Today is my birthday. In Georgia, that means the deadline to play ad valorem taxes, get the annual emissions inspection, renew tags and all of those sorts of things. I own two vehicles: a ’92 Dodge Caravan and a ’96 Saturn SL1. It should be pretty easy to get both cars to pass inspection, right? [...]
It boggles the mind what some people will actually do—to what ends they will go to try to “show up” someone or make themselves look better. What is even worse is when it is pure marketing bullshit. I am sure that there are people who do this in every single line of work. But what [...]
So, I have someone on Identi.ca (@flameeyees@identi.ca) discussing with me me about my views on FatELF. No biggie, but trying to continue the argument (pointless as it is) there is just too much work: the character limit does not permit real discussion on such a complex issue. So, permit me to address each of the [...]
Ever since Canonical started with Ubuntu One (or “U1″), people have been crying and whining about it being a proprietary pile of goo. For someone who has been active in the free software world for a long time, and still has his brains about him, this makes no sense whatsoever. Yes, it is true that [...]
A common piece of software to find in an office is a word processor—it’s also often one of the most expensive pieces of software that is found in the office! This makes little or no sense, when there are a multitude of alternatives and any business that wants to do so can make requirements that [...]
Oh, I still have this thing. I need to use it more. For that matter, I am like, way behind in reading blogs around the Internet. Oh, dear. And I don’t think that I am anywhere close to being able to actually take the time that’s necessary to catch up. Moving into a house has [...]
It’s been quiet here on my blog lately. We moved out of the apartment in Decatur, and then went to Toledo for Thanksgiving. Then we got back from there, and began getting things setup here in the house in Dunwoody. We’re staying with Leesa’s parents until we find a house. This is, of course, not [...]
Edit: Welcome, everyone using a 2.6.28 release kernel! Hope this helps, comment if you have any problems. Quick note: If you want to use Linux 2.6.28 and the NVIDIA 177.80 driver, you must: cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source/include/asm-x86 cp -r ../../arch/x86/include/asm/* . ALSO, because of a change in the kernel (with good reason, really), one line in [...]
An article over at “Works With U” has an interesting thing that I have run into a few times before: And here’s another ironic twist: Consumers may actually prefer to pay for Ubuntu — rather than get it for free. No joke: Many consumers don’t like free software. They fear it. My brother in law [...]
This post’s text is available as a PDF document, as well, and the PDF can be re-printed and distributed as you see fit. Also, the PDF document looks prettier than this post, and it has references. I converted the following from LaTeX to HTML by hand, and I did not convert the reference information, so [...]
