Monthly Archives: May 2007

Jessamyn Installs Ubuntu

Posted on 5/9/2007 by Ben

Jessamyn West installed Ubuntu on some library computers and made this cute video of it.

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Cost Analysis of Vista Content Protection Greatest Hits

Posted on 5/8/2007 by Ben

I listened to Cory Doctorow’s reading of A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection by Peter Gutmann. There are so many jaw-dropping passages in this paper that I thought a little collection of quotes would be useful for people … Continue reading →

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Dell Joins Microsoft and Novell Deal

Posted on 5/7/2007 by Ben

Wow. Dell has managed to go from earning my undying loyalty one week, to making me question whether I should ever do business with them again the next. I made a Dell IdeaStorm idea for this, so go vote it … Continue reading →

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Dell Pre-installs Ubuntu

Posted on 5/1/2007 by Ben

Dell is set to start selling consumer-targeted desktop and laptops pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux at the end of the month. This is really fantastic news and I’ll probably order on day one, I just hope they offer some Latitudes.

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