Tag: Misc.

Almost 2/3 of the claims that SCO is making against IBM have been thrown out. After repeated requests to show exactly where code was taken from UNIX and put into Linux, SCO has yet to comply. The magistrate found it inexcusable that SCO wasn’t providing all the details. This is very good news indeed. I…

As described on Creative Commons, David Byrne, of The Talking Heads, and Brian Eno have remastered and released My Life in the Bush of Ghosts with two tracks released under Creative Commons. David Byrne and Brian Eno’s landmark sampling album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was recently remastered and reissued with extensive liner…

Yabba-Dabba-Do! Google has finally launched Google Earth for Linux. I have Google Earth for Linux working on a PC running Ubuntu 6.06. Though the machine doesn’t have a 3D video card and it only has 512MB of RAM, Google Earth works surprisingly well. It is great to see Google releast a native Linux version of…

Flock is awesome!  If you’re a blogger, or love sharing pictures, or reading lots of RSS feeds, or storing your “favorites”/bookmarks online, you must use Flock.  Most importantly, if you want a pretty stable, fast, and widely supported (Flock is built on the most recent Firefox 1.504 codebase) that recovers from crashes really well, you…

The Wall Street Journal reported today that at a press conference, Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, announced that he will be transitioning his daily responsibilities at Microsoft over to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie. Ray Ozzie will assume the title of Chief Software Architect immediately. Craig Mundie will assume the title of…