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| twitter | Journaled PR firm uglies http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/219917 | Dec 20 03:19 |
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| twitter | A little something Bill Gates does with his money, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109... | Dec 20 04:11 |
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| twitter | Yes, while millions of ordinary Americans are losing their homes, Gates and buddies were building yet another tacky pleasure palace. This one failed because of a divorce by it's founder, and the company stiffed the people working there. | Dec 20 04:13 |
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| twitter | Fat cats get their bailout bonuses Legally, thanks to GWB http://www.prwatch.org/node/8075 | Dec 20 05:42 |
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| twitter | hush money means hush, http://www.prwatch.org/node/8070 | Dec 20 05:45 |
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| schestowitz | F*. I FINALLY Found out what broke YouTube for me. | Dec 20 09:32 |
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| schestowitz | 2 days ago they did maintenance and their sensitive spot was Flashblock. | Dec 20 09:32 |
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| schestowitz | I couldn't find this by Google search | Dec 20 09:32 |
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| schestowitz | I tried disabling greasemonkey, debugging JavaScript... everything... the stuff burns a couple of hours. It was all down to Flashblock, which needed disabling, so.......... | Dec 20 09:33 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.telegeography.com/wordpress/?p=78 Cable Cuts Disrupt Internet in Middle East and India, Again | Dec 20 11:13 |
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| Omar87 | Hi all. | Dec 20 11:55 |
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| schestowitz | Hi. | Dec 20 12:06 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.pcworld.com/article/155796/under... "Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut, according to France Telecom." | Dec 20 12:57 |
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| Omar87 | schestowitz: Yup, that explains why my internet connections is slow as hell.. =_= | Dec 20 13:03 |
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| Omar87 | connection* | Dec 20 13:04 |
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| schestowitz | Yay! DRM coming to radio: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ent... | Dec 20 13:04 |
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| trmanco | yay? :-P | Dec 20 13:08 |
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| Omar87 | I can't see where's the "yay" part here. :p | Dec 20 13:10 |
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| Omar87 | Isn't the Radio a DRM territory already? | Dec 20 13:10 |
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| schestowitz | I was joking. It was a "yay" or frustration | Dec 20 13:13 |
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| Omar87 | lol :-) | Dec 20 13:13 |
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| Omar87 | But isn't it already DRM'ed? | Dec 20 13:13 |
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| schestowitz | No, not yet | Dec 20 13:13 |
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| schestowitz | Sony joins HD radio push : http://news.zdnet.com/2100-95... | Dec 20 13:14 |
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| schestowitz | Radio Daddy Tells Podcasters to F off : http://podcast411.com/blog/?p=31 | Dec 20 13:15 |
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| schestowitz | Meanwhile they work to ruin Creative Commons and Internet Radio too | Dec 20 13:15 |
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| schestowitz | US politicians back Act to save internet radio : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/0... | Dec 20 13:15 |
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| Omar87 | Because sometimes when I listen to a song in the Radio, I noticed in the past years that they never mention the song's title. So I thought this is part of the DRM.. | Dec 20 13:15 |
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| schestowitz | Internet radio strikes deal with music Mafiaa : http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/... | Dec 20 13:15 |
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| schestowitz | The Internet Radio Death Watch : http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0... | Dec 20 13:15 |
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| schestowitz | Pandora Reaching Its Epilogue? : http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/18/pando... | Dec 20 13:16 |
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| schestowitz | Pandora can't make money, may pull the plug : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-pa... | Dec 20 13:16 |
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| schestowitz | Omar87: that seems unrelated though. | Dec 20 13:16 |
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| schestowitz | Royalty fee 'to damage net radio' : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6896152.stm | Dec 20 13:16 |
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| Omar87 | schestowitz: I just wonder, what the is a song for if it's not sharable... | Dec 20 13:17 |
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| Omar87 | schestowitz: I meant, they never mention the song's title just in order to make it harder for you to look it up in the LimeWire... lol. :p | Dec 20 13:18 |
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| Omar87 | heheh, two of my friends have taken opposite paths. | Dec 20 13:22 |
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| schestowitz | This silly. | Dec 20 13:22 |
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| schestowitz | People have their song on channels like MTV to promote albums | Dec 20 13:22 |
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| schestowitz | In fact, many big labels (MAFIAA-affiliated) put their videos /THEMSELVES/ on YouTube to promote albums and artists. | Dec 20 13:22 |
