(via Groklaw)

“Open Source Licensing - Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law”.

Is a book available here. With the large collection of licenses out there, between the GPL, LGPL, Creative Commons and all the others, it is at times hard to keep a track of them all and understand them all.

I am hoping that reading this book will help me to understand some of the intricacies involved, and may also perhaps help some of you out too!

…a USB Cup Warmer & 4 Port Hub

You know how it goes. You make that cup of hot goodness and sit down at your computer. Time passes by and you finally remember your cuppa and don’t you know it, it’s stone cold. Don’t resort to making another cup. Be less wasteful. This great gadget will ensure your drinks don’t go cold to start with.

Small Hours

When all other machines are silent and the wires generally down, the radio assumes its primary role. At such times the signal sounds perfectly true.

The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

He’s rewriting it…

(via the sneeze)

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a racist or anything. I like cabbage. I just don’t want my boy dating one.

Panda3D - Free 3D Engine Panda3D was developed by Disney for their massively multiplayer online game, Toowntown. It was released as free software in 2002. Panda3D is now developed jointly by Disney and Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center

Very interesting to see that such a big corporation as Disney was willing to contribute source code from their stock so to speak. Whats also very interesting is the license terms, do not recall having seen such terms before… Looks like an exciting project though!

GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem (via)

GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium

Thanks goes to Darragh who sent me this link (via)

Thought it was excellent

“The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public…. “

The kind of site that screams of the need for bb!

The range of content seems truly amazing, and with 1 petabyte of data, there’s gotta be something interesting in there.

Bit of fun with the Gimp…

One feature that was missing from Firefox that I had grown rather accustomed to with Opera was the ability to select a url on a webpage and from the right click context menu select ‘Go to URL’. I recently installed the ‘Mouse Gestures 1.0′ extension, and accidentally found out the following.

If you have a plaintext url selected on a webpage, and go to create a new tab using the mouse gesture ‘U’ (up), the selected url gets opened in the new tab!

Very handy methinks….

Another useful extension, is the ‘Paste and Go’ extension, which allows you copy a selected url, then paste and go in the address bar.

They are two of my current favourites, purely from their practical point of view.

Keeping tabs on your dog’s interaction with other dogs, is main story behind this article. You can see part of the advantage behind such a system, but also part of the problems.

NewsForge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Our company, the leader in world-changing technology, is about to debut a revolutionary new open source-based solution that will change the IT marketplace paradigm forever. We expect wide acceptance among businesses ranging from Global 1000 companies to work-at-home network marketers, not to mention millions of individual computer users.

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Update: Link was previously incorrect - apologies - now fixed

This article, Behind the lens, is an interview my father gave to a journalist of one of the local papers. The concluding article is not online yet, but I will add the link it when it becomes available.

Reading the words reminded me of anecdotes that I have heard as I was growing up. Eventhough I had heard perhaps all of them, it was not until I saw them collected here in these articles that I realised what it was exactly that my father had gone through in order to earn a wage.

I hope one day to be able to collect more anecdotes, or as he likes to call them, chapters, into some form of collection.

Excellent!!! YaGoohoo!gle

Reading a computer security mailing list recently subscribed to, I came across this rather good rant, about something we must have had thought that we should have said, or maybe even have said, at some time reading mailing lists, forums and blogs, but perhaps not quite as elegantly sharp!

“Before you send another email, I ask that you strap on a clue-bag, chew on it for a while, really /digest/ the clue, then fire up that mail client. It’ll be a good thing.”

If per chance, you are the author of those lines, then fairplay to you. If per chance, you were in the receipt of thoses lines, I understand - its happened to many of us. Does technology, make us feel that because we wish to/can become competent at/with it, that we can be boorish“aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude”, or that we can expect to have all questions answered at the drop of hat?

All the same, still liked the line…