Wells Grants in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims! In *Large* Part.
Feast your eyes on this, my friends! Judge Brooke Wells' Order Granting in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims. Finally, SCO's refusal to offer specificity has cost them, as it should. There is almost nothing left in the case as far as the challenged items are concerned. [...] What an absolute farce. [Judge Wells] writes:
Certainly if an individual was stopped and accused of shoplifting after walking out of Neiman Marcus, they would expect to be eventually told what they allegedly stole. It would be absurd for an officer to tell the accused that 'you know what you stole I'm not telling.' Or, to simply hand the accused individual a catalog of Neiman Marcus' entire inventory and say 'its in there somewhere, you figure it out.'
Ah! Finally! Somebody noticed that SCO has stubbornly refused to show the code from day one. And now it has cost it dearly.
From: Groklaw
The Microsoft Code
“Renowned test manager JacquesS staggered through the narrow aisle of the stress lab. He lunged for the nearest computer he could see, a Dell. Grabbing the keyboard, the thirty-six-year-old man quickly typed a command to restart the machine, and selected an old Windows XP SP1 build to boot.”
“The Microsoft Code”, written by Adam Barr, is a brilliant parody on Dan Brown's “The Da Vinci Code” in which RobertLa tries to solve the riddle of Mini-Microsoft's secret identity.
Gnome Hearts 0.1.1 Release Announcement
by Sander MarechalOur recently released Gnome Hearts 0.1 suffered from a build problem on distributions that shipped the Lua libraries as liblua instead of liblua50, most notably on the new Suse Linux. Gnome Hearts 0.1.1 fixes this issue, thanks to a patch sent in by a gnomefiles.org contributor. You can download the new tarball from our download section.
To Hell with WCAG 2
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 were published in 1999 and quickly grew out of date. The proposed new WCAG 2.0 is the result of five long years' work by a Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) committee that never quite got its act together. In an effort to be all things to all web content, the fundamentals of WCAG 2 are nearly impossible for a working standards-compliant developer to understand. WCAG 2 backtracks on basics of responsible web development that are well accepted by standardistas.
WCAG 2 will be unusable by real-world developers, especially standards-compliant developers. It is too vague and counterfactual to be a reliable basis for government regulation. It leaves too many loopholes for developers on the hunt for them. WCAG 2 is a failure, and not even a noble one at that.
From: A list apart
Gnome Hearts 0.1 release announcement
by Sander MarechalWe are happy to announce the release of Gnome Hearts version 0.1, an implementation of the classic hearts card game for the Gnome desktop. Gnome Hearts 0.1 is the first release since the project's inception on April 30, earlier this year.
Gnome Hearts features configurable rule-sets such as Omnibus and Spot Hearts besides the standard rules. The game also has multiple computer players that are implemented in the Lua scripting language. This allows for easy modification of the players. Also, the game can use any deck of cards installed for the Gnome Games package.
Gnome Hearts 0.1 can be downloaded from the download page.
