Proton: Why Business and Nationalism Won’t Mix
I’m writing this in response to a recent comment by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Proton. I don’t know how Tun Dr Mahathir sees (or saw) the national car industry as a politician, so I’m…
Slackware 10.2 Released
Slackware users rejoice! The long awaited Slackware 10.2 has been released. The official announcement can be read here. You might also want to check out the changelog. You can get Slackware Linux 10.2…
Google Blogsearch
Google has added another feature to it’s arsenal of web tools; Google Blog Search. This search engine wants to help you find blogs on your favourite topics. Results are pretty targetted… now…
Shareholders Gives Green Light for Macromedia & Adobe Merger
Adobe and Macromedia now have the shareholder votes necessary to complete their proposed US$3.4 billion merger. This CRN article has interesting observations and predictions on the fates and destinies of some applications in the merged…
WordPress 1.5.2 Released
This new WP version can be downloaded at the usual location. Fixes are listed here. Upgrading instructions can be read here. Basically, I covered everything in this post… but if you still want to read…
Indonesian Morons: Stop Burning Your Own Forests
Every fsckin’ year, them stupid Indons keep doing the same shit: clearing forests by burning them. Consequentially, the whole region is enveloped by thick haze, but this year’s haze is…
PageRank Recalculated
It seems that there has been updates to the PageRank calculations. First and foremost, I noticed that HTNet itself now has a PR of 5… Yay! I then checked some of the other blogs…
ESR: GPL Not Needed
ESR: “We Don’t Need the GPL Anymore” by Federico Biancuzzi — During a recent Brazilian conference on free and open source software, hacker, writer, and speaker Eric Raymond stated that open source would…