• MobKnowledge Knowledgebase Website

    Posted on January 18, 2004

    Russell Beattie has started a new website to serve as a “knowledge base for mobile phones”. He posted about it in his blog, describing why he chose the collaboration format that he did and what the goals are. I immediately signed up and added info for a bunch of the... [Read More]

  • Perl for Symbian

    Posted on January 18, 2004

    The Register is reporting that Nokia is planning a Perl port for series 60 phones. This would be really cool. Not only cause I think more development options are a good idea, but because the language is an open source option. I admit I’m not familiar with most of what... [Read More]

  • Software RAID and Linux

    Posted on January 18, 2004

    I’ve been setting up software RAID for the guys at Zamples, and I found the Boot Root RAID Lilo HOWTO to be quite informative. I had never seen that doc before, and it addressed exactly what I was trying to do. I wasn’t able to get the second drive booting... [Read More]

  • GNU-Linux Home Desktop

    Posted on January 17, 2004

    There’s a third part to the series of articles about building a distro that computer retailers could use to build PCs. I still don’t agree with running the project as a contest, as I’ve mentioned before, but I do think the idea in general is great. The project aims to... [Read More]

  • Further Info From the SCO Case

    Posted on January 17, 2004

    According to this article at itWorldCanada.com the lawsuit brought against IBM by SCO will not involve copyright infringement. The lawsuit will supposedly center around breech of contract, with SCO arguing that IBM introduced intellectual property belonging to SCO into the Linux kernel. I don’t know if this is really a... [Read More]

  • Power Out

    Posted on January 16, 2004

    My power went out at home. Just a localized event, but annoying cause it happens to be localized to my area. But given the new set of toys I’m playing with I don’t have to be disconnected. I had a conversation on the Open Palm Environment WINKsite chat area using... [Read More]

  • Building an Infrastructure

    Posted on January 16, 2004

    Infrastructures.org is a great resource for anyone that needs to administer multiple Unix style machines and is looking to do so more efficiently. The principles laid down there are fantastic, and they stick to open source tools in their descriptions of how to put systems together, and even have a... [Read More]

  • Replacing Palm HotSync

    Posted on January 16, 2004

    There’s a message on the pilot-link-devel mailing list about replacing the normal Palm Network Sync with something else. Recently Palm has been a huge pain in the ass. Just about every device comes out with some new extension to the sync protocol. Something that breaks the existing tools under Linux... [Read More]

  • Defacto Standards Using Commercial Software

    Posted on January 16, 2004

    I have heard people talk about the danger of letting commercial software turn into the defacto standard for how to do things. I didn’t really think this was a big deal, until I tried to create a boot disk to do a BIOS update the other day. This is where... [Read More]