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Black Box phone concept is one big touchscreen. This could be cool, though Beth’s just got her self a Samsung E900 in the office and the touch sensitive...

Coke Machine Hack and Boycott Coke.

October 16, 2006

Coke Machine Hack and Boycott Coke.

Physicians Stop Liver Cancer with Millions of Glas…

October 16, 2006

Physicians Stop Liver Cancer with Millions of Glass Beads

Authorities on alert for flesh-eating bug – More N…

October 16, 2006

Authorities on alert for flesh-eating bug – More NZ fun.

Bob Dylan says modern music is worthless

October 16, 2006

Bob Dylan says modern music is worthless

The Beatles are to sue music companies EMI and Cap…

October 16, 2006

The Beatles are to sue music companies EMI and Capitol for millions of pounds in royalties. Not sure if this good or bad.

An interview with John Buckman, from Magnatune

October 16, 2006

An interview with John Buckman, from Magnatune

How to make a Zach Braff film

October 16, 2006

How to make a Zach Braff film

Recreate text-based GUI interfaces with Unicode su…

October 16, 2006

Recreate text-based GUI interfaces with Unicode support in Web browsers. Time for someone to write an AJAX Speccy emulator, now 😉

There's an article up on A List Apart that's all a…

October 16, 2006

There’s an article up on A List Apart that’s all about exploring footers in a web standards layout.

Cunts Are Still Running The World

October 13, 2006

I love this. Well did you hear, thereâ€™s a natural order. Those most deserving will end up with the most. That the cream cannot help but always rise up to...

Things Online That I Am Sick Of: Free Culture

October 13, 2006

“Free Culture”. Or: people with salaried day jobs telling me I shouldn’t have the right to own and control my ideas and creative property and have it handed...

Copyrights, Licenses and CDDL Illustrated

October 13, 2006

At the time CDDL was being introduced, I wanted to write an illustrated version of it. Merely because hardly anyone would read the full license text. Even if...

heise on-line – WOS 4: Free software representatives criticize Creative Commons licenses

October 3, 2006

With the choice of Creative Commons licenses Creative Commons users decide usually for the more restrictive variants. Free software representatives...

Yet Another MS Anti-Linux "Study�

September 29, 2006

“We found that many times when companies had chosen to migrate from UNIX to Linux, those decisions were made at a much lower level within the organization....

Linus Torvalds talks like a pirate

September 29, 2006

In this hilarious email, Linux creator Linus Torvalds enjoys Talk Like a Pirate day to the max, allocating kernel developers pirate nicknames and talking...

I break up with you: your daughter is prettier and easier

September 29, 2006

Hey, my friend managed to describe in a quite fun and interesting way how many Debian Linux users feel now that they’re used to the comfort and slickness of...

Linux hackers get first dibs on next-gen DVR

September 29, 2006

Neuros Technology is offering Linux hackers first dibs on the initial production run of its next-gen DVR, which runs an embedded Linux OS. The device can...

OpenBSD 4.0: 10 years of OpenBSD!

September 29, 2006

Pre-orders for OpenBSD 4.0 are now available in the online store. Five architectures on three CDs in a soft-shell DVD case. This new release adds support for...

Awesome Unix/Linux History (Including Family Tree)!

September 29, 2006

This site has the greatest time-line I think I’ve ever seen compiled to date. Including the history and links of some of the OS’s listed, not all but a great...

Boot GNU/Linux faster

September 29, 2006

This article shows you how to improve the boot speed of your GNU/Linux system without compromising usability. Essentially, the technique involves...

Funny non-Web 2.0, anti-community questions and answer site

September 29, 2006

Askhaddad.com is the complete opposite of Web 2.0. My goal is not a community, it’s not user contributed content. I just want to answer people’s questions,...

GPL-violations.org project wins in court case on GPL violation by D-Link

September 29, 2006

D-Link Germany GmbH, a subsidiary of D-Link Corporation, Taiwan R.O.C., distributed DSM-G600, a network attached storage device which uses the GNU/Linux...

Quick guide to get a girlfriend using GNU/Linux

September 29, 2006

At last, the ultimate guide to get women using the only true skill we all love and are proud of.

