• OSDL Linux Legal Defense Fund

    Posted on January 12, 2004

    There’s a press release at OSDL announcing the Linux Legal Defense Fund. It’s a fund meant to help those who SCO is threatening to sue. If you haven’t heard about the issue it almost definitely doesn’t affect you. In a nutshell, SCO owns the copyright to the original Unix codebase,... [Read More]

  • Starting Off a Week

    Posted on January 12, 2004

    Starting off a new week almost always makes me depressed. I spend the weekend being able to at least fit in interesting bits of hacking here and there. Although this weekend was mostly work, and my site was down for a decent sized chunk of it, I did manage to... [Read More]

  • Vagablog and TypePad.com

    Posted on January 10, 2004

    I got a question the other day about using Vagablog to post to TypePad.com hosted blogs. I hadn’t tried it before, and it seems to work just fine. I put instructions up on the webpage, and I’ll probably be adding typepad.com as an option in the types list, cause I... [Read More]

  • 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]