09 Mar 2004
Here are some useful links for learning about software patents:
http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html
http://perens.com/Articles/Patents.html
http://www.cyberlaw.com/cylw894.html
http://www.base.com/software-patents/software-patents.html
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08 Mar 2004
Hmm... very interesting indeed. DARCS vs arch: this is a post on the darcs-users mailing list which lists one case where darcs shines over arch. Basically, it allows you to establish (or rather, itself establishes) relationships between patches, so that if you retrieve patch-11 which is an enhancement over patch-8,...
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08 Mar 2004
Just read David Wheeler's comments on CVS, SVN and GNU Arch. Probably because of a bias towards arch, he lists out the problems of arch and has asked the developers on the arch-users mailing list to look into them / confirm them. Overall, it's a pretty good article and provides...
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27 Feb 2004
Recently, a friend of mine asked me which versioning system to use so that his migration from MS Visual SourceSafe would be the least painful. Subversion, ofcourse, would be the best bet right now, but I haven't tried out GNU arch yet. This provided the necessary impetus. As a result,...
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27 Feb 2004
Daniel Phillips recently posted a patch for an implementation of a distributed mmap API for Linux. I had it covered on Kerneltrap.
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27 Feb 2004
Playing with LJ layouts. The site is not at all coherent in terms of visibility; but that's fine for now; once I settle with a theme, I'll adjust the colors of the remaining layouts.
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26 Feb 2004
I shifted to LiveJournal 'cos there wasn't any Debian-packaged updating interface from emacs for Advogato. I still maintain my Advogato page, but updates there would be less frequent. Muli has written a tool that updates both, Advogato and LiveJournal, will try it over the weekend...
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26 Feb 2004
My first article to KernelTrap appeared on Saturday. I've recently joined the Kerneltrap moderation team, there are many more to come ;-)
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09 Jan 2004
First post: Trying with emacs and ljupdate.
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