I’ve ranted before about why I don’t use MySpace, but I admit there have been times when I’ve been tempted. You can get much better technical services through hosting your music elsewhere, but the community exists on MySpace. There’s no social networking aspect to hosting your own website. But the […]
Yearly archives: 2007
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The Green Party of Canada has become the first Canadian political party to officially support free and open source software in its election platform. The policy has both philosophical and technical motivations. The Green Party’s policy explains briefly how free and open source software is compatible with Green ideas: As […]
Microsoft clearly believes it knows better than users and system administrators of Windows computers. A few weeks ago, even users who had auto-update off received an unannounced, forced upgrade to Windows Desktop Search (WDS), whether or not WDS was even active on the computer. This, without permission from the user. […]
Industry Canada, a ministry of the federal government, released a study this past week that suggests a positive correlation between peer-to-peer downloading and CD purchasing. While this may come as a surprise to the CRIA and many in the recording industry, it certainly is merely confirmation of personal practices for […]
Having moved from Windows XP to GNU/Linux, the trail of Thumbs.db files left behind in my home directory is really annoying. It reminds me of Windows and the files aren’t hidden on a unix filesystem. Here is a command I used to rid myself of this reminder (posted here mostly […]
I’ve begun the process of upgrading the many Ubuntu installations I manage to the recently released Gutsy Gibbon. The first upgrade was flawless, though it took a long time as the servers were pretty busy. The second installation was going fine until there was a freaking power outage in my […]
Angel wings, inspired mind, Gentle touch and starlit eyes, Recognized beauty, contagious smile; Let me stand beside your light.
In writing my recent post about MySpace friend requests from bands, I realized why I don’t have patience for artists who want me to like them but won’t let me download (at least some of) their music. People don’t like good music. They like meaningful music. Music is meaningful when […]
A GNU/Linux patent lawsuit has been filed against Red Hat/Novell, marking the first patent suit against the operating system. If you dig through the slashdot link, you’ll see that there was a lawsuit filed against Apple a few months ago on the same patent, that the patent is a bit […]