FOSS
a p2p desktop
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 [...]
Google is a new proprietary competitor to KDE
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 [...]
Scroogle warns about DoubleClick/AdSense cookies
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 [...]
vdr and the audiorecorder plugin
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Wikia search
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 [...]
Debian and freenx
It has been years ago that I have last done a test nxserver installation, but yesterday I have decided to give a kvm virtual machine with freenx a try, since I like to use my Desktop at home over vpn even on small internet connections (where mounting a home on nfs is too slow (sth. [...]
GSoC 2
This subject is complex. If you expect simple answers, go and find them somewhere else.
As I have known before, I have been misunderstood in many ways with my last post. Therefore I would like to do a small analysis on my criticism and some additions to get the most important points clearer and finally I would like to ask why I have been misunderstood. Hopefully this will be enlightening.
GSoC
It is time again. After the growing number of projects of Google Sommer of Code during the last years Google spends more money than ever to support open source. After having read articles, mostly blogs, about the success stories, new members of the community and the great support of open-source through Google, I have always missed one point. I haven’t found a bit of criticism.