Windows 7 Sins. It is the name of a campaign and Web site launched by the Free Software Foundation in a misguided (IMHO) attempt to publicize some of the issues in software choice. Right from the start and without reading a word on the Web site, it says two things very strongly: Windows 7 commits [...]
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 [...]
Roy Schestowitz often posts two kinds of links: highly underrated, and highly overrated. However, he posted an article a few hours ago that has me wondering if he actually reads some of the things that he posts. The article, Another Reason to avoid Mono: Security, is entirely misleading. The problem is actually within Windows Vista. [...]
YouTube – Critical Mass Bicyclist Assaulted by NYPD I have seen and heard a lot more about police doing infuriating and unlawful shit like this a lot since around 2005. It seems that it just happens more often. What the hell is wrong with police officers these days? You can’t just knock someone off their [...]
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 [...]
I am rather not happy with the wireless desktop product. It would seem that when I am playing sound—any sound at all—on my system, the keyboard and the wireless receiver have to be pretty much right next to each other in order for me to be able to do anything. Here is a demonstration of [...]
I don’t really like fundies that much, no matter where they come from. The thing with fundies is that they often put out FUD, which serves only to confuse people. First, the article doesn’t mention Midnight Commander or GNOME. Both were written and influenced by Miguel de Icaza, and both are excellent—beautiful, even—pieces of software. [...]
Because Microsoft is stupid. ’nuff said. The cool thing about open things is that nobody in particular controls them. And with IM protocols like Jabber, which enable you to have accounts on just about any server (even your own) and communicate with the rest of the world, well, who needs Microsoft’s messenger, then? It appears [...]
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. [...]
