Recently on a mailing list of which I am a member, the following comment was posted: We pay cash at restaurants especially ones of certain nationalities. The context of this quote is a discussion on credit/debit card usage, and this statement came at the tail end of how care must be taken to ensure that [...]

Richard Stallman. That’s right.  Now, there are many things that the man has done that have been effective, and the man has worked hard to ensure that we have freedom in the vast world of software.  But recently, he has stated that Miguel de Icaza “is basically a traitor to the free software community,” and [...]

Yeah, alright.  Those are words I would never have thought I’d see in a title in a blog post, “thanks to Microsoft.”  But, it is true.  Microsoft is adding C# and the CLI to the list of technologies that it promises it will not sue for.  This is Microsoft’s “Community Promise”, which means that to [...]

Since 1996, when I was introduced to the concept of free software and the GNU/Linux operating system (in the form of Slackware), I started to take a look around and found myself amazed at what was the free software community then. Watching it build massively amazing pieces of software that are second to none in [...]

So, as has already been reported elsewhere on the Internets, Comcast (of which I am a current customer) is going to assess a 250 GB limitation on transfer for its residential customers. This is more than a little disturbing, being that I signed up for unlimited use Internet. Disclaimer: The math in this post is [...]

It’d appear that people think you are faking your birth certificate when it is worn and the toner that is on it wears off. Stupid idiots. (Even when you can see that it’s worn toner, and you can see that the letter hasn’t been altered. Surely, technical types cannot be the only people that can [...]

Slashdot | Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity Yup, I did. It was Little Brother. Haven’t read it yet? Go, read it, I’m not kidding.

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 [...]

So, we all know about Hans Reiser. Someone thinks we should send Reiser a laptop so that he can continue development of the Reiser4 file system: I am shocked, this is absolutely terrible. It saddens me deeply to hear this. This is a very unfortunate tragedy – not that his wife is dead, but that [...]

So, Reiser has pointed the police to the body of Nina Reiser (link via Slashdot). The body has been exhumed, and they’re going to be confirming the identity of the body soon, I should expect. The action came as a result between Reiser and the DA reaching an agreement that essentially said “the body for [...]