The Mandelbear's Musings

I did not have a good night last night: straps, wires, and tubes are not conducive to sleep. Last night was my night for the sleep apnea test; they give you a gadget to wear that straps on and includes two strain-gauge bands, a tube going up to your nose, and an oxymetry sensor that clips onto a finger. They really prefer 5 hours worth of sensing; they'll be lucky if they got four. I think I finally got to sleep around 2:30, after taking a flexeril at 2:00. After trying the couch -- the flower_cat was wakeful for different reasons.

Tried adding niacin and B12 supplements to my daily pill salad. The recent tests for those were in the normal range, but I figure it's worth seeing whether they help the neuropathy and triglycerides anyway. I'd forgotten about the facial flushing effect from niacin -- impressive.

U.S. judge says Novell owns UNIX copyrights| Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. court ruled on Friday that Novell Inc. owns copyrights to the UNIX computer operating system, a blow to SCO Group's claim to the technology that also jeopardizes a related SCO lawsuit against IBM .

"The court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights," Judge Dale Kimball of the U.S. District Court for Utah said in the ruling.

He also ruled that Novell could force SCO to drop claims against IBM in a case crucial to the future of the cooperatively developed Linux operating system.

Novell "is entitled, at its sole discretion, to direct SCO to waive" its claim against IBM, the judge wrote.

I'd point to more details on Groklaw, but the net is wonky at the moment.

update: Groklaw's back. And it seems that they owe Novell big $$ for the licenses they "sold" to Microsoft and Sun. There may be a few loose ends, but basically SCOX goes back to being a "caldera". Literally, this time.

See this song for details.

'Zombies' file lawsuit against city of Mpls.

A group of zombies have risen up to claim the city of Minneapolis and Hennepin County violated their free rights and discriminated against them.

The six adults and one juvenile who were arrested while impersonating the undead in July filed their lawsuit Thursday.

The ragged group were arrested for "simulating weapons of mass destruction" during a dance party near the Minneapolis entertainment district.

Police alleged that wires protruding from the zombie's backpacks could have been bombs or were meant to imitate bombs. It was later learned the wires were actually radios.

(from BoingBoing -- where else?)