Yahoo! 360°

March 29, 2005 Leave a comment

Thanks to Jeremy I have a Yahoo! 360° Beta account. Don't have a ton of time this second, but I'll take a better poke around in a bit. Looks nice after a cursory glance though. Ability to add custom RSS feeds “coming soon”, ability to blog and share reviews, decent integration with other Yahoo! bits and I'm quite sure Flickr integration is on the way. You can even share music. So far so good. Looks like the Yahoo! vs. Google battle is heating up.
–jeremy

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LQ ISO update

March 28, 2005 Leave a comment

LQ ISO is now smart enough to know what country you are visiting from and show you mirrors in your country before all others. Of course you still have the ability to choose from the full mirror list, but this feature should make finding a close download mirror that much easier. Over 600,000 downloads have already been facilitated by LQ ISO. 1,000,000 downloads – here we come!
–jeremy

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I'll be on the Linux Link Tech Show Tonight II

March 24, 2005 1 Comment

In case you weren't able to listen to the Linux Link Tech Show last night, I've posted an OGG of the show. Hopefully you'll find the segment I was in interesting ;) I come in just about 38 minutes into the show.
–jeremy

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I'll be on the Linux Link Tech Show Tonight

March 23, 2005 1 Comment

Looks like I'll be on The Linux Link Tech Show tonight. The show starts at 8:30 EST. Tune in!
–jeremy

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A GPL Win in Michigan – DrewTech v. SAE

March 22, 2005 Leave a comment

I was extremely excited when I read the above headline…and then I read the article. It's great to see that the attorney thinks that the “SAE surrendered to the GPL” and I'm certainly glad that the side representing the the GPL came out on top, but the reality is (or so it seems to me) that this was a settlement, not a judge ruling on the case. I'd hesitate to call that a legal win as to my knowledge you can't use someone settling as precedent. The GPL surely will have it's day in court and I'm confident in its ability to stand up to litigious lawyers, but I'd hesitate to call this that day. Remember though, I am not a lawyer – I don't even play one on TV. I could very well be missing something. If I am, let me know.
–jeremy

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Danese Cooper: reflections of an open source diva

March 21, 2005 Leave a comment

A great article from Danese Cooper, who was an Open Source evangelist at Sun and will soon be going to Intel. This article is a good look inside Sun and it shows that some people there really truly do get it. The article touches on Open Sourcing Java and also states that Sun contacted Linus before the whole OpenSolaris thing, which I didn't know. As always, Linus answers in a way that you've come to expect (and that I really respect and appreciate).
–jeremy

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Web 2.0 Starting to Bubble?

March 21, 2005 1 Comment

It seems like the bubble may be starting to form.
InterActiveCorp buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion
Ask Jeeves Purchases Bloglines in Multi-Million Dollar Deal
Yahoo acquires Flickr
Six Apart Buys LiveJournal
Are just a few of the headlines from the recent past. Web companies are starting to get some “real” money again and the amount of startups getting VC is once again on the rise. Should get interesting. Let's hope we learned some lessons from the last time. irrational exuberance is a term I never want to hear again ;)
–jeremy

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LinuxWorld Canada Followup – Free Passes and a Discount

March 18, 2005 Leave a comment

I'm happy to report that as a result of LQ sponsoring Canada, I am able to offer free passes to everyone. Additionally, if you'd like to purchase a conference pass, you can get 25% off by using code A101. We're still finalizing whether LQ will have a booth, but if you're in the area you should attend – after all, it's free.
–jeremy

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A Couple LQ Initiatives

March 16, 2005 Leave a comment

I hate to use the word “Initiatives” actually. It sounds much too corporate and much too office space for what LQ really is. I couldn't think of a better word though, and it probably won't send LQ into a whirl of red tape and bureaucracy. One thing we've really been putting a concerted effort into recently is reducing the number of threads with 0 replies. Another goal that I have set is to reach 3,000 articles in the LQ Wiki. I haven't set a hard date for this, but “as soon as possible” sounds about right. Contributing to the LQ Wiki couldn't be much easier, and there is even a list of Most Wanted Pages, if you can't think of a topic for an article but would like to help. We've got a couple more things we'd like to do soon also, but I'll keep the list to two for now. As always, if you have any suggestions on how we can improve LQ, please let us know.
–jeremy

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LQ to Sponsor LinuxWorld Canada

March 15, 2005 Leave a comment

I am happy to report that LinuxQuestions.org is going to be sponsoring the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Canada which will be held on April 18 – 20, 2005 in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. As of now it even looks like LQ may be exhibiting, so stay tuned for more details.
–jeremy

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