• osViews Proposed Desktop GNU/Linux Project

    Posted on January 9, 2004

    There’s an article at osViews about trying to get together a project to develop a full fledged user desktop package. By this they mean everything that a local computer retailer would need in order to sell full fledged Linux based systems, including artwork and sales and marketing materials. I think... [Read More]

  • Motorola Licenses WoZ

    Posted on January 9, 2004

    There’s an article at Mercury News about Motorola licensing the tracking technology that Wheels of Zeus has been working on. I wrote about WoZ in a recent entry here. What I found interesting about the article in Mercury News was that Wozniak would like to see this deployed more as... [Read More]

  • Meatspace and URLs

    Posted on January 8, 2004

    There’s a service called TagAndScan available now in the UK. It allows users to leave entries tied to a location, which other users of the service can then come back and view later on. I think of it like a blog with geolocation information, which is something that a number... [Read More]

  • Organization of an Open Project

    Posted on January 7, 2004

    I’ve been kicking around the idea for the Open Palm Environment project for a while now. I registered the project on Sourceforge in September of last year, so it’s been at least three months that I’ve really been actively mulling over the different aspects of the project. Not very long... [Read More]

  • MacWhirled

    Posted on January 7, 2004

    I went over to the MacWorld expo today. I’m not a regular Mac user, I just wanted to go. I think the newest Mac operating systems kick ass. Pretty and functional AND stable GUI over a rock solid kernel. This is what computing should be. I’m a Linux user, thru... [Read More]

  • Piracy Hurts Open Source

    Posted on January 6, 2004

    There’s an article at Gadgetopia in response to a discussion about piracy and the general economic effects. The discussion centers around the inflated numbers that are thrown around by commercial developers in order to justify the laws they need to get passed. Some interesting points are raised, especially that most... [Read More]

  • Understanding Open Source

    Posted on January 6, 2004

    There’s an article at Groklaw by the General Counsel of Red Hat Inc. about what exactly open source software is, the groundings of open source in copyright law, and how those rights are managed by open source licenses to enact the different goals embodied in different types of open source... [Read More]

  • Kannel Open Source WAP/SMS Gateway

    Posted on January 6, 2004

    I was wandering around looking for info about why it is that my old Palm m515 doesn’t work with some WAP sites, and I ran across Kannel, an open source WAP and SMS gateway. I still haven’t figured out what the hell the deal is with the Palm, but at... [Read More]

  • Stanford Pilot Users Group

    Posted on January 5, 2004

    The Stanford Palm Users Group meets on the first Tuesday of each month, the next meeting is Jan 6th 2004. The page for it isn’t regularly updated, but the group is alive. I know a lot of you probably got cool new toys to play with this holiday. Come on... [Read More]