Industry

Laying Pipe

Public utilities in rural Washington do what the ILEC cannot.

The Kitsap Public Utility District announced yesterday that it has completed laying 52 miles of fiber-optic cables to form what's called a "backbone," a major "pipe" to move data. By the end of the year it expects the backbone to reach 108 miles at a total cost of $4.5 million. [NewsFactor]

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Ah, the Freedom of the Press

HP has threatened action under the DMCA for exposure of some problems with OSF/1 DEC UNIX Tru64 UNIX. Since the author of the c|net article is Declan McCullough, he's included numerous helpful signposts, including one to the source code in question.

Go, First Amendment, Go!

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