I spotted an interesting post about an interview done with Eben Moglen, the general counsel for the Free Software Foundation. The title of the post was interesting enough, “The inevitability of free software”, however I’ve written before about how smart and passionate Eben Moglen is, and after listening to an mp3 of the interview, I […]

Anybody have any idea why my blog posts are taking so long to show up in Google Reader? It took about 5 hours yesterday for a couple of my posts to show up. This morning for instance I made a couple of hours ago. It shows up in Bloglines, but still nothing in Google Reader.
And […]

Okay. So it’s almost 6 years since Windows XP first shipped. And you mean to tell me that no one has developed a free utility to customize the desktop right-click context menu?
Using Openbox has spoiled me. I thought for sure something would be out there for use on my XP machine here at work. […]

This was very very cool and not what I expected….
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I’ve been playing around with Foxit for a couple of days as my default PDF reader tool on my XP machine at work. It’s got a little self-advertisement up on the top right touting additional features of the paid versions (I assume). Wonder of wonders, but there is actually a simple checkbox in the view […]

Anybody know what this icon is in my system tray? When I hover over it, it only displays that it’s downloading updates (10%) but the percentage never changes. Left-clicking or right-clicking on the icon does absolutely nothing. I’ve opened up Windows Task Manager to see what it might be, but I can’t spot anything too […]

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BTW - man do I miss not having my Wacom Tablet at work.
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Tom Raftery thinks that Microsoft will Open Source Windows (or die!). While I agree with Tom that open source is a better model in a lot of ways, I’m not sure if any of them appeal to Redmond.
I don’t think Microsoft will ever open-source Windows. Not because it wouldn’t make for a faster moving, better […]

For the last month or so, I’ve been running Openbox on my Ubuntu Feisty home system. I like the simplicity and speed of it. It takes a little more manual work to customize it, but then again you end up with a system that works the way you want it. It’s like taking a standard […]

As a follow-on to the comments for my previous post, I was not having any luck finding a blogging tool for Linux that would allow me to upload photos to my blog (curs-ed Blogger API!). So I decided to give Flock another shot. I knew they had updated their release a few months back and […]