Off you go… into the purple yonder!

A few days ago, I mentioned that most (current) HP and IBM laptops come with DRM in the BIOS.
If you were wondering how DRM will affect you and why it’s bad, here’s a prime example of DRM and how it is bad for everyone, today.
HP has some nice deals on laptops. If you don’t want [...]

I’ve had it. I’m sick of region encoding on DVDs and video games. I’m sick of crippled (’copy-protected’) audio CDs. I’m sick of DRM’d music. I’m sick of the fact that I can’t legally use the DVDs I purchased on the computer I purchased because it runs GNU/Linux. I’m sick of the fact that I [...]

Pearl Jam have just released their new video under an attribution, non commercial, no derivatives Creative Commons license. You can download it from Google Video. It plays fine with Mplayer. According to this Google blog post, the free download is only available until Wednesday. That’s a bit silly. Hopefully you’ll be able to find a [...]

I’ve upgraded a few key parts of my laptop. I have a somewhat ageing Dell Inspiron 5150, which has some nice features (1400×900 screen resolution, 3GHz P4 CPU) and some not-so-nice ones: it weighs a ton, it gets really hot because of bad thermal design, and its fans are way too loud.
I purchased a new [...]