do you see any resemblance?
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Do you see any resemblance?
do you see any resemblance?
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Mariah Carey's Emancipation of Mimi
01. It's Like That (3:25)
02. We Belong Together (3:23)
03. Shake It Off (3:55)
04. Mine Again (4:04)
05. Say Somethin' (featuring Snoop Dogg) (3:46)
06. Stay The Night (3:59)
07. Get Your Number (featuring Jermaine Dupri) (3:18)
08. One And Only (featuring Twista) (3:17)
09. Circles (3:33)
10. Your Girl (2:48)
11. I Wish You Knew (3:37)
12. To The Floor (featuring Nelly) (3:30)
13. Joy Ride (4:06)
14. Fly Like A Bird (3:54)
Free download...Password: CLAYMORE
from: http://mp3albumsongs.blogspot.com
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Richard Matthew Stallman
Background...
- Born: March 16, 1953, New York City
- Parents: Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman
- Atheist
- www.stallman.org
- Hired by IBM New York Scientific Center
- preprocessor for the PL/I programming language on the IBM 360
- Harvard University
- programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT
- regular in the hacker community: “RMS”
- graduated from Harvard magna cum laude earning a BA in Physics in 1974
- knee injury
- awarded six honorary doctorates and two honorary professorships
Where it all began...
- MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) installed a password control system in 1977
- decrypt the passwords and sent users messages containing their decoded password
- to demonstrate that they were not increasing security, but only hindering free access to each other's software and discouraging sharing it
Works...
- AI truth maintenance system called dependency-directed backtracking with Gerald Jay Sussman
- early work on the problem of intelligent backtracking in constraint satisfaction problems
- TECO, Emacs, and the Lisp Machine Operating System
- Copyleft
- is a play on the word copyright
- practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions
- requires the same freedom be preserved in modified versions
- author surrenders some but not all rights under copyright law
- GNU General Public License, Tiny BASIC
- GNU Project
- “GNU's Not Unix”
- September 1983
- free Unix-like operating system
- free software movement
- GNU/Linux operating system
- incorrectly called Linux
- Free Software Foundation
- October 1985
Some humor...
- “I am also a saint, in the Church of Emacs--Saint IGNUcius...”
- "There are no godfathers in the Church of Emacs, since there are no gods, but you can be someone's editorfather."
Sources:
http://www.stallman.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
http://www.gnu.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
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