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{ Monthly Archives } October 2006

Drawing the Line

Well, I’ve come to a conclusion on my personal conflict with supporting a Linux distribution that uses and ships with non-free software. I don’t have a problem with it. In fact, quite to the contrary. I think it is wonderful that Ubuntu ships it. And I don’t think that Ubuntu stifles [...]

Personal Philosophy Problems

I came across something that is problematic for me. I guess I really knew it all along, but today it hit home, and I put 1 and 1 together.
By default, Ubuntu ships with two repositories that are fully supported: main and restricted. These two software repositories include all the necessary software to get [...]

New Hidden Server on Freenode

Freenode is interested in your security. As such, they have two hidden Tor servers available for you to use. They have actually been using the hidden servers for a while now, but they just added a new one, and the added security benefits are great!
First, aside from end-to-end encryption, which is a bonus [...]