. How can somebody say Linux does not exist? Let’s think for a second now… could it be the same company that also declared that it was not the internet anti-christ today? Groklaw tried to prove that Linux does exist by listing some of it’s recent advances:
- CyberGuard is switching from SCO’s Unix to Linux. “The move away from Unixware will enable CyberGuard to add advanced, modern capabilities to its security appliances.”
- So is Bank of America. You remember them — the folks that didn’t get sued at the last minute. I think the news about the DaimlerChrysler decision has emboldened corporate Amercia. “Bank of America has gone public on outline plans to port its proprietary Unix systems to Linux, ignoring the enduring threat of legal action from open source litigant SCO.”
- Linux use is growing by leaps and bounds, according to Gartner. “Linux servers are on the rise again thanks in part to low-end and x86-64 based servers, according to a new survey by market research firm Gartner.” I believe this steady server growth indicates Linux must exist after all. No? “Enterprises trust Linux’s maturity and don’t put much stock in legal threats from potential issues with patents or the SCO Group. . . . Gartner said Linux revenue grew 54.6 % in the second quarter and unit shipments jumped more than 61% giving the OS 9.5% of the overall market share. . . . Recent threats from issues with patents and the hovering specter of the SCO Group doesn’t seem to impact many spending decisions, McLaughlin added. ‘Companies are not viewing it as enough of an issue,’ he said.”
Everybody needs one of these. Sorry, this was too good for del.icio.us.
Did anybody see John Kerry on the daily show? Oh man, they had a real discussion for once (heaven forbid). I thought it was hilarious that Kerry decided to point out that people do introduce themselves to him in the mens room. It was also funny that Jon Stewart went through the Republican talking points that he mentioned on a previous show. If you haven’t seen it, Waxy has posted the whole interview.
The new school year is starting soon. As such, all the guys at freeculture.org are making fliers, receiving schwag from various groups (such as the EFF or Creative Commons) and overall getting ready to come into the school year with a bang.
Since it is a student project, I decided to help out with a flier. I didn’t write it, actually I just took all the content from the wiki and made it look pretty. Hand a couple out to your friends, or not, that’s okay too but it would be cool if you did.
I’ve spent the last few days cleaning and rearranging my bedroom. One end of my bed, formerly in a corner, was pulled out and now the bed it sticking out into the center of the room. A desk has gone where the bed was.
The room is a whole lot more spacious than it was before. I did get rid of a bookshelf and the new desk is a lot more compact than the other one. The thing is, there is a bed in the center of the room and right now there is a lot of stuff piled up next to it. In the coming days I’ll clean it up and it’ll look very nice.
I saw “The Village” on Monday for my brother’s birthday. I really enjoyed it, kind of slow but enjoyable nonetheless. I didn’t really know what it was about going into it, but at the end I realized that if I did know what it was about, it would ruin the whole movie. Anyways, if you haven’t seen it, you should, and yes, M. Night Shyamalan does work his way into this one.
Note: I’ve waited this long to post because I have refused to stoop down so low as to use a web browser to post to my weblog and there is no good blog editing tool on linux.
I got back from a week of camp earlier today. Not really much to say about it. One cool thing that happened was I got to spend a night “surviving in the wilderness”. There were about 50 or 60 people out “surviving”, and by surviving I mean building a shelter to sleep under for one night. We could have groups of five, but the group I was in only had four. We found three trees, leaned logs up against those, making them really close, shaped like an upside down V. Then we piled up sticks on the upside down V’s, parallel to the ground. We then piled on pine needles for insulation.
Overall, the inside was fairly warm, but my legs were hanging out. I didn’t sleep very well, but they got us up at 3:30 in the morning so we could get a couple hours of sleep.
Here, take a WikiWord. Wait, what is a WikiWord? Well, the WikiWikiWeb describes a WikiWord as “an amalgamation of two or more words composed of at least two letters each, without intervening white spaces, where the first letter of each component word is capitalized and the remaining letters are lower cased.”
The code below is written in php but it uses perl regular expressioins. Have fun with it and please try to figure it out yourself.
preg_match( "/^([A-Z][a-z0-9]+)([A-Z][a-z0-9]+)+/", $wiki )
Update: There were some wacky problems with the code. They’re fixed now and the code is a whole lot more simple.
Wow, can you believe they sell something like this? This gun is 19.7″ long, 2.2″ wide, 8.3″ high and weighs 6.6 lbs. The website totes it as “the ultimate system for operating in urban and other close-quarter battle scenarios.” This would be wonderful, but who is ever in an urban or close-quarter battle scenario? (and don’t say the military or the police)
Nobody needs a gun like this. The only purpose of a gun like this is to kill somebody, not even to defend yourself, to actually take the offensive. That is, unless you’re organizing a coup, then you have my full permission to use it.
The cartel has killed off 321 Studios, which sold software letting people back up their DVDs.
This story is pretty sad, but it is pretty cool how it is not referred to as the MPAA of the Motion Picture Industry but as “The Cartel”.
This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the propagation of memes. The original posting for this experiment is located at: Minding the Planet; results and commentary will appear there in the future.
Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate – the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.
The GUID for this experiment is: as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawstw98qwrt189849813907azq4
(this GUID enables anyone to easily search Google for all results of this experiment). Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post at Minding the Planet; Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.
Instructions
To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to your blog, and fill out the info below, substituting your own information in your posting, where appropriate.
(Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)
- I found this experiment at URL: http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/000713.php
- I found it via “Newsreader Software” or “Browsing or Searching the Web” or “An E-Mail Message”: Newsreader Software – Bloglines
- I posted this experiment at URL: http://omikron.substandard.net
- I posted this on date (day, month, year): 03 August 2004
- I posted this at time (24 hour time): 20:26:29
- My posting location is (city, state, country): San Diego, CA, USA
Optional Survey Fields
(Replace the answers below with your own answers)
- My blog is hosted by: Dreamhost
- My age is: 14
- My gender is: Male
- My occupation is: Student
- I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: Bloglines (does that count)
- I use the following software to post to my blog: Movable Type
- I have been blogging since (day, month, year): late 2002, early 2003
- My web browser is: Safari (Mac), Firefox (Linux)
A preview of new features in Gnome 2.8 has been published. One, proposed, feature is Evolution. I love Evolution! Well, maybe not love it, but it is probably the best mail-groupware client for linux and having it incuded with Gnome 2.8 will be nice.
There is also a keychain type daemon called Keyring Manager, a new VNC server and an network utility (like the one on OS X) called Nettool.
The Associated Press is reporting that 9 out of 10 eligible Afghanis turned out to register to vote.
First tallies since the eight-month registration drive began winding down on Saturday show that 8.7 million of an estimated 9.8 million eligible voters have collected ID cards for the Oct. 9 election. Forty-one percent of those registered were women.
Except only two-thirds of 1.05 million voters in five southern provinces have turned out to vote. This year’s heated election will have U.S. figures up but probably not this high.
