Since the release of Ubuntu (6.06.1) “Dapper Drake” there have been some great improvements in support for wireless and broadcom chipsets. You no longer need to configure ndiswrapper for wireless support. This supports *MOST* broadcom chipsets. I have only run into one model that does not work. To quickly install and configure support for your… Read More »
Novell and Microsoft’s software patent agreement betrays the rest of the Free Software community, including the very people who wrote Novell’s own system, for Novell’s sole financial benefit. Join Bruce Perens in signing an open letter to Novell’s CEO Ron Hovsepian. Sign the petition: http://techp.org/petition/show/1 ..or add your vote to Digg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Protest_the_Microsoft_Novell_Patent_Agreement_an_Open_Letter_to_Novell
Earlier today I ran into an Ubuntu machine that was a bit out of date (to my standards anyway) so I thought I would upgrade it. The machine was running Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and I thought I would upgrade to Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). Well, learn from my mistakes and don’t be lazy about… Read More »
I see that there are a number of posts today concerning voting. I hate to completely overkill the topic but I wanted to share my thoughts on the current voting situation. I voted. I voted for Pete Ashdown. I’m proud of it. The voting machines were quick, but after watching the “Hacking The Vote” documentary… Read More »
Tonite and into tomorrow this site will be getting a very much needed facelift. If you experience some oddities this is why. Please be patient. I’m trying to update the site to better layout the content to make things easier for me & easier for you to find the information you’re looking for. I hope… Read More »
Another failure for Microsofts WGA. I thought it was interesting that it is now having troubles in the other direction. Not only being too anal & finding false positives but also not finding blatantly illegal copies. Again, this “feature” was the final straw for me. I had a second partition for Windows but no more.… Read More »
Out of curiosity I googled myself tonight to see what wonders I might find. I was surprised at how many mentions of myself come up. I am directly connected with almost every result for three pages. One that surprised me however was for the AllTray July 6, 2006 changelog: Jul 6, 2006: Jochen Baier <[email protected]>… Read More »
From the Pete Ashdown for Senate mailing list: —– Saturday July 29, marks 100 days until Election Day. Pete needs our support! Utah Voters will gather at Washington Park in Parley’s Canyon to show their support. Mix, mingle and join the effort to win this November! What: Democratic Family Reunion – Support for Pete Ashdown!… Read More »
Google’s latest project is an open source repository similar to SourceForge. Apparently it is not meant to compete with the SourceForge project, but work in a similar fashion. …however that works. Google’s goal is to see what they can do to provide an alternative for open source projects. This project is supposed to be specifically… Read More »
I recently contacted my senators & congressmen concerning the EFF, net neutrality & related. I got, as expected, a few canned email responses from some and today recieved a physical letter from the offices of Orrin Hatch. I wanted to share this and get some reaction. Remember, this is the same Orrin Hatch who believes… Read More »