There is a transcript of RMS Turino speech up on Groklaw. So to follow up on my earlier thoughts about GPLv3 I will look at the transcript of RMS’s speech in Turin and write down what I think about it here, so I can refer to it later and maybe so that other people can [...]
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
This Friday I am invited to give a presentation to the annual conference of Latvian project leader association (LNPVA) about what can these project leaders learn from the free software development process. The core of the presentation will involve asking them to try participating in existing free software projects in order to gather understanding about [...]
If you thought that sticking a supported miniPCI wireless card into a HP nx6110 notebook and getting it to work is trivial or fast or well documented, then you are quite wrong! Let me walk people trough the misery here…
So you have you great HP nx6110 notebook with some kind of Linux installed. For this [...]
Today is shaping up to be a very strange day indeed:
1. Today is my 23rd birthday and still I have no celebration planned as of now. Update: well now three separate parties that combine my bithday and my farewell parties together are planed all over this weekend. Fun.
2. Today my father had a surgery planned [...]
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Two 60 minutes rants rolled into one post, what could be better then that?
Tal Afar – the worst place to live in Iraq for the last 3 years
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/10/60minutes/main1389390.shtml
Tal Afar is the town in Iraq that was the homebase for Al Qaeda for a long time. USA army had captured the town before, but [...]
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
After one of the comments to the Ted’s interview I made a final decision – no more mustache for me. I have head this from my girlfriend. I have heard it from my mom. I have heard it from a random girl on a first date (and last) date. I have even heard it from [...]
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
After less then a month of talks I have been awarded a studentship in Cranfield University, UK. I will spend one year starting on using AI and genetic programming to solve the issue of “Automated evolution of textual adverts” as my Masters in Research. The studies will start on 10th of April, so the next [...]
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
If you really want to send an heated email or write a flaming comment or a blog post about an issue that is important to you, just write it, but do not send it. Do something else. Come back after 3-4 hours. Reread what you have written. Erase the post. If you still feel that [...]
This link is mostly for women doing some sports – you like when you are doing some sports activity and sometimes breasts get in the way of your performance? So this website features a Flash application that lets you choose you cup size, type of activity you plan to do and then shows what type [...]
Many people complain that it is hard for them to read ebooks. The thing is you simply have not seen the best way to do that. The right hardware and software. The right hardware for most people is a Palm. Palms are great organizers and generally a very good portable computing device with nice battery [...]
