I read a great article on the New York Times website today. The article was mainly about Microsoft’s failure to capture the mind share of young developers and entrepreneurs. The evidence provided was the success of FOSS(Free Open Source Software) amongst start-ups like Twitter, Google, Facebook and a multitude of others…
Finally mainstream journalism is starting [...]
This is huge news. This announcement from AT&T means that third part voice providers will be able to send there VoIP traffic over their mobile wireless device. This is a giant leap for Net Neutrality(Click on the link to read more)! Thank you Obama. When critics say you haven’t accomplished anything as of October 2009 [...]
I was reading Slashdot today and came across an interesting post about the Mono project. Richard Stallman of GNU/FSF fame is blasting the Mono project. His argument is that because Mono is developed in C# the project itself is compromised because the threat of future patent litigation.
That is a reasonable concern, but as he points [...]
Thank God, there is at least one company under the Sun willing to fight software patents. Red Hat has petitioned the Supreme Court to review the legality of software patents. I read about this on one of my favorite web sites: Groklaw.net. Click on the link for the full article.
Here is an excerpt:
RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS [...]
I signed up for a Netflix account yesterday, but when I tried to watch streaming video online I got an annoying message about hoe my Operating System is not supported. When I found out that they didn’t support Linux I was so pissed. Plenty of web content out there is Mac, Linux, and Windows friendly. [...]
I recently visited a local radio station kirotv.com(to hear the Mariners game) and the web site required Microsoft Silverlight to be installed for streaming audio. It also noted that Silverlight was available for Apple OS X, Windows, and Linux. Say that again? Microsoft making multi-platform software? Giving customers choice? It sounds crazy, but it’s absolutely [...]
Great news everyone! Fedora Weekly News, issue 175 reports successful Dom0 integration in Fedora 11 Beta. Here is the quote I read today:
Pasi Kärkkäinen reports[1] success with a dom0 kernel using Fedora 11 Rawhide. “I’m able to run Xen paravirtual (PV) domUs, install new domUs using virt-install and also install and manage domains with [...]
CNET has an interesting article on Obama picks for the Justice Department. I like the president and I totally expected some greedy special interest goons to get in, but why on one of the few issues I care about? The problems with Intellectual Property law in the United States are many.
Years ago I was part [...]
I was reading Slashdot today and came across this post about Microsoft Family Safety Filter. I wasn’t to surprised to read by this article:
“I saw that part of the brand new Windows Live package is the Family Safety Filter, so I decided to give it a spin. Turned it on, set it to ‘basic filtering’ [...]
I (like many of you) have been patiently waiting since Fedora 8 for Dom0(Domain 0) Xen support in Fedora. Why hasn’t Red Hat or the Fedora Project made an announcement? Haven’t we been good? I mean libvirtd is great and all, but Xen PV(paravirtualized) VM’s destroy. I did some googling to get [...]