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Daragh in Monaco
Nah, I’m not jealous, no sirree! Not a bit of it that you were in Monaco and driving along the circuit F1 drivers take. Good thing I’m not a fan of F1 or I might get upset and cranky but I’m not so I won’t and I won’t mention this again. *grin*
Must post pics of Chicago soon!
Forbes.com: What SCO Wants, SCO Gets
This story paints a scary picture of what SCO may be about. Sure, Linux users all over the world deride them and laugh, but how many of you cheered when they beat Microsoft over the DOS lawsuit? Now they’re coming after Unix and Linux with the exact same tactics. One might argue the open source and Free software is different, but if the big boys desert Linux then lots of development is going to slow or stop..
These guys in Utah are no dummies. The crunchies in the Linux community should be paying more attention.
ssh tip of the day
If you ssh to hosts beyond a firewall or from within a NATted network then you’ll have noticed that SSH sessions timeout and get disconnected. I found that setting the TMOUT variable to 0 helped when not going through a firewall, and it must have been the firewall disconnecting an idle session otherwise.
Add this line to the sshd_config of the server and restart sshd. This will send a keep alive signal to the client every 360 seconds.
ClientAliveInterval 360
man 5 sshd_config will give you more information about that. This works in OpenSSH. I’m not sure if it’ll work elsewhere.
Linux desktop wars – who's winning?
While searching for more post-it notes applications for Linux (sticky_notes doesn’t let you resize smaller if a sentence is the width of the window.. boo!) I tried a search for linux desktop and noticed a certain desktop environment was conspicious by it’s absence. That may change by the time you read this so don’t hang me if this post doesn’t make sense!
Clouds and the Moon Move to Block the Sun
Having just turned 5 “Astronomy Picture of the Day” presents another great photo for you to feast your eyes on. At first I thought the moon had flipped on it’s side but it’s a very unusual solar eclipse!
Sticky Notes
Does Gnome comes with a standard sticky notes app? KDE does, but when I restart it in a Gnome environment it blanks out the screen and one of the notes gets corrupted and called “data”. I found this Sticky Notes app through Google for Gnome. It looks nice. I’ll road test it for a few days.
RealPlayer and RH9
Despite earlier searches I couldn’t find any help getting Realplayer working on Red Hat 9. This solved it but now the 2fm stream is down so I can’t listen anyway! Run the following before you run Realplayer. Best way to do that is via a shell script as other apps may break with this modification.
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
The Editing Room – The Matrix Reloaded: The Abridged Script
Hehe, this is funny. Warning! Spoilers included!
crap. software patents now almost legal in EU (fwd)
This post by Justin Mason is a fwd of a mail announcing the startling news that software patents are now legal in the EU. *bam* There goes Free Software in Europe! (maybe..)
UPDATE! Justin posted a follow up stating that there’s another stage to go through before it’s law in the EU. Colm replied saying it was at the “committee” stage still, and asking people to get in touch with their MEPs to reject the upcoming law!