Keeping Open Formats Alive
I’ve blogged about this many a time, and yet, the same chime rings. How many of you are Open Source advocates, yet use proprietary protocols, formats, files, and software? It’s one thing to be anal...
View ArticlePure ODF Speculation
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/01/ODF-Notes Because you have to register on that site to comment on that article (registering on sites, just to comment is ridiculous), I am opening up comments here. I...
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Texas, Minnesota and ODF
So I’m about a day behind delivering this story. Sorry about that. Texas and Minnesota are debating making the move to ODF following the example of Massachusetts, for all of the official government...
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Bruce Perens Rains on the Novell Brainshare Parade
UPDATE 2: Groklaw covered this post and Justin’s. Comments following are insightful, and far outstretching the content here. Read more here. UPDATE: Justin wrote up a good review of the conference on...
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Open Discussion Day
There are only 9 days left, until Open Discussion Day, and I am posting this to remind you of the event and the purpose. Open Discussion Day is May 19th, every year, and it’s a day where you drop your...
View ArticleMy Centericq Colorscheme
After last night’s post, I began tinkering with the colorscheme for my centericq installation. Really, the layout of the application is self explanatory as to where the colors go. So, because I use the...
View ArticleMovable Type 4.0 Beta Released
I’m 3 days behind in pushing out this news, however, after getting my daily dose of Technorati, and seeing all the posts about Movable Type going GPL with version 4, I had to comment. First off, I am...
View ArticleBSD License Explained In Layman Terms
It’s always bothered me, how confusing the many Free and Open Source Licenses are. There are many to choose from. As a developer, which one do you pick? How do you choose what software to run? What...
View Article3 Operating Systems I’m Watching
Lately, I’ve had on my mind the desire to run different operating systems, other than Debian and Ubuntu. I’ve always had this weird interest in operating systems, so when I discovered Unix and Linux,...
View ArticleGnuPG Turns 10
Happy Birthday to the GnuPG team and community. GnuPG turns 10 today! For those caught unaware, GnuPG was designed to be a Free Software implementation of PGP, removing the patented algorithms, such as...
View ArticleMono And RHEL
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:...
View ArticlePiracy Sucks
This is something that has been on my mind for quite some time (think years), but I’ve refused to blog it, because it goes against the beliefs of many of my friends. In short, this post is going to...
View ArticleBurgers As A Service
There is this burger shop near my home that makes the most amazing burgers, fries and shakes. Bar none. The burgers, of which there is quite the variety, each have their own “secret sauce” that gives...
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High Capacity Color Barcode
I’ve been reading up on how to actually create physical QR Codes, complete with error correction. It’s been very enlightening, and has grown a deeper fascination on the symbology of barcodes in...
View ArticleRIP Microsoft Tag
So yesterday, Microsoft announced that it is ending support for Tag, (on Facebook?) it's proprietary barcode format. To me, this doesn't come as a major surprise. Here's why: Tag arrived very late in...
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Gmail-notify as an Example of the Power of Open Source Software
The example I am about to expense is why Open Source Software (OSS) is so powerful. A friend of mine was reading my blog, and cheking out my Firefox extension list (that I still need to update badly)....
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Open Discussion Day
May 19th is unofficially becoming a very important day in instant messaging. It is becoming the day that legacy protocols are dropped, such as Yahoo, MSN, AIM and ICQ, and only open IM protocols are...
View ArticleHiccups
I hate 'em. Nothing is worse than getting the hiccups. Escpecially when they are very violent and seem to last for a long time. Well, yesterday, I just got a major hiccup, and this one is going to...
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Psi, Gmail and Jabber
If I am beating this topic into the ground, so be it. Sometimes, you just need to beat a dead horse, regardless. Due to the decision of switching to Jabber exclusively, I am on the lookout for a good...
View ArticleWhere Art Thou GNOME 3.0?
This is somewhat of a personal pet peeve more than anything. In fact, I'd place this right under the 'Rant' category if I had one. My issue is all about when GNOME 3.0 is going to get released, if...
View ArticleOne Keyboard One Mouse Many Computers
Synergy is just too cool. This is the kind of software that should just be implemented onto evey networked computer by default. It gives you the ability to have control over as many networked...
View ArticleProprietary Software in and Open Source World
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...
View ArticlePoints of Clarification
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...
View ArticleGnome Integration
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,...
View ArticleOpenDocument Approved As An ISO/IEC Standard
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...
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Favorite OSS Application #1 and #2- Screen and Irssi
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...
View ArticleSpammers- Don't Get Too Comfortable
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....
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Favorite Application #2: Cream
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...
View ArticleA Few More Thunderbird Hiccups
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:...
View ArticleChange Window Shortcuts in Irssi
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...
View ArticleStreamline Client Encryption Before I Lose My Mind
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...
View ArticleJonathan Schwartz- Sun CEO and Blogger
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...
View ArticlePersonal 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...
View ArticleDrawing 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....
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IceWeasel, Here I Come
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...
View ArticleBummer Dude
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...
View ArticleCorel To Distribute Firefox with WordPerfect Office X3
This is good news. As you are fully aware, most likely anyway, I don't use WordPerfect as: 1) it's not Free Software, and 2) it doesn't support ODF natively. However, with that said, this is great...
View ArticleUbuntu Resources
Last night, the Ubuntu-Utah team met, and we had a good meeting. Tristan gave a presentation on how to utilize Ubuntu resources, and Christer talked about what it takes to be an Ubuntu member. Both...
View ArticlePlanet OpenSolaris
There's a new planet on the block: Planet OpenSolaris. Being first exposed to Unix on a Sun Solaris, and owning a Sun Microsystems Enterprise Server a little bit ago, I am a softy for the Solaris...
View ArticleFreeing the Bound
First off, PortableApps Suite. When I stumbled upon this, I was ecstatic! A complete suite of Open Source Software tools for Windows users. Even better- they run right off of your portable USB drive!...
View ArticleUsing Screen Effectively
One of the biggest tools that I use is screen. Not only for irssi, my preferred IRC client, but for other things as well. When I show people screen, it's funny to see the look on their face. They take...
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