Links 03/08/2008: GNU/Linux Multi-touch, Intellectual Monopoly Wrecks
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-08-03 14:43:57 UTC
- Modified: 2008-08-03 14:43:57 UTC
GNU/Linux
- More fun than it looks: Compiz + MPX
I found a modified version of compiz here which allows MPX support. I have a video for you!
- More than a toy [GNU/Linux on PS3]
- Sylvania g MESO and MAGNI netbooks to arrive soon
- You can make the old new for school
For the sufficiently nerdy, I recommend trying a Linux-based operating system like Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com), which really excels on computers with at least 256 MB of RAM memory.
- A Quick Look at Xubuntu Xtreme
Unlike PC/OS and Linux Mint, Xubuntu Xtreme doesn’t make any attempt to call itself a new distribution. It’s just Xubuntu with stuff added. You can read more about what’s added here, but to summarize, you get multimedia codecs, Java, Flash, DVD playback, some extra themes, and a few extra programs already installed.
- RHT CEO Talks Biz
- 7 Uses of GParted LiveI
’ve been using GNU Parted to slice and dice my disk in preference to the fdisk for almost as long as I’ve been using Linux. We all fill up our hard-drives from time to time, but thanks to Gnome GParted, rearranging disk partitions isn’t as terrifying as it used to be.
F/OSS
Intellectual Monopolies
- End of the Blog
Like Humpty-Dumpty, the copyright law we used to know can never be put back together again: multilateral and trade agreements have ensured that, and quite deliberately.
- Trademark Insanity
It's bad enough that we have to deal with struggles over the use of trademarks that have become generic terms, like "Xerox" and "Coke", and trademarks that were already generic terms among specialists, such as "Windows", but a new low in trademarking has been reached by the joint efforts of Dell and the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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In other words, this is a pure example of theft from the public domain. Speakers of English have a term, "cloud computing", which the US government is on the verge of privatizing and assigning exclusively to Dell.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Comparing U.E.F.I. to B.I.O.S. (Bloat and Insecurity to K.I.S.S.)
- By Sami Tikkanen
- New 'Slides' From Stallman Support (stallmansupport.org) Site
- "In celebration of RMS's birthday, we've been playing a bit. We extracted some quotes from the various articles, comments, letters, writings, etc. and put them in the form of a slideshow in the home page."
- Thailand: GNU/Linux Up to 6% of Desktops/Laptops, According to statCounter
- Desktop Operating System Market Share Thailand
- António Campinos is Still 'The Fucking President' (in His Own Words) After a Fake 'Election' in 2022 (He Bribed All the Voters to Keep His Seat)
- António Campinos and the Administrative Council, whose delegates he clearly bribed with EPO budget in exchange for votes
- Adrian von Bidder, homeworking & Debian unexplained deaths
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Sainsbury’s Epic Downtime Seems to be Microsoft's Fault and Might Even Constitute a Data Breach (Legal Liability)
- one of Britain's largest groceries (and beyond) chains
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- People Don't Just Kill Themselves (Same for Other Animals)
- And recent reports about Boeing whistleblower John Barnett
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 18, 2024
- IRC logs for Monday, March 18, 2024
- Suicide Cluster Cover-up tactics & Debian exposed
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 19/03/2024: A Society That Lost Focus and Abandoning Social Control Media
- Links for the day
- Matthias Kirschner, FSFE: Plagiarism & Child labour in YH4F
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Linux Foundation Boasting About Being Connected to Bill Gates
- Examples of boasting about the association
- Alexandre Oliva's Article on Monstering Cults
- "I'm told an earlier draft version of this post got published elsewhere. Please consider this IMHO improved version instead."
- [Meme] 'Russian' Elections in Munich (Bavaria, Germany)
- fake elections
- Sainsbury's to Techrights: Yes, Our Web Site Broke Down, But We Cannot Say Which Part or Why
- Windows TCO?
- Plagiarism: Axel Beckert (ETH Zurich) & Debian Developer list hacking
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 18/03/2024: Putin Cements Power
- Links for the day
- Flashback 2003: Debian has always had a toxic culture
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- [Meme] You Know You're Winning the Argument When...
- EPO management starts cursing at everybody (which is what's happening)
- Catspaw With Attitude
- The posts "they" complain about merely point out the facts about this harassment and doxing
- 'Clown Computing' Businesses Are Waning and the Same Will Happen to 'G.A.I.' Businesses (the 'Hey Hi' Fame)
- decrease in "HEY HI" (AI) hype
- Free Software Needs Watchdogs, Too
- Gentle lapdogs prevent self-regulation and transparency
- Matthias Kirschner, FSFE analogous to identity fraud
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 18/03/2024: LLM Inference and Can We Survive Technology?
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 17, 2024
- IRC logs for Sunday, March 17, 2024
- Links 17/03/2024: Microsoft Windows Shoves Ads Into Third-Party Software, More Countries Explore TikTok Ban
- Links for the day
- Molly Russell suicide & Debian Frans Pop, Lucy Wayland, social media deaths
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Our Plans for Spring
- Later this year we turn 18 and a few months from now our IRC community turns 16
- Open Invention Network (OIN) Fails to Explain If Linux is Safe From Microsoft's Software Patent Royalties (Charges)
- Keith Bergelt has not replied to queries on this very important matter
- RedHat.com, Brought to You by Microsoft Staff
- This is totally normal, right?
- USPTO Corruption: People Who Don't Use Microsoft Will Be Penalised ~$400 for Each Patent Filing
- Not joking!
- The Hobbyists of Mozilla, Where the CEO is a Bigger Liability Than All Liabilities Combined
- the hobbyist in chief earns much more than colleagues, to say the least; the number quadrupled in a matter of years
- Jim Zemlin Says Linux Foundation Should Combat Fraud Together With the Gates Foundation. Maybe They Should Start With Jim's Wife.
- There's a class action lawsuit for securities fraud
- Not About Linux at All!
- nobody bothers with the site anymore; it's marketing, and now even Linux
- Links 17/03/2024: Abuses Against Human Rights, Tesla Settlement (and Crash)
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 16, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, March 16, 2024
- Under Taliban, GNU/Linux Share Nearly Doubled in Afghanistan, Windows Sank From About 90% to 68.5%
- Suffice to say, we're not meaning to imply Taliban is "good"
- Debian aggression: woman asked about her profession
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 17/03/2024: Winter Can't Hurt Us Anymore and Playstation Plus
- Links for the day