today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 06, 2024

• Unified Patents ☛ Competitive Access Systems Linux-related communications patent monopoly reexam granted

  On January 2, 2024, less than three months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,868,908, owned by Competitive Access Systems, an NPE. The ’908 patent monopoly relates to multilink communications between a client and server and was asserted against Oracle's GNU/Linux offering.

• Mozilla

  • Mozilla ☛ Support.Mozilla.Org: Introducing Mandy and Donna

    Hey everybody,

    I’m so thrilled to start 2024 with good news for you all. Mandy Cacciapaglia and Donna Kelly are joining our Customer Experience team as a Product Support Manager for Firefox and a Content Strategist. Here’s a bit from them both: [...]

• Instructionals/Technical

  • XDA ☛ How to see your IP address in Ubuntu

    An IP address is like your physical mailing address. Once you connect a Linux distribution like Ubuntu to the internet or a router, your system gets assigned two IP addresses. There's the private one, which is used to identify your device on an internal network, and the public IP address, which is what websites see when you connect.

    It's important to know your IP address on Linux should you be having network issues or if you're on a call with an IT administrator and they need to connect remotely. The good news is that Ubuntu makes it easy to see your IP address. You can use the terminal or the graphical user interface (GUI) settings app.

  • Network World ☛ Getting started with scripting on Linux: Testing variables

    This post follows up on Part 1 by examining the many ways that you can test the value of variables - e.g., whether they equal particular strings like "yes" or "no", if they have a numeric value, if they are null (empty), or if they are larger or smaller than some value or variable.

• K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

  • Two Breeze Icon Updates

    Hi all,

    I made a couple of videos explaining more updates for Breeze icons. Enjoy!

• Games

  • Boiling Steam ☛ Top 7 New Games You Can Play on GNU/Linux with Proton – January 2024 Edition

    Happy New Year 2024 Everyone! We are back with our usual monthly update.

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Hackaday ☛ The World Of Web Browsers Is In A Bad Way

    There once was a man who invented a means for publishing scientific documents using hypertext. He made his first documents available from his NeXT cube, and a lot of the academics who saw them thought it was a great idea. They took the idea, expanded it, and added graphics, and pretty soon people who weren’t scientists wanted to use it too. It became the Next Big Thing, and technology companies new and old wanted a piece of the pie.

• Open Hardware/Modding

  • Yahoo News ☛ Andes Announces General Availability of the New RISC-V Out-Of-Order Superscalar Multicore Processor, the AndesCore™ AX65

    Andes Technology, a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, today proudly announces general availability of the high-performance AndesCore™ AX65 out-of-order superscalar multicore processor IP. [sic]

• Windows TCO

  • Insurance Journal ☛ Merck Settles Coverage Dispute With Insurers Over War Exclusion in NotPetya Attack

    Merck & Co. Inc. has reportedly reached a deal with insurers over a closely-watched coverage dispute related to a massive cyberattack in 2017.

    The New Jersey Supreme Court in July 2023 agreed to hear the case after a state appeals court ruled months prior against eight insurers, finding that a hostile/warlike action exclusion in an all risks property insurance policy did not apply to a Russian-linked cyberattack known as “NotPetya” on the pharmaceutical firm.