Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Monday, November 22nd, 2004
Recently I have been asked about how to setup a service similar to Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) in Windows. For those really interested Microsoft's ICS implementation consists of an internal DHCP server hardwired to the 192.168.0.0/24 range with the master computer set to 192.168.0.1. There is also a small DNS ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2004
A recent GrokLaw story mentions an interesting occurance. Apparently Jeff V. Merkey, affiliated with the Canopy Group, which itself is a major shareholder in SCO, offered to buy a snapshot of the Linux kernel for $50,000 under a BSD license:
We offer to kernel.org the sum of $50,000.00 US for ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
Today I ran into an interesting problem with my Treo 600 and Redhat's Fedora Core 2 Linux. I was trying to transfer something over to the external SD card in the Treo. A few days ago I got the external SD card reader to work after some fidgeting, but today ...
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Monday, August 23rd, 2004
While poking around Apache's website today, I ran across what may be the strangest file download mirror so far. It is located at mirrors.playboy.com and mirrors Apache, Fedora, FreeBSD and Perl's CPAN. The page says:
This is an unsupported open source mirror utilizing hardware and network bandwidth generously provided by Playboy ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2004
Today I learned the hard way why everyone should backup on a regular basis - after a very heavy session in Linux trying to get a very MSFT-ized program to run under WINE, I accidently deleted my email archive. Nine months of email - all down the drain...
Well, its time ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2003
I saw this in the Wall Street Journal this morning (here is a link, subscription required), before this got posted on SlashDot.
From the WSJ article:
"Now, SCO is preparing to wheel out the software-industry equivalent of a nuclear bomb: It will argue that the GPL itself is invalid, says SCO's lead ...
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