Monthly Archives: March 2006

behold, the eye of blizzard!

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

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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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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mono and patents

Had questions? Get answers.

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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