Hopefully this will mean more free drivers and no more binary blobs.
No longer do you have to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux Device Driver Kit, or pick through the thousands of example drivers in the Linux kernel source tree trying to determine which one is the closest to what you need to do.
I see Rik Waller's got a new album out... It's all covers though, which is a shame.
From Wikipedia:-
After his contract with EMI finished, Rik formed his own band to take his music out on the road. His second album Innocence was released in September 2005. The band was re-named Rik Waller's Mighty Soul Band, but has been renamed yet again; the band is now known as Rik Waller's Unfinished Business.
Surely at some point, they'll rename again to 'Rik Waller's Completed Task' and then 'Rik Waller's Next Band Project'?
Maybe DJ Superstar, Chris Rosewell should team up with 'The Waller', to form a bizarre soul/REM covers band, called The Rosewell Suggestion
Digital World Norway Outlaws iTunes
This is a good thing. Maybe the cracks are already starting to show in DRM?
Help send me to the FSF AGM in Boston in March!
BBC have posted a story about the forthcoming Vista launch
I posted the following. I don't know if it'll get posted.
I use GNU/Linux for the simple reason that it offers me something that Windows and Mac OS X can never offer me - freedom. Using free software is to make an ethical choice about the software you use. In world of increasing restriction from Digital Restrictions Management, I believe people will come to value their freedom more and more.
NoBlobsByDefaultPetition - Ubuntu Wiki - a petition to ask that Ubuntu not ship with binary blobs by default.
this is how i'm spending my fridays now.
speargun wanted. will pay reasonable price.
The Pirate Bay plans to buy island
Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws.The group has set up a campaign to raise money to buy Sealand, a former British naval platform in the North Sea that has been designated a 'micronation', and claims to be outside the jurisdiction of the UK or any other country.
For those of you who don't know.. Sealand looks like this:-
Call me crazy, but they're not going to get away with much on there.
In the world of hip-hop few music executives have more influence than DJ Drama. His “Gangsta Grillz” compilations have helped define this decade’s Southern rap explosion. He has been instrumental in the careers of rappers like Young Jeezy and Lil Wayne. He appears on the cover of the March issue of the hip-hop magazine XXL, alongside his friend and business partner T.I., the top-selling rapper of 2006. And later this year DJ Drama is scheduled to make his Atlantic Records debut with “Gangsta Grillz: The Album.”
WTF? People are being arrested for making mixtapes. This has gone too far already.
A model of a driverless bus is to go on display at the Science Museum in London. Its designers, Capoco systems, said the bus would use magnets embedded in the road to navigate the streets. A prototype of the futuristic bus is due next year.
The dream for me is to be able to keep free software free of charge for the people who want it on those terms. To have people sharing the same high quality base and innovating on top of it - from Beijing to Buenos Aires - will create something that we’ve never had before, which is a completely level software playing field for every young aspiring IT practitioner, and every aspiring entrepreneur. I believe that’s how we will really change the world, and how we will deliver the full benefit of the movement started more than two decades ago by Richard Stallman.
Yes, it appears to be an inflatable swan you can wear on your trousers!
(Attribution: Weirdest Japanese product ever by Greg Jagiello)
So, I've taken to surfing without JavaScript on websites where the JavaScript is not free software. This is harder than I thought it would be, but has given me a much greater insight into how lazy web developers have become and how much a reliance on JavaScript has become accepted as the norm.
The reason for doing this: JavaScript is code. I'm trying to determine my attitude towards free software on the web, and until I can do that, I'm only allowing free JavaScript to run. It's hard, but at the same time, useful.
NoScript is a great, free software plugin for Firefox and Iceweasel that allows you to handle this problem well. The sites I have allowed are fsf.org, plone.org and my blogs. All these sites run GPLd licensed systems (Plone and Wordpress) and so the JavaScript is fine, it's also worth noting that they work well without it.
The best website I'd visited without JavaScript was Tesco, which detected a lack of JS and took me to their accessible website, where I was able to buy all my groceries without compromising my freedom.
200+ extremely useful firefox extensions that save time and effort - a lot of these might have dubious licensing.
(I suspect this is like a link that says 'Free Crack' to Alex and Piotr)
Hot on the heels of Wordpress 2.0.6 is Wordpress 2.0.7. Thankfully Debian packages make the upgrade procedure not suck, but it can't be much fun for people on source installs.
Come on guys! Don't let this kind of stuff happen.
