Wow! Talk about case in point. And you thought running non-free software was okay. Good thing I made the stance when I did. Luckily for me, I’m running the open nv driver that ships with X. So I don’t have 3D acceleration. I also don’t have an exploited system.
I [...]
Well, it’s rather unfortunate that the relationship between Mozilla and Debian ended this way. The whole argument over a trademarked logo is a little silly if you ask me. I look at this argument, and I see Mozilla to blame.
Mozilla: get over it. Open the logo and realize that no one is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I don’t know if many of you read Jonathan Schwartz’s blog or not, so if you don’t, you’re in for a good read. For starters, Jonathan Schwartz is the only CEO in a Fortune 500 company to blog (Scott McNealy has handed over the keys and the position). Second, he blogs about what [...]
I am getting really frustrated with encrypting conversations between differing IM clients. Why in the world does this have to be so difficult? First, let’s talk about the principle of the matter. Then we’ll get into the nitty-gritty.
Regardless of who I am talking to, regardless of what instant messaging client I am [...]
I love Irssi in combination with screen. It is a beautiful thing. For those of you who don’t use it, try it. You’ll never go back.
Getting the hang of windows in Irssi can be somewhat tricky when first using it, because everything is command line. So, changing windows is done using [...]
I love Thunderbird. It is a solid application. But I have a few issues with the app, and I am beginning to think about abandoning it. Here is a list of issues that I have with the application:
Thunderbird doesn’t handle RSS2 feeds properly. The summary (about 256 characters or so) is [...]
UPDATE: I guess vim 7 has been released already. Were have I been?
Being a data engineer as my profession, I spend most of my time in text editors, you guessed it, manipulating data. Because I am on a Windows XP workstation, this usually means VEdit. VEdit isn’t bad, and has very promising [...]
Spammers must enjoying the relief from the very apparent strain that Blue Frog users were giving them. Well, they won’t be enjoying the relief for long. Thanks to a new startup group called Okopipi. For starters, it is peer-to-peer, de-centralized and completely open source. And the best part? DDOS attacks [...]
I am going to try something new. I am never good at keeping the motivation on these kinds of posts, so we’ll see where this takes me. Lately, my blog has been fairly negative, and for this I appologize. I appologize to my readers at Planet Utah, for those who syndicate me and to [...]
This is good news, even if it is a week old. Andrew Updegrove gives us the news:
The six month voting window for ISO/IEC adoption of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard closed on May 1, and at midnight (Geneva time) last night it was announced internally that ODF had been approved by the ISO members [...]
First, I want to thank all the traffic from the Gnome desktop devel mailing list. I normally sit around 20-30 hits per day. Your traffic has doubled that. While I am certainly NOT looking for traffic, it is somewhat pleasant to know that I am reaching out, and creating interest in someone. So, with that, [...]
A follow-up post is needed to explain many of my positions in greater detail about previous posts I have put on this blog. I will address them in order.
-Open Discussion Day
This post seems to be the most misunderstood of all. I don’t know if people are just skimming the post looking for highlights [...]
Before I begin going, let me ask a question. Think about it for a second. Should proprietary software belong in open source Linux?
Now if you gave that any thought at all, 80% of you are running proprietary software in your Linux box. Whether you are using ndiswrapper for your wireless, playing DVDs [...]
