Monthly Archives: May 2006

A dose of sanity for software patents, but just a little one

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

Dell’s win over DE Technologies is a good sign, though there’s still a great deal to be nervous about. According to C|Net: A federal district court judge in Virginia concluded last week that parts of the patent, issued to a … Continue reading →

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Google Notebook

Posted on May 19, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

I have one primary complaint about Google — namely, that Google and the Google services that I use regularly didn’t exist when I was in college. Google Notebook, in particular, would have come in very handy when I was researching … Continue reading →

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One of these days…

Posted on May 19, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

Someday I’m going to sit down and write a Thunderbird extension that checks a message for the word “attachment” (and variants thereof, “attachments,” “attached,” etc.) and — if no files are attached — asks the user if they really want … Continue reading →

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Hmmm… I wonder why?

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

Short piece over on C|Net about Cisco, Qualcomm, and others opposing Net neutrality. What’s lightly touched on in the article should be spelled out a little more blatantly — i.e., that Cisco et. al. are suppliers to telecom companies and … Continue reading →

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The GParted live CD

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

The great thing about Web publishing is its immediacy — I can research and write up an article and have it published the same day, which does happen for “breaking” news or timely stories. And then there’s this feature on … Continue reading →

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A short Apple rant

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

As Apple moves deeper into Intel territory, they’ve been holding back code for parts of the OS, most notably the kernel — because Apple is concerned that people might *gasp* run Mac OS X on an unapproved hardware platform. I … Continue reading →

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Running Firefox on 64-bit systems

Posted on May 17, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

This is something that’s given me a few headaches — running 32-bit Firefox on my Ubuntu Breezy system on AMD64. The Moz folks, in their infinite wisdom, only offer a 32-bit version of Firefox for Linux. Ubuntu Breezy includes a … Continue reading →

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