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“Because the Commission exceeded the scope of its delegated authority, we grant the petition for review, and reverse and vacate the Flag Order insofar as it requires demodulator products manufactured on or after July 1, 2005 to recognize and give effect to the broadcast flag.”
I’ve just released DFS 0.6.19 at the DFS page. For people that aren’t familiar with DFS, it’s several things:
DFS 0.6.19 has fixes mainly for i386 and amd64. The i386 image contains both i386 and amd64 kernels (the CD boots to Grub and you can choose which one you want at that time). It has newer kernels than the previous release to support some newer hardware, as well as an updated userland.
The dfsbuild package, in sid, is used to generate these images.
So it looks like Indiana has finally decided to adopt Daylight Saving Time (DST) like most of the rest of the country, and hopefully reform its muddled mess of timezones at the same time. (Some counties in Indiana change their clocks in violation of state law). I’m sure Marty is pleased.
I think it is a little odd that the legislators that voted to go with the rest of the country are written about as genuine “heroes” in some newspapers. But I do think it’s good that Indiana is doing what everyone else is.
Now I hear talk of extending DST for a total of two more months. That is, more of the year will be spent on DST instead of Standard Time. That’s silly. Why don’t we all just move our schedules for everything one hour earlier and be done with the time changing, forever?
That would please my great-grandfather. He always kept at least one clock in his house on standard time, because “this is God’s time.” I haven’t ever quite figured out why Central Standard Time was the divinely favored time zone.
A Tree for Jimmy from Ralph
A Happy Romp through Space regarding the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Here is a simple example illustrating the coolness of Darcs over, say, Arch or anything else.
I’ve used most of the different filesystems in Linux. My most recent favorite has been JFS, but things like starvation with find have really been annoying me lately. To summarize, here is my experience with filesystems:
The one major Linux FS not in that list is XFS. So I decided to give it a whirl, switching my 40GB /home on one machine to XFS. So far, it’s been good.
There are two articles at IBM developerworks about XFS that were useful. There’s also a useful filesystems comparison from Novell.
The answer to the pickup poll is $75. That answer scored third place.
Sweet.
Juliusz Chroboczek has announced a working prototype of a darcs that can pull from git. This follows a long discussion on darcs-devel about how darcs could interoperate with git.
I found this article while surfing today. Looks like a good read:
Benefits from a real world switch from CVS to darcs
One thing the author didn’t mention, since everything is presumably on a LAN in their environment, is the substantial performance benefits in darcs from not having to hit the net for so many activities.
Some fun reflections from Marty.