Just because I use Gentoo doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate a little Just Work ™ once in a while, and from what they’d like people to believe, Ubuntu apparently does just that. You’d be a fool to argue that Ubuntu doesn’t play a vital part of the Linux ecosphere, and so despite my customiserish nature [...]
More for archival purposes than anything, today I wanted to copy some songs out of my serious mess of a music "collection" onto my microSD card. I didn’t want to have to choose and I haven’t rated my songs so that wouldn’t help. Instead I wanted a random selection of songs. I’m not a bashmaster [...]
People reading this post who know a little about Chrome might point at the title of this post and consider it a typo – it should read why isn’t Chrome OS going to be successful? I wish that this were true. Chrome OS is Google’s attempt at an operating system, and can be described as [...]
Folks from PlanetKDE last heard me announcing my journey along the path to become a KDE developer. There are many ways to do this and unfortunately the path that involves learning a load of C++ and start developing applications is still making slow but steady progress and not (yet) eligible for public announcement. But – [...]
Read Google’s original blog post about it. That’s right, my conspiracy theory about Google (orignally posted a good month back) has come true, and it’s going to be out there around late 2010. Brief summary: Google is making an operating system (Linux-based too) with help from the open-source community that focuses on getting the user [...]
Well, if you’re out and about quite a bit and you run a Linux computer at home, you should have a good relationship with SSH. If you’ve never felt the need to access your home computer remotely, this is what you should do. For those that don’t know what SSH is, it is basically a [...]
Update: As of 27th August the buildbot now provides 64-bit builds. Thanks Jeff The other day I was surfing the web and read an article about Google Chrome in some sort of hacking competition – this then prompted me to check out Google’s progress on porting Google Chrome to Linux and Mac. For those that [...]
Ratpoison. It sounds like something that kills a rat. It sure does. Ratpoison is a WM (Window Manager) that runs on Linux that has one purpose: to kill your rat. Here we are referring to that disgusting little lump beside your keyboard that shoots lasers out of its arse. Ratpoison is a tiling WM, which [...]
Imagine a computer system that was semantic. For those unaffiliated with this concept, this is similar to having your computer understand you as a human would. This is often easier to explain through examples. For example, when you click that spot on the screen, that’s because you want to achieve something. The computer understands what [...]
Warning: long post. All lazy readers must hide now. In my original post about the practicality of open source business models, I talked about the differences in Kaizen and Kakushin, how they were used, their benefits and disadvantages, and how each could be used to our benefit. In this post, I have decided to go [...]
Note, this is a long post. It also covers a tiny fraction of what is out there to understand. More updates will come about the open-source culture in the future. This text is also mainly written for those familiar with the Linux culture (as I use them as an analogy) – though regular business model [...]
Right. I didn’t give a post yesterday because my host was moving servers from America to Australia. So to all the people who were experiencing connectivity issues yesterday that was what the problem was. Things are getting ship shape and soon the site should be accessible to everybody worldwide without any issues. It already works [...]
Yesterday was the 13th of February. It was a very special day. Not only was it Friday the 13th, which probably means something unlucky will happen – it just so happens that yesterday was the end of the world for UNIX systems. Anybody here remember the Y2K bug? Basically they said computers couldn’t understand what [...]
Some people have heard things like “open-source”, “freeware”, “hacker etiquette”, etc. However, a lot of people are doubtful about it and this is mostly because they don’t understand it fully. I have decided that for today’s post, I will shed some light on the background behind open source culture. Yes, there is such thing as [...]
Most people who read this blog will know that I use Linux. Not only do I use it, I recommend it to others quite often. Though I do point out some of the shortcomings that Linux have in my recommendations, most of the time it is generally accompanied with a short excuse that goes something [...]
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