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By Dave, July 19, 2005 4:34 pm

Resuscitating Microsoft Exchange 5.5 with Linux – OSNews.com

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I’d go with straight linux but if you have users that have to have exchange this makes much more sense than the microSloth option…

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By Dave, July 19, 2005 4:30 pm

GROKLAW
It’s been fun watching SCO spin on the Davidson 2002 email/Swartz 1999 memo, don’t you think? While a few in the media showed some confusion, and one joined SCO’s frantic spin, most seemed to get one fundamental issue as clear as a bell, and you could almost hear a collective gasp and the world saying:

You mean it was all a bluff? Is this *all* SCO was holding when they said all those horrible things about Linux? Not just Linux, but Linus too?

The sheer gall of it is what resonated, even if many didn’t quite catch why it mattered legally. Their jaws dropped, because even now, this late in the game, people still thought that SCO must have something, some basis, at least in their own minds, to embark on their swashbuckling slash-and-burn litigation attack on Linux.

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I got nothing more to say other than I suspect those brass balls of ol Darryl’s are fixin to get roasted…

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By Dave, July 19, 2005 4:20 pm

Gamila Teastick: Loose Leaves Loosely Joined :
Gizmodo

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Neat design here! I suspect it would work with coffee also for the tea challenged among us…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 4:03 pm

Fundamental Discovery About the Fracture of Human Bone: It’s All in the ‘Glue’

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Another piece of the puzzle. Cool!

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 3:29 pm

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Knoppix has it covered

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Interesting article that illustrates in much greater detail what I was trying to say earlier about linux being ready. Now. Also goes into the new installers and more.

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 3:24 pm

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) service-your-own-powerbook-fix-the-display

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Oh-Boy! Another article titled something like: We show folks how easy it is to fix their own laptop. Real title – We show folks how easy it is so they can go and turn their own expensive laptop that needs somewhat minor repair into a smoking pile of toxic waste…

I know it looks easy – But please take it to someone who does this for a living. First. Before you take it apart and put the screws back in the wrong place. At the very least…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 1:26 pm

The Huffington Post | Latest News
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R) Colo. “You Could Take Out Their Holy Sites”…

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That there old boy has got a BAD case of Hoof in Mouth…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 1:14 pm

Making Moonshine Whiskey < < John Barleycorn Must Die<< Old State House Museum

Neat site! Lots of good old fashion how to info too… 😉

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 1:12 pm

The Register Citizen – News – 07/18/2005 – Need for lightning protection ‘sparks’ a business

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I’m glad that they gave the phone number cause now I know who NOT to call with information on lighting…

One or two little things could be typos. The rest I HOPE is due to a stupid reporter…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 1:05 pm

Boing Boing: Sexy toolbelt

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Now that’s my kind of tool belt! 😉

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 11:48 am

City finds big savings in Linux

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Glad to see this. Wish more cities would wise up to not only the savings but the stability and openness. The drm restrictions on windoze products is getting worse and with LongTimeHorny coming it’s time to either make the switch or be locked in and quit bitching cause you done it to yo self…

And yes linux is ready for the desktop. And the apps are easy to install at least on some distros. PC Linux OS is one of the best I have found. It’s easy to try as it comes as a Live CD. Just pop it in the cd drive and reboot. Very easy to get used to with minor readjustment. Open office and Firefox take care of most of the general users needs and software install and update is in one application and most times you’re a click away from any app that is designed for that system. For those that need a windoze app there is Wine. Again a click install and quick configure and (most times) install the windoze app and then just click to run it.

Yes there are differences. But the time to switch and get others to switch is now. If we as techs continue to support companies that support drm and the windoze conspiracy we are letting big biz/gov win.

Make the switch now, you and your clients have nothing to loose but your:
BSODs
VIRII
Spam Generating Zombies
etc…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 11:12 am

alphaDictionary * Yankee Test

This is strange. I just took it and my score was:

84% (Dixie). Do you still use Confederate money?

YMMV 😉

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 10:07 am

Techdirt:WinZip About To Get More Annoying

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So use another product. FreeZip is what I use when I am forced to be on a windows machine. And on other platforms other utilities are available and some if not most are free so not a problem.

My take here is that the bean counters are gonna kill yet another product. Sooner or later they (lawyers and accountants) will all die off and we can get on with civilization…

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By Dave, July 18, 2005 9:31 am

Techdirt:Amazon Gets Offensive On Patents
At least the lawyers are happy.

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Which is why we need to take RAH’s advice and start with shooting ALL the lawyers…

Our schools need to teach that there is no such thing as a positive feedback device that works in the long run. NONE! Whether mechanical or economic or judicial. Any systems that rely totally on positive reinforcement will in time self-destruct due to the steady increase in speed/intensity of operation.

Stable state economy. Limited government. Laws based on humanitarian and ecological principals rather than legal precedent. Manufacturing based on need, quality, longevity, and life-span ecological impact rather than artificially created want and economic accounting.

Time to quit dreaming and get back to scanning.

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By Dave, July 17, 2005 4:52 pm

Treehugger: Everlight : public solar light for everyone

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I LIKE this streetlight!

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By Dave, July 16, 2005 11:10 pm

Digital Needle – A Virtual Gramophone

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He actually gets some noise out of the scan of a record. interesting concept!

Seems to have been done in 2002. not heard of it before.

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By Dave, July 16, 2005 5:10 pm

by david e. patty — 200507161700

bit by bit,
day by day,
i type and code
my life away.
the websites done!
the app’s all run!
but through it all,
sites large and small,
the thought still lurks –
there’s nothing there!
not even air!
just
bit
by
bit

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By Dave, July 16, 2005 9:14 am

Treehugger: DEFRA Study About Impact of ‘Food Miles’

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Glad to see this. It gives some validity to things I have suspected for years. Over 9 billion a year in just transportation costs in England alone. Not to mention the pollution…

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By Dave, July 16, 2005 1:00 am

My Web BETA – Features – Yahoo!

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Okay, I like this for me to use with all those neat sites I visit and blog about or bookmark to go back to look at later that I never do.

And I hate it! As a website designer. But if the content is free and drm doesn’t come into the picture I should not a have a problem. But…

I wonder what effect drm will have here? They are talking about outlawing google in canada for cascheing and here Yahoo is talking about saving “copies” of pages you visit for use later?

Gonna have to think about this a bit more.

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By Dave, July 15, 2005 10:30 pm

How it works – The World´s Cleanest Car.

Guess it is real…