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Important Site InformationPLEASE NOTE - Anonymous posting temporarily disabled due to the spambot attack. It will be turned back on as soon as I can block this current wave of spambots. Sorry. Did you know this site's content is primarily - YOURS? Yes, the site owner occasionally contributes an article (in between playing around with the Scoop stuff). But mostly, it is up to you our readers and members to write the articles about IP that you want others to know about. DiaryBy br3n, Section Diary
i am invovled with our UCLU free software project.i am just getting started in it so all the credit goes to the LUG guys.
but i volunteered to help with a lions club project and it will involve installing edubuntu on PC,s for disadvantaged children. i had never used any of the ubuntu products except for a kubuntu install that i never could get a mouse working on it so i had wiped and installed mandriva 2005 on it and the mouse still didnt work so i didnt know how the kubuntu was in use. i just got another box and installed edubuntu on it and have to say ¨WOW¨.the ease of java and sound and all the other goodies that i have never installed.sweet.so friday is supposed to be the day we go to start the installs.they bought a win 98 license for these boxes but decided to try this out so hopefully they will like the way these look better than win 98 br3n (3 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
some of you knew i have been waiting forever on test results.over 3 months since this started.they did 2 things,the first was taking a culture of a sore that wont heal.all i got for answer on that was it was negative so the doc says that is good news?
the other was mammogram results and they all came back clean.the doctor wants to do some more tests but isnt sure which to do first so i am still in waiting mode,but very much at peace with things so far.i am highly agitated that it takes so long to get test results but not much i can do about that. i figure i just beat all the odds today-:) cancer twice and actual lumps conbfirmed and now everything clean? wonder what the odds were? -:) br3n (22 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
i am having some major events right now going on in my life,health wise.
lots of upcoming tests and already had ER visit to hospital so my online time is very irregular. my husband is very worried and is also taking time off to spend with me and just have a few days of quality time for us. we plan to leave tuesday or wed next week and return sunday so if i dont answer emails you will understand hopefully. i will share more as i find out for sure what is going on. please dont feel sorry for me.i am a fighter and emotionally very strong.also i dont fear what i dont know,and right now i know very little. -:) (18 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/10/1539242&from=rss
The paradox of free/open source project management By: Joe Barr Leaders from three separate but related -- and incredibly successful -- free/open source projects agree: If you want the project to move to the next level, let go and let the community take over. We asked Larry Wall, creator of Perl; Brian Behlendorf, the Apache Project leader; and Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, for their thoughts on why this happens and how they and their projects have fared as a result. (14 comments, 316 words in story) Full Story By br3n, Section Diary
PJ writes "Some of the booths give you stuff if you watch their sales pitch. IBM's salesman gave me the brushoff, because I wasn't in the right category he was looking for. It made me smile."
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php
PJ ought to be so proud of this dig.i mean it isnt mean.no telling what the repercussions for the IBM salesguy.just a total disregard for how her blog might effect others lives.what total crap!
oh and BTW for the ones that criticised me writing "colzen you rock"? PFFFFFFTTTTT
when you read the groklaw blog you see censorship still going on.dont any anons dare to post the first topic "off topic here".it will get deleted/hidden. *Note please zero any comments not worth reading. (58 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
http://finance.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?.mm=FN&action=m&board=1607394124&tid=ckx&sid=1607394124&mid=14756
this is prime example when a legal research site thumbs their nose at rules and promises they make.it encourages members to ignore rules. whether the phrase i used is copyrightable is not the issue.it is that cdbaric has no respect for copyright at all.this is the fourth copying of posts from IP-W. not even attempting to follow the ccl at all. why didnt he use a link? could it be because groklaw doesnt allow links so he doesnt know how? when a legal research site sets the standard low for itself this is the result. wondering what legal research site i am referring to? of course it is groklaw. when one of our members copied a post from groklaw and we were told about it,it was almost immediately removed. we sure havent seen that from groklaw. jgabriel has asked for his posts to either have the attribution fixed or for them to be deleted as per the site promised when they were posted. groklaw has ignored this request. a request was made for someone to code a program to fix the attribution and it was done by one of IP-W members and submitted. still hasnt been fixed. continues to ignore. after all as PJ says "it's my blog" it is PJ's site.
