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Novell makes iFolder open source

Novell makes iFolder open source 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
One of the more interesting announcements at last week's BrainShare, at least to me, was that Novell was going to open source its iFolder technology.

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits." 02/17/2004 11:57 PM
As per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself) Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found my post: http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words: ___snip____ -- From: Katrin Verclas Email: steering (a) nosi.net Hi, Kevin - NOSI actually just released a new...

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group 05/07/2004 04:33 PM
A key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the legal standing of open-source software.

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life 06/23/2004 08:27 PM
As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! — here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So there.)...

Open source opportunity, open source
risk

Open source opportunity, open source
risk 09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've been working my way through the ITConversations audio archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's interview with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the ArsDigita flameout, Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the risk, of open source as a business model. ...

Open source process for open source
development

Open source process for open source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board of directors: Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer. (via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)

From open source to open services to
open information

From open source to open services to
open information 03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My March 21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition because, on the same day, a new events database called EVDB was announced and shown at PC Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among others: Dan Farber, Ross Mayfield, Om Malik, David Weinberger, and Paul Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes). The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style, Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public. ...

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb) 04/08/2005 04:56 AM
TechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community 05/05/2004 04:06 AM
About a month ago, Microsoft posted some of its source code to SourceForge. SourceForge is a, if not the, major distribution point for open source software. Microsoft's code was put there under the terms of the Common Public License, which allows modification, addition, redistribution - in short, it allows most of the rights and privileges that we associate with open source software.

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source 02/13/2004 02:37 PM
What should Microsoft do, now that a chunk of its NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 source code have leaked onto the Web? Our guest columnist says Microsoft should make lemonade out of lemons and just open source the whole enchilada.

Open source process for closed source
development

Open source process for closed source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

IBM Adopts Open Development Internally: "Following on the success of its Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a form of open-source development internally to create technology the company will sell commercially.

IBM calls its model Community Source, which it defines as a collaborative, internal, open-source-style environment for developing and testing new technology.

Danny Sabbah, vice president of strategy and technology for the IBM Software Group, in Armonk, N.Y., said IBM is using its Community Source model across 100 projects and 2,000 developers in the company. These projects span the IBM Software Group, Systems Group, Research and Global Services, he said."

Very interesting. I'd like to learn more about that. What parts of the so called open source development process have they built into the Community Source model? I've found that most developers have different definitions of the open source development process (via Ross Gardler).

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The meeting comprised four panels: Business, Technical, Legal, and Social and Ethical, each of which featured an introduction of the issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the speakers and the audience. The aim was to capture and publish the issues discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the benefits of Open Source.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model. 02/18/2004 10:41 PM
Pi ngtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business Model. Interesting.

Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks

Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks 04/12/2005 08:07 PM
Accessible through common Web browsers, the collaboration platform lets users share e-mail, calendar, tasks, threaded discussions and documents originating from both proprietary and open-source systems.

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware 12/19/2003 11:45 AM
MSFT's apparent incapacity for patching MSIE vulnerabilities hasn't deterred open-source hackers, who have released a free software patch for a well-known Explorer vulnerability.

Update: Andrew sez, "...it contains buffer overflow exploits that are wide open for hax0r5 to take advantage of. In addition, it redirects weird URL requests to -it's own website-."

Update: Yoz points out that the patch has been patched. Link (via /.)

When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter

When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter 07/20/2004 11:14 AM
One frustration too many: time for a rant. When a bug in Mozilla (keyboard focus is on the previously selected window) has remained unfixed for at least 18 to 24 months, when XFree86 mouse interaction with PS/2 or GPM remains hazardous and makes a system unusable and that bug has been fobbed off to the kernel developers and not dealt with for at least two years - when there are more examples like this that make using Open Source software a pain, what do you do?

Are you one of the few people with the time and money and expertise sufficient to delve into the source yourself to fix the problem?

Do we have it "too good" and these niggles are, by comparison to the rest of the world's computer users (Windows), absolute peanuts?

Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)

Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com) 08/03/2004 10:28 AM
washingtonpost.com - Plenty of tech experts have spent years trying to convince the general public that the Linux operating system is becoming more of a threat to Microsoft's Windows. With the LinuxWorld conference underway this week in San Francisco, there is finally a sure-fire sign that this may be the case: Microsoft won't be there.