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| Omar87 | One of them preferred to become a Mac user, and the other has just installed Ubuntu on his machine and is loving the hell out of it. :) | Dec 20 13:23 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/commentary/co... | Dec 20 13:25 |
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| trmanco | http://quality.mozilla.org/blogs/jayp... | Dec 20 13:49 |
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| schestowitz | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw... "On April 4, 2008, Jason Matusow, a Microsoft employee accused Groklaw of being "a website setup by IBM" in a blog posting [27]. He posted a retraction several hours later, however stated that it was his belief that this was the case, however that comments to his blog made him think that he should be careful about his assertions. Jones has always denied such claims. [28]" | Dec 20 14:30 |
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| zoobab | hehe | Dec 20 14:40 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/arti... | Dec 20 14:40 |
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| schestowitz | I'm going to write about that. | Dec 20 14:40 |
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| schestowitz | http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/20/microso... | Dec 20 15:42 |
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| schestowitz | The joys of databases and silly O/S leaks: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12... | Dec 20 16:31 |
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| schestowitz | "He abused the role to contact 11 convicted offenders and threaten to spill the beans on their crimes unless he was given "hush money". Johal requested between €£29,000 and €£31,000 for his silence, threatening to tell work colleagues or neighbours of convicted sex offenders about their crimes. In one instance Johal demanded €£89,000 as a "goodwill gesture"." | Dec 20 16:31 |
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| schestowitz | The headline suggests MAFIAA intervention in packet transmission.. RIAA won't sue, but will throttle < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/2... >. The article does not support this. | Dec 20 16:32 |
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| schestowitz | http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/serv... | Dec 20 16:37 |
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| schestowitz | "The proposed exclusion of non-royalty free standards will slow down innovation because R&D investments can no longer be earned back. This is bad for society € consumers and public authorities alike € and for the economy at large. It will hurt our region hardest as proximity to (public authority) customers is an advantage. It should not be forgotten that if royalty-free standards are imposed, European investors in R&D will have t | Dec 20 16:37 |
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| schestowitz | o give royalty-free licenses to non-European competitors, which is difficult to reconcile with the EU's Lisbon objectives." | Dec 20 16:37 |
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| schestowitz | zoobab: how close is Philips to Microsoft? Other than patent policy, there's no tight relationship, right? | Dec 20 16:37 |
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| schestowitz | bbl.. [xmas drinks] | Dec 20 17:05 |
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| schestowitz | Microsoft's attitude towards Free/open source analysed further; Novell & Miguel peddle Microsoft-patented Windows.Forms (in Mono): http://boycottnovell.com/2008/... | Dec 20 17:18 |
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| zoobab | you should collect all the patents related to Monos | Dec 20 17:58 |
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| zoobab | and ask Miguel claim by claim | Dec 20 17:58 |
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| zoobab | make a //ism between Mono features and MS claims | Dec 20 17:59 |
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| zoobab | claim by claim | Dec 20 17:59 |
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| zoobab | and show to the lazzy people like me that Mono is for sure infinging | Dec 20 17:59 |
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| neighborlee | schestowitz: the witch giving snowwhite the red apple is priceless :))lol | Dec 20 19:02 |
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| zoobab | GIMP sued | Dec 20 19:09 |
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| trmanco | lets drink Wine 1.1.11 | Dec 20 19:56 |
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| trmanco | it was supposed to be released yesterday | Dec 20 19:56 |
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| trmanco | http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.11 | Dec 20 19:56 |
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| trmanco | Linux is your wife... you can keep her doing experiment and adding gadgets( dress, rings, cars)and works more fine till end | Windows is a prostitute... ready made and tested by professionals, cant try more changes.. performance gets affected by virus(AIDS) | Dec 20 20:45 |
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| schestowitz | zoobab: really? Got link? | Dec 20 21:55 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.linux.com/articles/35623 | Dec 20 21:56 |
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| schestowitz | trmanco: Windows is not stable, either. | Dec 20 21:56 |
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| trmanco | Microsoft Holes Exploited Again: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/20/... | Dec 20 21:58 |
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| schestowitz | Seen it, thanks. Let me see. | Dec 20 21:59 |
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| schestowitz | Yeah, I read Alan's blog... that's where I got it from. | Dec 20 21:59 |
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| schestowitz | GIMP sued?? http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=e... | Dec 20 22:01 |
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| trmanco | I have no idea | Dec 20 22:02 |
