Tommorow is the Big Day for GNU/Linux, when Ubuntu goes through it’s regularly 6 month upgrade. Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed “Jaunty Jackalope” is due for release. The consequence is, these servers will get slammed, meaning that’s it’s difficult for people who use other distributions on some mirrors to update their distribution. As a result, rather than [...]
With all the whoo hah about why GNote sucks for Tomboy, mono is patent encumbered software by Microsoft, people eating FUD for breakfast, and other things, one argument I’ve failed to read is this: GNote can bring Tomboy to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as Red Hat will not ship mono with its flagship product. Whatever [...]
I’ve been toying with the idea that I want a new email signature at the end of each message I send. For the longest time, I’ve been of the opinion to put an email netiquette topic in my signature on one point or another. For example, for the past 4 years, I’ve had one version [...]
This is intending to be a quick post, so I hope I can keep it as such. There are a few things online that are really starting to get under my skin. Thankfully, the problems can all be solved by an opt-out approach, one way or another, with of course the most dramatic staying offline. [...]
My bank allows customizing the front of the card with an image of your choice. So, I figured why not represent Free Software and Linux everywhere I use my card? I struggled for some time finding the right image to represent Free Software. The GNU logo is almost as horrid as Tux, the Linux kernel [...]
