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Nokia N900 – The Penguin Has Landed
You may have noticed that I’ve dropped off the side of the Internet somewhat. Life can get busy at times, especially for someone who sometimes gets muddled up with time management and priorities. Another compelling reason for this is that I recently bought a Nokia N900. And I’m still getting used to incorporating it into…
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New Site for justCheckers
I’m setting up a new site for the justCheckers project. The only real good reason for my working at all on this project, is simply to build a portfolio. As a software developer, I want to show to others that I can code. And that my code is clean, elegant and professional. I also want…
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Why I Like Free Software and Freedom
Adding freedom to software is a great business tactic. It gives back control to the customer, who now becomes not just another faceless entity to pilfer. Now the customer becomes a client, a person with real goals, ambitions and needs. And libre software/open source is a guarantee to serve those needs. But it need not…
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A Quest for Easy Multiblog Setup
One of the downside of sporting the ‘Y’ chromosone, is the tendency to setup new kit without reading instructions. In my case a similar thing happened with my sites. I bought a domain and hosting. Then I installed Drupal hearing all the wonderful things I heard about Drupal. What I didn’t do was research to…
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The Story of the GNU
Last Thursday I received a package from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Along with a nifty t-shirt, I ordered my stuffed gnu. Now the penguin on my desk has a new friend. The reason for the penguin is obvious, I am big fan of the GNU/Linux operating system. The penguin is the de facto logo…
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The New “Mojave” Experiment
I have a few friends working at Microsoft. And a usual conversation goes in the direction of which is better Microsoft or Linux. Then the flames roll in from across the horizon, and everyone ends up agreeing in disagreeing. I’m planning to bring this fight to the next level. With any luck this will end…
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justCheckers on Hold – Again – Kinda
I’m putting my involvement with the justCheckers project on hold for a while. Progress ground to a halt when I started to dig into the code. In its current state most of the application’s core functionality needs reworking. Meaning to go forward someone would need to reimplement slides and jumps that allows for multiple jumps…
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RMS Does Toronto
Yesterday I got to finally meet Richard Stallman (RMS) in person. And yes, he is a way cooler dude than many in the “open source” gang say he is. The FSF announced a while back in a press release, that RMS would be speaking at UofT on the topic of copyrights in a networked world.…
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Retro-gaming: Torus Trooper
In the mood for a bit of retro-gaming? Try out this amazing abstract shooter. Torus Trooper is a fantastic game, where you fly a fighter through a twisted torus filled with enemies. The art brings you back to the era of wireframe graphics. The trancy, techno music provides an excellent, motivating yet relaxing ambience. The…
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Building a Community
Ok. Aaron Seigo of the KDE project is a genius. He really is. Not only does he lead the absolutely revolutionary Plasma project in KDE, but he also knows what he is talking about. Anyway he wrote a kickass article about how to build a community in open source. And I’m too lazy to write…