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  • GNU and FSF News for October 2007
    There's a new GNU PDF Project in the works to support the upcoming ISO standard PDF implementation and they need your help. The FSF Europe has posted a new RMS video. Conversion of software to the new GPLv3 license continues at a steady pace. The SFLC files a history-making legal complaint against a GPLv2 violator and resolves a GPLv2 dispute between the BSD and Linux communities. Unofficial Gnash Flash binaries for Windows are available. GNU Hurd gets IPv6 support and a new pfinet maintainer. RMS will be speaking Columbia, Costa Rica, Japan, and the US this month. Oh, and did I mention that new and improved versions of GNOME and GTK+ have been released.?
    Mon, 8 Oct 2007 23:55:58 GMT

  • On the proper use of assert
    Oh humble assert, how much confusion have you caused! This might seem like a banal topic and hardly "master" material, but I continually see people get this wrong, so perhaps an article on this topic is worthwhile.
    Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:02:39 GMT

  • The Real Reason Why Linux Isn't On The Desktop
    A recent article has surfaced discussing what the author thinks are reasons Linux won't succeed on the desktop. It is his mentality, and not his reasons, which are the real culprits.
    Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:18:32 GMT

  • Call for ISPs to Block Malware-Infected Computers

    This is a call to ISPs to block Internet-connected computers within their vicinity, which are infected with malware, especially, one that has turned the computer into a zombie machine, that is used to attack, spam or compromise other machines.
    Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:11:08 GMT

  • Wikipedia-based Open-Source Artificial Intelligence
    Abstract: Wikipedia has grown so large that it may serve first as the referential background for open-source artificial intelligence (AI) and then as food for thought when the emerging AI Minds try to know and understand the world around them.
    Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:09:35 GMT

  • GNU and FSF News for September 2007
    Lots of news this month! The FSF foundation joined other groups in making a political statement about proprietary software. We've got a report and new photos of the Defective by Design protest of the BBC. GPLv3 adoption continues. GNU Grub was spotted in a Marvel comic book. A new and improved alpha version of Gnash is out. RMS makes a whirlwind tour of California. Read all about it in this month's edition along with updates on major GNU packages like GNOME and gcc. There's even some news on the Hurd this month.
    Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:15:52 GMT

  • Thoughts on the Social Graph
    My thoughts on the Social Graph, and opening it up...
    Mon, 3 Sep 2007 23:22:35 GMT

  • Proposed Merger of NLR and Internet 2
    The Network Planning Team (NPT) was established in March 2007 in support of a proposed merger of Internet2 and National LambdaRail, Inc.(NLR)

    Mr. Gordon Cook stated Why the proposed merger MUST not happen

    "the merger as currently proposed in my opinion would be a disaster that would kill the crown jewel of Network infrastructure in the United States. "
    Sat, 1 Sep 2007 23:46:24 GMT

  • Understanding the ICMP protocol
    On my intranet, between 'trusted' Linux hosts, sit switches/routers/firewalls. I am having the hardest time to persuade our info sec dept. to allow ICMP protocol packets to go between our servers. These servers are master server/ device server/ client server of an Enterprise distributed backup to ADIC tape library application with media management layer to Oracle RMAN interface.
    Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:01:18 GMT

  • Is BitTorrent Evil?
    Never mind copyright abuse, porn, and corporate co-optation. Just looking at usage of the global set of point-to-point links ("tubes" per Sen. Stevens), BitTorrent and similar protocols draw down the available network capacity many times more than necessary to move files or frames from the machines that have them to the machines that want them. What can we do instead?
    Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:21:25 GMT

  • One Sentence Answers for Free Software
    etbe asks Two Questions for All Serious Free Software Contributors:
    1. What do you think is the most important single sentence of advice that you can offer to someone who wants to contribute to the free software community?
    and
    2. If you had the opportunity to say one sentence to someone who knows about computers and free software (EG they have used both Linux and Windows and done a small amount of programming) to convince them that they should join the free software team, what would it be?

    Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:38:47 GMT

  • GNU and FSF News for August 2007
    It was a slow month for GNU/FSF news but even during a slow month there's plenty to tell you about. The adoption of the GPLv3 continues, over 300 packages are now using it. The 2007 Trophées du Libre awards are coming up soon. The FSF Europe published a new issue of their newsletter, full of interesting free software news from Europe. There was a minor GCC release, and the last new GCC release under the GPLv2 license. RMS will be in Peru this month, giving talks at several schools and conferences. Read on for all the details.
    Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:43:28 GMT

  • Advogato's 2nd trust metric works... for now
    Three weeks ago, etbe (Russell Cocker) suddenly started pumping hateful leftist propaganda into Advogato. Since then, the metric reports for few nodes to which I am connected shows a precipitous decline, below the level of 3 in fact. This proves that Advogato works as designed at least to stop small scale attacks.
    Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:11:06 GMT

  • GNU and FSF News for July 2007
    The GPL version 3 is out. Is anyone using it yet? Freshmeat says yes. Will it transform the software industry? Eben Moglen says yes. Will it change the Novell-Microsoft deal? Microsoft says no, then announces changes in the same press release. Is Microsoft's goal to start a Linux civil war? EWeek says Maybe. Read all about it in this week's installment of GNU and FSF news. As always, you can also find out where RMS is speaking this month and read the latest news on other GNU projects including GCC and GNOME.
    Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:03:42 GMT

  • Pandora's Technology Box
    Technology rules our first-world lives. The fears of a return to dark-ages that was predicted and worried about in the nineties has only become more of a risk, as ever more dependence on technology expands. First-world economies and societies, run by consumerism and led by corporations, are simply not aware of - let alone taking into account - just how much damage Information Technology does to people, nor are they considering the consequences of that damage, or their reliance on the people who are being made so ill.

    So this article's purpose is to draw attention to the enormous responsibility being placed at the feet of IT specialists - both programmers and maintainers - whilst at the same time pointing out that those very same IT specialists are under absolutely crippling psychological and physical pressure, as a direct result of working with IT systems. The question has now been asked: what do we do about this?

    (article first published as TechnoHealth by lkcl)
    Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:56:10 GMT

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