Category Archives: del.icio.us

”Heroes” creator to fans: I’m super sorry ”The message is that we’ve heard the complaints, and we’re doing something about it.” — Good news from Tim Kring on the fairly lacklustre performance of Heroes, Volume 2 (tags: television heroes timkring) … Continue reading →

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/11/09 Wonderful to see the Mozilla Foundation funding efforts to improve FLOSS desktop platforms, with particular attention to accessibility infrastructure, including Orca/pyatspi and AT-SPI/D-Bus. Thanks very much to MoFo! (tags: mozilla gnome accessibility at-spi d-bus … Continue reading →

Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way) “Experts have already built and optimized an installer that integrates with the rest of your system. And by ‘experts’, I mean ‘people way fucking smarter than you’.” — Mark Pilgrim points out the … Continue reading →

What If Every Child Had A Laptop? “Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at MIT, had a dream. In it every child on the planet had his own computer.” — 60 Minutes in the USA covers OLPC. Lots of commenters wondering why … Continue reading →

NSW government CIO won’t stick around “NSW government CIO Paul Edgecumbe has resigned from his position as the state’s first government-wide technology chief after just two years in the job.” — Might be a while before this position is filled. … Continue reading →

Right, NOW you can drool. “The most coveted piece of hardware seen at the Red Hat Summit.” — While I was impressed with much of the news that came out of the Red Hat Summit last week, this clearly takes … Continue reading →

Ubuntu a Mooter for global advertising platform “Our platform of choice was Linux for development reasons and our distribution of choice, Ubuntu, gave us a much more flexible way of managing software in an automated manner.” — Mooter CIO on … Continue reading →

Liberation Fonts “To take a key step toward liberating desktops, Red Hat contracted with Ascender Corp. [...] to develop a set of fonts that are metrically equivalent to the key Microsoft fonts [which can be released] under the GPL+font exception.” … Continue reading →

Proposal: New startup and shutdown sounds for gusty gibbon As a result of discussion among some .au Ubuntu fans, I have proposed new startup and shutdown sounds for Ubuntu 7.10, Gusty Gibbon. Fully functional on Fisty Fawn, too! Might bring … Continue reading →

Ubuntu Plans Mobile Linux Version “[Ubuntu's] move to offer a mobile and embedded version comes on the heels of a similar project that Intel is supporting: the Gnome Mobile & Embedded Initiative.” — Canonical and Intel score press for their … Continue reading →