I was browsing Slashdot earlier today and came across an article
regarding Mozilla's forced acceptance of a non-free EULA via a
dialog box that restricts you from using the software until you agree to
their terms.
I started complaining about this a few months ago when it initially
happened to …
I first found out about Laconica, the AGPL micro-blogging system
created by Evan Prodromou, when I discovered identi.ca about a day
or so after it was opened to the public.
I considered installing it, but I held off for a bit until I learned
more about it and its …
While browsing through my favorite news sites today I discovered that
the nightly builds of Firefox now include native support for Theora and
Vorbis (which includes support for the HTML5 media elements).
It is really great to see that they are taking the initiative add this
along with their other …
The latest version of the Phoronix Test Suite, an open source
benchmarking tool, was released today and I figured that I would
download it and give it a try.
The Phoronix Test Suite is packed with 57 tests that have been grouped
into 26 suites which range from audio-encoding to …
I would have to say that my new favorite tool has to be SSHFS.
I stumbled across it earlier this week and it has quickly become an
essential part of my daily routine. It uses FUSE, a user space file
system framework, to log into a SSH server and mount …