OSNews points to a Groklaw article: Novell Files Countersuit Against SCO. “Today, Novell has answered SCO’s complaint alledging Novell slandered SCO’s ownership of the Unix copyrights. Novell claims that SCO approached Novell in 2003 to try and pursuade them to go along with the Linux Licensing Scheme. When Novell refused, SCO attempted to talk Novell [...]
Kubuntu with KDE 3.4.2, Koffice 1.4.1 Released. Following the release of KDE 3.4.2 yesterday, the Kubuntu team is proud to announce a new Kubuntu livecd with KDE 3.4.2 and the also recently released Koffice 1.4.1. [OSNews]
Slashdot post: Firefox Downloads Reach 75 Million. “Today Mozilla Firefox has reached its 75 millionth download. The Mozilla staff find this a morale booster since recent security vulnerabilities have slightly lowered the browser’s growth rate. ‘We’re beefing up the management on the project. The project is still very healthy. We’re seeing continued corporate interest and [...]
Laura and I attended the first meeting of the New Hampshire Python Special Interest Group (PySIG) at the Amoskeag Business Incubator last night. There was excellent attendance, enthusiasm and information. Looks like we’ve got a new meeting to attend the fourth Thursday of each month!
Following up on my response to Alex Feldstein’s post on Greasemonkey security warning, Jon Udell posts his weekly column today, “Greasemonkey in crisis:
A hole in a Firefox plug-in proves that no one, not even open source partisans, have all the answers” with several insightful comments:
This time there was no Microsoft to blame. The open source [...]
Doc Searls’ IT Garage - notes Barning Creative Commons. “John C. Dvorak is one of the most interesting, informative and entertaining journalists in the history of the computer business. He is also something of a troll.”
To think at one time my career aspiration was to be the next Dvorak. Luckily, I got over it. Sadly, [...]
OSNews points to an article that tells you how to Boot Fedora Linux Faster. “Everyone wants a quick boot time, from the beginner user to the advanced user, this is a issue that bothers us all. As Linux has advanced it has increasingly become slower to boot. So I decided to look into reducing the [...]
At Shedding Some Light, Rick Schummer blogs Godspeed Discovery! “The launch of Discovery this morning was spectacular as expected taking 7 new heroes back to space. This is the second time Discovery has healed the space program as it followed Challenger into space back in 1988.” Godspeed, indeed.
OSNews points to an eWeek article, Microsoft Lowers the Boom on Illegal Windows Copies. “Microsoft is tightening the noose for those people running illegal or pirated copies of its Windows XP/2000 software on their systems. Starting Tuesday, it will be mandatory for users of this Windows software to certify that their software is a genuine [...]
(InfoWorld) - “Netscape has released a series of fixes for serious security flaws in its browser and, incredibly, listed a further 10 that it has yet to patch.”