More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention

More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention 08/09/2004 12:52 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Aug 9 2004 5:11AM GMT

Open source cracks publishing wide open

Open source cracks publishing wide open 06/17/2004 11:24 AM
Once upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations. Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat. Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle, are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.

Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source

Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source 06/16/2004 11:32 AM
The White Rabbit has beckoned us down the wrong rabbit hole. Much has been made about the open source revolution, and with good reason. The open source development model produces superior software. But, in my estimation, the real promise of open source lies not in open source, but rather in open distribution. Here's why ...

Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source

Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source 02/13/2004 02:37 PM
ANALYSIS: Redmond would be smart to make lemonade out of lemons by releasing the rest of the Windows code and letting developers have at it.

Open-Xchange Server goes open source

Open-Xchange Server goes open source 08/04/2004 09:46 AM
LINUXWORLD -- Open-Xchange Server, the Microsoft Exchange Server workalike, is being released under the GPL at the end of August. Open-Xchange Server is the engine behind Novell/SUSE's Openexchange Server, and is produced by Netline Internet Service. Netline CEO Frank Hoberg will be in the Novell booth during most of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, displaying what a company press release describes as "the industry's top-selling Linux-based groupware, collaboration, and messaging application."

Open Arms for Open-Source News

Open Arms for Open-Source News 07/22/2004 06:17 AM
A California newspaper is turning over the news to the people: If you think it's news, it probably is to somebody, so write it up. By Daniel Terdiman.

Open source and visible source

Open source and visible source 06/08/2004 09:11 AM

Zope Corp.'s layered strategy of engagement with open source and visible-source communities is a compelling blend of the strengths of free and commercial software development. In two previous columns, Open source citizenship and Giving back to open source, I explored the tendency of enterprises to fork open source projects rather than join them. Pedhazur suggests that a commercial entity supporting both an open source base and a visible-source layered product can reduce the need to fork. By outsourcing code enhancements, the argument goes, an enterprise can enjoy single-throat-to-choke control without seceding from a project's community. It remains to be seen how broadly this model can apply, but in cases where it does, what's not to like? [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

In this two-minute clip, Zope Corp.'s Chairman Hadar Pedhazur describes the visible source model as a middle-ground option between the few large open source projects, whose direction an enterprise cannot easily influence, and the many smaller ones that enterprises can influence, but typically fork in order to do so. ...

Microsoft open to open source

Microsoft open to open source 06/24/2004 12:49 PM
Microsoft Corp. says it is looking to turn over more of its programs to open-source software developers, playing a greater role in a process that the Redmond company has criticized strongly at times in the past. Money-makers like the company's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite aren't on the table -- or anywhere near it. But the company has so far released two software-development tools to the open-source community, and it wants to continue the practice, a Microsoft platform manager told an industry group this week.

Open season on open source

Open season on open source 05/21/2004 01:07 AM

Microsoft open to open-source

Microsoft open to open-source 06/24/2004 08:17 AM

Wired News: Open Arms for Open-Source
News

Wired News: Open Arms for Open-Source
News 07/23/2004 03:07 AM
turns content control to the people .. Open Arms for Open-Source News

wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64285,00.html
track this site | 4 links

Second source, not open source, is the
key

Second source, not open source, is the
key 06/16/2004 09:56 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 16 2004 2:16PM GMT

Open Source UIs

Open Source UIs 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
Improving Open Source UI.

My response to Eric Raymond's rant on the poor quality of open source UI is: No Kidding, Sherlock.  It shouldn't surprise anyone that open source UI is crappy and I am surprised that it took Eric this long to notice the problem.  As to why, it's because:

• open source developers have little interest nor incentive to do it right.
• most software developers lack the knowledge and experience to design good UIs.
• UI design is hard and insanely tedious, even for the professionals.

Frankly, I don't think it is realistic to expect open source developers to build good UIs.  Instead, open source software should be designed to make it easier for others to change or replace the UI without understanding the code underneath.  Let a thousand UIs bloom and may the best one win.  In other words, leverage evolution in pursuit of good UIs.

[Don Park's Daily Habit]

In 1999 - when Dave Winer developed XML-RPC - we were the first company to build a client side, browser based interface to it.  We did a 'broadband' version of Dave's 'Mail to the Future' service.

That mini-project proved that it was possible to de-couple the front-end UI from the backend.

Here's a screen from that interface.  We spent all of 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 - waiting for the world to catch up with us.  Now it looks like that time has come.

