Post archive for ‘Open Source’
Patent Protection Lovefest, Update 1
The Wall Street Journal published a spot-on article a few days ago about the Novell+Microsoft arrangement. It’s only available online to subscribers, so I scanned it: And making the news yesterday, The CEO of Microsoft has straight up said that every (with the exception of Novell/SuSE of course!) linux company, developer, and user is violating [...]
Patent Protection
Lots of talk about the Novell+Microsoft agreement. I don’t have much to say, but wanted to post something. From the Microsoft Press Release: Novell will also make running royalty payments based on a percentage of its revenues from open source products. I find this particularly disturbing, considering that all of the compatibility problems between Windows [...]
Adobe Photoshop developer talks about the linux desktop
A photoshop developer named Chris Cox over at Adobe had this to say (Bugmenot Required) about the linux desktop, in response to a user’s request for a linux port: Is the time approaching when Linux has standards for fonts, color management, printing, etc.? What’s all this then? Fonts: Freetype Color Manaegment: OpenIcc Printing: CUPS Is [...]
SavageSVG, A vector graphics library that needs your help!
Today I’m attempting to kick off a new project called SavageSVG, a complete SVG library for Mono/.NET. First of all, what is SVG? From Wikipedia: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated, and either declarative or scripted. It is an open standard created by [...]
Easy serial communication on osx and linux
Most people don’t think OSX comes with a program to interact with serial devices, but they’re wrong! Someone showed me this brilliant tip a few days ago: screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600 It’s useful on Linux too, since minicom can be quite a pain to set up. And by the way, this cheap AirLink101 AC-USBS Serial Adapter [...]
New Server
I’m slowing getting all of my stuff moved over to my shiny new server (SuperServer 5015M-MT, 3ghz Pentium D, 2GB RAM). I’ve taken this as an opportunity to finally upgrade to WordPress 2.x and clear out the 2,931 bogus comments that I had sitting in the moderation queue (I had to temporarily increase php’s memory [...]
FreedomHEC 2006
From http://freedomhec.pbwiki.com/: Coming to Seattle in May for that other hardware conference? On your way out, stay for the hardware unconference where you’ll learn how easy it is to make your hardware compatible with free, open source operating systems such as Linux, and available to new markets such as servers, next-generation entertainment devices, and more. [...]
Linuxfest Northwest
Rode the Pogo Linux bus up to Linuxfest Northwest today. It’s nice to see that there are in fact a lot of linux/open-source fans in the area, even though we’re so close to them. I attended the following talks: Linux And Virtualization – Ilya Baimetov Incoming! What’s on the EFF’s radar – Danny O’Brien The [...]
SWN HackNight 2006/03/15: Unicast DNS Service Discovery
Yesterday I watched a very good presentation about multicast dns service discovery (aka bonjour aka rendezvous aka zeroconf) given by Stuart Cheshire who happens to be the person at apple that created it. One of the things mentioned that I had not previously heard of was the fact that bonjour supports unicast dns service discovery [...]
Transparent drawing using C#, Cairo and Xgl
Yesterday I updated my computer to Dapper Drake (which is what will become the next version of ubuntu) so I could try out Xgl. It is honestly the coolest thing I have ever seen linux do, and will only continue to get better. If you’re brave enough to use an unstable operating system, I highly [...]