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Show us the code Mr Ballmer
From showusthecode.com, an open letter to Steve Ballmer. It’s come to many in the Linux community’s attention you have claimed again and again, that Linux violates Microsoft’s intellectual property. Not only that, but it’s been reported Microsoft has convinced businesses to pay for a Linux patent that you can’t provide. Therefore, this website will serve…
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Linux and other adventures
Desktop Linux is great. I’ve discovered KMail and Kontact which so far seems to be a little nicer to use than Evolution. Still having a few issues with sound which is a bummer as I love the interface on amaroK and can’t wait to start using it properly. The other day I upgraded the old…
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December
Where did the December go? Lots to report on if I get around to it…. Watched an episode of Kenneth Clark’s ‘Civilisation’ last night and loved it. The series was dissed by a couple of Art History teachers I had at university, and while I see where they were coming from, judging by the episode…
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I love it when this happens
This is great, the Microsoft movie Halo (which is being made in Wellington) is being produced on Linux servers.
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DIG! the movie
Went to Dig! last night – awesome film. Funnier (nearly) than Spinal Tap, and waaaay more rock’n’roll than Some kind of Monster. It’s about the Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The Brian Jonestown Massacre were pure rock’n’roll – chaotic and high as kites, quite the contrast to the Dandy Warhols. Great entertainment and…
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Fun with Tux
I’m having plenty of fun with Linux on the laptop at the moment. Ha ha – I love the penguins at easy urpmi. I get the feeling that I’m going to love urpmi too.
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Wireless Linux
Yeah! A quick change of wireless card and I’m using Linux wirelessly.
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Sun.com redesign
I was asked to download a copy of Sun’s Solaris and in the process needed to install the Java runtime environment on my Linux server/mess-about-workstation. Sun have redesigned their website since I was last there, and it looks great. I found it odd that it didn’t work correctly in Konqueror as it’s a browser for…
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The flipside….
Funny bugger – from “Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability” The SimplyMEPIS version of GNU/Linux I run on my “workhorse” laptop computer includes a full-featured office suite, ftp, chat, and graphics software, and dozens of other useful programs on its installation CD. Windows XP included none of these, and most of the equivalent packages available for…