Category Archives: Interesting

The Omni driver made the news

On Wednesday, I indirectly made the news, although I did not find out about it until someone mentioned it on Friday. IBM filed this. You can read about it here.

Briefly, IBM asserts that SCO violated its copyright by copying the following IBM code:

title files lines of code
Enterprise Volume Management System 328 298,943
Enterprise Class Event Logging 7 2,048
Dynamic Probes 8 2,411
Linux Support Power PC64 55 19,042
Omni Print Driver 1,202 366,407
Journaled File System 39 9,914
Next Generation Posix Threading 5 1,851
Linux Kernel Support for JFS 2 4,302
Linux Kernel S390 Support 72 57,670
Linux Kernel Support for Service Processor 5 2,554
Linux Kernel Support for Memory Expansion Technology 1 2,277
Linux Kernel Support for IBM eServer iSeries Devices 2 7,455
Linux Kernel Support for PCI Hotplug 1 1,122
Linux Kernel Support for pSeries Hypervisor Terminal 1 364
Linux Kernel PPC64 Support 8 4,412
Linux Kernel Support for Mwave Modem 4 2,523

Inventor

On a local gaming mailing list, some is running a game where people submit answers in three catagories. They are allowed a certian number of guesses for each catogory. They score points only if their answer matches with someone else. They will get 1 point for each person (including themselves) that gives the same answer.

So, this week one of the catagories is inventors. What was amusing was that someone actually submitted my name!

Cat 3:  Inventors.
Brad showed his prowess here, edging out William by a point thanks to
George Washington Carver instead of Marconi.  I almost put down Marconi
myself, but there are so many inventors to choose from.  Of course, we
have our own inventor in our midst as shown by the Mark Hamzy answer!