Today I missed the breakfast and thus had no chance of doing much for the rest of the day I was contacted by Elina – assistant of Valdis Dombrovskis (a MEP from Latvia) to schedule a meeting. We agreed on a time and I spend rest of the day familiarising with the plan for the [...]
This post and several next posts are summaries of the week that I spent in Brussels helping FFII to fight against software patents. I wrote the blog items in my new, shiny Palm Tungsten and then HotSynced and copy-pasted to the blog. Morning: it is easier for me to not sleep trough the night then [...]
ui:suggestion-20050320 [ThunarWiki] Nautilus should propably do and lie under a rock for a while. Thunar shall be our seer!
Symphony Operating System It is becoming popular today to have a whack at Mezzo. We all are busy, so let’s head straight to the case: * It is quite unclear how the ‘corner targets’ should work and how the workspace should actually be layered. I suggest such scheme: – bottom layer would be similar to [...]
Ian Murdock’s Weblog » Open source and the commoditization of software Ian starts with a history of commodisation in computer industry and continues about how dangerouse is the tactic employed by RedHat (to redefine ‘Linux’ as a platform). In the end Ian describes the business model that is used at Progeny. I must agree with [...]
Today i had to finally buy some new clothes of the respectable kind before leaving to Brussels on Monday so I went into a shopping spree (as most geeks I hate shopping, but must is a must). At first I terrorised all shops in the city to find a suit with maximum amount of natural [...]
I finally can tell the word on what I’ve been working last serveral weeks.No, it is not Nokia 770. I wish, that’s one hell of a beautifully beast. I’ve been working on http://www.economic-majority.com/testimony/. If you are a company based in Europe and would suffer from software patents, contact us – we need your help to [...]
I wonder what is the problem with my network recently – whatever I download, it has corruptions in it. After I download something with BitTorrent – some pieces must be redownloaded. If I use HTTP, MD5SUMS fail.Hmm, maybe my new shiny RAM is at fault ;(
Ha, I am now officially happy – my Palm Tungsten T has arrived from eBay. I wonder, how long will I keep admiring its wonderful simplicity until I (try to) install Linux on it
Got a paycheck today for one sidejob. Felt a need to celebrate. Bought 512 Mb RAM in addiction to existing 256 Mb. I must say two things: * RAM is cheap these days * Get out of way …. I’m flying here! Finally I can open 10+ Firefox tabs, run skype, GIMP, OpenOffice with a [...]
