as i have promised last friday i am writing about a general problem one has to face when talking about desktop vs. web services war (e.g. google apps). it basically boils down that no desktop has yet stand up to integrate the internet deeply. sure you have clients for all kind of servers and you [...]
Now it finally happened. Not hat I have not talked about the Google problem in the past, but now it is really obvious that they do not follow the FOSS-Desktop development, but rather try to get everybody store as much information on the web (crawled and advertised by them) as possible. Google Chrome OS [...]
If you absolutely don’t care about criticism on Google, don’t continue reading or don’t complain about political stuff;-)
Google might not be the worst thing on the planet, but my recent criticms have often been rejected to be speculative. Lately after the wikia search closed down, I have found out about scroogle scraper proxy, which is [...]
I have a Technotrend DVB-C 1501 card in my home server since half a year, but it stopped receiving epg data correctly after some time (provider changed channels, drivers are from the v4l upstream repository…) and stayed there unusable until I have started to seriously fix it on Tuesday.
I have replaced vdradmin by the live-plugin [...]
Please excuse the length of the article. It has been in the making for quite some time now. I still think the issue is worth the length
I’ve thought about this during the last weeks and have come to a certain conception, which might deal with most of its issues. But before talking about [...]
Since I have heard from http://search.wikia.com some time ago, I have checked the site from time to time and had a look at the results. I have tried to get away from google search before, but ask.com or yahoo have just not been very good for me (and yahoo is not really better for your [...]