Off you go… into the purple yonder!

I’ve been greatly enjoying my 770 this summer. It’s the perfect tool to debug (wifi) networking issues in a big building with wifi – no more need to lug a bulky laptop around. Awesome.
The other night I was visiting a friend in Cambridgeport and needed to look something up online, quickly. I opened up my [...]

So there’s been a bit of a scare with regard to flights to the US, after a terrorist plot was uncovered in the UK. Or, more accurately, after the Associated Press reported that the plot was uncovered. All sorts of new rules were instituted, particularly in the UK where hand luggage was outright banned for [...]

So. HP is finally going to provide some more Debian support. Very good. And basically just what I want; I don’t need paid support. I just want Debian packages for their hardware monitoring tools. I want the necessary drivers to be in the stock kernel, but having at least some basic Debian support is a [...]

Signal vs. Noise has an interesting post on the state of cell phones. I disagree with one statement:
Today’s phones are failures — mainly software/interface failures.
I think today’s cell phones are mostly that – phones. All the other features – with the exception perhaps of sms/text messaging – are mostly a failure. But the problem is [...]

Cory Doctorow has an excellent article on Information Week on the idiocy of DRM.