Category Archives: Free Software/Open Source
why broadcom sucks
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Completely useless, Free Software/Open Source
1 Comment
explorer destroyer
Yep, this blog is now equipped with “Level 1: Gentle Encouragement” of Explorer Destroyer. For all you Firefox users out there (a whopping 87% of visitors!), nothing will be different. IE users will see a nice banner at the top … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software/Open Source
Leave a comment
GNU/linux/apache 1, microsoft/iis 0
A picture speaks a thousand words. This article has 2 images that describe “a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture – the same … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software/Open Source
Leave a comment
more OpenSPARC
Yep, Sun kept their promise and released the full chip design for their latest Sparc CPU under the GPLv2. You need a SPARC system with (expensive) commercial software to do anything with the design, but I still think this is … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software/Open Source, Personal
2 Comments
WDS
So I finally got here on Wednesday. We’ve been doing lots of cool stuff meanwhile. I’ve installed a VDSL link between the two main buildings, giving us network access in the Villa. The Zyxel Prestige 841C/841 I bought are reliable, … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software/Open Source
Leave a comment
OLPC
MIT’s One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC), i.e. the famous $100 laptop, is now planning to use LinuxBIOS! Check out the proposed hardware specs. This is major : there are currently no laptops that can run LinuxBIOS. If this happens, … Continue reading
docking boxes
WordPress 2 uses Docking boxes which are pretty nice. I’ve integrated them into one of my projects, and other than the fact that there seems to be a limit of 10 boxes on the number of boxes whose state is … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software/Open Source
Leave a comment
confiscating Firefox CDs
This article is simply unbelievable. A UK ‘Trading Standards Officer’ confiscated Firefox CDs that were being sold by a company in the UK. Key quote: ‘If Mozilla permit the sale of copied versions of its software, it makes it virtually … Continue reading
opensparc!
I missed this earlier in the week, but it seems Sun has promised to release the full chip design for their new UltraSparc T1 “Niagara” processors under the GPL. They’ve already released some more general information at the OpenSparc website. … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software/Open Source
Leave a comment
botnets
There’s a lengthy but interesting article at the Washington Post about botnets. Brian Krebs interviews a guy who makes quite a lot of money running such botnets and infecting people’s computers. He gets paid by spyware companies as he installs … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software/Open Source
Leave a comment
![[FSF Associate Member 859]](/blog/wp-content/photos/fsf_member_859.png){kind=small}
![[Play OGG]](/blog/wp-content/photos/play_ogg_small.png)