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Planet Cixar
Python library for parsing OpenSourceMap data and finding routes using A*. Found via Simon Wilson's blog.
I'm watching We Are the Strange. It's a wonderfully perverse movie that was recommended by the deviants at @ectomo.
By segphault
20 hours, 30 minutes ago.
I have just made a life-changing discovery. Papa Johns offers bacon as a pizza topping! http://xkcd.com/418/
By segphault
1 day, 1 hour ago.
Using message queues. They help scale.
Very unhappy to see a fellow open source journalist publishing dubious personal attacks against one of my friends. Not cool at all.
By segphault
1 day, 20 hours ago.
This site has cool monitoring tools for AWS and are adding support for more clouds. One of the first commercial uses of simile.mit.edu's timeplot project that I've seen. Kudos guys!
Got both OpenMoko stacks running in Qemu. The GTK-based stack is actually pretty nice.
By segphault
1 day, 23 hours ago.
Trying to get OpenMoko working in Qemu. Not having much success so far.
By segphault
2 days, 4 hours ago.
OpenMoko has announced that the Linux-based FreeRunner mobile phone will be available for purchase on July 4. Despite lack of support for 3G, the FreeRunner will likely appeal to Linux enthusiasts and open source software developers.
I've decided that I like the concept behind identi.ca but the implementation is still weak. I won't use it until they add the API.
By segphault
3 days, 3 hours ago.
Mozilla has announced the availability of Weave 0.2, the new version of its Firefox synchronization add-on. Ars tests this version and takes a close look at the underlying architecture.
Mozilla has been awarded a coveted spot in the Guinness World Records for the launch of Firefox 3, which was downloaded over 8 million times in only 24 hours. Our own statistics show that Firefox 3 is also extremely popular among Ars users.
Security appliance vendor Barracuda Networks has filed a countersuit against Trend Micro in an effort to protect the open source ClamAV project from Trend's allegations of patent infringement.
Critics of KDE 4 have recently called for a fork to address what they perceive as weaknesses in the environment. Ars takes a look at some of the features in the upcoming 4.1 release and explains why the strengths of the new version make a fork unnecessary.
The OpenAjax Alliance is assembling a list of popular feature requests for emerging web technologies and encouraging participants to vote on their favorites. Ars takes a close look at four of the most intriguing feature requests and their existing implementations in Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
The total number of diggs on all of the articles I wrote in June: 31,158. Total number of diggs on all of my articles this year: 96,050.
By segphault
4 days, 23 hours ago.
Accessing private data from Google users with permission over their Data API and the OAuth standard.
A Python API for Salesforce.com
Ars takes a close look at the roadmap for Ubuntu 8.10, which is codenamed Intrepid Ibex, and tests the first alpha release. Major features planned for Intrepid include a new visual theme and improved support for subnotebook computers.
Built Murrine from trunk so I could test the new RGBA functionality. It was easy to add support for it to Gwibber.
By segphault
6 days, 20 hours ago.
Upgraded my N810 to Diablo. It's a nice incremental update with a handful of strong feature improvements. Wish I could get Maemo on a phone.
By segphault
1 week ago.
Installing the new Intrepid alpha in VirtualBox. The new theme needs some work.
By segphault
1 week ago.
KDE 4.1 beta 2 brings Plasma more polish and reliability. Ars tests the new KDE beta and looks at some of the usability improvements.
My desktop computer is displaying power status in the notification area. I can't get rid of it because gnome-power-preferences is crashing.
By segphault
1 week, 2 days ago.
A very cogent explanation of why Mac OS X isn't right for everybody.
My mom got her new MBP this morning. 2.6Ghz, 4GB RAM, and 512 MB graphics. She wanted to take unboxing pics. I think I've created a monster.
By segphault
1 week, 2 days ago.
The Linux Phone Standards Forum has joined forces with the Linux Mobile Foundation. This consolidation will give the group more leverage as it competes for mindshare against the new Symbian Foundation and Open Handset Alliance.
