I’m not taking a stance on the open/closed driver issue, but I thought this was damn funny (not to mention safer for work than the original…):
Original link spotted by my eagle-eyed colleague Joe Barr on the #beryl channel on Freenode.net.
I’d consider it a kindness if people would stop using crappy download redirects that basically require you to use a browser to download files instead of being able to save a URL and use wget to grab a download. Urgh. This post brought to you by the 1,000,001st site that uses a redirect to provide [...]
I suspect most readers of this blog are already aware just why DRM is a Bad Thing™ — but I thought I’d post a link to this top 10 list anyway, because it’s a good collection of arguments against Digital Restriction Management. Send it to your friends and family, ’specially if they have the Zune [...]
I was away from my computer for a while today, and when I came back, I found it powered off. After a little examination, it looks like the fan in the power supply died, the machine overheated, and powered itself off or the power supply just failed.
Lucky for me, I keep a few spare [...]
Just a quick note for all the readers in the U.S. — if you haven’t voted yet, you still have a few hours to do so. Lines are long in some places, so step away from the computer (painful, I know…) and head to your polling place and cast your vote.
I’ve touched on this topic before, but I think it’s worth repeating. I was reading Planet GNOME this morning and noticed this post from Quim Gil:
I’m talking from a GNOME perspective but I’m sure this situation is common in most if not all the free software projects:
A coincidence? The documentation team needs writers. The marketing [...]
