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Advocacy


General News

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Mon Oct 29th, 2007 at 19:03:41 EST

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

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Good News


General News

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Fri Apr 22nd, 2005 at 13:32:07 EST

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

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new events


General News

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Fri Mar 4th, 2005 at 14:19:15 EST

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.
-:)

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Control VS Noncontrol


General News

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Thu Feb 17th, 2005 at 16:04:52 EST

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.

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Total Innocence?


Groklaw

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Wed Feb 16th, 2005 at 09:32:12 EST

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 dont miss the correction she got from eweek.
talk about tooting your own horn?

oh and BTW for the ones that criticised me writing "colzen you rock"? PFFFFFFTTTTT
groklaw is just full of fanboy postings.
try another tactic to attack me why dont you?
one post is not being a fanboy .in fact i have disagreed with lots here at different times.but we do discuss the differences instead of hiding them if they are well written and not accusatory.
so try discussion and see if you fair better.

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.
so you want to criticise us hiding crap flooding but an anon just post an innocent topic and gets hidden.
as i say PFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTT.
we can still hold our values up.
we judge posts fairly.
more than can be said for *that* legal research site.

*Note please zero any comments not worth reading.

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Accountability


Groklaw

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Tue Feb 15th, 2005 at 16:56:05 EST

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.
**note they can mod me down but they cant stop my dairy posts.

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News Coverage on Kimball's Ruling


SCO v The World

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Thu Feb 10th, 2005 at 09:23:12 EST

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
SCO, in a statement issued Wednesday, said it was pleased with the court's order "denying without prejudice all three of IBM's motions to effectively dismiss SCO claims without a trial. Coupled with last month's ruling from the Magistrate Judge on discovery, we are now looking forward to proceeding with our case without delay and towards our day in court."

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2562327
 SCO suit still alive but judge is peeved
Where's the evidence? He scolds the Utah firm while denying IBM's dismissal bid
By Bob Mims
The Salt Lake Tribune
A federal judge Wednesday refused to grant IBM's bids to dismiss a core portion of the SCO Group's $5 billion, Linux-related lawsuit - but not before criticizing some of the Utah company's courtroom tactics.
    In September, IBM asked U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball to declare that its use of Linux had not infringed on SCO's purported Unix copyrights. The Lindon software company, in its March 2003 suit against IBM and in subsequent suits against others, contends its Unix code was illegally incorporated into the freely distributed Linux operating system.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39187411,00.htm
SCO dodges knockout blow
Stephen Shankland
CNET News.com
A judge in the United States issued a damning indictment of SCO's case against IBM, citing the 'complete lack' of evidence, but did not grant a summary judgement in IBM's favour

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600110921,00.html
Judge denies 5 motions in SCO-IBM case

By Brice Wallace
Deseret Morning News
A federal judge on Wednesday denied several motions key to the ongoing legal disputes between Lindon-based SCO Group and International Business Machines Corp.
      U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball denied one SCO motion and four IBM motions or cross-motions.
      Perhaps the most significant action Wednesday was Kimball saying it is "premature" to grant summary judgment on IBM's counterclaim that it does not infringe SCO's copyrights concerning Unix computer operating system software. He also denied a SCO motion to dismiss or stay that counterclaim.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5570265.html
Judge slams SCO's lack of evidence against IBM
By Stephen Shankland CNET News.com
The federal judge overseeing the SCO Group's suit against IBM regarding Unix and Linux has thwarted an IBM attempt to defang SCO's claims, but he also voiced loud skepticism about SCO's case.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id%3B813583771%3Bfp%3B16%3Bfpid%3B0
Judge declares SCO's lack of evidence 'astonishing'

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
 SCO suit still alive but judge is peeved
Where's the evidence? He scolds the Utah firm while denying IBM's dismissal bid
By Bob Mims
The Salt Lake Tribune
A federal judge Wednesday refused to grant IBM's bids to dismiss a core portion of the SCO Group's $5 billion, Linux-related lawsuit - but not before criticizing some of the Utah company's courtroom tactics.
    In September, IBM asked U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball to declare that its use of Linux had not infringed on SCO's purported Unix copyrights. The Lindon software company, in its March 2003 suit against IBM and in subsequent suits against others, contends its Unix code was illegally incorporated into the freely distributed Linux operating system.

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Well It Happened Now


Groklaw

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Wed Jan 26th, 2005 at 18:05:58 EST

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?
anyone else want to tell me how stupid i am and how i dont know what i am talking about
this is what i warned about months ago
the DANGER is HERE NOW
you have a petty person ,who takes revenge in sneaky underhanded ways influencing code decisions.

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The Zero Install system


General News

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Tue Jan 25th, 2005 at 22:20:19 EST

http://0install.net/index.html

is this maybe the answer for all us nongeeks?
it looks easy to use and easy to maintain too.
would i get bored with it tho after playing so much with mdk?
if i had an extra box i would be trying it out.
might also be an idea to try for my daughter to get her off MS.if anyone tries it out please let me know how it does.TIA

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Not Geeky Enough


General News

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Tue Jan 25th, 2005 at 19:43:19 EST

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!!

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How to Not Freak Out


General News

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Thu Dec 30th, 2004 at 23:53:36 EST

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.

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avoiding deletion


Groklaw

By br3n, Section Diary
Posted on Thu Dec 23rd, 2004 at 10:20:11 EST

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.
now if you ask a question about policy you find yourself constantly checking to see if your password still works or you post an explanation that you arent trolling but are just curious.
very sad that people are afraid of their account being closed for asking a question.try asking about a point of law that is contrary also to what is presented.

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.
because to me if you open that and try to defend that position it can turn and bite you very bad.

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?

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