OpenMoko has announced new distribution deals with hardware vendors. The agreements will make the Linux-based Freerunner mobile phone available to consumers in Europe and India.
Mozilla's Firefox 3 web browser has been downloaded over 20 million times in the first week after its launch. Firefox 3 by itself now has almost 4 percent market share.
It would be nice if Firefox could use libpoppler on Linux to display PDFs natively without Adobe Acrocrap.
By segphault
1 week, 3 days ago.
Testing the second KDE 4.1 beta release. It's starting to really feel polished. I'll try switching for a few weeks when 4.1 gets released.
By segphault
1 week, 3 days ago.
I'm very excited to see Nokia expanding its open source strategy and moving Symbian into the future.
By segphault
1 week, 4 days ago.
Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon has launched a new musical experiment to help artists discover the value of open content distribution. His upcoming solo album will be distributed under a Creative Commons license.
Nokia has announced plans to open the source code of the Symbian platform and launch a nonprofit foundation to facilitate the development of a unified open Symbian platform. The move should make Symbian a much stronger competitor in the mobile space.
The government of California wants more ISPs to follow the lead of Verizon, which, at the behest of the New York Attorney general, blocked the entire usenet alt.* hierarchy in order to reduce propagation of child porn.
Google has opened the source code of its Browser Sync add-on for Firefox and is distributing it under the BSD license. This will make it possible for the open source community to make the popular add-on compatible with Firefox 3.
I didn't get much writing done today, but I did some useful research. Now I'm relaxing and watching the Zeta Gundam movie trilogy.
By segphault
1 week, 6 days ago.
Trying to help my dad fix Windows Vista problems on his new computer. Extremely frustrating crap. He might need to go back to XP. :-(
By segphault
2 weeks ago.
Obama says he will support FISA reauthorization. So much for hope and change. This is why I gave my money to the EFF instead of a candidate!
By segphault
2 weeks ago.
Beautiful, old typography. Mostly free (attribution in commercial works, no modification).
Reading about the Xdmx and MPX projects. It's great to see so much innovation around Xorg!
By segphault
2 weeks, 1 day ago.
OpenSUSE 11 has officially been released. Ars takes a look at the latest improvements and finds a lot to like.
I don't understand why AMO registration is required for certain add-ons. Now it's more convenient to get the XPI from an untrusted source.
By segphault
2 weeks, 2 days ago.
Congratulations to my friends at Novell for another fine OpenSUSE release!
By segphault
2 weeks, 2 days ago.
Mozilla's Firefox 3 web browser, which was released earlier this week, was mentioned on the Colbert Report by guest Jonathan Zittrain.
Red Hat announced new virtualization initiatives today. I'm so glad I went to the Mozilla event instead of the Red Hat summit!
By segphault
2 weeks, 2 days ago.
Very happy to be back in front of my own desktop computers again. I feel constrained sometimes when I use the Eee.
By segphault
2 weeks, 2 days ago.
An interesting discussion on how to specify port options in make.conf so that portupgrade respects them. I've had to find my own way around this, but this is really good for the general case. Props.
How to check if your installed freebsd software has security issues. Thanks evoman142
Fantastic article about empathy.
The launch of Firefox 3 has proven to be a huge success. After 1 million downloads in less than four hours, Mozilla now reports over 8 million downloads in the first 24 hours since release, beating expectations of 5 million.
Vulnerability database for the FreeBSD ports collection.
This is a triumph. I'm being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart and killed me.
At Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View! Just met @dria. Waiting for the servers to come up so I can download FF3 on my Eee.
By segphault
2 weeks, 4 days ago.
The download counter here at Mozilla headquarters shows that Firefox 3 has passed a million downloads. Ars reports live from the official release party.
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3, which includes a multitude of significant improvements and new features. Ars covers the release from Mozilla's headquarters in Mountain View, where the developers are celebrating the start of a revolution in Internet empowerment.
A cake from the Internet Explorer team just arrived at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View to congratulate the Firefox 3 team. The first taste testers report that it isn't poisoned, but one can't help but wonder if the cake is lie.
