2005 September

Hey, making DRM Open Source might be a cool idea in concept, but I am just not seeing how this could float. DRM by its very nature means that it is restrictive and annoying. Therefore, I believe that this pretty much counts out OSS as a whole.

Thunderbird security concerns have been zapped away with the latest updates. Hopefully things will calm down some in the security dept for the OS email client. Then again, if things did calm down with the security holes, that could indicate that we are simply missing something and therefore, are exposed somehow.

Sun’s NetBeans app looks like it is a truly dynamic way to for developers to create and customize apps of their own. While I have never tried it myself, I do like what I am reading thus far and would also include that there appears to be a number of improvements with the latest release.

It has long since been established that many OSS apps can be of real benefit to schools as a whole. But what about a decent calender system? Those who doubt that there is anything in this area for schools might want to check out SchoolBell before completely writing off the idea altogether.

I find it interesting that we spend so much time trying to develop Linux technology that will enable $100 notebooks when we can’t even afford up to date school books in many American schools. Regardless, the technology used by MIT to implement such as thing is still pretty amazing I guess…

You know, it is challenges like just trying to connect to the Internet that many Linux newbies find so frustrating. Personally, I think that a lot of head way has been made with Xandros, Linspire and Simply Mepis. Mandrake on the other hand, always baffles me as to where people believe that this is a [...]

Sometimes leveling the playing field against larger companies is no easy task. But but gosh, that is exactly what the Peruvian Congress has made possible here recently.

Things like having a scroll wheel working may seem really silly to some people. But to someone trying to configure Linux, it is perceived a as a very big deal. And apparently, I am not the only one that feels that way…

Well, this certainly blows. Apparently the Real Player for Linux has some flaws that could spell trouble for ‘Joe-User’ out there. With any luck, the flaw will be fixed here soon. Until then, I think that I will skip over this myself.

No matter how well or lousy other Linux companies may be doing, it would appear that Red Hat is doing A-OK. From the looks of things, they are out doing what people had initially expected from their financial performance.

See, I am a fair sort of guy. On those occasions where Linux is dumped for Windows, I am quick to cover it. To be fair however, I have found these stories to be relatively rare for the most part…

Now here is an Open Source text editor with a little bit of kick to it! Enter the world of Gobby. Heck, I even have a slogan for them; “The editor for the masses. Odd name, but fun to say!”

I want to transfer music and movies to my Sony PSP, on my computer I’m using Suse Linux 9.2. What kind of program or software can I use? The problem is that my computer can’t find the Sony PSP when I plug it in the USB port.
I dug around and found a couple of interesting [...]

Boy, if Sun went to that much trouble to rehire Karen Tegan-Padir, then this must be an employee worth doing whatever is needed to keep happy! Then again, it could just be Sun pressing the panic button in response to all of the execs leaving recently.

Big Mac shares his thoughts on Linux, Wall St. and all things Open. Nice to see Lockergnome made it in there someplace, too. But what I thought was interesting was the response to the Wall St. article by a Linux user specifically other than myself…

Personally, I think that Google switching to Flash happens to make a heck of lot of sense. Even though Google is all about the OSS solutions, there are no guarantees that OSS is always going to meet your needs 100% of the time.

This is just the sort of cooperation that I hope to continue to see with MS and other Java based options out there. It almost gives me a warm fuzzy feeling!

Not only does the new Star Office appear to address some old bugs, it also seems to be putting Java to some really great use as well.

Is this a portable media player or is it a notebook PC running Linux? In the purist sense, I would say the first description is likely the most accurate.

To me, this idea sounds a lot like Current TV, and is not perhaps as original as the people behind the NH station might like to think.