The GNU General Public License is a free software license (one of many) created to protect the four essential freedoms of software users. Those freedoms are:
Freedom 0. the freedom to use the software for any purpose,
Freedom 1. the freedom to change the software to suit your needs,
Freedom 2. the freedom to share the software with [...]
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I recently read this story on Slashdot:
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Shaming Fat Gamers
The idea is that Microsoft wants to create a system whereby it will gather physical statistics on a user and alter the game play around those characteristics. For example, as the article mentioned, an obese player may be cut off from playing. I [...]
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When BETA testing Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), I noticed that the whole boot process wasn’t so fast. This was primarily due to Grub 2 hanging for nearly 35 seconds each boot.
I haven’t the time to figure out what Grub is trying to do in that amount of time, but I did notice a solution. I have [...]
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For security purposes, I don’t run sshd on the default port (22). This gave me some problems when attempting to use the command ssh-copy-id. Ideally, you’d expect the following to work:
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ssh-copy-id -p XXXX -i ‘~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub’ username@host
However, that didn’t do anything but output an error:
Bad port ‘umask 077; test -d .ssh || mkdir .ssh [...]
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This is an issue that has irritated me enough that I feel I should post my work-around. On Ubuntu (I’m not sure since what version – I’m currently using 9.04 Jaunty), I’ve noticed that every once in a while, gnome-screensaver would hang when I tried to log back in. Let me clarify a little. When [...]
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For a while, I was having a problem on my Ubuntu server. After creating a user, I noticed that tab completion didn’t work properly. In fact, it went so far as to output an error:
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“ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and Mexico, with Canada set to join any day now.” – More information here
The name of the treaty sounds innocent enough, but what are they not telling you? This is [...]
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Tagged: Free Software, FSF, liberties
Some time ago, while using Gentoo, I modified the kernel to stop a wireless problem I had been having and forgot to make a post about it. Now, I’ve switched by to Ubuntu (didn’t have time to administer Gentoo and compile everything, and I missed Ubuntu). Luckily, version 8.10 BETA was released just a few [...]
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Ah – the weather in NY is finally starting to look up. I’m sure it’ll be a while yet before it is consistantly warm, however it gives me a wonderful glimpse of how things will be. In spring/summer, the quality of my work (as well as quantity) tends to increase. Hopefully this means MyCustomBB will [...]
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A few days ago, I received my FSF membership goodies in the mail. Among these things were a bootable GNU/Linux membership card / CD-ROM, utility flash drive, a CD containing the source code for the files contained on the membership card, a small collection of articles and a very generous amount of creative stickers [...]
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Tagged: Free Software, FSF, GNU
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