Even though free software (in the freedom-to-modify-and-distribute sense) comes along with all the tools and utliities anyone would need to modify or distribute their own version of it, it’s apparently not “African” enough for this company.
I think the author misses the valuable point that free software doesn’t have boundries (as hackneyed as that is to […]

Now, I’m a little skeptical of some of the reasoning in this article about a new auto concept.
But the idea behind how the car is built is sound.  Even if their eye in the sky rhetoric is a bit goofy, the design ideas seem sound.
Basically, they’re going to lighten up the car, decouple the motivating […]

Although the author of the below misses the fact that P in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PERL) doesn’t stand for PHP (or didn’t.. the P is now interchangable PERL/PHP/Python) we’ll skip that for the moment.
Instead, we’ll focus on his vague allegations that Apache is only so-so, but the best of the bunch (which I’ll heartily […]

I’m starting to get back into the swing of writing with a bit of the op-ed on Linux.  This piece goes into why Freespire doesn’t pose a moral dillema and why no one really seems to care one way or the other.
PCBurn - PCBurn Editorial: Are Freespires Proprietary Packages a Problem?

So Xgl and Compiz didn’t really have me chomping at the bit with anticipation when they were being talked up by the coders and GUI wonks earlier in the year.  It’s just another GUI layer, only faster, right?
Not exactly.  While it is another layer of GUI effects, it’s a really sexy layer of GUI effects.  […]

Always on the lookout for new technology to use in software reviews I came across vncrec. What this software does is create a capture file of your VNC session for later playback. Coincidentally, this can be used to create motion screen captures of whatever it is you’re working on.
While it’s not going to help out […]

Linux World Boston is coming up next week and I’m going to have some live blogging from the Expo floor and possibly some of the keynote addresses.
PCBurn will be running interviews and photos from the show floor in addition to the running commentary on here. So look forward to lots of content from the […]

While there’s plenty of casual evedence you should be using firefox, like it’s nifty tabbed support and the awesome extensions with their one-click integrated install, there’s now verifiable lower vulnerability info from Symantec as well.
Apparently they had only been tallying vendor reported exploits and vulnerabilities with IE and it’s Mozilla based rival.  No longer is […]

Naturally, they found it to be tricky, infectious, ‘orrible stuff.
Not like good, safe, Microsoft Software ™.  It’s delicious, and oh-so-nutricious.
Why on earth would anyone pay Microsofts general council to pen a report on open source software.  That’s like asking a wolf to write up a report on improvements to be made in hen house security… […]

While there may be a point that forcing open source right now on any particular group is folly, I take exception to mandating open source being a mandate of incompetence. Why does anyone need to absolutely use a JRE? This is unexplained. Rarely have I seen a type of application that runs exclusively or […]