Zenblaster's Rants of Silence

Rantings in the digital wind as your Grot Shop of the information age. "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a completely useless machine when I see one" - C.J.

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Time to cut out SCO from all Open Source

As some gcc folks suggested, the Open Source community should remove all SCO compatibility from all projects. Get rid of the ability for those projects to compile under OpenServer. And why would anyone ever want to have anything to do with SCO, its products, or its resellers now? FUDmongers with the puppet masters hand of Microsoft up their skirt.

SCO attacks open-source foundation. The SCO Group has begun a direct challenge to the General Public License, the legal foundation for Linux, numerous other open-source programming projects and software SCO still ships. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
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OS X Conference: Pixar talks OS X migration (MacCentral). MacCentral - Despite the company's deep connections to Apple, Pixar Animation Studios only completed moving its computer infrastructure to Mac OS X eight months ago. System administrators Bethany Jan Hanson and Gabriel Benveniste said that they deliberately waited until the vast majority of applications they use daily were OS X native. But once that happened, they and the rest of the administrators at Pixar tapped OS X's core Unix capabilities to develop a migration and maintenance scheme that they say has a lower cost of ownership than Mac OS 9. [Yahoo! News - Technology]
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X11 for Panther now available. Apple has released the final 1.0 version of X11, its implementation of the X Window System for running X11-based applications in Mac OS X... [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-minute Mac news -- around the clock, around the world.]
8:53:42 PM

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MPAA will 0wn you and your little PC too...

Salon: Hollywood to the computer industry: We don't need no stinking Napsters! As long as the broadcast flag will, as the MPAA promises, not hinder our ability to make personal copies of the shows we love, we might well wonder, "How is this scheme going to hurt us?" The MPAA is counting on your apathy. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Nicecast turns your Mac into Internet radio station. Rogue Amoeba today announced the release of Nicecast, new software that allows you to easily broadcast music from Mac OS X... [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-minute Mac news -- around the clock, around the world.]
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Kinda Cool direction of Film from within 3D Games

Report from Machinima awards 2003. Hugh sez, "The Machinima Film Festival 2003 happened on Saturday in New York City, and quite a lot of what it revealed was surprising. For example, Machinima is going pro much faster than most people anticipated - the films that swept the awards were either already commercial (and in one case bound for Sundance this year) or going that way - Red vs Blue is hopefully heading onto shop shelves soon. And the attendees were mostly older film-makers or film students, many of them already established as creators in other media."

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(Thanks, Hugh!) [Boing Boing Blog]
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Chipping Away at your Fair Use

FCC nears vote on TV 'broadcast flag'. Federal regulators are expected to vote this week on new copy-protection rules for television programming, and a stream of last-minute lobbying is pouring into Washington D.C. on the issue. [CNET News.com - Front Door]
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Another Blight of Control like the Circuit City Dixv DVD Debacle

Two-Day DVDs a Slow Sale. Disposable DVDs have been available for over a month, and a survey of stores finds the product is not flying off the shelves. Plus, environmentalists are keeping up their efforts to stop the sale of a product they call wasteful. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]
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