Tag: free_software
Merry Christmas
December 26th, 2008, No Comments
Another Christmas has come and gone. On Christmas Eve Susan cooked a pot roast in the traditional style I grew up with. The meat came from a small order we placed with Dominion Farms, a local organic farming operation. All their animals are fed natural diets, no hormones or antibiotics. The meat was really tasty, [...]
Moralizing about Free Software
January 15th, 2008, No Comments
Over on robots.net, I posted a link to an interesting Steven Pinker article about the human moral instinct. Aside from the obvious aspects of the article relevant to cognitive science and AI, it struck me today that the “moralizing trigger” Pinker describes may help explain the difference between the Open Source and Free Software movements. [...]
Slashdot 10th Anniversary Party
October 28th, 2007, No Comments
On Friday night, I attended the Slashdot 10th anniversary party. Well, I attended the one in Dallas, anyway. There were others all over the world. It was a fairly uneventful event. For reasons known only to himself, the organizer chose to have it in a small, noisy bar despite many suggestions of better (i.e. bigger, [...]
Object Oriented Programming in C
September 5th, 2007, No Comments
One of the C projects I’m working on needed some object oriented features of the type one would normally use C++ for. I thought it shouldn’t be too hard to do some minimal OO stuff in C and it turns out there are plenty of examples and complete frameworks out there to help. If you’d [...]
Free Software and Free Music
July 19th, 2007, No Comments
It seems hardly a day goes by lately without reading about some new attack on the performance or sharing of music by the music industry itself. The RIAA is doing a pretty good job of destroying the legacy music industry all by itself. Their latest attempts to shut down Internet radio stations through punative licensing [...]
The Year is off to a Good Start for Free Software
January 5th, 2007, No Comments
Everywhere I look lately, I’m seeing good news about 3D graphics acceleration support for free software users. Since I started collecting numbers last year, the highest glxgears results we’d seen for any free software driver was a little over 3,000 FPS. Now we’re begining to see number for the R300 code that has been added [...]
Bush Lets Microsoft off the Hook
September 6th, 2001, No Comments
I just heard the news about the Bush DoJ reversing its entire campaign to bring Microsoft to justice for its crimes. Weird. While I’m disappointed, this doesn’t come as a complete surprise given Bush’s lousy performance in office so far. This topic has come up often since the election and nearly everyone I’ve talked to [...]
Richard Stallman Comes to Dallas
January 17th, 2001, No Comments
I heard RMS speak at the DFWUUG meeting last night. A lot of other people showed up too, in spite of the cold, wet weather. It’s the first time I’ve seen him in person and he was very much what I expected with a few exceptions. He told the story of the Free Software Foundation, [...]
