Monthly Archives: May 2006

A dose of sanity for software patents, but just a little one

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/21/2006
Dell's win over DE Technologies is a good sign, though there's still a great deal to be nervous about. According to C|Net: A federal district court judge in Virginia concluded last week that parts of the patent, issued to a company called DE Technologies, were too "indefinite" and granted part of Dell's request to declare [...]
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Google Notebook

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/19/2006
I have one primary complaint about Google -- namely, that Google and the Google services that I use regularly didn't exist when I was in college. Google Notebook, in particular, would have come in very handy when I was researching papers online. Ah well, it's here now, and it's still really useful in my day [...]
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One of these days...

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/19/2006
Someday I'm going to sit down and write a Thunderbird extension that checks a message for the word "attachment" (and variants thereof, "attachments," "attached," etc.) and -- if no files are attached -- asks the user if they really want to send the message without an attachment. Sigh...
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Hmmm... I wonder why?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/18/2006
Short piece over on C|Net about Cisco, Qualcomm, and others opposing Net neutrality. What's lightly touched on in the article should be spelled out a little more blatantly -- i.e., that Cisco et. al. are suppliers to telecom companies and stand to benefit if telcos and cable companies implement a tiered Internet. It seems to [...]
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The GParted live CD

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/18/2006
The great thing about Web publishing is its immediacy -- I can research and write up an article and have it published the same day, which does happen for "breaking" news or timely stories. And then there's this feature on GParted's live CD that I wrote back in April. Truth to tell, I'd completely forgotten [...]
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A short Apple rant

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/18/2006
As Apple moves deeper into Intel territory, they've been holding back code for parts of the OS, most notably the kernel -- because Apple is concerned that people might *gasp* run Mac OS X on an unapproved hardware platform. I wrote up a short commentary on this for NewsForge, but Apple's move to Intel has [...]
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Running Firefox on 64-bit systems

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 5/17/2006
This is something that's given me a few headaches -- running 32-bit Firefox on my Ubuntu Breezy system on AMD64. The Moz folks, in their infinite wisdom, only offer a 32-bit version of Firefox for Linux. Ubuntu Breezy includes a native version of Firefox, but not the most recent versions -- and 32-bit plugins don't [...]
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