From an email:
Participate in the biggest mobilization of Citizens Against Global Warming!
The Alliance for the Planet [a group of environmental associations] is calling on all citizens to create 5 minutes of electrical rest for the planet. http://www.lalliance.fr
I had Java running on my Ubuntu system for quite a while now and I switched to the Sun package provided by Ubuntu as soon as it became available. Upgrading to Edgy seemed smooth with regards to Java, until last Friday. The problems I started noticing were related to keystore generation, first issues with the format of distinguished names (no spaces accepted after commas anymore) and today problems with the format of the keystores. Keystores created with keytool could were no longer recognized by Java code.
It turns out that the version of keytool I was using after upgrading to Edgy was the one provided by Gnu. Actually the whole set of Java binaries was a mix of Sun and Gnu binaries. Running a debian alternatives command fixed this:
Yesterday Google released a new service (beta, of course): Google Co-op. This basically allows you to create a search engine that will search only certain sites.
To give it a try I created a search engine to search a few sites indexing free computer books: OpenBoox Search Engine.
I also tried to integrate the search result into my new pet project: OpenBoox.com (beta as well). I am using Drupal for OpenBoox.com and it does not seem to be possible to integrate the search result into a Drupal site.
A really disturbing article was published today by The Tyee:
Coping with Climate Dread
The only sensible thing to do seems to stick your head in the sand and forget about the whole issue. Really depressing.
I saw An Inconvenient Truth today. If you have any doubts that we are causing a massive climate change then make sure you see this movie. And I really mean MASSIVE.
If you still have doubts after seeing this movie then your salary depends on having doubts.
One of the trailers shown before the movie started was for "Who Killed the Electric Car?", related subject, looks pretty interesting.
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Dear Friends and EcoNews Readers,
Among my various activities, I am involved in launching a new national non-profit society, called Prevent Cancer Now.We are building a Canada-wide movement that will do whatever it takes to eliminate the preventable causes of cancer.
This has gone on long enough. We need to get the toxins and pollutants out of our lives and out of nature, once and for all. Sweden has set a goal to eliminate all hazardous chemicals by 2020. We can and must do the same here in Canada. We are also organizing a major national conference for cancer prevention in May 2007. Our website is www.preventcancernow.ca
Find the nearest independent coffee shop: www.delocator.ca. And you can also add cafés you now.
It is quite amazing (or rather sad) that there are 9 Starbucks stores within 3 km of my home. The good news is that within the same 3 km there are 20 reported independent cafés.
An ambitious campaign to gather 1 million signatures for a petition to stop whaling: Whales Revenge by WebDummy.com.au...
Just type in your name and city, select your country and click a button.
A crop circle photo from Google Maps. While the image is copyright in 2005 it does not seem to be shot in 2005, not sure.
Google Sightseeing has a few more, see the Alien Crop Circles! article.
ReactOS is a clean room implementation of Windows. They seem to be going through a huge source code audit right now to prove that no code originates at Microsoft.
