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QoTD: Steve Jobs
“Another bolt of lightning is: that Apple plus Microsoft equals 100% of the desktop computer market. And so, whatever Apple and Microsoft agree to do: It’s a standard. “And I think that you’ll be seeing us work with Microsoft more, … Continue reading
Innovation Still Sucks
“Real and Google share a common passion for innovation that has enhanced the Web experience,” said Rob Glaser, chairman & CEO for Real. Holy shit — we put two installers in a self-extracting zip file! “Google and Real will continue … Continue reading
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QoTD: Steve Garrity
“Now we just need to rename the gimp and we’ll be all set!” — Steve Garrity on Pulse Bonus QoTD: “Polypaudio is dead. Long live Pulse Audio!” — Lennart Poettering, one-man Free Software powerhouse, author of Avahi and Pulse
Sunday Grab Bag!
Planet in Strange Orbit: Ben Martin (of libferris infamy) wrote a rocking article about how to set up and run your own Personal Planet. Thanks, Ben! Strangely, it was published in a particularly bad issue of Linux Journal, which for … Continue reading
QoTD: Kevin Shockey
“From now on, I will strive to make TUX rise above the comments that divide our community. If I slip, you most certainly can ask for my resignation.” — Kevin Shockey, Editor-in-Chief, TUX Magazine Great to hear — I sincerely … Continue reading
On Heat
Matthew Mullenweg of WordPress fame mentioned CrazyEgg, a web service that can tell you which links people are clicking on your website. The best bit is the cute ‘click heatmap’ image: Imagine a similar tool for GNOME: We could aggregate … Continue reading
Bill Gates Hates Children
“If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not … Continue reading
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Fighting on New Ground
Martin Sevior on March 5, 2005: I just thought I’d tell you that Dom, uwog and I have started a discussion on how to do the collaborative feature you suggested. [...] It should be doable in a reasonable time frame. … Continue reading
Reamspire!
They try very hard to make the extremely hypocritical (“We’ll douse your fucking pyjamas in lighter fluid if you don’t stop violating our trademark!”) sound innocent (“By golly, won’t that be a wee bit confusing!”). Hooray! Jaw-achingly insecure free stuff! … Continue reading
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freescreensaver?
The time for freescreensaver [1] is now! [1] A non-existant but possibly extremely useful freedesktop.org defined screensaver standard built around a more flexible code and maintainership fork of Xscreensaver. Update: Amusing Eugenia moment in Jeremy Zawodny’s blog entry about this.
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