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2004 In Preview
By alex, Section Diaries
Posted on Sun Jan 4th, 2004 at 01:11:02 GMT

Well, it lays before us like a kind of year in the future or something. To get the diaries kicked off for the year ahead - since no-one has posted anything since November - here are my predictions and hopes for the next twelve months.

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md5rcs
By brian, Section Diaries
Posted on Sun Dec 14th, 2003 at 19:06:15 GMT
I've written a program for creating and verifying checksums of cvs repositories, which may be useful to other people: md5rcs - a program for computing checksums of RCS revisions

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Choose Your Own Copyright
By S11 or sirian, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue Oct 14th, 2003 at 16:52:16 GMT
What if you respect the principle of copyright, but don't respect the current copyright law? Make up your own.

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Refuse to devide users!
By wolfgangj, Section Diaries
Posted on Sat Oct 4th, 2003 at 20:06:26 GMT
This article is actually a collection of questions about the origin of the GNU desktop, GNOME. Most likely there is something I just don't know about it (because it has not been explained clearly enough, since I don't consider myself to be ignorant). So please enlighten me if you can.

RMS did not want to spend most of the time of his life building walls to devide people. Thus he started the GNU project instead of joining the proprietary world. A wonderful decision. But I think the goal of the GNU community should not only be to make it theoretically possible for people to help each other; it also needs to be practical. So while the freedom that Free Software always gives you - of course - is the most important aspect and a conditio sine qua non, it is not the only aspect we should care about. If I am using different software than my neighbour, then I cannot help him very effectively.

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We used it like Free Software
By wolfgangj, Section Diaries
Posted on Fri Oct 3rd, 2003 at 11:40:20 GMT
There was a time before I knew about GNU, Free Software and GNU/Linux. Back when me and my friends more-or-less happiely used and programmed on DOS, something interesting happened. Microsoft distributed an interpreter for a dialect of the BASIC programming language with their operating system, and they included two games as example programs.

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Sunday January 4th
· 2004 In Preview

Sunday December 14th
· md5rcs

Tuesday October 14th
· Choose Your Own Copyright

Saturday October 4th
· Refuse to devide users!

Friday October 3rd
· We used it like Free Software

Wednesday September 24th
· Blocking Site Finder at the DNS library level

Sunday August 24th
· SCO: a different point of view.

Sunday June 15th
· Free (or at least open source) software gaining foothold in Brazil

Sunday June 8th
· Why I'm hacking dmd

Saturday May 31st
· Linux chosen (instead of M$) in München

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