Out of the Office

By Brian Proffitt
Linux Today Readers

I am officially out of the office this week, though I have been
pushing a little content through here and there to keep things
timely. I wasn’t planning on doing a column at all today, but
something came up.

Namely, yes, I know there’s a problem with LT going up and down
like a yo-yo these past few days. No, we are not under some sort of
sinister DDOS attack. There’s some problem with our Apache server,
and the techs that know how to fix it are also out of the office.
The remaining techs have implemented a workaround that brings the
server back up in about a minute, so please bear with us until we
are back up to full staff.

As for the rest of the column, I thought I would leave it in
your hands this week, gentle readers. My daughter recently did a
report for school highlighting our family ancestry (England) and
was fascinated by the Boxing Day holiday, where traditionally
households give gifts to servants, or in some cases even switch
places with them.

In the spirit of Boxing Day, let’s hear from you in the
talkbacks. Anything about Linux or open source or how evil
Microsoft is. The floor is yours. All I ask is that the usual
profanity/flaming rules remain in place.

How do you think patents will affect Linux? Or is it all BS?
Will the coming of new notebooks based on Linux be the downfall of
Windows? Just how badly does Vista function? And hey, how about the
downfall of SCOX yesterday?

Plenty of topics, and I know there’s plenty of opinions. So have
at it, and enjoy your weekend. I’ll be back online Jan. 2.