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 [...]

So for the past couple of weeks I have been doing work at a client’s place of business. This client—like many other small and medium-sized businesses—uses Windows on all of their desktop systems. They have a couple of server boxes that are running GNU/Linux servers, but they are not running GNU/Linux on the desktop at [...]

So back on this topic again today.  I am going to take a look at a few different statements here in this post, and then I’m going to go over them and explain why these statements are or are not correct.  Should you wish to verify any of my information, you’re more than welcome to [...]

So, this weekend was… interesting. Through something of a comedy of errors, the server suffered some strange software issues that prevented it from working this weekend.  There was a bug in a recent update to the server software (running testing software) and that caused longer downtime than it should have due to various interactions between things [...]

Of the many controversies in free software, this is one that I have long found to be interesting.  People seem to define things in different ways, which leads to confusion (and arguing) when one person calls a system a "GNU/Linux" system and the next calls it just the "Linux" system.  Too often, I have found people saying "You [...]

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 [...]

AllTray is a rather small project—for the moment, there is a single developer working on it (myself), and there aren’t a terribly great number of users, though the users that it does have are most excellent.  For a long time, the users didn’t have the ability to observe the development processes for AllTray, nor did [...]

In 40+ years of computing, there is bound to be software and tools that people are simply not aware of, or have forgotten about, or have moved from the forefront to behind the scenes—there are actually lots of these.  One of the reasons that I watch Freshmeat for software releases is to constantly look for things [...]

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 [...]