All I can say to Don Park is "you just wait - dude".  Wait till you meet Jim Collins.

..::LvL Open Source

..::LvL Open Source 03/15/2003 07:15 AM
Effortless FreeBSD updates

New Open SOurce C++

New Open SOurce C++ 07/29/2004 02:59 AM
RedcellX chooses to open source C++ embedded projects. Developers of key Internet technologies RedcellX confirm advantages of open source development process and agree to cooperate in opening the source code to the Cherry ++ OS and Networking Stack. [PRWEB Jul 29, 2004]

Open Source Kit

Open Source Kit 08/03/2004 07:44 PM
Re-packaging Open Source for the SMB Enterprise

Open Source Top Ten

Open Source Top Ten 08/27/2004 01:37 PM
The Letterman Show lets visitors to their Web site suggest Top Ten entries for a weekly topic. This week the topic is "Top Ten Ways New York Is Preparing For the Republican National Convention." Go make merry....

Open Source for my Mom

Open Source for my Mom 01/03/2003 12:49 AM
I wish I could convert the Linux box that sits in my old bedroom in Ohio into a "workstation" for my parents. Right now they share my Dad's Gateway notebook from work. It runs Windows 98. It came with Windows...

CA looks to open source

CA looks to open source 05/06/2004 04:42 AM
ZDNet UK May 6 2004 9:27AM GMT

The war against open source

The war against open source 12/28/2004 12:50 PM
ZDNet Dec 28 2004 4:02PM GMT

What has IBM done lately for open
source?

What has IBM done lately for open
source? 07/07/2004 09:00 PM
Listening to the Gillmor Gang's excellent interview with Sun's Jonathan Schwartz, I found a question for IBM's Bob Sutor which I didn't ask during my initial IT Conversations interview, now posted, with Sutor. The question: Precisely which technologies has IBM...
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Nick understands why it's Obama in 2012

Nick understands why it's Obama in 2012 07/28/2004 12:45 AM
all anybody wants is to be inspired

Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing
politics.slashdot.org

Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing
politics.slashdot.org 09/07/2004 12:10 PM

Wireless Competes with Cable, DSL

Wireless Competes with Cable, DSL 01/05/2004 01:40 PM
A handful of small companies are delivering wireless broadband access to residents and businesses in and around Seattle: Most of the companies use Wi-Fi to serve customers as far as five miles from an antenna and they're charging around $30 a month for a 1.5 Mbps service. These small operators are welcomed with open arms especially by residents who aren't served by any other type of broadband access. I'd love to see one of these startups expand and stay in business for a while. As this article notes, these small broadband wireless providers tend to come and go. The service providers targeting rural areas may have more success in the future if the FCC decides to loosen up power restrictions. Apparently the FCC is considering allowing operators in rural areas to use higher transmit power levels than operators in cities. In rural areas there's less potential for interference and more need to allow signals to travel far because people tend to be more spread out....

How the web competes for ad dollars -
even at the local level

How the web competes for ad dollars -
even at the local level 03/23/2005 12:43 AM
InternetRetailer.com Mar 23 2005 4:48AM GMT

Microsoft competes, Oracle insists

Microsoft competes, Oracle insists 06/22/2004 07:12 PM
Microsoft Corp. competes in the enterprise applications space, Oracle Corp. said in a white paper distributed one day before a top Microsoft executive is scheduled to testify to the contrary in the U.S. government's case to block Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft Inc.

McCaw Competes for Wireless Broadband
(NewsFactor)

McCaw Competes for Wireless Broadband
(NewsFactor) 06/03/2004 06:53 PM
NewsFactor - Another player has emerged in the wireless broadband market -- Clearwire, led by cellular communications pioneer Craig McCaw -- with hopes of delivering affordable high-speed Internet access to the unconnected masses.

NetSuite Competes on Sarbox Angle
(NewsFactor)

NetSuite Competes on Sarbox Angle
(NewsFactor) 06/17/2004 03:01 PM
NewsFactor - On-demand enterprise application provider NetSuite has announced 30 new customers among the ranks of publicly traded companies.

