LWN has this to say:
The terms of the Microsoft/Novell deal have been posted at last. There are three parts: the patent cooperation agreement granting the patent non-licenses, the technical collaboration agreement describing the technical work each company will do, and the business collaboration agreement on the business arrangements.
Groklaw also has an initial post about the SEC filing which details the agreement and quotes Novell on how GPLv3 may affect it.
Andy Ballam left a comment on my post about migrating from PostNuke to WordPress mentioning a tool he’s created called migratedata that I though deserved a wider mention..
This might be helpful to people: I’ve just started a project called migratedata (http://migratedata.sf.net/) that provides a framework for migrating between all different types of databases without writing any SQL – just editing an XML file.
It comes with an example that will migrate from PostNuke to WordPress 2.2. Nice work Andy!
Hoorah, KDE 3.5.7 is out, and I’ve just upgraded my home machine using the available packages for Ubuntu 7.04 (aka Feisty).
Some bad news out of London..
A fire which severely damaged the famous 19th Century ship Cutty Sark is being treated as suspicious by police. The ship, which was undergoing a £25m restoration project, is kept in a dry dock at Greenwich in south-east London. An area around the 138-year-old tea clipper had to be evacuated when the fire broke out in the early hours.
Fortunately it appears that because of the restoration work about 50% of the ship had already been removed for work, but this will make the conservation work much harder.
The images below are linked from the BBC.
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I think I will go and see this film when it comes out..
A British film about the life and death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, starring a first-time actor, has earned a rapturous reception in Cannes.
Control stars Sam Riley as Curtis and Samantha Morton as his wife Deborah, who has apparently been working on the film since 1994.
There is a Wikipedia page on the film with more details.
This is really rather neat (linked back to the original at xkcd)..
Via a comment on the LWN story about source routing in IPv6 (the zombie lives again!).
This is, er, cheesy.. but in a good way.. 🙂
Since www.cheddarvision.tv debuted in December, the Web site offering a live broadcast of a round slab of English cheddar cheese slowly maturing has had more than 1.2 million hits.
There is also a YouTube time lapse film of it maturing over the last 3 months.
It even has its own MySpace page where you can pledge allegiance to the Cheese (if you use MySpace). Where’s Les Barker when you need him ? 🙂
Inspired by Alec, I just checked using the Great Firewall of China checking site and found out that my site, along with Donna’s, her blog, her podcast, the site for her first book and the web site we set up to promote self-employment for folks on the Autism spectrum, Auties.org, are all blocked!
Presumably it’s working by IP address and so anything that happens to be on that IP address is persona non-grata in China. 🙁
I did a bit of testing and found that VPAC (where I work) is blocked too, as is Melbourne Uni.
In response to a blog from Alec I left the following comment, which is really a “dear lazyweb” question..
Err.. I might be missing something here, but..
What’s the point of twitter ?
AFAICS all you get is out of date information about what someone claimed to be doing some hours, days or weeks ago.
Sorry if I’m being dense..
Well after a few months of tinkering around my fab wife Donna has her new podcast Oddpod off the ground!
Her first guest is Caiseal Mor:
Caiseal Mor is best known as a bestselling fantasy fiction novelist. Those managing his public image have portrayed him to the public in many ways, none of them as a man with autism. Here Caiseal talks to autistic author, Donna Williams, about his decision to go public with his autism, a diagnosis he had in late childhood.
ObTech: The podcast is recorded using Cubase and then some extra tweaking done with Audacity under Linux. We’re using WordPress with the excellent PodPress plugin to deliver it from our Debian Etch Linux virtual machine (using Xen) hosted with those nice folks at Rimuhosting.