Apple recently announced that they are redesigning and redeploying the mainboard for their latest notebook computer, the MacBook Pro. It’s worth putting this in some context so you can see how sad the situation really is for Apple users here. Apple’s hardware is a collection of cherry-picked parts. Apple decides what hardware they want to [...]
Recently some work was done with the GNOME logo and it was clear that the GNOME logo artists had chosen a non-free font—Trebuchet MS—for the text. The same critique applies to all of what were once known as the Microsoft “Core Fonts”. Microsoft no longer distributes these fonts but others have distributed copies under their [...]
Intel releases source code to drive its upcoming video hardware under the MIT license (a non-copylefted free software license). Here’s a list of the hardware you can use with this software (these are the video cards to choose from when buying your next video card, laptop, or desktop machine): Short name Full name 965G G965 [...]
Mark Shuttleworth, owner of Canonical (which publishes the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux system), recently gave an interview to More4 News in which Shuttleworth is said to be a “rival” to Microsoft. The interview is available exclusively in Windows Media. In order to see the interview on Ubuntu GNU/Linux one must run an i386-compatible build of Ubuntu [...]
For years I’ve hosted Digital Citizen on WEFT 90.1 FM in Champaign, Illinois, first during overnight programming and then during primetime. I’m leaving WEFT and hosting my final episode of Digital Citizen there tonight. Bad managerial decisions have compelled me to leave the station. It’s been my privilege to bring you news about what’s going [...]
In the past Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales has been quite vocal about using exclusively free and open codecs for Wikipedia. One would think that this extends to media storage and broadcast as well: The previous Wikimania was broadcast online in Ogg Theora+Vorbis (a free and open video and audio codec playable on all platforms through a [...]
Molly Ivins urges her readers to get Bill Moyers into Democratic Party debates so that Moyers can not only show them what it [a spine] looks like and indeed what it is, but also how people respond to it. A guiding unstated principle of her article is that the Democrats can be reformed from within. [...]
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