From Out There

Continuing from my weirdly popular Windows 7 mini-review (someone actually read that? It’s a strange feeling for a blogging hermit like me) I’m trying to bang together a few articles about th...

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Note: This is a cross-post from my personal blog. I’m a bit late to the party (ow, that one hurt) on this, but it’s fun to see none the less. If you’re an Ubuntu or Debian user, you might k...

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Note: This is a cross-post from my personal blog. I was curious to see what the final Windows 7 release feels like. Remember, I’m a hardcore Free Software activist, but I’m also a gamer. And ...

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I have the honor of being in the jury of the CH Open Source Awards 2009, organized by /ch/open. If you’re a Free Software/Open Source/FOSS/FLOSS (you get the idea) project from Switzerland, app...

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Cross-post from my personal page. Carrumba writes that he has received permission to publish the source code of the Bundestrojaner. This trojan horse was built under contract from the Swiss gover...

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Cross-blogging from my personal blog. Remember the 90s, when Microsoft had illegally established a dominant position in the browser market and the dominant browser was MSIE? You might think that ...

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While Switzerland’s people can see nothing wrong with the scandalous acceptance of MSOOXML as an ISO standard, Norway sees it differently. Perhaps that’s because Norway is more successful in ...

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I was going mad fixing a bug in a very convoluted barcode printing feature in the equipment management system we’re developing. After a while I gave up — we must have triggered something deep...

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I have taken a vow around September 1999, and it is sometimes hard to explain to people, so I’ll write it down here. I said to myself, "From this day on, I shall not use non-free software or se...

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Oh yes, I broke down and bought a Full HD TV. What can you do, they’re practically giving them away after the Christmas price hike. And I have other excuses! Old set? A 16 inch one. Plus, I had...

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