Archive for the 'Open Platforms' Category

Canadian Net Neutrality: cease and desist to Bell Canada

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Legal precedent states that your ISP is a Common Carrier. This means that they are not responsible for policing what kind of packets they deliver to your house, nor do they have any right to go poking around in the packets delivered to you. So, if you want to read the political views of an ousted dissonant your ISP is not responsible for enforcing that rule. Their role is to get the information from one place to another, with neither interest nor responsibility for the content.

Posted in Small Business, Open Platforms, Canadian Life, Canadian Competitiveness, TorCamp | 1 Comment »

So, no Slingbox for Linux, but how about a VM for the WINE install?

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Anyone fancy bundling up Andrew Butkus’ Singbox on WINE solution as operating system vmware (or maybe xen) image?

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I bought an EeePC for the road

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Technology marches on, smaller, faster, cheaper.
This is especially pertinant at the ultralight end of laptops. My Asus EeePC is a diminutive (7″) laptop running Xandros, a windows-look-alike version of Debian Linix, had a 4GB solid state drive, built in wifi and webcam. The cheaper ones (surf models) don’t have webcams. Here’s the http://wiki.eeeuser.com/eee_hardware_faq
It’s […]

Posted in Open Platforms, I.T. | 1 Comment »

External USB Video card for PS3? RSX workaround?

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

I have a PS3 that I “won” for talking at Office 2.0. I don’t really play games - no spare time. And their’s no emulator to let the PS3 run Wii games, yet. So what do I use the PS3 for? Running Yellow Dog Linux as a general purpose home print and file server […]

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