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| neighborlee | nice catch, would have been nice to not put in the 'ubuntu will complete the process' part, but hey ;) | Dec 20 22:03 |
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| schestowitz | Wintel press doesn't know what "hacker" means... they demonise FOSS developer... http://www.pcworld.com/article/155852/fas... | Dec 20 22:04 |
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| schestowitz | The thing is, programs are easy to resolve patents problems in, Mono is at the very bottom of many applications and changes affect function that requires mimicking to work. | Dec 20 22:05 |
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| schestowitz | http://boycottnovell.com/2008/12/20/mon... | Dec 20 22:19 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-se... "Cheney, along with Bush, ought to be sent to the Hague for trial for crimes against humanity." | Dec 20 22:21 |
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| zoobab | http://www.theglobalipcenter.com/gipc/... | Dec 20 22:27 |
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| zoobab | can someone manage to dumpo the videos? | Dec 20 22:27 |
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| zoobab | dump | Dec 20 22:27 |
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| zoobab | real media shit | Dec 20 22:27 |
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| zoobab | mplayer -v "rtsp://209.3.198.150:554/video/gipc/08100..." | Dec 20 22:27 |
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| zoobab | gives me: | Dec 20 22:27 |
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| zoobab | librtsp: server responds: '' | Dec 20 22:27 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.alternet.org/story/113758/ | Dec 20 22:29 |
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| schestowitz | vlc? | Dec 20 22:30 |
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| schestowitz | I think I got it | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??... | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | [libaf] Adding filter dummy | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | [dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | [dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | AO: Description: PulseAudio audio output | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | AO: Author: Lennart Poettering | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | [dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | [dummy] Was reinitialized: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | Video: no video | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | Freeing 0 unused video chunks. | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | Starting playback... | Dec 20 22:31 |
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| schestowitz | A: 55.7 (55.6) of 4730.0 ( 1:18:50.0) 0.6% 39% | Dec 20 22:32 |
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| schestowitz | "That last point is the big one: The real crisis is in the real economy -- ya know, the real world of jobs, wages, health care premiums and pensions that Washington has totally ignored as it keeps writing checks to its well-heeled campaign contributors on Wall Street under the guise of a lending crisis." | Dec 20 22:34 |
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| schestowitz | "Adding insult to injury is the last thing I discussed with Rachel -- the fact that because the bailout money came with almost no strings attached, the financial-industry recipients of the taxpayer largesse are either hoarding the money, using it to pay shareholder dividends and executive bonuses, or devoting it to efforts to buy up smaller competitors." | Dec 20 22:34 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.theglobalipcenter.com/gipc/... What is it good for? | Dec 20 22:35 |
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| trmanco | IPv6 Makes Slow Progress: http://www.informationweek.com/news/infrastructure/ipv... | Dec 20 22:39 |
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| schestowitz | Obama, We Hardly Knew Ye "President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet appointments are winning praise from conservatives such as Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell and John McCain, and most of the people who actually voted for Obama aren't complaining just yet. Opinion polls show that most people approve of Obama's picks, while two-thirds of Americans approve of Obama personally. " | Dec 20 22:43 |
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| schestowitz | Tories and Lib Dems vow to boycott Damian Green investigation http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/08/d... | Dec 20 22:50 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.prwatch.org/node/8018 | Dec 20 22:51 |
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| schestowitz | zoobab: can I publish IRC log? | Dec 20 23:04 |
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| schestowitz | gimp | Dec 20 23:04 |
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| schestowitz | 1 in 4 IT Jobs Done Overseas by 2010 < http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article... > | Dec 20 23:22 |
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| schestowitz | Troll? http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161... | Dec 20 23:34 |
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| schestowitz | This makes it sounds like Groklaw is hutting down: "I fully understand your need to move on and I wish you happiness. I know that you will find what you seek as long as you are true to yourself." http://www.groklaw.net/com... | Dec 20 23:36 |
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| schestowitz | Another Linux is coming for xmas... http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/18/435 | Dec 20 23:42 |
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| zoobab | yes | Dec 20 23:54 |
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| schestowitz | Thanks. Manana. | Dec 20 23:58 |
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Comments
Dan O'Brian
2008-12-21 14:36:38
A most excellent idea. Oh, wait, Roy already tried that and failed miserably because he kept pointing at unrelated patents.
jo Shields
2008-12-21 14:52:36