*note please zero any comments not worth reading. (40 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=47409&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Judge: IBM to provide data to SCO
Grace Leong DAILY HERALD
http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2562327
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39187411,00.htm
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600110921,00.html
By Brice Wallace
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5570265.html
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id%3B813583771%3Bfp%3B16%3Bfpid%3B0 Rodney Gedda In a sign that the long-running battle between IBM and The SCO Group over alleged copyright infringement may be winding down, US district court judge Dale Kimball has labelled SCO's ability to provide evidence to support its case as astonishing and has denied the company's motion to dismiss a key counterclaim by IBM.
http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2562327 (8 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050126023359386
I know you are aware that Groklaw was asked to provide input on the CDDL license, among others, and marbux and I will be writing about that with more particularity later. There are complex issues that flow from the Microsoft factor. I tried very hard to argue the case for the GPL.
what say you now? (30 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
http://0install.net/index.html
is this maybe the answer for all us nongeeks? (18 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
i really thought i had foobar'd the system last time i tried to update and couldnt figure out what was happening,well i got something really weird going the last two times i tried updating.i got signature key errors and onother error that told me nothing except it didnt update because of needing some RPM that it was d/l ing at the same time.
the last time i finally updated one at a time and everything went fine but this time i wanted to try to solve what was going on. i keep thinking i am doomed on this mdk 10.0 and 2.6.3 kernel because i never had these issues before. anyway lots of talking led to a key word with someone that hangs with me on irc a lot they connected the 2 RAM is the keyword. i have major RAM issues which i already knew. but i never connected it to update problems. but when i mentioned this was only happening with updates that had to d/l a bunch at one time he said "Br3n dont you have RAM problems too?" bells and whistles. sigh hopefully i will be able to get more RAM in a few weeks.and that should solve lots of problems that i seem to be having. i know the kernel needs updating but so far it just didnt seem critical as of yet. i have no other users except my daughter on my box so the vuln doesnt effect me from what i read? moral is I am NOT a GEEK yet!! just a wannabe Geek!! (41 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
when you foobar your system?
i hate to do updates when i am sick and know better than to try when i am not sharp and feeling ok.but sometimes we become so self confident and our egos think we can handle anything that comes along and then sigh,it bites. i had not updated because of being too ill and unable to really cope but the list was growing so i went ahead and did it today. i use mandrake and it erased ,ate or whatever you want to call it my MCC.gone ,poof . just closed itself down and when you type in terminal it gives an error. bash: mcc: command not found looking back up the log we also find this error. INTERNAL ERROR: can't find MandrakeUpdate MDK::Common::Various::internal_error() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk2.pm:60 8 so i guess tomorrow i will be fighting to see what needs to be done to find what i lost. (12 comments) Comments >> By br3n, Section Diary
freedom is a strange thing.some dont even realize what it means.they have ideas of it but dont fully understand till a freedom they are used to is removed.
reading groklaw now is a very different experience to what it was when it start on radio web.then the only thing anyone was ever called on was language or making suggestions to illegal activity.
oh i know it is pj's blog but come on folks,get real.there are moral and ethical issues come up that are ignored.people keep saying to handle it privately but when you try that route she ignores it.if you speak out in public on another board you are subjected to the lowest accusations a person can dig up.even against your family is not too low.you might ought to reflect on that for awhile. everyone seems to forget i removed myself from groklaw and requested the deletion,because i was ashamed of the association to it.i tested the hypothesis and it proved correct by me being demoted from moderator position.i had taken that CHOICE.that wasnt pj's decision,it was mine and quit trying to rob me of that wise decision. now how do people plan to stay on groklaw and not be deleted?they have to be tiptoeing around and watching everything they post,doesnt that sound like fun? (91 comments) Comments >>
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