Maybe Richard Stallman can tell Professor Zittrain the solution to this problem.
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GRUB vs. the Inodes: Who Needs a Bootable System, Anyway?
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Users of GRUB legacy, which is version 0.97, are getting bitten by an e2fsprogs incompatibility that renders their systems unbootable. e2fsprogs is the utilities package for the Ext3 filesystem, so it doesn't affect other filesystems. As this Ubuntu bug report states:
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Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Server From The Ubuntu Repositories
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) server system (i386).
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Build an Ubuntu Anonymous FTP Server
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There are a number of choices available with Ubuntu 8.04 for FTP. VSFTPD is a great choice based on the secure design and the increased SSL support in version 2.0.6. VSFTPD has replaced the WU-FTPD with a more secure ftp daemon. This ftp program is labeled as more secure, stable, faster and more scalable. VSFTPD has taken steps to minimize the privileges it takes to run the ftp program.
Read more »FUD Alert: Microsoft’s Burton Group at It Again, Slamming Microsoft Rivals
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Here is just a quick word of caution: Now comes the latest FUD from the Burton Group, Microsoft’s left-arm FUD buddy, which was only recently used against Google, VMWare and ODF. As usual, it all comes in the form of a report Microsoft can cite and distribute copies of. It’s now used against Free software, too.
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Novell Potty Calls the Kettle Black
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The headline is just a game of words and nothing personal, but mind the following take on OpenSolaris, courtesy of OpenSUSE’s community manager: "Ultimately, I can’t help but think that the problem that Sun is trying to solve with OpenSolaris is not a technical one, but one of control.
Read more »If Even the Drug Industry Collaborates, Why Software Patents?
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Back in March we provided a long list of examples where, for the sake of people’s lives and for faster research, companies decided to share their discoveries and collaborate. Withholding information means a/n (competitive) advantage to whom? What about the ethics of patents on surgical procedures?
Read more »Verdict: Microsoft’s OOXML is Not a Standard
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Rob Weir has taken a look at some semantics and considered again what it is that the world calls a “standard”: 'So, it is a document, a written description, not an embodiment in the form of a product, that is standardized.
Read more »MySQL’s Mixed-Source Dilemma
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It was probably a little hasty to say that MySQL remains open source (or Free software, with the GPL). That’s what many headlines state, but not so fast! As Matt Asay quickly pointed out, there is more to this story.
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What Does the LGPLv3-Licensed OpenOffice.org Mean to Novell, Xandros, Linspire and Turbolinux?
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As stressed many times before, IANAL, but based on the consensus of opinions in Groklaw, the GPLv3 is bound to bite companies that sold out to Microsoft in the rear. Several of these companies knew very well what they were getting into, or maybe they just weren’t concerned.
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Alex Brown Again Attacks the ‘Standard of the People’ (Updated)
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Peter Judge, over at ZDNet UK, continues to publish articles about Alex Brown’s stubborn battle against ODF, which even Alex himself considers to be analogous to “a neat house built on good foundations”.
Read more »Emacs Chess: a fully featured chess client written entirely in Emacs Lisp.
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"...This project is looking for someone who loves Emacs, Lisp and the game of chess, to fork it and take over as maintainer. The FSF has agreed to include Emacs Chess as part of the Emacs distribution, but I’ve held off because of a few remaining issues I want to see resolved before it goes mainstream..."
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Geek: How to use offlineimap and the dovecot mail server to read your Gmail in Emacs efficiently
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As usual, Sacha teaches us some useful tricks; you can really do anything you like with emacs...
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What can you do with a second Ethernet port?
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Purchase a new PC or motherboard soon, and the chances are good that it will come with two built-in network interfaces -- either two Ethernet jacks or one Ethernet and one Wi-Fi. Tossing in a second adapter is an inexpensive way for the manufacturer to add another bullet point to the product description -- but what exactly are you supposed to do with it?
Read more »Miniature Linux PC targets military apps
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Mercury Computer Systems announced a Linux-based engineering development kit (EDK) for a 7-10 pound computer that targets small ground, naval, and air vehicles. The "ruggedized" PowerBlock 50 (pictured at left) supports multiple processors to provide "well over 100 GFLOPS of processing power," according to Mercury.
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