Some of use distribute GPL software.  I’ve actually distributed the odd change or patch myself (and sent up the RTL8150 patch to the kernel maintainers).  Most of this stuff is offered source-code available on the internet.  The license is very much intact.
Which is why it’s so appauling to see the BSA director making statments like […]

After more use, I’m convinced that there’s either something drastically wrong with the novell Zen package manager or it was created by outsourced labor in some efficiency expert hell.
This is the type of software they torture people that keep a tight rain on memory usage with. It blows past the Moaning Goat Meter in […]

I know some other commentators, in their official capacities, have played up Suse’s 10.1 OpenLinux release as if it were the greatest thing since pre-sliced bread. I’ve been playing around on it a bit, either in preperation for a PCBurn article or just as a server replacemenent for the old Dell quad Xeon box.
So […]

Maybe not air.  What I mean to say is that it’s full of hot gas.  See the quote referrenced below the link.  Instead of truly degrading the energy use in the house they simply offload it onto a natural gas line instead of the grid or local power generation and presto, you don’t need as […]

It’s official.  A few short years after it’s inception, Sony is killing the UMD format they were distributing movies to PSP owners in.  Sales apparently slacked after users realized they can upload their own purchased movies via the USB cable instead of repurchasing them.
Sony is supposedly moving over to a “Memory Stick” format… but don’t […]

Armies of Japanese robots running the open source Linux operating system will now be marching through a town near you!
Or maybe not. But General Robotix has developed programmable software that runs on Linux for their towering 14 inch doom-bot.
How long until their (tiny) army is unleashed on the world?

Robot backers turn to Linux

My definition of edible may clash with others. For food to be edible it must be
A) Well Prepared
B) Comestible (able to be eaten)
C) Cheap Enough For Me To Afford
And Why Curry? over on St. Marks meets all three of my criteria. Many New York eateries won’t meet C, even if their food […]

I’ve got quite a few laptops laying around these days.  Every once and a while I get into a buying jag of surplus gear on EBay and bam suddenly the office is filled with a “like whoa” excess of something.
It’s cheaper than gambleing or drugs, okay?
*ahem* So, I”ve got one of the laptops up, rebuilt, […]

After recently crushing a woman in a car, the Big Dig in Boston has been found to have many additional problems.  Mitt “Can I Be President Now” Romney is naturally passing the buck onto the transit authority.  He’s taking full responsibility credit for taking charge.
Now that people have been killed, he’s all over the problem.  […]

Anytime I hear that someone’s mounting an automated lazer system to zap things out of the sky I always get a little worried.  The thought occurs, wrong though it may be, that an automated system fast enough to blast out things flying at the planes could either:
A) Be tampered with to blast the actual plane
or
B) […]