Shark Attack Victim Competes in Surf
Meet

Shark Attack Victim Competes in Surf
Meet 01/11/2004 01:33 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 11 2004 0:43AM ET

Apple competes for multi-million dollar
school deal

Apple competes for multi-million dollar
school deal 01/06/2005 03:00 PM
With Hewlett-Packard dropping out of the race, Apple Computer, IBM and Dell are still in the running to obtain a deal with a school district in Georgia to supply more than 63,000 laptop computers. A report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says Cobb County School District’s multimillion-dollar laptop computer proposal involves giving laptops to more than 63,000 teachers and middle and high school students at estimated cost of about $69.4 million over four years. Other expenses, including support, training and maintenance would have to be negotiated. The school system expects one-time costs of about $4.5 million to upgrade wireless capabilities in schools, plus additional or upgraded servers and server storage. Cost seems to be the major issue, with Cobb officials making no secret of their desire to pay $275 per machine – the same cost of Michigan's recent laptop contract with Hewlett-Packard. Cobb's undertaking would be one of the largest laptop programs in the United States if approved.

Growth in mobile marketing services
competes with Internet marketing

Growth in mobile marketing services
competes with Internet marketing 03/23/2005 02:28 AM
AME Info Mar 23 2005 6:31AM GMT

Slashdot caído

Slashdot caído 08/02/2004 05:18 PM

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.0

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.0 02/17/2004 11:50 AM
An adapter that lets you read Slashdot articles on a WAP enabled mobile phone.

Slashdot Humour

Slashdot Humour 04/20/2004 08:43 PM

Spotted in a thread about a newly discovered TCP/IP vulnerability:

No problem (Score:5, Funny)
by niom (638987) on Tuesday April 20, @03:18PM (#8920438)

I'll just switch to UDP.

Re:No problem (Score:5, Funny)
by TheTomcat (53158) on Tuesday April 20, @03:25PM (#8920559)

more like:
UDP just I. switch ll'll to I just

Slashdot Down for Service

Slashdot Down for Service 07/16/2004 11:55 PM
Geeks of the world, relax! Slashdot, that uber-blog of open-source technology news isn't under attack. It is, however, undergoing a scheduled, but unannounced, code refresh.

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.2

Slashdot for WAP phones 1.2 07/21/2004 09:26 AM
An adapter that lets you read Slashdot articles on a WAP enabled mobile phone.

The Slashdot Effect

The Slashdot Effect 12/17/2004 06:43 PM

Slashdot effect: Interesting comments and links about the Slashdot effect.

Few definitive numbers exist regarding the precise magnitude of the Slashdot effect, but estimates put the peak of the mass influx of page requests at anywhere from several hundred to several thousand hits per minute. The flood usually peaks when the article is at the top of Slashdot's front page and gradually subsides as the story is superseded by newer items. Traffic usually remains at elevated levels until the article is pushed off the front page, which can take from 12 to 18 hours after its initial posting.

Someday people will live in fear of "The Gadgetopia Effect."

Slashdot Gets Real

Slashdot Gets Real 09/14/2004 02:27 PM
Real Networks' CEO, Rob Glaser, talks Harmony, Freedom of Choice, and support for the Mac OS in a revealing Slashdot interview.

Gnomoradio on Slashdot

Gnomoradio on Slashdot 09/10/2004 12:59 PM

Last October we wrote about Gnomoradio, software that helps people share CC-licensed music.

Gnomoradio has made good progress since then. Check out the new screenshots.

One Gnomoradio screenshot. Click for more.

Now Slashdot has taken notice, with ensuing discussion.

Slashdot Is Worthless

Slashdot Is Worthless 01/07/2003 09:53 PM
There. I said it. Slashdot is worthless. OK, I'll admit that the headlines are useful, but the comments certainly are not. The sad thing about Slashdot is that there are still people posting useful and interesting comments, and they're utterly and completely lost among the utter crap that floods the site. Generally I make do by simply ignoring the comments section on Slashdot entirely, but after reading the comments on the Jhai PC yesterday, I realized that the comments section is not just worthless but actually a malign force. -- rafeco

I see it slightly differently. Slashdot is great as a black hole for all the stupid comments you have kept deep down inside you, a place you can let go of all your shit. Just like this weblog!

"tri" Link thanks to Archipelago.

"zeldman.honey"

Slashdot over IPv6

Slashdot over IPv6 02/13/2003 05:05 AM
This trick works for most sites by simply appending .sixxs.org to the domain part of a url, eg http://www.google.com.sixxs.org, the gateway will the rewrite ...

