Category Archives: Rant
The GPLv3 in Plain English – The Parts Microsoft Worries About
Awhile back I read the small print about Microsoft’s Moonlight software distribution. It specifically mentions the stuff they don’t like about the GPLv3. Interesting. Let’s see what they are worried about. “Any other license or contract that includes terms similar … Continue reading
Win My Copy Of Unreal Tournament 3 Collector Edition
Fsckin.com is giving away a copy of Unreal Tournament 3 Collector’s Edition. Just make a comment on this post with a valid email address and I’ll randomly select the winner. I’ll have it to your door by Christmas. Want to … Continue reading
Fedora 8 : At This Pace, Linux On The Desktop Is Going Nowhere Fast
Fedora, in their infinite wisdom, decided it would be a great idea to make it difficult to install proprietary codecs, drivers, and much more due to vague licensing issues that may exist. Let’s talk about what doesn’t work by default … Continue reading
The Email Gabe Newell From Valve Software Never Responded To
I wrote a letter to Gabe Newell about a month back, a few days after I published an article about running the Orange Box using WINE. He personally requested feedback during the Developer Commentary within the game, and as I … Continue reading
Comcast Responds To The Million Dollar Question… And Lies Again!
I received an email from a reader who did a little social engineering and was able to obtain a bulletin sent out to Comcast employees. It has a FAQ section which answers for people who specifically read the AP article, which … Continue reading
Trying out Gutsy Gibbon Part 2
I ran the following commands (again) sudo sed -e ‘s/\sfeisty/ gutsy/g’ -i /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 12:12 AM Started downloading. 12:30 Installing all the packages. Downloading from the Gutsy repositories at 6MB/sec didn’t take a long time. … Continue reading
Now I see why people like Ubuntu.
Well I tried ArchLinux for all of the amount of time it took to install the distribution. It’s not fantastic. Seems like the community-developed package directory is by FAR more superior to Portage, and silly things like adding repository URLs … Continue reading
Back to the future… again!
Ok so first things first. Gentoo is really just hot garbage wrapped in… more garbage. Here are a few reasons why: