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A good summary of all the SCO mess is at TwikiWeThey.

Check out this code that exercises Amazon.com's SOAP services to recurse a hierarchy of mp3s and download a picture of the cover of each record. Pretty awesome stuff. It worked on my 170+ GB of music. Imagine downloading all of those covers my hand!

My brother is 28 years old today.

Softpanorama: (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society has an incredible wealth of commentary on a lot of things I think are important related to OSS, linux, software, etc. Much of it goes against mainstream orthodoxy and I don't agree with a lot of what's there, but it's all very fascinating reading.

This SCO business is now totally out of hand but will be a great test of legal issues surrounding Linux at the end of the day. See here, here, here, here, here, and here.

I called in to the SCO conference call today and also listened to their results call a few days ago. These guys (SCO) are looser parasites with a product that is irrelevant in a market that includes Linux.

I should probably look at CRM114 to do server-side Bayesian SPAM filtering.

As of this morning, this lame website did over a million hits and almost 12 GB of HTTP for the month. Why? What's here that anyone but a handful of people could be interested in? It's probably all crawlers from google, etc.

Haven't you always wanted to own high-end digital SLR photo equipment (my new Canon EOS
10D):

Perhaps I'll have a chance to shoot something after my ankle heals. It's been about 4 weeks since the break and I'm still on crutches, but I'm feeling that I will be able to walk on it again soon.

I went to Colorado over the weekend

Some stink (stirred up by me) about Maui licensing.

Some new pix of the ankle for your viewing pleasure... my new walker boot and one of the incisions (there's one on each side):

According to the Doc, I have to use crutches for at least 3 more weeks at which time I'll go back to see how I've progressed. I hope to get pictures of the post-op xray then. The plate and seven screws look quite gnarly.

One thing that never goes through your mind when you by a car: "If I ever break my left ankle, I won't be able to drive a manual tranmission". Maybe I have to buy a new car with an automatic transmission?

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For reference, the max data rate of various PCI buses:

I must be over the some kind of recovery hump, because my big toe no longer looks grossly inflated. In fact, it looks pretty much like a normal toe today. Also, my pain med intake is about a half of what it was. I think this is good news.

Today I did nothing more exciting that a bit of reading and a lot of sleeping. Today is Mother's day. Yesterday I went to a BBQ at Elisa's bother's house.

Could a book be more anticipated than Neil Stephenson's Quicksilver - a prequel to Cryptonomicon? I don't think so. Not even Dan Simmon's return to Space Opera with Ilium. Quicksilver is released on 2003-09-23.

I'm quite sick of being in pain, having to take pain medication, not being able to drive my car, and being stuck in my apartment continuously. Everything except laying in bed or sitting in the stressless is a chore. I think I'll make some soup and then read a book.

Directly from slashdot:

Stuart Moore writes "A vulnerability was reported in Microsoft .NET Passport, also affecting Hotmail user accounts. The simple flaw allows an attacker to change any person's password to an arbitrary value. The attacker can then gain access to the victim's accounts, as well as to the victim's personal information (if any is stored w/ Passport). Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka posted a note to the Full-Disclosure security e-mail list after multiple unsuccessful attempts to contact Microsoft." There's a news report as well.

Nice work MS. The GNU / Linux community is so going to own you. Read the discussion at slashdot.

Have you noticed that Linux is starting to build real security into itself: Trusted Debian, Grsecurity, Exec shield for the
Linux kernel, etc.

I'm going into work today after I finish a few things at home.

Shortly this website is going to get an overhaul with the weblog portion being powered by Blosxom.

Gentoo Linux is building on one of my laptops.

My ankle feels a lot better today. I have an appointment at 3:15PM with the doctor on 5/13 so see what comes next.

I'm going to see about locking in an interest rate this week for a building loan.

I finished cleaning up my document on building and running HPL with GOTO BLAS on Pentium-4/Linux.

I got this from the ISU Alumni Association today:

From: ISU Alumni Association
To: Matthew Bohnsack
Subject: A message from ISU President Gregory Geoffroy
	
May 6, 2003
	
To the alumni and friends of Iowa State University:
	
As you know, on Monday we accepted the resignation of Larry Eustachy as head
coach of the men's basketball program.
	
In accepting his resignation, we agreed to pay Mr. Eustachy his base salary and
benefits through Dec. 31, 2003 (approximately $140,000), which will enable him
to get treatment for his alcohol problem.  In addition, on Jan. 1, 2004, the
Athletic Department will make a one-time payment of $850,000 to settle his
contract. This settlement will come from revenues generated by the Athletic
Department.  No tax or tuition dollars will be used.
	
Although I know there are some who may disagree with this decision, I believe
it was in the best interests of all parties. This decision brings an end to a
very difficult situation for the university and it allows all parties to move
forward. The university can move forward in rebuilding its men's basketball
program and in bringing the university family together.  Mr. Eustachy can get
the treatment he needs so he and his family can move forward with their lives.
	
While it has been a most unfortunate situation for all involved, it has given
us an opportunity to reaffirm to our alumni and friends, our students, the
faculty and staff, and the people of Iowa a very important principle.  That
principle is that we are, first and foremost, an educational institution, one
that values honesty, +integrity and treating others with fairness and respect.
We will not accept behavior that is contrary to these values or that detracts
from our mission.
	
I want to thank you for all you do for Iowa State University for our students,
academic programs and athletic programs.  We are a strong university because we
have strong principles and a very strong foundation of support from our alumni
and friends.
	
Thank you for your understanding, your continued support, and for being a part
of the growing Iowa State University family.
	
Gregory L. Geoffroy
President
	
(For President Geoffroy's statement announcing Larry Eustachy's resignation,
please go to: http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/releases/03/may/statement.shtml.)

How the heck can Iowa's highest paid public employee pull the kind of crap he did and still get a $0.99 million severance package? I don't get it.

Gnomedex 3.0 - "The Fellowship of the Geeks" is coming to Des Moines Iowa July 25th and 26th. Too bad I no longer live nearby.

I slept all of yesterday and today my leg hurts quite badly.

Everything went OK. The last thing I remember before I woke up was hearing: "We're going to give you a sedative before we bring you back to the OR and give the anesthesia." My first time with anesthesia. A very strange experience. I got back home at around 2:00 and have been napping since then. I go back to the Dr. next Tuesday to get a walking cast or something similar.

I'm going under the knife in about 1.5 hours to get my broken ankle fixed.

Lisa Rein's Tour Of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation
Video, Audio and Photos From Howard Rheingold's Etech 2003 Presentation

An awesome PBS resource.