PEP-347 on Python.org outlines a migration of the Python source base from CVS to Subversion. According to an email on the Subversion user list, the migration has been completed and the public repository is online.
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DRM Crippled CD: A bizarre tale in 4 parts
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This article on The Big Picture tells a bizarre story about DRM crippled CDs. This actually hits home for me as over the weekend I found that the new G3 – Live In Tokyo CD (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, and John Petrucci) came out and is also DRM protected. iTunes only has the partial album – no Petrucci. Disappointing. This story is a pretty interesting read and shows how rediculous this copy protection thing is and how petty one company can be.
SCO describes alleged IBM Unix misuse to court
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Stephen King and Marvel Comics to Create Comic Series based on Dark Tower
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This article on the Motley Fool talks about a deal between Marvel Comics and author Stephen King to create a comic book series based on his book series The Dark Tower. Marvel also has a section on this new venture on their web site. The comic is due to debut in April of 2006.
Google throws bodies at OpenOffice
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Google throws bodies at OpenOffice – News.com.
Suresh Arena
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My friend Suresh has started posting to his blog.
Why am I on WordPress dot com? · Asymptomatic
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Owen Winkler has written an article called Why am I on WordPress dot com?, talking about the different versions of WordPress and what you get out of each of them. The thing that surprised me was that there was a Multi-User version of WordPress.
Flickr Architecture
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Ever wonder what Flickr’s architecture looks like? Niall Kennedy has a post about it that refers to a Powerpoint presentation on Flickr’s site and states some brief statistics. The presentation is pretty interesting. It’s amazing what you can do with MySQL and a little (okay, a lot of) PHP …
New and Improved Diary of an Axeman Site
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The Diary of an Axeman site, a tribute site to Randy Rhoads, has been redesigned. I have to say, it looks great! The downloads section has been updated with a performance of Crazy Train from Chicago’s Rosemont Horizon from January of 1982.
Oracle to release “free” low end database
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I found this article on ZDNET talking about how Oracle will be releasing a free version of Oracle 10g to try and head off Open Source databases like MySQL.
Bieber Labs 