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 b...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s an article at IBM DeveloperWorks about writing reusable command line utilities. The article focuses on five guidelines: Do one thing well. Be a filter. Generali...

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...

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 bo...

The speech by Paul Saffo this evening was very interesting. There were many points he brought up that jive with the stuff that I’ve been working on. There was a lot of stuff he said that meshed wel...

Just as a reminder, cause I forgot myself, Paul Saffo is speaking tonight at PARC. Should be an interesting evening, hope to see some of you there.

I created a new category for this article about a direct neural interface. The category is called Dweeb, and it’s for those things that aren’t quite mobile computing, or open source, or related to ...