Yay. modules.js was covered by Ajaxian. Now is the time of judgement.
Preparing to leave for Mountain View. I'll be arriving at SJC at about 2:15.
By segphault
2 weeks, 5 days ago.
I'm very excited about the upcoming Firefox 3 release! I can't wait to see all the awesome Mozilla people on Tuesday. :-)
By segphault
2 weeks, 5 days ago.
Version 0.6 of the open source Songbird music player hatched last week. Ars tests the new release and finds that significant performance improvements make the bird fly.
Mozilla is preparing for the official release of Firefox 3, which will land on June 17. Ars looks at add-on compatibility and some early plans for Firefox 3.1.
Can open source developers advance software freedom while still giving The Man the support for DRM and other vendor lock-in technologies that he's still addicted to? This conundrum currently vexes the mobile Linux space, and Nokia's open source guru has a few thoughts on it.
The shapes you draw in crayon come to life by the power of physics!
Steve Yegge's video rant. This was my favorite preso at Google I/O. I wasn't expecting Steve to be this comical in person.
Fixed "help".
Transformed "mod" to "mod" instead of "rem".
I, for one, welcome our new benevolent Mozilla robot overlords. http://www.flickr.com/photos/8345192@N03/2571283860/sizes/l/
By segphault
3 weeks ago.
Making last minute travel arrangements so that I can go to Mountain View on Monday. I'll be at the Firefox release party on Tuesday.
By segphault
3 weeks ago.
Trying to test Vlad's Qt Firefox branch, but I'm having problems with the Firefox build system. Why can't everybody just use CMake?
By segphault
3 weeks ago.
Barack Obama's campaign uses a website to rapidly respond against smear campaigns.
Beautiful slim electronic piano from Yamaha with a stunning wood finish and a USB port: http://tinyurl.com/4qv5c6 (Found via @evoque)
By segphault
3 weeks, 1 day ago.
An organization that collects music royalties in the UK has sued law enforcement authorities for playing music in police stations without a proper license. No, really.
by way of the recent Coding Horror blog, a table of pronunciation for ASCII characters. I would add "et" for &.
The walk score for my office is 95%. The walk score for my home is 91%. I use my car once a week on average. :-)
Some thoughts on personal time management.
BarCamp for finance people.
Reference of CSS JavaScript properties.
Going to watch the new Bleach episode. I hope this one isn't all filler. I've not been particularly impressed with this plot arc.
By segphault
3 weeks, 2 days ago.
Handy reference for politely requesting a .doc file in a more portable format.
A judge has blocked a copyright infringement suit filed by Universal against an individual who sold promotional CDs on eBay. The ruling says that sale of promotional CDs is protected by the first sale doctrine.
My quad core Mac Pro arrived today! Mac OS X is still pathetically inflexible. Going to install Ubuntu 8.04 on it. :-)
By segphault
3 weeks, 1 day ago.
Red Hat has settled a patent dispute with Firestar and DataTern over object-relational mapping technologies used in JBoss. The terms of the settlement will broadly protect the open source community and downstream distributors.
wherein Copleson and Russell mostly disagree with one another and eventually invoke Godwin's Law. At the very least, this forum was more fair than Veritas back at Poly.
Banshee 1.0 is now officially ready to rock! It's full of awesome. :-)
By segphault
3 weeks, 2 days ago.
A new TSA policy will block passengers from flying if they refuse to show ID to security agents, but will permit passengers to fly if they claim to have left their ID at home.
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has revealed that Canonical is working on custom Ubuntu Netbook Remix builds for several OEMs. He also says that Canonical will encourage hardware makers to release open source drivers.
I'm drumming up an idea for a PEP. Anybody got thoughts on it?
Checking out the new GNOME-Do release: http://blog.davebsd.com/?p=65
By segphault
3 weeks, 3 days ago.
I really like the generic push notification concept.
By segphault
3 weeks, 3 days ago.
The Supreme Court has affirmed that the doctrine of patent exhaustion is applicable to patents on methods and processes and has blocked LG's attempt to obtain royalties from downstream distributors.
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