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01 February 2007
Getting Snappy About Snap
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Here's someone who hates the Snap pop-up preview feature, as used on this blog. If it weren't easy to turn off (just click on Opti...
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Today's Bio-hacker Heroine, Tomorrow's Hope
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There are so many threads here : What could be a life-saving breakthrough in the fight against cystic fibrosis, cancer and AIDS has been ach...
WTF is WTF?
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Dave Sifry has always been one of the do-ers in the world of computing. And as someone who has been at the heart of open source for over a...
Second Life in a Box: OpenSim
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The recent opening up of the Second Life Viewer code was big news, but the thing that everyone is waiting for is for the server-side stuff....
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31 January 2007
Conservation Commons
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A little while back I was urging you to sign a petition calling for open access in the European Union (you did sign, didn't you?). Now...
iHavenosenseofhumour
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Catch it while you can.
All That Jazz
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This looks an interesting project : The Jazz research project seeks to extend the Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) software development env...
Steve Ballmer on Open Source
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I am always amused - and slightly annoyed - that so much space is devoted to the wit and wisdom of Steve Ballmer, because basically he has n...
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O Brave New World
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It's not every day that a new continent is announced .
30 January 2007
Anyone for Open Source TreeCAD?
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Just when you think there can't be any areas left uncolonised by free software, you discover treeCAD . (Via MMORPG .)
Not so Corny for the Mexicans
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By embracing the NAFTA treaty, Mexico surrendered its corn output to the vagaries of the North American corn market. Now, all of a sudden, A...
British Library Closes Down Knowledge
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As I feared , the close relationship between the British Library and Microsoft has led the former to start producing online exhibits locked ...
Peugeot Drives Off with 20K SuSE Desktops
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Well, strictly speaking , it's "up to" 20K: PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second-largest automobile manufacturer in Europe, and Nov...
Barely Born, Vista Gets a Second Life
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Well, I suppose this was inevitable; call it the Clash of Hypes: Microsoft Vista is being launched at ten locations in Second Life. And not...
MySQL's IPO: Hot News - or Maybe Not
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Amazing news - MySQL is planning to go public: after years of rumo(u)r the company is finally preparing to go public, joining a select grou...
Go to Jail; Do Not Pass Go
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At a time when this is happening: The jail system is in "serious crisis" with overcrowding affecting rehabilitation of offenders,...
Behind and Beyond Halloween
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The publication of the first Halloween memo in 1998 was a pivotal moment in the history of free software. For the first time, it was clea...
Not Drowning but Waving
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Here's a clever idea, a Web site called goodbye-microsoft.com that doesn't just encourage you to install Debian alongside Windows o...
Enter the WeblogMatrix
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For fans of matrices , here's another one: Weblogmatrix , which compares the main blogging platforms. (Via Quoi9 .)
Aieee: It's IE8 (Internet Explorer 8)
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Further proof that Firefox has changed the rules for browsers. It took Microsoft five years to move from IE6 to IE7, but there are already ...
29 January 2007
At Your Service
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It is no coincidence that services lie at the heart of companies based around open source: In 2006, the share of the service sector in the ...
'Omics - Oh My!
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One of the fun aspects of writing my book Digital Code of Life was grappling with all the 'omics: not just genomics, but proteomics and...
GNU/Linux on the Desktop: Get the Facts
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Some say that 2007 is the year GNU/Linux is going to make its breakthrough on the desktop - just like last year, and the year before that. ...
Open Healthcare
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A new one to me: 1: What is “Open Healthcare”? The nature of the Internet as a means of disseminating health media is changing. The first w...
Acceptable Intellectual Property
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Although open genomics is one of the key areas of this blog, posts on the subject are few and far between. This is really a reflection of t...
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