Is Debian dying?

September 29, 2006

For a while, Debian was the community GNU/Linux darling. In its heyday, Debian was known for its strong moral point of view and its outstanding code....

Debian Forced to Stop using the name 'Firefox'

September 29, 2006

The Mozilla Foundation has asked Debian Linux to either use both the ‘Firefox’ name and the Artwork or get rid of both. Because the Artwork has non-free...

GPL passes acid test in German court

September 29, 2006

In a landmark victory for the GPL license, a civil court in Germany has ruled against D-Link Germany GmbH for violating the terms of the most popular free...

5 Ways to Contribute to Free Software Projects Without Coding

September 29, 2006

This article summarizes 5 ways to contribute to Free Software without coding.

KDE vs. Gnome: Which is better for you?

September 29, 2006

An essay that looks at the differences of each GUI and what each is best for.

The Mozilla Scandal: What can happen to Debian and Ubuntu?

September 29, 2006

Now that Debian is not allowed to use the Firefox name without showing every patch to Mozilla, people are boycotting Firefox. That is not all that will come...

What could possibly be so difficult about porting the Flash Player to GNU/Linux

September 29, 2006

The executive summary of what follows would probably be: ensuring that a single plugin binary functions on the widest diversity of Linux/x86 distributions...

Open-source guru Eric Raymond joins Freespire board

September 29, 2006

Eric Raymond, a co-founder of the open-source movement, has joined the Freespire Leadership Board. Raymond recently stated that if desktop Linux is to...

Mini Linux PC breaks $100 barrier

September 29, 2006

A Taiwanese company is selling a tiny Linux-powered mini PC that has a consumer electronics look-and-feel for $99, quantity one. Seems like a neat platform...

Ubuntu: Edgy Eft beta out today!

September 29, 2006

The next version of the now wildly popular Linux distribution, Edgy Eft, is due for its beta release today. As the name suggests, Edgy Eft will include...

In-depth comparison of digg and Netscape

September 29, 2006

There are many differences and similarities between digg and Netscape. This post discusses the differences of finding stories, voting, adding stories to your...

Man escapes conviction over unsought bank probe

September 28, 2006

A man who accessed the Reserve Bank’s telephone systems to find security weak spots then billed the bank for his unsolicited services told the Wellington...

Google: Happy Birthday to us!

September 28, 2006

Google: Happy Birthday to us! by ZDNet‘s Donna Bogatin — Google wishes itself a happy eight years of search engine bliss today!

why register for a web app?

September 27, 2006

just been chatting to simon in the pub. He brought up a good point, in the web app he’s building. Users don’t need to register. Have a temporary account, if...

Vote for Alison!

September 27, 2006

Vote for Alison Go on. Please.

Dumbstruck

September 26, 2006

I’m still quite dumbstruck by your immediate beauty. Doesn’t that sound odd? I mean, it was seven years ago. Seven. Fuck. That seems scary. I remember how...

Book

September 26, 2006

So, I’m going to be posting bits of my book, random bits, on the blog. They’ll all appear like this as I’m concerned with the layout of the words on the...

Dear utube.com…

September 25, 2006

…I wonder if you get many people coming to your site looking for youtube.com – I don’t really like them very much, but I was wondering if you’d like to pop a...

girls and things

September 25, 2006

this is how i feel when i talk to most girls about computers.

when will free software be ready for the mainstream?

September 23, 2006

just got asked about the gimp by a college lecturer who’s using it for all her work. it turns out that people might just be waiting for macromedia/adobe to...

moo

September 22, 2006

MOO is a new kind of printing business. There are now more than a billion people online, and most of us use the internet to engage in some kind of social...

Feel weird today

September 22, 2006

I don’t know what I feel today. Perhaps nervous, perhaps excitement, perhaps both. I’m flying down to Exeter later, not just to see Nick and my family, but...

new hat

September 20, 2006

(Attribution: new hat by matt_from_cnuk)

Optimal width for 1024px resolution?

September 20, 2006

Cameron talks about the move from 800×600 to 1024 and beyond. Letâ€™s face it: The jump from developing for 800Ã—600 to 1024Ã—n is inevitable; not only...