For whatever reason, I have stayed away from DVD-RAMs as useful disc types, and pretty much ignored them. However, I am coming to find that they are very useful and extremely flexible—and cheaper per gigabyte than USB flash drive storage, too. Now, the road to this discovery was actually fairly short, though it took a [...]

It seems that Nelson over at the OSI’s Web site is confused about how “fundamentalist” can be applied to an Open Source advocate. It can be done; one just has to remember that a “fundie” (the variant of the word which makes the malicious connotation clear) is someone that exists at a special place called [...]

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, [...]

Well, this is somewhat frustrating. I submitted a bug some time ago on Evince in Ubuntu wherein I made mention that the default (and up until yesterday, only) information in the title bar of the application is less-than-ideal because it often permits meaningless information to be displayed as the document title. Someone else filed a [...]

Would like to solicit the opinion of a programmer or three on a patch that I wrote against Evolution Data Server. I wrote the patch such that the workaround would be in a central location, so that any code throughout Evolution or other software which may (now or in the future) use Evolution Data Server [...]

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. [...]

I do sometimes wish that I were more eloquent in the ideas that I sometimes wish to convey. The whole idea of freedom is what drives me, and when I see things like this, where a student gets detention for using Firefox. Now, the school claims that it was a falsified document, and it might [...]

I run Ubuntu on a 64-bit AMD processor. Of course, this is a good thing for a number of technical reasons—64-bit software is rather nice to have. But, we’re still very much in a transitory period between the world of 32 bits and 64 bits when it comes to software on the Intel/AMD platforms. And [...]

Alright, so an update. Yep. The past month or so has been filled with all sorts of drama, including a transmission going out on me on the van we now have while I was in Toledo. That wasn’t fun. My dad had open-heart surgery, and is recovering nicely from that—I am fairly certain that he [...]