The beginning of my Westernization was probably, as a teen, watching MTV. When MTV has sold its brand to some locals here, I moved to VH-1.
Tonight I was watching the wrong station, the Romanian MTV. (more…)
I’ve submitted the darn form thought I’m going there with or without that paper.
The annoying part was that my name has special characters (more…)
I think most of you already know the answer from the sites that are making a living from it. Novell still has some intellectual property rights over the Unix name and concept Unix, almost as much as SCO, the infamous company which pretends that Linux is copying Unix, breaching their rights. (more…)
This is just cool for web designers (until MS patches IE again).
The new ActiveState logo includes the name of its new owner, Sophos.
I went to the Python.org website. The only downloads for Windows were those made by ActiveState.
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Sadly, SuSE was my favorite distro (at least for the 5 days in a year I was running Linux).
Let’s see all I remember about Novell: (more…)
As previously communicated, Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003. Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line.
This is from a newsletter received from Red Hat. (more…)
This is so unexpected!
First of all, I thought ActiveState, the company that sets the standard in open-source languages for Windows, were bigger and/or they were subsidized by Microsoft. It seemed logical that they would buy someone like Sophos. So-who?, I only heard of Symantec, McAfee, Panda, BitDefender and RAV.
I’m really curious how the Unix users at Microsoft Research will use ActivePerl, now that it seems that it will get another price. Where is the trash can that will get ActivePerl for Visual Studio .NET? Sophos is not a big R& D investor, they were only after some counter-spam tools.