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Jun
5
On reverse-engineering, patents and open source.
Insights, IntellectualProperty, Linux, OpenSource, Solaris, Sun | Comments
Bryan Cantrill, kernel engineer extraordinaire and co-author of Dtrace, blogged his thoughts about reverse-engineering and patents in the context of Linus moving the Linux kernel souce code mgmt system from BitKeeper. Read more
Mar
27
I’ve been trying to get Beagle up and running on my computer for a while now. There’s so much information on my hard disk, I’d love something like Google Desktop Search for Linux, and Beagle seems to be just what I need - and more. Read more
Mar
26
The first thing I consider when buying any piece of hardware, is whether it’ll play well with Linux. Yeah if you’re a Linux user, you know the feeling. The “extra” research you need to put in. Thankfully, the rather expensive digital camera I bought last week works excellently with the SUSE Linux 9.2 Professional on my Thinkpad. Read more
Feb
20
I moved to a new Internet provider today. These guys provide Internet connectivity via PPP over Ethernet. The same old story repeated itself:
Location: Dingy, cramped cableguy’s office. 6:30 PM.
Me: …so this connection of yours requires a connection tool? Read more
Jan
28
Sun is mad at IBM. Sun’s President and COO Jonathan Schwartz even wrote an angry letter to our CEO Sam Palmisano last Friday. Understandably. This eWeek report from the 17th of January states that IBM’s refused to “test, certify and support its enterprise software applications on Solaris 10 for x86 platforms”. Which is strange, considering that IBM’s fully agreed to do the exact same thing for Solaris 10 on SPARC. Read more
Jan
28
Two days ago, I’d wondered about Novell’s Internal Linux Move, on the sidelines of an article about such an announcement by IBM. In an interview with ZDNet UK, Novell’s MD in the UK told readers to watch out for announcements on that front at Novell’s Brainshare 2004 Convention in March last year. Read more
Dec
20
Well, I got SUSE 9.1 Pro on my shiny new TP yesterday! Works like a charm!
I had a DVD of this distro from Novell, but since my old PC didn’t have a DVD ROM, I never got a change to have a look at this supposedly cool distro. RedHat/Fedora has been my mainstay since the bad old days of Linux 2.0. Read more
Dec
19
My IBM Thinkpad R50 has arrived:
Here are the specs:
1.) ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 64MB 128-bit DDR Video Ram Operating at 210 MHz.
2.) 14.1″ TFT Screen
3.) Trackpoint
4.) Touchpad
5.) ThinkLight at the top of the screen illuminates the screen in low light conditions.
6.) System and power status indicators:
Wireless status,
Bluetooth status,
Numeric lock,
Caps lock,
Drive in use,
Power on,
Battery status, and
Standby status.
7.) Function keys for screen brightness, full screen functionality, web browser forward and back buttons, (these are all hard-wired key functions, so their usage is not OS-dependent. However, a nice project called the TPB (ThinkPad Buttons) enables an on-screen display on Linux.
8.) Built-in microphone
9.) Volume increase/decrease/mute buttons.
10.) Centrino Mobile technology - wireless support built-in via”integrated dual diversity antenna built into the display”.
11.) 40 GB HDD
12.) DVD-ROM - no CD/RW! 
13.) 2 USB ports
14.) Video-out connector
15.) Agere systems AC’97 Modem
16.) PC card slot - to attach modem, data storage, network, and SCSI connector cards.
17.) Built-in Infrared port. Read more
Jun
20
I found this thought-provoking article on the Web. It debates what continuous adoption of (often disruptive) technology, without considering the ends which they may help us achieve, is doing to us as a society. The author terms it our “hollowing out as human beings”. Read more
Feb
3
In the last quarter of 2002, LG Electronics and a few other computer makers introduced a line of PCs into the Indian computer market. Nothing new - except that these PCs came pre-installed with Linux. My initial reaction was one of delight and euphoria! Perhaps 2003 would indeed be the Year of the Linux Desktop - and that India was where the seed of that revolution was being sown! Read more