June 23rd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, linux/unix, notes, technology
Hewlett-Packard has released the source code of AdvFS under the GNU General Public License. AdvFS is an advanced file system (with features such as snapshots and storage pools) used by the company’s high end Tru64 UNIX operating system.
This probably means that HP does a lot of business with Linux, and that there really is a [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, link tips, notes, politics
Carlin, who died at the age of 71, was an American author, comedian and actor known for his dislike of taboos and defence of Free Speech.
A recording of his Seven Dirty Words monologue, which after being aired by a radio broadcaster caused a 1978 American Supreme Court ruling establishing that the F.C.C. can regulate what [...]
June 22nd, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, link tips, linux/unix, notes, politics
For some time, I’ve wanted another blog with a significantly lower threshold for posting short shutouts of those random links that keep me distracted. The source of this text, the notes section on my personal site, should for a number of reasons be kept relatively tidy and reserved for longer posts with my own, [...]
June 6th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, link tips
June 4th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, link tips, notes, politics, technology
Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party discusses a wiretapping bill called “better adapted military intelligence gathering” that soon may hit hard on the privacy of anyone relying on any electronic communication routed through Sweden. A few quotes from the post:
“At about 20 points in the national information infrastructure network, all traffic [...]
May 31st, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, link tips
I hope manbabies.com proves to be too unhealthy for the human mind to become a longstanding mainstream webtard meme. Image borrowed from post #43.
[via:kung fu grippe]
May 30th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, technology
Google has a fugly new favicon.ico. I liked the old one because of its relative colorfulness, and I find it somewhat puzzling that they chose to use a gray gradient in the new version.
(Image borrowed from Google Blogoscoped)
May 27th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, notes, politics
The Pirate Bay blog has a recent post where the author claims to have received insider knowledge on why a recent verdict from a Swedish district court (tingsrätt) wasn’t appealed against by the defendant, a file sharer.
I quote a part of a translation of the text made by the third commenter on the original post’s [...]
May 26th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, software, technology
Due to recent very unclear, confusing and freedom hating legislation prepared by corrupt and incompetent people and an appeal court decision from a couple of days back, it’s now criminal to break the not very functional CSS copy protection used on most commercial DVD-Video discs. Watching DVDs using GNU/Linux systems is thus not something well [...]
May 25th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, notes, politics
The process of properly establishing the Finnish Pirate Party took a leap forward this weekend.
A blog covering the party’s constitutive meeting in real time has however been suspended by Google/Blogspot. Xuenay, one of the party leaders writes the following on his personal blog:
I just got back from the founding meeting of the Finnish Pirate [...]
