Very sad to see that Scroogle.org has been brought down. The little “Don’t Be Evil” graphic wouldn’t load on our home page so we investigated. I loved Google back in 1998. Its colours were cool and it worked. But then I found out that they are not straight and have many conflicts of interest at …
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Category:6 Information and Communication Technology
ACTA is more dangerous than PIPA or SOPA
ACTA — a global treaty — could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties – even prison sentences – against …
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Protest US “anti-piracy” moves
The US Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) are proposed to be debated by Congress in a week. The legislation would allow the Justice Department and content owners to seek court orders requiring search engines to block results associated with piracy. The bill is too broad and so badly written …
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LibreOffice, OpenOffice and Oracle
Once upon a time OpenOffice, or Ooo (OpenOffice.Org) as it became known was the leader in open source office productivity software. I loved it. It was loved. Then one day a cunning suitor, Oracle, offered to give gold to the very attractive, but not rich, Ooo. Ooo agreed to become part of Oracle. But Oracle …
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Facebook has joined Microsoft and Google: ogres of the internet
A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this because Facebook is based in the EU in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then Facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files. What …
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Skype on x64 linux
From http://albertopassalacqua.com/?p=641 Before installing the Skype RPM you find on Skype website, you have to install the following packages, if not already present on your system: * libasound2-32bit * xorg-x11-libXv-32bit * xorg-x11-libs-32bit * libqt4-32bit * libqt4-x11-32bit * libpng12-0-32bit
Yahoo.src for seamonkey
Seamonkey users might find this useful till 2.1 comes out. Copy the text below to a text editor and save as yahoo.src in searchplugins in your profile directory. Restart seamonkey. # Yahoo Search Plug-in for Mozilla # # Created by Robert Fernandes (e-mail address removed by casey1992), Matthew A. McGuigan (e-mail address removed by casey1992), …
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Ricoh r5u870 webcam
For debian (Ubuntu etc) packages go here: http://download.tuxfamily.org/arakhne/pool/universe/r/ricoh-webcam-r5u870/ Once you’ve installed the two files, check your home directory for a directory r5u87x and read the readme … 🙂 For rpm go to: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/11802631/dir/opensuse/com/r5u87x-loader-0.2.0-11.3.x86_64.rpm.html
What Is the Meaning Of Life? 1 or 0?
So, I’m in the middle of resurrecting my computer after it suffered a fatal bout of Windowsitis, and while letting off steam to my dad have some unexpected insights based on an IT metaphor. I was testing three operating systems (OpenSuse, Kubuntu, Vista) and a virtualisation tool. It was glitching at the multiboot setup – …
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Food, medicine or software for Africa?
from Linux Magazine.