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Monthly Archives: November 2004
Linux meets Ballmers call for $100 PC
Steve Ballmer called for PC makers to create a $100 computer and SolarPC answered with a neat little Linux box. SolarPC also makes fanless systems suitable for use as MythTV boxes.
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P2P start-up gets record label deals
An upcoming peer-to-peer service has signed licensing deals with three of the big four record labels. The songs will cost 99 cents and be copy protected. Cool, all of the inconvenience of peer-to-peer with none of the cost savings, sign … Continue reading
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Album of the Week
The album of the week is Ted Leo and the Pharmacists’ Shake the Sheets.
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Author of Ballmer-Cited Report Refutes Microsoft’s FUD
Priceless: “Open source faces no more (if not less) legal risk than proprietary software. The market needs to understand that the study Microsoft is citing actually proves the opposite of what they claim it does”
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Linux is not Red Hat, and other Sun-isms debunked
NewsForge has a great article on the Solaris 10 launch. Lots of informative comments from Sun execs.
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Linspire release Windows Media support
Linspire has licensed and ported Windows Media to their version of desktop Linux. Microsoft refused their efforts to license Windows Media DRM so there’s no support for music sites like Napster. The press release claims that it’s difficult to set … Continue reading
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In Defense of Arnold
Rafe Colburn doesn’t like the idea of amending the Constitution so Arnold Schwarzenegger can be elected president. Personally, I’m all for it. The amending the Constitution part, anyway. It’s a ridiculous requirement and we ought to get rid of it. … Continue reading
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Album of the Week
The album of the week is Rufus Wainwright’s Want Two.
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Dungeon Majesty Online
The first two episodes of Dungeon Majesty are now online at Heavy.com. I thought they were very entertaining, it was definitely a good choice not to go with 30 solid minutes of D&D play (the second episode is a visit … Continue reading
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Firefox 1.0
In case you’re having trouble downloading Firefox 1.0, released today, here’s a nice mirror that includes a .torrent.
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Album of the Week and See You in a Week
I’m going to try to decompress from the election by taking taking a week long fast from news, television, and blogs. The album of the week is Yo-Yo Ma’s Brahams Sonatas for Cello and Piano. Take a deep breath, relax, … Continue reading
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Apple screws iPod owners
Cory Doctorow has a post on Boing Boing that perfectly illustrates one of the greatest advantages that open source software has over closed source. With open source it’s almost impossible to get screwed in this manner.
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