Christopher Blizzard

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Month: March, 2006

behold, the eye of blizzard!

David Zeuthen got his new Mac today and it has a built in camera.

the opportunity costs of java’s license

Java’s not open source. Everyone knows it. Sun thinks the current situation is good enough. Scott Dietzen (ex-CTO of BEA) doesn’t think so. Peter Yared doesn’t think so. So instead of just giving reasons of why they should do it, let’s instead talk about the cost of them not doing [...]

one laptop per child and mobile phones

I’ve been seeing more and more articles that run along this vein:
Ultra-low cost mobiles to steal thunder of the ‘$100 laptop’
A quick search reveals a huge number of other articles and blog entries.
I think it’s incredibly revealing to read all of these articles and comments from the movers and shakers. Not because of what [...]

mono and patents

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fc5, suspend and networkmanager

So FC5 is finally out. Rejoice! I’ve been running it on my laptop now for a while and I’m incredibly happy with it. There are a few notables in this release:
o NetworkManager works really, really well for me. I complained about problems with the airo before, but the problems I was [...]

memory usage in mozilla

Matthew Allum and Daniel Berrange have been doing some cool work to try and figure out how much pixmap memory and system memory that Mozilla (Firefox and Epiphany) have been using. There’s a discussion on the topic on the olpc-software list. Matthew has posted some code for his server-side patches for measuing pixmap [...]

olpc operating system

For the last couple of months people inside of Red Hat have been working hard to build out the required infrastructure to build the OLPC operating system based on all of the good code that we have in Fedora. We’ve got a page up on the fedoraproject.org wiki as well as a mailing list [...]

apply pinky to corner of mouth

…and say millions.
First, a little background. Hi. My name is Christopher Blizzard and I sit on the board of the Mozilla Corporation. This is the wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, which was created a short while ago. Before the creation of MoCo, I sat on the board of the [...]

new olpc laptop images

There are some new olpc laptop images up on the laptop.org site. I got to see the blue one on thursday. It was a demo model, but it was quite nice looking and had a good solid feel to it. I’m not sure if that’s because it was a demo model or [...]

compiz on aiglx

Over the weekend, Kristian managed to get compiz running on aiglx. It didn’t require that many changes, which is a good sign. He’s got it running on his i830-based laptop and it’s reasonably performant. His post contains a lot more information.