Jon wrote “For Me, It’s Linux, Not GNU/Linux” today. I notice that every so often, this issue crops up again in some circles. Many people feel that saying “GNU/Linux” is confusing and shouldn’t be said at all… and, I would even agree with them—but not in the usual “let’s just call it Linux” way. See, [...]

If you have ever used the program G-Archiver, cease. The program sends the usernames and passwords of everyone who uses the program to the program’s author. This is a flagrant violation of trust, ethics, and the rights of computer users. This is why I do not trust software that is closed-source by nature, because it [...]

I found rsnapshot, thanks to Jeremy Zawodny’s post I read the other day, and I have to say that it is absofreakinglutely awesome. My backups from the last three days that I have been using it are taking up this much space on my backup drive: 12G backups/daily.0 592M backups/daily.1 352M backups/daily.2 13G backups If [...]

Oh, what a great thing Hardy will be. The emacs-snapshot package in Hardy will have support for the “Pretty Emacs” stuff that has been floating around the Internet for some time now. This is great! The XFT-enabled Emacs was uploaded to Ubuntu Hardy’s repositories a day or two ago or so. There is a patch [...]

I really don’t like late late nights. Of course, the people regularly around me would tend to disagree, because I am up for so many of them. Sometimes, I dream of days where I can go to bed at 21:00 and wake up early, aiming to get everything done and be able to go to [...]

In the event that anyone is interested, I have published for print a copy of the Debian Policy. I did so mainly because I needed to order a copy for myself, as opposed to printing the thing, and it did not already appear to be already available in this format. It is in A4 paper [...]

Yet another proclamation from Redmond, telling Windows users to “restart regularly” and such. What? Microsoft: Does it not get tiring that you still haven’t fixed up Windows well enough that it still needs to be rebooted? Seriously. I have not rebooted my computers in a long time. And my systems are performing quite nicely, too. [...]

Awesomeness! Pure, unadulterated, awesomeness! Jamie Hyneman—of MythBusters fame—wrote about Windows Vista and how it is a “Tech Headache” compared to something such as Ubuntu: Most features can be set up as options. Why not start with a computer loaded with basic stuff that works 100 percent of the time? Then, give us the option of [...]

There are some people that just absolutely amaze me, and then there are times where I want to say “stop the world, I want to get off.” Really. The fact that some people use computers with absolutely no knowledge of what goes on in them and then claim to know exactly WTF the real deal [...]

For various reasons, I have been forced into using a 32-bit Firefox. There is nothing inherently bad about that, though I was running a 64-bit AMD system. Well, the more I thought about it, the more that I realized that it is rather stupid to use 32-bit applications in a 64-bit environment unless that environment [...]