Posted on Tue 17 April 2007 in geek
I only noticed Desk Bar when I was installing Ubuntu on my new work machine. It's dam useful. It provides pretty much everything I wanted from Beagle plus an easy way to launch all sorts of queries and applications. I particularly like the way it integrates with your del.icio …
Posted on Thu 29 March 2007 in geek
The FSF released the third (and final?) draft of the GPLv3 yesterday. The current GPL is a seminal document that has arguably done more to enable the free software ecosystem than any other software license. It's the default license I apply to software I release.
The GPLv3 draft however is …
Posted on Fri 23 March 2007 in geek
Of course the down side of being away from your desk for 2 days (plus the time I spent preparing) is the inevitable pile-o-work. Unfortunately it's just been one crisis after another so I haven't really had a nice calm day yet (hence the lateness of posting). In fact I'm …
Posted on Fri 16 March 2007 in geek
Having mentioned my GPL TV the other day I feel I should point out the quick response from Panasonic. They pointed me to a website where the GPL components of the software can be downloaded. Now granted it's just a bunch of tarballs so there is not a recipe for …
Posted on Wed 14 March 2007 in geek
As I was idly flicking through the menus on my TH42PX60 I discovered something unexpected under the Software Update menu's. There was a curious menu item called "Software License" which prompted the following email:
" I noticed that the License display on my Panasonic TH42PX60 displayed the Gnu General Public License …