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07 September 2006
Microsoft's Cracked Sense of Priorities
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Once again, Bruce is on the money - literally. If you really want to see Microsoft scramble to patch a hole in its software, don't look...
The Semantic Newspaper
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Here's a typically thoughtful meditation from Techdirt that considers ways in which newspapers could usefully embrace not just the Int...
Oooh, Look: MOOXL
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Rob Weir has spotted an interesting fact about Microsoft's implementation of MOOXL compatibility for Office XP, and its relationship to...
06 September 2006
IPv6: You Know It Makes Sense
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The Internet is deeply, deeply broken, it's just that nobody's noticed. Fortunately, the solution is already to hand. Unfortunatel...
NeoOffice 2.0 Beta
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One of the under-appreciated qualities of free software is its cross-platform nature. The fact that Firefox and OpenOffice.org are availabl...
Open Knowledge Definition 1.0...
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... is out .
The Commons of Silence
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Well, who could fail to be intrigued by a posting entitled "Ivan Illich and Silence as a Commons"? Especially when it links to a...
Open Source Robotics Toolkits
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One more for the open source ticklist: robotics toolkits. Here's an article explaining what they do and what's available. (Via LX...
Touchez Pas au Pingouin
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Now here's a daft idea : if Linux wants to be taken seriously by the business desktop market, it has to first take itself more seriously...
Torvalds' New Book on Open Source
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Who better to write a book called Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source , than Torvalds? And this book is indeed written by Torvalds - S...
Substitutability and Modularity
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Wise words from Bob Sutor on substitutability: the ability to take one software application from one provider and put in its place another ...
05 September 2006
I'll Have What Doug's Having
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Doug Engelbart is The Man: he invented practically everything clever in recent computing, from the mouse through to hypertext. One of his l...
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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Fluxbuntu
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One of the reasons why free software will ultimately triumph is that it is based on the eminently sensible idea of building on other people&...
Is Writely Right for You?
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And talking of Writely , here's a handy round-up of Web-based word processors. I'm pretty pleased with Writely, not least with it...
The ODF Dark Horse: IBM Workplace
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By now, everyone (well, nearly) knows about ODF support in things like OpenOffice.org, KOffice and Writely. But a name that may not be so w...
Indian Simmer
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I was lucky enough to make a couple of extended visits to India some years back, and I still follow developments there as closely as I can. ...
Why ID Cards Are Idiotic: Technical Impossibility
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I hate to gloat (well, not much) but this story about the scrapping of a £141 million computer system by the UK's Department for Work a...
GNU GPL Punch-up in the Offing?
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One of the unusual things about the GNU GPL is that it uses traditional law to untraditional things. This means that there's plenty of ...
Warning: Tenuous Connection Follows
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Well, Linus is Finnish, and hails from Helsinki, and this story is about a Finn in the same fair city. OK, I confess, I choose it for the h...
04 September 2006
Skewering SpiralFrog
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I've avoided mentioning SpiralFrog until now, since it is such a blatant attempt to be hip in a Web 2.0-ish sort of way, while completel...
Rich Blogger, Poor Blogger
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There's a fun thread on Thomas Hawk's Digital Connections blog, where people are having a go at Blogger. And quite right too: it...
Open BIOSes
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BIOS: Basic Input/Output System. We rarely give it a thought as we boot up a machine. But it turns out that there's a lot of clutter i...
The Fat Belly...
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...and why we need it.
Eclipse - the Magazine
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I know, I know, magazines are so twentieth century. This one is different - it's a PDF magazine (OK, so that's worse). But at lea...
Grokking Wikipedia
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For a project that is beginning to assume an ever-greater importance in the intellectual landscape (to say nothing of the online landscape),...
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