Ubuntu 10.04 Post-Install Guide: What to do and try after installing Lucid Lynx!
Top 5 Changes You Should Make on a Fresh Lucid Install
Always interested in post-install tweak stories.
Open vs. Closed: Jimmy Wales on Being Open
Mr. Wikipedia makes some interesting points despite laughably biased questions from GigaOM.
Know Your Rights: H.264, patent licensing, and you
Engadget’s optimistic take on the H .264 situation.
i don’t need no stinking nepomuk .. right?
Aaron Seigo talks a little about Nepomuk – something I wish more people would do. Good discussion in the comments.
EULA for Opera Desktop Browser for Open Source Operating Systems
Opera discusses a new EULA that may make it easier to redistribute.
Isn’t It Strange That Microsoft Only Singles Out *Linux* As “Infringing On Its Patents”?
Penguin Pete makes an interesting point.
Ted Dziuba rides a shark while wearing a space suit.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Losing Browser Share
Good news! This article was originally titled “Microsoft losing browser battle”. I guess Microsoft made a few phone calls?
I have to figure out how to maintain a decent cache for all so-called “journalism” sites I visit. They sure do love to make changes and edits with no records up there on them high horses.
10 Reasons to Delete Your Facebook Account
This is the article that finally pushed me over the line into deleting my account. We’ll see what happens after the 14-day waiting period expires.
Why is it harder to delete your Facebook account than it is to buy a gun in some states? Crazy.
Brings back memories of the Interface Hall of Shame.
Tilting at Windows. Why rejecting Microsoft’s OSS contributions is counter-productive
Yet another pro-Microsoft article from the “open source” people over at 451 CAOS Theory.
Remove the ever-present Microsoft apologetics though and there is a nugget of truth there: So long as Microsoft participates 100% on Open Source’s terms, good on them. They don’t get any special appreciation for doing so – because a) it’s the right thing to do, and I never understood praising people simply for doing the right thing, and b) they have a Karma Deficit bigger than Greece to pay off.
It is the logical complement that Microsoft Apologists will never mention: if Microsoft should be accepted when they participate on Open Source terms, then they should be rejected when they do not. So stop apologizing for them when they take half-measures, what ever the reason. Thank you.
If you want to heap praise on them for doing the right thing – go ahead. I think that just goes to reinforce low expectations, but YMMV.
I’ve just recently started trying to seriously use Launchpad, so it’s neat to hear about other people coming on board.
ZDNet – are you TRYING to lose readers? (Your latest redesign makes me wonder)
Someone points out that the new ZDNet site is poorly designed. I point out they are probably just trying to match quality of content and presentation.
The Humble Indie Bundle: Pay-What-You-Want for Games and Help EFF!
5 cool DRM-free games, you can set your own price and distribution of payment!
Canonical Creates Independent Professional Ubuntu Certification
Canonical moves deeper into the certification sham industry market.
Need desktop access over the Web? Try some Guacamole
Open Source HTML5+Javascript VNC viewer? Nice.
Where are the SmartBooks? Blame Adobe Says ARM
The sooner Flash (and all proprietary runtimes, Silverlight included) are gone, the sooner new product categories and devices can spring up without having to wait on the blessing of Adobe and their glacial development pace. Device manufacturers should be able to go to market the moment they have the idea. Like it or not, this news is demonstration that Adobe are holding us all back, even those who like Flash.
Adobe can’t catch a break.
Removing Mono from Ubuntu 10.04
ZDNet UK:
If you are interested in why one might want to banish Mono, one place to look would be the Mono-Nono web site.
Indeed.
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