Stallman on GNU/Linux. CNet has an amusing commentary from Richard Stallman about the confusion between the GNU operating system and the Linux kernel whose development was started much later by Linus Torvalds. The point is that the kernel is only a small part of the operating system and in Unix-like operating systems can generally be changed with relatively little difficulty. You could certainly have a "Linux" system that looked exactly the same as it does today but did not use the Linux kernel or any Linux code. "Linux itself is no longer essential: the GNU system became popular in conjunction with Linux, but today it also runs with two BSD kernels and the GNU kernel," says Stallman.

Background: see my 1998 interview with RMS, originally published in Online though I can't find it on the Guardian's site. [onlineblog.com] 
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SOAP 1.2. You've probably already seen that SOAP 1.2 made it to rec. Here's the W3C's take on why you should switch. Anyone have a list of diff's from the CR version ? [Simon Fell] 
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Newsmonster: Now with Whuffie. Kevin Burton continues to make improvements to his program NewsMonster, a Mozilla-based RSS reader that uses a Whuffie-like reputation system to rank and suggest items and feeds to his readers. Unfortunately, this doesn't work for OS X yet (weird, considering that it's all Mozilla-based), but Kevin promises that by end-of-week (apparently, he's going to patch some longstanding Moz bugs and submit the changes to the Mozilla codebase).

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Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Dave Sifry recounts a phone conversation we had last week about RSS and naming, and support from blogging tools. [Scripting News] 
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stop pinging me you bugger!. via Virulent Meme: How Trackback Really Works: I’ve been about as befuddled as anyone else about this crazy trackback thingy, and these explanations (one, two, three) haven’t really helped. Still, in my attempts to figure out exactly what the hell is going on, I finally thought of an analogy that sort of nearly gets there. [Channel 'trackback'] 
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Rethinking the Application of Trackback. via Big Damn Heroes (Tech): I love Trackback... the Trotts hit a home run when they came up with it. But as we've discussed in the past, the current implementations leave much to be desired. There's little understanding of what TB is, debates over acceptable use, and concerns abo... [Channel 'trackback'] 
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Lists in CSS. via Column Two: Following on from the last blog entry, Mark Newhouse explores a lot of ways of formatting lists using CSS. To quote: In this article, I'll demonstrate how to use CSS to bring unwieldy lists under control. It's time for you [Channel 'blog_network'] 
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Mastering Regular Expressions. gianluca writes "Having always been a heedful guy, I always duly did my homework, going through the lengthy manual pages of a number of regular expressions ... [Slashdot] 
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Linkage. Now let's standardize and simplify. A well formed blog entry will have two universal resource identifiers (URI's) associated with it. One, a permaLink, will identify the preferred external "name" for this blog entry. The other, a postId, will identify the preferred internal "name". ... [Sam Ruby] 
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SOAP 1.2 Finalized.

W3C finally signed off on SOAP 1.2 by releasing it as a Recommendation.  SOAP 1.2 is a small constellation of four documents:

• SOAP Version 1.2 Primer
• SOAP Version 1.2 Messaging Framework
• SOAP Version 1.2 Adjuncts
• SOAP Version 1.2 Assertions and Test Collection.

Changes from SOAP 1.1 are summarized in From SOAP 1.l to 1.2 in 9 points [warning: it's reads like a sales brochure].  While I am not entirely happy with its content, I am happy to see it finally arrive.

[Don Park's Blog] 
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