wordpress2blogger
It was over 2 years ago that I migrated both my personal and technical blogs from Google’s Blogger to my own Wordpress sites over on lembobrothers.com.
At the time there wasn’t much in the way of tools to reverse the process. About all I was able to find were some convoluted procedures that didn’t seem [...]
Furlough Post #1: A Windows Virus on Wine
In the idle time I have while watching my two H1N1 infected children deal with fevers, coughs and runny noses (Note: the fevers broke today), I’ve taken to randomly browsing the web and found some interesting and amusing stuff.
This officially 2nd day of a five-day furlough (or “unpaid leave”) from an employer that’s been hit [...]
Watershed moment
Red Hat announced the filing of its amicus brief in Bilski v. Kappos today.
While the court rules of professional responsibility in the several states where I’m still a retired member of the bar in good standing don’t absolutely prohibit me from writing about the case, I’m going to defer to others who know a lot [...]
HP recognizes CentOS, and what’s this about Karanbir having a sense of humor?
You know you’ve gone “big time” when HP creates a support pack for your distribution:
Proliant Support Pack for CentOS 5 (picked up off Karanbir Singh’s blog, Thinkability).
Also, from the CentOS lists: Karanbir has a sense of humor!
[CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS
Steven Vishoot
Thu Sep 17 18:57:20 UTC 2009
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Fluendo and legal Linux multimedia
In a previous post I noted that anyone who tries doing multimedia on Linux has to navigate a bit of a legal minefield. Well, OK, I didn’t quite put it that way. The thing is that software patents especially (something that didn’t exist in the U.S. when I took intellectual property law in 1980), coupled [...]
MICROSOFT XML IS NOT FREE, FOR MICROSOFT
Groklaw has the news: Microsoft has been permanently enjoined from further sales of Word after losing at trial to the holder of a 1998 software patent on “Custom XML”.
It is karmic that this happened to Microsoft, who bullies Linux with patent threats and just got an XML patent of its own on August 4th that [...]
More “will they ever learn”, or my big brother can beat up yours
Ah, the “new breed” is at it again.
In a classic memory-of-a-nine-year-old moment, the execs over at Apple, presumably at the urging or with the consent of, those over at AT&T (a/k/a Cingular reborn), denied permission for Google’s Voice to run on their iPhone.
Predictably (at least for those of us who were around when the “real” [...]