Re: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....

2007-10-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:12:47 -0400 Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron wrote: So, now that http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071011205044141 is out there.. What are peoples thoughts on the patent in question?

Re: RADIO - Peter Day (BBC) - Wikinomics

2007-10-13 Thread Bill Ricker
On 10/12/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During a bout of insomnia I caught this broadcast live on the BBC last night and liked it a lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_business.shtml I've always regarded the presenter, Peter Day, as generally cool and

Re: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....

2007-10-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Jerry, It is curious that only Red Hat and Novell are the plaintiffs. Why not FSF (GNOME), of X.ORG, or TrollTech (KDE and QT). I think you meant that Red Hat and Novell are the defendants, not the plaintiffs, in this suit. Having a few defendants at one time is a normal thing. You only

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-13 Thread John Abreau
On Thu, October 11, 2007 11:37 pm, Ben Scott said: Of course, if you're using bash, then http://xkcd.com/{1..327} will do the job without all the messy syntax or the external program. Depends on what version of bash. The first time I tried that, it failed: $ echo

Hardware up for grabs

2007-10-13 Thread Jarod Wilson
Fall cleaning instead of spring cleaning here... I've got the following hardware up for grabs: - A matching pair of Opteron 244 (1.8GHz socket 940) processors w/ heatsinks (they work just fine so far as I know, they were pulled for faster procs a while ago). - Qty. 3 QLogic 2100-series