Slashdot Weekend Roundup

Slashdot Weekend Roundup 04/26/2004 07:40 AM
Slashdot had some good gadget news this weekend (I know! They must have changed the mix in their daily free Thinkgeek Crazy Caffeine Slurry). The first was a tongue-in-cheek homemade mod which stuffs the cooling power of case fans into a gel mousepad, dubbed the 'BreezePad.' Then there was the...

RSS abuse and Slashdot IP banning

RSS abuse and Slashdot IP banning 05/12/2004 03:50 PM

I've had a number of people ask me about t his blog entry, whose title suggests that FeedDemon was banned from Slashdot. If you read the entire entry you'll find out that the subject is misleading - it's really about how Slashdot tries to protect itself from people who make too many requests on their feed.

Given the un necessary bandwidth consumption caused by some RSS readers, Slashdot certainly has every right to try to protect themselves from RSS abuse. The problem is that they ban based on IP address - which obviously causes problems for those behind a proxy server that shares a single IP address with dozens of other users. In all fairness, though, I'm not sure of a better solution to Slashdot's valid concerns.

Anyway...since some who read the aforementioned article thought it might be due to a problem in FeedDemon, I just wanted to make it clear that this will happen regardless of which RSS reader you use if you're behind an IP-sharing proxy. As I pointed out in an earlier post, FeedDemon employs a number of techniques to keep bandwidth consumption to a minimum - which not only keeps it 'Net-friendly, but also makes it extremely fast since it doesn't waste time performing unnecessary updates.

Slashdot: The Hardened-PHP Project

Slashdot: The Hardened-PHP Project 05/17/2004 02:44 AM
Stefan Esser is the author of the Hardened PHP project. Reading through the feature-list, i cannot help but feel that some of these features should have been rolled into PHP's standard safe-mode. Implementing it as a set of patches just means a lot more work for everyone, particularly the maintainer.

Some of the responses to this post were quite interesting. Among other things, PHP appears to be a great programming tool for Porn.

Slashdot Reviews 'We the Media'

Slashdot Reviews 'We the Media' 08/04/2004 06:58 PM
On Slashdot, Ernie Miller has positive thoughts in a review of We the Media. Then the Slashdot readers chime in with their typically wide-ranging assortment of comments.

Legal uses for P2P catalogued on
Slashdot

Legal uses for P2P catalogued on
Slashdot 12/27/2004 10:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Supreme Court have agreed to hear the appeal on Grokster v MGM, the court case that EFF won, legalizing P2P networks. To help save the Internet's bacon, Slashdot users have clubbed together to catalog noninfringing uses for P2P networks.

Durring the beginning of the Iraq war, I used P2P to get video and pictures that were censored from the US. The instant I hear about pictures, recordings, etc. on another network they can't show in the US, I go find them on P2P. Along with that search, I also found pictures that solders had taken along the way. Then I found gunship video (de-classified and classified because it had altitude/other readings) showing people walking into a building. The order came, and they leveled the building. Then started firing on anyone leaving the scene. You could actually see the men get thrown around after getting hit with munitions. On, and this video just happened to show one man running into a mosque so he was let go. (sure it wasn't leaked on purpose)

Link (via Waxy)

Slashdot Commentors on SuprNova

Slashdot Commentors on SuprNova 12/22/2004 01:03 AM

Following up on Torrent Shutdowns: Slashdot has posted a bit on Sup rNova being shutdown. What I found interesting were the comments: they are generally very anti-SuprNova, very pro-copyright. An example:

Furthermore, this is exactly what should be happening: the government attacks those who break the law, rather than those who create the tools. Bit torrent and p2p applications have legal, useful purposes; by seeking those who use them in illegal ways rather than banning them altogther is appropriate, rather than trying to ban them.

I find this odd (notice I said "odd," not "wrong") for a site like Slashdot.

Slashdot Goes Dark, Briefly

Slashdot Goes Dark, Briefly 07/19/2004 02:49 AM
Extreme Tech Jul 19 2004 7:08AM GMT

Firefox and Rendering Slashdot

Firefox and Rendering Slashdot 12/19/2004 03:25 PM
I've been getting this error viewing various pages at Slashdot with Firefox on and off since about version 0.8. Hitting refresh renders the page properly though. Is this an issue with Firefox or with Slashdot's ancient markup?

Open source iFolder is here

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