in the middle of all my personal/Work related stress, this WONDERFUL news appear.
THE PATENTS ARE DOWN!
Whoo hoo! My thanks go out to all the 648 who said "NO" to the Software Patent Reform in the EU.
And a special word of "stop licking" goes out Thomas Östros who bent over and tried to help the large companies like Ericsson and Nokia, and who openly proclaims that it would be good for small companies that the large ones get patents.
And the Obligatory link to the register
Okay, I'm going to remain unconnected for -even longer-.
It seems that some clueless clerk on my chosen ISP decided that (without consulting their database) my local phone-station was unable to serve a decent speed of xDSL, so he cancelled my account, without letting me or anyone else know.
Result, after some knocking, is that I'm once more in line and waiting installation (deliver the effing box sometime, please! ) and network connection....
Bleh.
Mail: offline. IRC: offline. Bugs: offline. The only good come out of this is that I have finally had time to completely rebuild my spamfiltering using the whole mail corpus as suggested estimate in an effort to get all spam while reducing the size of the database. Actually rather good results, but a somewhat computing heavy ( chalking up total of 10 000 minute cpu time total, just to pass through the 2Gb of email and do statistical analysation... Whatever, I've got time ;p )