“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, because they’re the only other player in the desktop industry. And I think you’ll be seeing […]
“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 to work together in innovative ways to further improve the Web experience,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
No, seriously — we […]
“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
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 some reason covered how to untar and run blogging and podcasting tools. This is not […]
“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 hope that TUX Magazine and its stable mate manage to clean up their acts.
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 click (and mouseover!) data from users and display it on our own systems — not with images, but […]
“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 sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying to type.” — Bill Gates
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. One month if we focussed all our attention I think. (Dom and uwog may have […]
September 2, 2005 – 23:37
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! Bend over, Linux desktop, it’s reaming time!
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.
