This is a response to my friend Matt's take on Novell's work with OpenOffice. I had some trouble posting there, so I'll post it here.

This is definitely a Good Thing(tm) for MS. Switching formats on the new version (Office 2007) is one reason for existing Office users not …

Interesting move by MS to license the rights to create fancy new office 2007 UIs. The one exception is that you can't use the ui in a competing product [ read OpenOffice ].

This just seems silly to me, but hey you gotta protect the cash cow somehow...

So what happens when …

So, last night I tried installing Beryl (since AIGLX and Beryl are now in gentoo portage). It seems that the beryl fork of compiz is going well (I wrote about xgl/compiz's (slow) development models a while back).

But even though the community has taken this very promising project and …

I assume most have seen the Apple switch ads. So being the dork I was, I wondered what a Linux person would look like, if he was invited to the meeting of this odd twosome. Well after two or three years of trying with one person I'm finally going to …

There is an interesting thread in the bazaar-ng mailing list going on right now. Anyway, to make a long story short (and save you from reading ~90 posts in the thread), Linus (of Linux/git fame) said the following concerning BitKeepr which I found quite insightful. (Over a year ago …

I was able to attend Alex's presentation of Python 2.2 through 2.5 last night. Alex can be a passionate speaker at times, and is very knowledgeable. He went over most of the changes in 2.5 in pretty good detail.

Part of the fun of listening to Alex …

I recently made a list of things to do to improve ones python coding abilities for a co-worker. One of the suggestions I gave him (besides writing actual python code) was to read other's code (hopefully it's good code). So my question to you python folk is what code would …

A few years back we attended a budgeting seminar given by a wealthy Palo Altoan lawyer and his wife. I don't remember much, but I remember his wife saying that she would never buy anything with a prominent logo on it. It was an interesting idea (I admit I kind …

Here's a quick command line version based on this blog entry, but containing some steps that it doesn't cover. (I've done this twice in the past month or so, so I thought I'd share the joy)

SSHFS is an adaption of FUSE. FUSE, for those who don't know, allows filesystems …

I seem to have no end of networking issues recently.

Last night, Andrea had to reboot an Acer 5003 laptop to do some online banking in Internet Explorer. The machine hibernated. When I rebooted in Linux this morning, the ethernet failed to work.

I rmmod'd the module (sis900) and modprobed …