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February 2003 Archives January February March April May June July August September October November December ILUG PRO Gets Hitched Posted By Proinnsias Breathnach - 14:45, 24 February 2003 Edited by Proinnsias Breathnach - 14:45, 24 February 2003 The ILUG Committee would like to take this opportunity to extend our best wishes to our PRO Liam Bedford, who today was married to Ann Harding. We would like to wish them all the best in their married life together. software patents vote tommorrow, act now (please :) Posted By Ken Guest - 16:24, 19 February 2003 Edited by Ken Guest - 16:24, 19 February 2003 tomorrow (Thurday, 20/02/2003) there will be a european parliment vote about software patents "14. Patentability of computer-implemented inventions (T07732)" For info about this see: http://www.aful.org/wws/arc/patents/2003-02/msg00022.html http://www.aful.org/wws/arc/patents/2003-02/msg00023.html DCU Networking Society presents: Kevin Warwick Posted By Ken Guest - 09:15, 19 February 2003 The DCU Networking Society is hosting a talk by Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, this morning at 10 o'clock. Doctoring an IPod to Run on Linux Posted By Adam Beecher - 23:06, 12 February 2003 Ever since Apple released the iPod more than a year ago, fans have wanted the portable music player to do more than just play digital music. The long wish list of features includes using it as a universal remote and as a portable hard drive to store digital photos or movies when a camera's memory card fills up. Studios switch from Sun Unix Servers to Linux Intel/AMD Posted By Adam Beecher - 22:57, 12 February 2003 Pixar Animation Studios has changed out Sun Microsystems Unix servers in its 'render farm' with eight new blade servers with Intel processors from Rackspace. The blade system servers contain a total of 1,024 Intel 2.8GHz Xeon processors, and run on the Linux operating system. Gates holds forth on the 'pervasive Linux' threat Posted By Adam Beecher - 22:51, 12 February 2003 Bill Gates is taking Linux very seriously - but apparently, still not seriously enough to actually understand it. Speaking to the Microsoft MVP Summit on Tuesday he bracketed Linux with other 'kill the company' threats to Microsoft, giving OS/2 as a prime example. Add ILUG News to the Mozilla Sidebar Posted By Ken Guest - 14:01, 12 February 2003 You can now add ILUG News to the Mozilla Sidebar. Use the link beneath to do so. Poll: Which ILUG Merchandise would you buy? Posted By Ken Guest - 13:58, 6 February 2003 As a part of a survey to see what we should get branded and sell next, the Committee would appreciate your participation in this poll. Linux Keyboard Binding Database Posted By Ken Guest - 13:04, 6 February 2003 Edited by Ken Guest - 13:04, 6 February 2003 Pádraig Brady is in the process of documenting default keyboard bindings (which key does what) in a very wide range of windowmanagers, applications and command line utilities. He would appreciate feedback and submissions. Banks Want to Swim With Penguin Posted By Adam Beecher - 12:21, 4 February 2003 Edited by Ken Guest - 12:21, 4 February 2003 The Bulls and the Bears may soon be standing on the unemployment line. Tux the penguin, Linux's beloved mascot, is rapidly becoming the financial services industry's totem animal of choice. In fact, it seems that the only steadily rising statistic on Wall Street these days is the number of companies moving to open-source systems. The rise of the $99 'consumer' Linux distribution Posted By Adam Beecher - 12:19, 4 February 2003 Edited by Ken Guest - 12:19, 4 February 2003 $99, give or take $20, seems to be the new price point for full-featured, consumer-level Linux distributions. This is a great deal for non-technical users, since most of the new-wave consumer Linux products give users a much prettier and easier experience than traditional, all-GPL distributions tailored for a geeky user base. |
