] A tree fell on a car during a storm Tuesday, killing a
] father, mother and their older daughter in a shopping
] center parking lot, authorities said.
]
] A second daughter was cut from the wreckage and flown to
] Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. Firefighters spent
] 40 minutes sawing through the tree and then had to cut
] the crushed car apart to free the crying 18-month-old.

This is just sad. Another case of in the wrong place and exactly the wrong time. It goes on to say how the tree was "4-foot-thick tree splintered about 15 feet up its trunk".

Charlotte Observer | 07/30/2003 | Falling tree kills parents, child

bucy wrote:
] ]
] ] Novell said Wednesday that NetWare 6.5 will include
] ] features for business continuity, open source, Web
] ] application services and "virtual office" capabilities to
] ] reduce network costs and complexity while giving users
] ] around-the-clock access.
]
] I guess I knew that they hadn't folded but I didn't realize
] that they were still doing active development. Up until NT4
] or so, Netware was king ... who uses it now?
]
] And it still seems to be their same, old, expensive licensing
] scheme...

I enjoying bursting this type of bubble. Since the release of Netware 6, Novell has changed to a new licensing scheme that is far far better than their old one. Their previous scheme is what Microsoft currently uses. Each user must have a license for each server, so if you have 200 users and three servers you will have to have 600 licenses to function. Novell now uses 1 license per connection no matter how many servers. So using the same model we would only need 200 licenses.

I actually got to see the virtual office product in action this past weekend. Many people will see it like the online class system inside of the Blackboard web application. It holds a forum for the members of the virtual team, a java chat application similar to IRC, access to your email, a shared calendar and shared bookmarks.

Also they have revamped a product called "Branch Office" server. It uses rsync and a few other open source utilities to maintain a remote office server. Holding a copy of the files on the remote server on the main network server. There is a good deal more information on the Novell web site.

RE: Internet Week : NetWare : Novell Preps NetWare For Linux Future : July 24, 2003

] The game was up on 25 July, as the Las Vegas
] Review-Journal finally reported what we'd been telling
] readers all along:
]
] The Hunting for Bambi video that has been sweeping the
] media in the past week or so is a hoax, city of Las Vegas
] officials said Thursday.

well crud. I am two for two on the latest internet jokes. Oh well... time moves on.

Snopes: 'Hunting for Bambi' confirmed as hoax

] The movie industry announced a broad new anti-piracy
] public education campaign today, with commercials set to
] appear on all six broadcast television networks, more
] than two dozen cable channels and in 5,000 movie theaters
] nationwide.
]
] The ads are scheduled to launch at the same time on all
] participating channels during prime-time telecasts on
] Thursday. They also are slated to run between previews
] showing before Friday night's movies. Encompassing one
] 30-second and five 65-second spots, the campaign asks
] consumers not to digitally download unauthorized versions
] of movies they may find on the Internet.
]
] The spots feature actor Ben Affleck and "Titanic"
] director James Cameron, but they focus on
] behind-the-scenes movie employees, such as set painters,
] security guards, costumers, editors and theater
] concessionaires who make up the bulk of the industry's
] 580,000 workers. The point of the campaign is to persuade
] illegal downloaders that they are stealing paycheck money
] not just from multi-millionaire stars but from regular
] working folks -- folks like them.

Now I have seen some fairly good rips of movies on the net over the last few years. The general quality of stuff most people can download is very poor and just serves to wet my appetite. Instead of targeting the pirates how bout promoting the higher quality of the DVD to the public. The masses will pay for a good quality product.

Movie Industry Unveils Anti-Piracy Public Education Campaign (TechNews.com)

] Gilman and her 11-year-old daughter, Kristen, were among
] Krispy Kreme lovers who planned to spend the night in
] tents in front of the store, eagerly awaiting the grand
] opening. It is the first Krispy Kreme store in New
] Jersey.
]
] "I'm just thrilled to death that Krispy Kreme is finally
] here," Gilman said. The Toms River resident, who grew up
] in Alabama, said that "when people ask me about Krispy
] Kreme, I tell them they are the third religion in the
] South behind Southern Baptist and SEC football."

Mmmmmm donuts...

Krazy Krispy Kreme Kooks

] The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to
] overturn controversial rules adopted by the Federal
] Communications Commission that would greatly increase
] the number of television stations a single company is
] allowed to own.
]
] The FCC last month voted to ease ownership restrictions,
] lifting the national broadcast "cap" -- or reach of any
] single company -- to 45 percent of the national market
] from 35 percent and letting TV, radio and newspaper
] companies buy each other more freely.
]
] But by a vote of 400 to 21 the House rejected those
] changes.

Thank GOD!!! Stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it, Clear Channel.

US House of Representatives nixes FCC rules expanding ownership

] Josh Pfluger and his scouting pals went into his Rockford
] garage and hammered out a shoe-scanning device now in
] daily use at O'Hare International Airport. His goal at
] the time was simply to polish off his Eagle Scout
] requirements.
]
] Looks like the project passed muster.
]
] Pfluger's homemade invention %u2014 a box with a metal
] detector that travelers step onto before they reach the
] security gate %u2014 are an optional, preliminary step to
] let passengers know whether their shoes will trigger
] alarms at the gate.
]
] That can speed up lines by tipping passengers off they
] may need to remove their shoes and send them through
] X-ray machines %u2014 and maybe even encourage people to
] leave footwear with metal eyelets behind on future trips.
]
] "It's obviously not a certified machine, but it does
] initially help in the screening process," said Monique
] Bond, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Aviation at
] O'Hare. "It's a unique idea ... giving the Boy Scouts an
] opportunity to demonstrate their merit."

Teenager's Eagle Scout project used to ease waits at O'Hare airport security

] In a 2001 survey of 1,000 drivers for Exxon, more than
] 70% of drivers say they eat while driving, up from 58% in
] 1995. Some 83% say they drink coffee, juice, or soda
] while driving and a few even say they'd love a microwave
] in their car.

Wow, a microwave in the car. I would like one of those but that would make a definite mess. Oh well, maybe one day after I hit the lottery and Jeeves is driving me around.

MSN Money - 10 most dangerous foods to eat on the road

I really wish I could submit a few links in one post but this will have to do. Now many people know that I am a fan of Novell and do enjoy using their products. Earlier this year Novell announced that they will be adding support for Linux for many of their products. For this task they have started http://forge.novell.com . They are in the progress of porting some of their software to linux and also attempting to take things from linux and put it into Netware.

I have already seen SSH and some other open source tools run on Netware. I can't wait to see where this is going to end. So if you have a few minutes take a moment to look through the project list and see if there is something you would like to play with.

Novell Forge : Help Requests

] We all know about the Napster issue, the perfume company,
] the lipstick company, the tire makers... Metallica has
] sued them all. Rightly or wrongly, no one is judging
] that. However, the idea behind this parody was to gauge,
] after all that litigation, just how willing America was
] to buy a story as extraordinay -- as outlandish -- as
] them claiming ownership of a 2-chord progression.

A follow-up on the Metallica lawsuit. It was all made up. Now get back to work.

Unfaith On Metallica Hoax, 7/18/03