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Tonight, as occurs every 2.71542689 years, the moon will be blue. Called blue, anyway. That’s because it’s the second full moon in one month! Now, it probably won’t be blue–unless you have a forest fire, volcanic erruption, or something.

Anyways, enjoy!

Whew! What a title :P. I installed a larger antenna for our D-Link wireless router today. After having a little trouble positioning it, the new antenna seems to work great! Now, I can get wireless from the nice, cool basement!

Hopefully the roof causes the signal to be muffled and I’m not broadcasting 300 ft. up or something! It’s cool, anyway.

It’s almost the lettuce seed season, everybody, party! :S…yet another 90°F day. Weeded lettuce and pulled out sickly, dead, diseased plants. Fun!

I worked on trying to get Samba to share printers today…no luck at all :(. I did get the printer to spit out a blank page–once–but that was all. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it to work tomorrow–seems rather difficult. Smb4K seems pretty cool, but doesn’t seem to completely work :(.

Went on a camping trip to Kalaloch, WA with some family. That was a blast…anyway, I’m back :P.

Came home to hear about how “Linux is a threat to National Security”. See http://www.designnews.com/article/CA435615.html

Crazy…I’m not sure what this is susposed to mean. He suggests that open source software has the capability of being sabotaged by foreign developers. Huh? Is this kinda like Microsoft having to hand over the source code of Windows to China to examin it for holes? I’m not really sure, but Dan O’Dowd (CEO of Green Hills Software) seems to think. Does anybody remember of SELinux, published by the NSA?

I’ve been using Dreamweaver MX for a website under Linux using CrossOver Office. It actually works pretty well (CrossOver, that is), but IMO, Dreamweaver ain’t worth the resources or price. The code editor (where I spend most of my time!) isn’t quite up to snuff with Quanta and Kate. So, in a nutshell, I don’t like Dreamweaver, but whatever the website owner happy!

I made a newsletter publishing script (soon to be uploaded), so if anybody want’s it, I’m happy to share. It uses PHP and MySQL.

Nice…

Death to GTK+! I was working on GEdit and getting it to cooperate with KDE dialogs today when I found that GEdit wouldn’t compile due to needing gcc to compile instead of g++ (which KDE needs/works best with). Looks like GTK was designed to be compatible with C++, and it ended up breaking it. Talk about irony.

Maybe as SadEagle suggested on #kde-devel, I can work up some extern “C” magic…

We’ll see.

I wrote the FSF today about propriatory GTK+ programs using KDE/Qt dialogs (through a patch to the GTK trunk). Below is what they said:

From: Dave Turner via RT Reply-To: licensing@fsf.org
To: Taj Morton
Subject: [gnu.org #206030] Licensing Question on GTK and Qt
Date: Thu. 23 Jul 2004 19:29:00 -0400 (16:29 PDT)

> [EMAIL REMOVED - Mon Jul 12 10:13:06 2004]:
>
> Hello,
> I have (what I think) is a simple question about licensing of Qt and
> GTK. If I make a patch the the GTK source that makes (GPL compatible)
> GTK apps use KDE dialogs, that’s totally legal (right?). However, if a
> commercial app (read: non GPL-compatible) shows a KDE dialog, would
> someone need to pay a license for Qt?

A proprietary application which links against your modified version of
GTK (licensed under the GPL) could not be distributed at all. It would
violate the license of the code taken from QT, and the license of GTK
(GPL, since you converted it via LGPL’s clause 3 in order to link in the
QT code).

–
-Dave “Novalis” Turner
GPL Compliance Engineer
Free Software Foundation

could have two different versions of Gtk…one patched, one not. Or, I could just patch each app individually.

Yes, it is. It was 100°F today (that’s 38C)…nasty out in the hot sun. The river was nice though…

I just heard a very good show from Philosophy Talk. The show was entitled “Who Owns Ideas?”, and had Lawrence Lessig as their guest. Lawrence is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and author of “Free Culture”, LJ Editors Choice for non-technical book of the year.

You can listen to the show here (1hr, RealPlayer): http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/WhoOwnsIdeas.htm

Don’t you love it:
Yeh, maybe when you’re in the shade. Today we get to go out and weed Calendula :D.

I got some more work done on GEdit today and making it use KDE dialogs. Super! Maybe I’ll be able to merge it with the GTK trunk, but I have my doubts. Anyways, it’s cool