Archive for April, 2004

More on SCO vs Linux

As I personally like to keep following this, here are two articles posted on eWeek that may be of interested to those who are also following this case:

Why SCO Thinks It Can Win:
In many pro-Linux circles, it’s a given that The SCO Group Inc. can’t possibly win in court. Obviously, SCO disagrees.

Why do you think SCO can win?
McBride: When I look at our case, I think anyone who has a rational mind would come down to the same conclusions I do.

Torvalds Did Want to See SCO’s Code:
Linus Torvalds, Linux’s founder and leader, doesn’t agree with The SCO Group Inc. CEO Darl McBride’s characterization of Torvalds as being unwilling to look at SCO’s Unix source code because “he didn’t want to be tainted by it.”

This just keeps getting more and more interesting. The SCO Group just seems to be making excuses now to try and cover their asses :rolleyes:.

April 3rd, 2004 0 Comments

Friday’s News

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I’m hoping to get back into the blogging about the news item so here is a round up of things recently..

It is OK to share files, even copyrighted files, according to a Canadian court.

A University discovery in America claims that file trading and music swapping has no effect on CD sales

eWeek predicts that DOS is on its death bed with DeviceLogic releases what could be the final version of DR-DOS to hit the market.

If you’re a bit of an adventurer and feel like doing some testing for Microsoft, why not download the Windows XP SP2 Technical Preview?

AOL have a spammer’s porsche up for grabs in a sweepstakes contest..

DXtremz of the Messenger Plus! Community has posted the first full review (including many screenshots) boasting about the new features in Messenger Plus! 3. View it at Plus!Lite.com

Apple is struggling to meet demands of its new iPod mini and have pushed back the international release date.

On the topic of Apple and the iPod’s, Eminem has been dubbed the music leader..

That should hopefully keep you busy, I’m going to get some Ice cream cake..

OH! That reminds me! :-o

I finished the Bucket of Jelly! Finally! It was an enormous task, but I managed in the end.. thing is though, I want more! :D

April 2nd, 2004 2 Comments

April Fools 2004

And what an interesting day it was. The inbox on my phone was flooded with SMS messages from someone i didnt know, saying “omg!hi2u2!”. After clearing them…

A message from my brother “I have just been suspended from school for telling (teacher) to get f’d”.. Funny thing is, i actually beleived him..

Now, as the day is officially over, here is a listing of some of the pranks i have noticed or found listed elsewhere:

Recruitment for Google’s new moon office
Free 1gb Email Accounts from Google

Handy fan tip on PCUser

A new form of compression involving naked people

1 minute DVD burning

Sony drops PS1 and PS2 in favour of handhelds

Telstra Cable shutting down

ThinkGeek’s new line of products

Bash.org’s method of approving quotes

L-plates for Yum cha carts

Neowin merging with ActiveWin

There are probably alot more..

April 2nd, 2004 0 Comments