Today was the second day of FOSS. I'll jot down my observations from today.

The first talk I attended was from LWN's Jonathon Corbet. He discussed recent happenings in the Linux kernel. He noted that the development cycle of the kernel was becoming more "professional", with two week cycles for …

I made it to India intact. I haven't really slept much in the past 48 hours, so forgive the typos. The FOSS conference is being held outside of the palace of Bangalore. The schedule got kind of messed up and many of the talks were delayed by varying amounts. This …

I've updated SAM to now include a webserver. This brings along with it a new AJAXy interface (I guess this is sort of a followup to my AJAX post, Alex (dojo) and Bob (mochikit) were the only open source people who responded to my requests for comments (one commercial company …

Yes that title is a question not an answer. A short amount of scouring the internet turned up nothing. We recently purchased a Canon S1 camera that takes pretty good mjpeg videos. Our DVD player, the Philips 642 will play divx video, yet I can't seem to convert the mjpeg …

Here's an email exchange I recently had:

Hello- I saw the link to your service today on Slashdot. I'm interested in your photo books, yet I don't have a Windows machine. Are you planning to support firefox anytime soon. If so, you will probably have a new customer. thanks matt …

The recently open sourced (dual licensed ala mySQL) Xara project is interesting. Their FAQ is very frank and straightforward. I like it. The program itself appears to be a combination of vector and bitmap manipulation utilities.

One aspect that I find interesting is that the Xara folks aparently were in …

An update of a project I work on, SAM (Spike Asset Manager) has been released. The major focus of the recent 0.21 release has been to up the number of components it looks for. It now finds 274 common Open Source components.

From the homepage:

Spike Asset Manager (SAM …

I actually don't read many blogs directly. One of the few that I read often is my buddy Matt Asay's (aka Fake Matt).

He's been pontificating for a while over there that the desktop is dead, and the only relevant operating system is the internet. And I guess my recent …

So I fell prey to Apple's marketing, and I bought a Nano for my wife's birthday. It's for her, I promise! (Sadly, the 2 day fedex shipping, turned into almost two weeks. It was stuck in China having a "shipment exception" for over 5 days.

Apple customer service claimed they …

Our 5 year old inkjet printer has been making loud annoying noises and refusing to print midway through a page. So this last weekend I decided to replace it with a laser printer (we only really used color for printing photos, and since 1hour kiosks are common and cheap at …