Using 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...
View ArticleKeeping 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...
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