Off you go… into the purple yonder!

I upgraded my laptop to Edgy Eft, which has many cool new features.
Nothing too serious broke for me, except maybe for this one: opening Gmail crashes Firefox 2, consistently. Apparently this is a consequence of this bug which is now triggered because X loads the Composite extension by default in Edgy, and my default colour [...]

Google’s trademark lawyers are obviously getting nervous: they want people to only use (variations of) the word ‘Google’ in relation to Google Inc or the services it provides.
I think this is probably a loosing battle – people ‘xerox’ things all the time using copiers not made by Xerox. That being said, for the time being [...]

Signal vs. Noise provides a neat example in a blog post titled Web developers – Microsoft has no idea what is going on.

Freeculture.org has announced the winners of the DRM video contest. These videos are really fantastic – the only thing that’s a shame is that the proprietary Flash plugin is necessary to view (most of) them. The GNASH project is not quite there yet, unfortunately. I definitely looking forward to the next release though.

People are always talking about ‘the year of GNU/Linux on the desktop’. And they’re always wondering which year that will be. In the future.
I think that future is here already. I purchased a scanner, and it arrived today – a Canon Lide 60. It came with a big sticker warning that the software is to [...]

Google is installing 1.6 megawatts of solar panels at their Mountain View campus.
Awesome.

Amazon Web Services is offering two relatively new services: ubiquitous storage via S3 and ‘elastic’ computing via EC2. The Cardbox folks have an in-depth analysis of S3 online, and Smugmug uses an S3 backend.This is very interesting. If it wasn’t for all the problems with the S3 contract, I would consider using this.
Now; that being [...]

The LinuxBIOS symposium 2006 in Hamburg was pretty amazing. Very, very interesting – and it was great to finally meet some of the folks from the mailing list. There are photos and slides from the talks at the LinuxBIOS wiki.
If you’re ever in Hamburg, you have to check out Wunderland, by the way. Never seen [...]