Comment Even if it's just a rocket (Score 1) 418
I have to say 'thanks for the light show'. That's the most unusual thing I've seen in the sky!
Submission + - SCO Ousts Darl McBride (sltrib.com)
Target Practice writes: As part of an internal restructuring, the CEO position for SCO has been eliminated, and consequently Darl McBride has been fired. The best part is that Darl apparently learned about this over the Internet on Monday. Here's the press release from The SCO Group on the subject.
Submission + - Red Hat's stock price now higher than Microsoft's (cio.com.au) 3
isabright writes: Did anyone see this historic event coming? As of the last Nasdaq trade on October 19, 2009, Red Hat’s share price stood at $28.46 with the mighty Microsoft in its shadow at $26.36. That's right, the Linux vendor Red Hat now has a higher share price than Microsoft and it isn't due to the dotcom boom. Who said you can’t make a business out of free software? What’s more, the growth in the value of each share tells a very different story. According to Nasdaq data, since 2001 Red Hat has experienced more than 600 per cent growth, while during the same period Microsoft has experienced negative growth of its share price. How long will it take Microsoft to regain its lost share value?
Submission + - New gNewSense release get rids of mono programs (fsf.org)
hayalci writes: A new release of the "all-free" GNU/Linux distribution gNewSense, backed by the Free Software Foundation, hit the servers in September.
This version gets rid of two mono programs, Tomboy and Fspot, which are installed by default on Ubuntu, and replaces them by Gnote and gThumb, which perform the same functions but written in C++ and C.
More info can be found in the release announcement.
This version gets rid of two mono programs, Tomboy and Fspot, which are installed by default on Ubuntu, and replaces them by Gnote and gThumb, which perform the same functions but written in C++ and C.
More info can be found in the release announcement.
Comment No awk? Unfair... (Score 1) 641
I feel it's unfair that grep and sed were separate options, and awk isn't even listed. Those three are like a family, so this poll is like the two older kids locked their sibling in the basement and then asked their mom which of the present children was her favorite.
Comment Holy sentence structure, Batman! (Score 2, Funny) 141
"Time Warner is inching closer to untangling one of the worst mergers in American corporate history that began with the merger of Time Warner with America Online, a deal that has resulted in the evaporation of more than $100 billion of shareholder value."
This sentence deserves some untangling of its own...
Comment Re:meh (Score 1) 515
egrep 'name|MHz'
model name : Celeron (Coppermine)
cpu MHz : 631.295
MemTotal: 509424 kB
Well, I'm off a generation or so, but I'd have to agree...
Comment Re:OK, dumb question after reading the article (Score 1) 747
"My point is that like Richard Stallman who is a rabid GPL advocate, vegans are rabid food people."
I read this as "vegans are rabid people food", which brings to imagination a much livelier discussion than the one at hand.
Ah well!
Comment Re:I agree on most of that, but this seems a stret (Score 1) 257
"But I don't really see what this particular dispute over trademarks has to do with Mormonism. "
The dispute itself doesn't. The dispute's debate floor, in the Mormon capitol of the world, is where the correlation is drawn.
For example, they got the LDS leadership's advice before introducing a bill to reform alcohol laws. Everything short of requiring baptism to be in the senate here
Comment I guess I'm outdated (Score 2, Funny) 430
No Digg, Huffington Post, Gawker... Twitter, Facebook...
Am I the only one who finds such a world very comforting? Give me LORD, a 14.4 modem, and possibly let me keep SSH, and I'd feel like I'm on top of the world. I could probably even go without slashdot for a while... but don't bet on it.
