Archive for September, 2008

DMCA notice

It is with great reluctance that I have just sent two DMCA notices to parties that are distributing software I’ve written in violation of the licenses.  I sent informal notices to the parties a month ago, and received no replies.  Two of the parties are using aliases, and I do not have postal addresses or [...]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that in the Pittsburgh Public Schools, students now get a minimum grade of 50% for assignments and tests, even if their actual percentage score is lower.  District spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said
If a student gets a 20 percent in a class for the first marking period, he or she would need a [...]

Update:  I upgraded one of my machines from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9, and it started using tiny fonts.  Tom Horsley on the Fedora list explained that now the X server is actually using the display resolution (dots per inch) from the monitor’s EDID data to choose default font sizes.  On NX sessions I was [...]