November 5, 2006 – 1:10 pm
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 and Linux are [...]
October 30, 2006 – 11:45 am
Saturday’s field day was a success! The alki group got together around 11:30 and quickly had a link to the folks at magnolia.
The primary form of communication between sites was FRS, which was absolutely horrible. Apparently everyone else could here us fine, but we could barely hear anything, and had to constantly ask the [...]
October 27, 2006 – 12:48 pm
This Saturday (October 28th, 2006), SeattleWireless is holding our
second Field Day.
From the website:
Field day is a free hands-on, all-day exercise for those interested in
learning about wireless networking and community wireless networks.
We will be setting up a mesh network at three parks around Seattle:
Alki, Magnolia and Gasworks; as well as directional wireless links
connecting them all together. [...]
October 8, 2006 – 6:46 am
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 the time approaching when Linux has [...]
October 7, 2006 – 3:14 am
Tuesday was the official Day Against DRM. I met up with a few people downtown at pike place market and handed out lots of stickers and flyers.
September 19, 2006 – 9:12 pm
The Wii is going to come with a pretty cool looking photo viewer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyWyDABjlxs
This slightly reminds me of lowfat (video).
September 8, 2006 – 1:04 pm
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 the World [...]
August 29, 2006 – 4:52 pm
The goal of the SeattleWireless project is to create a community owned and maintained wireless network around the city. The network is being built using standard protocols and open-source mesh routing software, making it easy for anybody to participate using inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware. SeattleWireless is completely free to use, and does not rely on the [...]
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 from Fry’s [...]
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 [...]