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By Dave, November 24, 2006 11:35 am

Fusor.net

Build a fusion reactor in your basement or garage now.  It’s as easy as machining stainless steel!  ;-)  Interesting site anyway.

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By Dave, November 24, 2006 11:32 am

Indian student develops paper-based storage system | The Register

I’m with the writer here, the numbers just don’t add up.  Maybe I’m missing something or there isn’t enough info in the article but scanning a piece of paper for data just don’t add up to the density of data on a cd/hard drive platter.  Interesting idea but unless there is a LOT more to it this seems like a giant step backwards…

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By Dave, November 23, 2006 10:38 pm

MAKE: Blog: Locksport International visual picking guide – in comic book form

Cool stuff!

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By Dave, November 23, 2006 10:13 pm

Blog of helios

He’s back and still fighting the good fight!

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By Dave, November 15, 2006 8:24 pm

MAYAPEDAL

Now this is some serious pedal power!  Lots of pix of bike powered machines.  Good stuff.  I wish is that they had a bit more in the way of how-to’s on the site but they state that they are willing to share designs with other non-profit orgs.

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By Dave, November 15, 2006 6:33 pm

Eyewitness – the huntsman of the spider

Talk about wire pollution. These photos are of communications and power cables in Thailand. Not sure where the title came from. The above link is to a babelfish.com translation of the original Russian page. The translated text is more than a little convoluted at the very least. The pix are also posted below and are linked to fullsized images.

Link found via  Uneasysilence

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By Dave, November 13, 2006 10:21 am

Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider
Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd.

One of the fundamental differences between the proprietary software world and the free software world is that the proprietary software world divides users by forcing them to agree to coercive licensing agreements which restrict their rights to share with each other, whereas the free software world encourages users to unite and share the benefits of the software.

The patent agreement struck between Novell and Microsoft is a divisive agreement. It deals with users and creators of free software differently depending on their “commercial” versus “non-commercial” status, and deals with them differently depending on whether they obtained their free software directly from Novell or from someone else.

The goals of the Free Software community and the GNU GPL allow for no such distinctions.

Furthermore, the GPL makes it clear that all distributors of GPL’d software must stand together in the fight against software patents. Only by standing together do we stand a chance of defending against the peril represented by software patents. With this agreement Novell is attempting to destroy that unified defense, exchanging the long term interests of the entire Free Software community for a short term advantage for Novell over their competitors.

For Novell to make this deal shows a profound disregard for the relationship that they have with the Free Software community. We are, in essence, their suppliers, and Novell should know that they have no right to make self serving deals on behalf of others which run contrary to the goals and ideals of the Free Software community.

Using patents as competitive tools in the free software world is not acceptable. Novell, as a participant in numerous debates, discussions and conferences on the topic knew this to be the case. We call upon Novell to work with the Software Freedom Law Center to undo the patent agreement and acknowledge its obligations as a beneficiary of the Free Software community.

And if they don’t back out of this deal with the devil then they need to be fourced to quit bundling software that uses the GPL with their distro.

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By Dave, November 8, 2006 8:27 pm

Zim – a desktop wiki

Sounds interesting.  Gonna have to download it and give it a try.

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By Dave, November 2, 2006 10:06 pm

IEEE Spectrum: The Firefox Kid
As he describes it, from a user’s point of view, Parakey is “a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do.” Translation: it makes it really easy to store your stuff and share it with the world. Most or all of Parakey will be open source, under a license similar to Firefox’s.

Could change a lot of things.  Quite a lot of things.

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By Dave, November 2, 2006 10:03 pm

gNewSense Official Website | Main / gNewSense

Interesting sounding new distro.  Just downloaded it and am gonna give it a spin.

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By Dave, October 20, 2006 9:31 am

Linux Commands for Beginning Server Administrators – www.reallylinux.com

Good bookmark material for anyone running linux or unix.  Server or not.  Several of the commands were new to me and I have been running linux for several years on the desktop.

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By Dave, October 18, 2006 10:12 pm

Techdirt: Nice Work Retrieving That Magic Sword… But Now You Need To Pay Uncle Sam For It

greedy bastards.  both the ones that file the lawsuits and the irs. a pox on both their houses!

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By Dave, October 18, 2006 7:56 pm

UNEASYsilence » Microsoft to virtual computers: “Pay More”

PCLOS to ALL computer users wanting to escape Microsoft slavery: “Free”

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By Dave, October 10, 2006 2:42 pm

Other than moving the stuff from my old home directory to this one that is.  This thing is a LOT faster than the other one.  Has a faster bus speed for one thing.  Now to run another ethernet cable to the other room so I can get to the files on the old machine.  So close… 😉

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By Dave, October 10, 2006 2:33 pm

The processor is an AMD Geode(tm) NX  1750+ running at  1394.898 MHz.  Or that’s what the pclos info tool shows.  As far as what kind of machine, it’s a damn if I know. 😉

Seems to be a no name assembled with assorted parts, mouse and keyboard are Harmony multimedia products.

It just finished reformatting the hard drive and installing PCLOS on it.  Now for configuring.  Back when I am running from the hard drive.

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By Dave, October 10, 2006 1:42 pm

First Ever Chinese Cooking Robot Cooks Like Robo-Mama Used To – Gizmodo

With this we don’t need no stinking chefs!

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By Dave, October 10, 2006 1:40 pm

PCLinuxOS: Downloads

Just finished downloading BigDaddy 0.93a and am burning it to cd now.  Have a new computer with XP home just itching to be removed from it that I am gonna use in place with this one.  Not quite state of the art but at 1.5 ghz is better than the 1 ghz that the one I am now on.  The new one has 512 mb memory so will upgrade that a bit.  Also has a built in dvd burner.  May have to add a cd burner, will see if the dvd will also do the cds first though.  80 gb hard drive.  Onboard video though also has a video card slot.  May move my present card depending on how it does.
Just finished burning and is checking now.  Closer and closer to bye-bye XP. 😉

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By Dave, October 10, 2006 1:05 pm

Group Warns Of More Junk E-mail – International Business Times –

Judges that sit on this kind of case need to be at least a little tech savvy.  Obviously this one wasn’t and isn’t.  And e360insight sends out massive amounts of unsolisited email which in my book that makes them a spammer.  This ruling needs to be overturned.

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By Dave, October 10, 2006 10:04 am

xkcd – Reverse Euphemisms

😉

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By Dave, October 10, 2006 10:00 am

Linux.com | Task management made simple with todo.txt and Tux ToDo

Tux ToDo is a lightweight, fast and simple todo list manager.  Just downloaded it and after decompressing clicked on the executable and it launched within a second.  Basic interface but it seems to have everything needed to keep a todo list up to date without much overhead.  Just what the disorganized person needs.