Courtesy of the spellchecker that the Kate editor is using under KDE:
Unknown word: OpenSolaris
Replace with: Epistolaries ((
Epistolaries are books that are written in the form of, or carried on by letters or correspondence. ))
Unknown word: Nexenta
Replace with: Exeunt
Unknown word: Namesys
Replace with: Nemesis
Umm, right, I think my spellchecker is biased.. 🙂
Back in 2004 Sun’s then CEO, Scott McNealy, stated in an interview with Jem Matzan (NewsForge reprint) about CDDL’ing OpenSolaris:
We had to pay SCO more money so we could open the code — I couldn’t say anything about that at the time, but now I can tell you that we paid them that license fee to expand our rights to the code
However, now that Judge Kimball has ruled that Novell actually owns the copyrights and not SCO I presume it’s now up to Novell to decide whether or not that deal is still valid, probably at least partly dependant on whether or not SCO can find the cash to pony up the dues on it they illegally withheld from Novell.
Could be interesting given Novell’s stake in Linux.
Groklaw has the details, but Judge Kimball has ruled in SCO versus Novell that:
[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
Additionally he has ruled that:
SCO is obligated to recognize Novell’s waiver of SCO’s claims against IBM and Sequent
There is now a text version of the judgement.
Tango, the new AMD Opteron cluster that’s getting built at VPAC to replace the now 4 year old Brecca is taking shape nicely!
Woo-hoo! KDE4 Beta 1 has been released!
KUbuntu packages are on their way (not linked from the Kubuntu front page yet as they’re still compiling).
The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) is looking for a Linux systems administrator to join our systems team working on grid computing.
Reporting to the ICI Operations Manager, you will be working primarily in a Linux systems administrator role with Grid toolkits such as Globus and VDT. You will be involved in a National Project to provide Grid Based Computing available across Australia. The ability to work with and support our end users (typically scientific researchers and software developers) is very important in this role. Some national and international travel will be involved.
So if you think that it sounds interesting then please and go read the job advert on the VPAC website, or at least tell a friend! 🙂
So it appears the Federal governments attempts to censor the internet at ISPs is not dead after all..
Coonan said one privately funded trial had been cancelled, but the planned pilot managed by the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) will go ahead as planned. The tender for companies wishing to take part closed last week and three bids were received, according to the government.
What they are going to be testing out is..
Under the ACMA scheme, ISP-level filtering products will be tested on blocking “inappropriate and illegal content”, whether such products would clog ISPs’ networks and if such products have improved since the government last examined their capabilities in 2005-2006.
Today I noticed my site getting a thorough spidering by the user agent “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; heritrix/1.12.1 +http://www.page-store.com)” and appearing to be sourced from what appears to be an Amazon Web Services IP address, 72.44.62.136 (domU-12-31-37-00-02-76.usma3.compute.amazonaws.com.).
The Page-store.com web site is minimal, with just a single page and a robots.txt that forbids all crawlers. It does describe what they are trying to do though, which is to spider everything and then sell some digested form of that gathered information onto new search engines so they don’t have to do the work themselves. In their words:
Page-store positions itself as a web wholesaler, supplying page and link information to vertical search engine companies on a per-use basis. The effect is to level the playing field between vertical search and general horizontal internet search.
If nothing else it scores highly on the buzzword bingo scale.
Got to love the anti-spam Captcha on the sign up for the Quantum Random Bit Generator Service.. 🙂
(Thanks Don)
Thankfully at least one Australian paper has picked up on the recent OECD broadband report so we can get some idea about what it says for Australia. Telstra comes out really badly (surprise surprise), for speed in the national carrier stakes..
In a comparison of download speeds offered by incumbent national suppliers such as Telstra in October last year, Australia pulled up second last with its fastest offering of a 1.5mbit/s DSL package. While speedier packages were being offered by other suppliers at the time, our national carrier lagged that of most other developed countries, pulling up in the second last spot just ahead of Slovak Republic, and behind Turkey.
For pricing in general across ADSL providers we’re about average..
In terms of lowest monthly subscriptions costs for a broadband package, Sweden claimed the cheapest package at $US10.79, followed by Denmark at $US11.11. Australia sat in the middle of the pack at $US21.10, but behind New Zealand, which had an offering at $US16.86
which surprised me..