MS-Funded Alexis de Toqueville Institution Attacks Linus, Probably Making Itself a Laughingstock. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. . . more FUD attacks.This is so stupid I think we need a parody done by Scott Lazar. But I'll do my best to tell you the news with a straight face. The Alexis de Toqueville Institution, who as you may recall admitted it gets funding from Microsoft, has put out a press release on a "study" they have done that suggests that Linus isn't the father of Linux after all. Another "independent" study with Microsoft peeking out from behind the curtain. It's good when you are opposed by Larry and Moe. How dumb do you need to be to attack Linus Torvalds? As I've said before, it's like kicking Dorothy's little dog, Toto. All you get for your trouble is a lot of really offended folks who seriously dislike you and all your supporters. Their press release provides no proof, no facts, no details, but it claims the author, the head of the Institution, Ken Brown, did extensive interviews with Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie, and Andrew Tanenbaum before discovering Linux's "questionable" roots. Linus, unbeknownst to us, is not the man of intergrity we know him to have proven himself to be. Instead, I gather they mean to say he is a common thief, or so the Institution hints, who stole from UNIX. Because they provide no explanation, beyond the hints, we are compelled to draw the conclusion that this is what they seem to mean: "Brown suggests the invention of Unix is an integral part of the Linux story commenting, 'It is clear that people's exceptional interest in the Unix operating system made Unix one of the most licensed, imitated, and stolen products in the history of computer science.'" I guess Linus'd have to be a liar too, because he has stated publicly that the origins of Linux were not UNIX. The article about their "study" is here. Here is a taste: "Popular but controversial 'open source' computer software, generally contributed on a volunteer basis, is often taken or adapted from material owned by other companies and individuals, a study by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution finds. . . . "Among other points, the study directly challenges Linus Torvalds' claim to be the inventor of Linux." Maybe Linus would lie and steal other people's code if it's like that movie, "Invasion of the Cabbage People", or whatever that horror movie was called, where people's brains were taken over, and they were then pliable and did things they never would do as their true selves. [GrokLaw]
What's next? Bill Gates is not the father of Window$? "Kill Bill" is a pro-Linux movie?
I am using distcc to speed up the compilation of my Gentoo emerges. It speeds up everything a lot. While emerging kde, I looked at what my system was doing using top and I saw several times that multiples instances of ld were competing for the CPUs. It made me wonder if there is a way to parallelize linking like compiling? I Googled it and found nothing...
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I installed kernel 2.4.26 on my main workstation last Thursday. I found it quite unstable. Kontact kept on freezing, and the whole machine froze solid two times. This is quite unusual as I ran 2.4.22 on it for 50 days non-stop. Anybody else with the same experience?
On my main back-up machine I'll soon install LVM to be able to grow my back-up volume. I started with a 180GB hard drive and it is full now. I want to extend it with an empty 80GB on my main drive. I hope I'll be able to do it without losing data. we'll see.
I will also install the CIFS patch to be able to mount, through Samba, Windows volumes with files bigger than 2GB since I have some on the drives I back-up on this Linux machine.
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Posted by CmdrTaco (30% noise) View kormoc writes “It all started with a ebay auction when the seller got a email from a dude who wanted to scam him. It was a normal setup and it went horribly wrong… for the scammer. This has turned from a awful plight for a ebay user to a wonderful prank on the scammer. Throw in some crazy brits with digicams and you have the making of a great story. MirrorMirror” That should get the coffee out your nostrils on a fine sunday morning. Note that you have to download the PDF to read the story.
Imagine… - by kitzilla (Score: 5, Funny) Thread
…a B-B-B-Beowulf cluster of those P-P-P-Powerbooks!
The really sad part of this is … - by Skapare (Score: 5, Funny) Thread
The really sad part of this is that some scammer now has a really excellent work of art. It will probably sell for several million pounds in a couple hundred years. That would be about the price of a cup of coffee.
That bluetooth mouse just cracks me up!
Thye funniest part of the pics - by bjdevil66 (Score: 5, Funny) Thread
I finally got "Irish Blood, English Heart", the latest single by Morrissey. Excellent guitar intro, punchy lyrics. I wonder what the Canadian version of the lyrics could be knowing federal elections are coming...
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