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Mike Gualtieri of Forrester pontificates on the swan song of the venerable open source computer kernel Linux, declaring its hopes for world domination to be “game over”. Poor Linux. It struggled so hard to dominate the world. It was the little open source engine that could, but it didn’t. It never even came close to [...]
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Linux is dead? Long live Linux!
October 30th, 2011 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Asshats, Computers 
Tags: android, apocalyptic propecies, computers, Linux, ubuntu 
16 Comments »Astrologers pick a fight with open-source software and history itself
October 9th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Via a pingback ostensibly made by Astrology-X-Files (and maybe even Curtis Manwaring himself, no less!), this news about Astrolabe at Tech Dirt, where they’ve just filed suit against the maintainers of the public-domain Olson time zone database that is used in just about every open-source time zone related project imaginable:
Posted in Computers, Copyright, Pseudoscience Tags: astrology, computers, legal system, Linux, open source 22 Comments »Linux Pirattitude!
September 19th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Today be Interrrrnational Talk like a Pirate Day. Yaaarrrrr! As be th’ norm fer this blog, I must post a little nonsense t’ mark th’ occasion. If ye’re usin’ Linux, th’ easiest way t’ convert a chunk o’ text into somethin’ respectable be t’ use th’ pirate filter. On Ubuntu (and prrrrrobably other Debian-based distrrrros), [...]
Hey Elon: never mind Mars for now. Put us in a car first!
April 27th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, vows in this clip to put humans on Mars within 20 years. I’d love to know why this is his priority, given that Tesla has never had a profitable quarter and has sold less than a thousand cars. They recalled ~460 of them due to a backup 12v wire [...]
First impressions on the iPhone 4
April 22nd, 2011 Jason Thibeault Yes, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, I’ve gone over to the dark side. I now own a piece of Apple tech. Okay, it’s not my first, where I got donated an old eMac to play with a while back (the ones that blow capacitors out all the time — meaning it was a time bomb [...]
How Thunderbird’s Lightning color scheme under Ubuntu pissed me off (and how to fix it)
December 30th, 2010 Jason Thibeault This is a bit of a UI complaint, moreso than a coding one. Fair cop. Most programmers aren’t designers, and most programmers have a mistaken idea that all programmers can do design. Mozilla Thunderbird is an excellent e-mail client, though with the advent of very good webmail clients, the e-mail client is slowly moving into [...]
Off That by Baba Brinkman
March 27th, 2010 Jason Thibeault The so-called Rationalist’s Anthem. I could get behind it. It’s a Jay-Z rap rip-off, but like the song says, it’s evolution, right? Hat tip to Atheist Media Blog and, of course, Baba Brinkman. He also has a rap album about evolution that you can stream from his site, though I can’t get the blasted thing [...]
Gwibber Ascendant
March 16th, 2010 Jason Thibeault I love Twitter entirely too much. You get tiny snippets of insight into other people’s minds. You get a great big meme factory where new hashtags are born and die every minute. And you get instant or delayed communication with anyone else on the service, depending on your intent — sometimes you can talk to [...]
Kino and Stilgar
January 18th, 2010 Jason Thibeault I’ve been trying to figure out Kino: a movie editor for Linux. It’s a bit hard to get used to, but here is a quick little video of Stilgar exploring around my wedding stuff on the table. At the very least we figured out how to get music to play over the video. Isn’t he [...]
An ebook reader I’m actually lusting after
November 1st, 2009 Jason Thibeault After being recently turned off of the Kindle by Amazon’s fast-and-loose copyright policies, I thought I’d have given up on ebook lust entirely. Then along came the Nook, by Barnes and Noble. Two screens, an SD slot, PDF support, LENDING SUPPORT (ye gads! How novel, being able to temporarily give a book to someone else!) [...]
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