Archive for August, 2003

First Week of Law School

Monday, August 25th, 2003

People apparently keep asking my wife if I am enjoying law school. (I haven’t spent much time on the phone myself.) She doesn’t know how to answer, and perhaps I don’t either yet, because what I’ve mainly been saying is that I am surprised at just how time-consuming it is thus far. I haven’t yet […]

SCO’s Code Revelation Smashed by Slashdotters

Tuesday, August 19th, 2003

Check this out. The Slashdot Discussion of SCO’s peek at the allegedly offending code is an amazing illustration of the power of the internet. SCO claims some of their copyrighted code has been stolen and put into Linux. When they finally offer up a public view of the allegedly offending code, it takes only a […]

Know about Sherman Austin?

Monday, August 18th, 2003

If you don’t know what your government is doing in your name, then read this interview with Sherman Austin who is going to spend a year in Federal Prison because he hosted a web site the FBI (and his judge) didn’t like. Somehow they read his mind and discovered evil intentions. Judge for yourself whether […]

FSF GNU GPL Conference

Sunday, August 10th, 2003

Friday I attended the Free Software Licensing and the GNU GPL conference at Stanford’s Law School (mentioned in my previous post.) It was a very good conference. It struck just the balance I had hoped in that it was not just on the obvious basics of the GPL and it was also not in […]

Wireless Debian Works!

Wednesday, August 6th, 2003

I’m overjoyed. I’ve got my LinkSys WPC11 Ver 3 Wireless PCMCIA card working with Debian. It’s the first time I’ve gotten this card to work with any distribution. The weird thing was that the wireless card has a little green light indicating a connection when solid and none when blinking. Well, I couldn’t get it […]

Fun at LinuxWorld 2003 Expo

Tuesday, August 5th, 2003

So,
First a tip: when the expo floor opens at 10 AM, walk straight ahead and to the left a little bit towards the gigantic Red Hat display to get your free red hat. They only give away these good-looking caps at certain times of the day. I missed it at first because I went directly […]

Free Software Licensing and the GNU GPL

Monday, August 4th, 2003

On Friday I’m heading over to Stanford’s Law School (you can tell Boalt Hall hasn’t indoctrinated me yet!) for a Free Software Foundation Conference entitled: Free Software Licensing and the GNU GPL It was covered on Slashdot recently. The virtual flyer for the day says,
This program is designed to offer lawyers and businesspeople, […]

LinuxWorld Expo Tomorrow!

Monday, August 4th, 2003

I’ve been sort of out of the news loop lately with all this moving and unpacking, and I just realized that I can go to the LinuxWorld Expo tomorrow (and Wednesday and Thursday if I like!) It’s in San Francisco, so it’s a simple BART ride for me! Woohoo! (Ok. I realize it’s geeky […]

Ugh. Moving.

Friday, August 1st, 2003

Moving recently was probably the worst experience of my life. Perhaps this means I’ve lived a charmed life, but you haven’t heard yet how bad the move was. I’m currently fussing with U-Haul to try to get the price I paid for this fiasco reduced. A truck with no A/C, broken speedometer, broken odometer, no […]