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Thursday, Dec 17
Installing Windows considered as a literary genre - Boing Boing
Installing Windows considered as a literary genre blog) The narrator rises into fury as he describes how long and painful an experience the install was; IX. Aptenodytes forsteri, the narrator switches to Linux.
Wednesday, Dec 17
HOWTO build a Linux-based supercomputer out of Playstation 3s
Researchers typically rent the use of supercomputers to simulate experiments, but with these they can build their own for about $4K, saving cash and freeing up time for additional experimentation. Moreover, with guides like these floating around, communities can build their own: ima...
Friday, Dec 12
Epilogue: Austin schoolteacher who didn't believe Linux existed
I have contacted the technology department of AISD and have discovered it has a rich technology environment that uses open source software in all aspects of instruction, operation, and administration. The District has over 36,000 desktop and laptop computers. While about 24,000 of tho...
Wednesday, Dec 10
Austin teacher threatens to sic cops on Linux group because "No software is free"
This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer, and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. The HeliOS organizer kind of goes off the rails in his response, implying that the teacher's been brainwashed by her union to support M...
Monday, Jul 9
Has Microsoft given away its patent portfolio through the Novell deal?
Cory Doctorow: Groklaw has a great post explaining just how badly Microsoft shot itself in the foot when it set up Novell to grant licenses to the patents that Linux supposedly infringes upon. The idea was that Novell would give these licenses to its Linux customers, creating a climate of f...
Monday, May 14
Microsoft says GNU/Linux violates 235+ Windows patents
Cory Doctorow: After many earlier rounds of saber-rattling and FUD, Microsoft has announced that Free Software users -- including everyone who, like me, uses Ubuntu Linux -- are violating at least 235 of Microsoft's patents, though they don't say which ones. Microsoft are now threaten...
Friday, Apr 27
Neuros to AppleTV hackers: hack our set-top box!
Cory Doctorow: Joe sez, "This is an open letter from Neuros to all the AppleTV hackers that appeals to AppleTV hackers to help contribute to Neuros Open Source/Linux Set-top box." All while expanding the body of free software for those that follow.
