Hacking for fun and profit

I’m writing a distro mirrorer/proxy in python. It will support the major distros (so there won’t be support for fedora). But since I still have nothing to upload, I’ll post my Cyborg Name Identity:

You can create yours here: www.cyborgname.com

This is one of those days when everything in the IT industry changes. Neowin is reporting (mirror) that the source code of Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 has leaked to the internet. You can find a list of the files in the w2k source tree here.

There is a big discussion about this in slashdot. I’ll post updates if I find something more.

Update: Windowsbeta is also covering this story.

Update2: internetnews, eweek and iblnews(sp).

Update: Statement from Microsoft Regarding Illegal Posting of Windows Source Code.

Update: Betanews is reporting that the leak originated in Mainsoft:

Clues to the source code’s origin lie in a “core dump” file, which is left by the Linux operating system to record the memory a program is using when it crashes. Further investigation by BetaNews revealed the machine was likely used by Mainsoft’s Director of Technology, Eyal Alaluf.

Since it seems that people liked bufman, I’m posting my .vimrc file. I edited it to be “portable” (enabling settings only if they are available) and commenting everything, so you can edit it easily. You can download it here.

Update: wasn’t enabling syntax coloring in gvim@win32. Fixed.