http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog Life, The Universe, and Everything through an ADSL connection. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (As written about here before) Wired is reporting that the EFF will request that 10 patents be reexamined. One-click online shopping (U.S. Patent No. 5,960,411.) Online shopping carts (U.S. Patent No. 5,715,314.) The hyperlink (U.S. Patent No. 4,873,662.) Video streaming (U.S. Patent No. 5,132,992.) Internationalizing domain names (U.S. Patent No. 6,182,148.) Pop-up windows (U.S. Patent ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/30/eff-and-pubpat-seek-patent-sanity/ Wahey! Look what I found: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/qtgtk/main.html This is really super, should reduce a lot of my work on Icewater :)...if it works. Looks like each app will require a few mods, which could be patches returned to the main CVS tree of the app, then it could be compiled with a ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/27/using-kde-dialogs-on-gtk-apps/ When will this madness end!!? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,681,985.WKU.&OS=PN/6,681,985&RS=PN/6,681,985 Washington Mutual has filed a patent on how they designed their branches (the ones with the coffee, popcorn, touch-screen tellers, and play areas). Ack. I don't think I need to say more. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/27/washington-mutual-files-patent-on-branch-design/ 2 days, 22 hours, and 55 minutes, and 2.5GB (downloaded) later, and I've got it! Got my disks burned finally...I think I had a bunch of bad CDs...but these seem to be working fine :). Let you know what I think :) http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/27/finished/ Ack! I'm still downloading Slackware via BitTorrent...I also have a bunch of bad CDs :(. My downloads are going real sloow (1.4KB/sec) and my uptime is 20:26:13 up 2 days, 1:42, 1 user, load average: 0.70, 0.77, 0.73. C'mon, join the torrent! My ISP's gonna hate me...I've uploaded ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/26/still-downloading/ Yahoo is at it again...they've blocked 3rd party clients. Trillian, KYIM, Kopete, all of them by changing their protocol--again. You can read all about it on ZDNet. By the way, I suggest using Jabber. It's free, open source, complete, fast, and has clients for every operating system under the sun. ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/24/yim-blocks-3rd-party-clients-again/ Woohoo! Slackware 10 is out. Most of the mirrors don't have it yet (or the ones that do are Slashdotted). Of course, you can get it from Bittorrent. You'll need a BitTorrent client too, I suggest Azureus. Keep the torrent strong, join in, please! I'm currently clocking the first ISO ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/24/slackware-10-out/ A friend (no, I'm not saying which one) sent me these license agreements to the free copy of VB.NET you can get if you watch and rate some movies. They license agreement is pretty scarry. In general, it forbids you from creating open source apps, releasing benchmarks against .NET or ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/21/microsofts-latest-license-agreement/ As reported on C|Net. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah is planning on introducing a bill that could outlaw VCR's, ReplayTV, and other technology because it could be used to infringe on copyrights. What next, outlawing CD Burners? Does this sound familiar to anyone? http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/19/antipiracy-bill-targets-technology/ If you happen to get the right number (30,000 against 1) you'll get a Gmail invite: http://gmailmachine.mmgn.com/ http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/19/the-gmail-machine/ I'm looking for a hosting company/person to host my Icewater ISOs. If anybody has any suggestions of which hosting companies don't mind hosting ISOs, please let me know. So far, nobody has wanted me :(. I can't pay too much, dedicated is not for me... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/18/looking-for-hosting-companies/ Does anybody else find this picture ironic? If not, please let me know the location of the nearest mental hospital: http://wildgardenseed.com/Taj/images/notagain.png http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/18/windows-banner-ads-on-tuxgames/ Oh dear...http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/16/1752249&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=201 Will this be like their firewall? (For those who don't have Win XP, their "firewall" allows everything by default...). Glad it's been removed from my computer. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/17/microsoft-to-sell-av-software/ Pioneer 10 was launched 32 years ago. It left the solar system 21 years ago today as the first man-made object to leave our solar system. Unfortunately, it seems to have died. From WP: A later attempt in December 2002 received a faint response, which was too weak to decode. Pioneer ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/14/pioneer-10/ ...for the most biased "review" you've ever seen: http://www.linuxshootout.com/shootout.php The markups just don't make sense: Scanner: Lindows - Yes, Mandrake - No, Fedora - No Sorry, that's wrong! Mandrake supported my (very weird) scanner out of the box. Plays MP3 Files: Lindows - Yes, Mandrake - Yes, Fedora - Yes Fedora does not support playing ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/14/click-here/ Finally finished the Froogle feed for Wild Garden Seed. osCommerce has such terrible table names. Just as I finished it, I saw: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2000 Damn. Oh well, it was kinda fun. If anybody want's the code, I'd be happy to share. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/13/froogle-feed/ Will it happen again this year with over 20 states using electronic voting? A flaw has been found in the voting machines that will make the (broken) "event log" not correctly reproduce what happened during the election. Here's a quote that will scare you: State officials say there is no need ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/13/florida-e-voting-machines-have-recount-flaw/ Yay EFF! The EFF is (wheh! That's EFF three times in the first line :S) starting a "Patent-Busting Challenge" where they plan to try and revoke the top ten stupidist patents. They include: * Online shopping carts (U.S. Patent No. 5,715,314.) * The hyperlink (U.S. Patent No. 4,873,662.) * Video streaming (U.S. Patent ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/12/eff-starts-patent-busting-challenge/ Novell says: With more than 30,000 restaurants around the globe and more than 1,200 in Germany alone, McDonald's is the undisputed market leader in the fast food sector. For its activities, McDonald's makes use of state-of-the-art technology and mature concepts that support business workflows in the best way possible. So, they're going ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/11/mcdonalds-to-move-to-suse/ OK, the article on Slashdot may be a little extreme, and I haven't RTFA (it's really convoluted), but here's a quote from /. The Broadcast Treaty is a proposal from a WIPO Subcommittee that's supposedly about stopping 'signal theft.' But along the way, this proposal has turned into a huge, convoluted ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2004/06/10/wipo-on-the-future-of-the-world/