Links 27/05/2008: GNU/Linux-only ASUS Desktops Come Next Week, WAVE SDK Comes to GNU/Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-27 15:24:07 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-27 15:24:07 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Asus to release [GNU/Linux-based] desktop Eee PC on June 3
- Twisted Pair Adds .NET and Linux to WAVE SDK; Company Broadens Unified Communications Developer Opportunities with Support for Linux Engine and .NET APIs
“This new SDK capability completes our developer ecosystem, allowing both Windows and Linux developers to build applications for WAVE, a framework widely proven in the most rigorous communications environments,” said Tom Guthrie, President and CEO at Twisted Pair Solutions.
- Interview with Jeff Moe: BLAG, linux-libre and More
jebba: I did read his message. I follow gNewSense with one eye, but I haven't looked into Gobuntu at all so I don't have much to say there... Though, at a glance, a merge makes sense.
I published an article about this some time ago.
- Windows vs. Linux: Understanding the Difficulty Divide
- Introducing the Sugar Emulation Live Image 0.01
To create the USB key, you need Fedora -- for now, anyway. Here's a great article describing how to install an ISO onto a USB key.
- KDE4Daily - testing KDE 4.1 with daily updates
KDE4Daily, a virtual machine image of KDE 4 with daily updates was released for KDE 4.1. This gives anyone the opportunity to test the newest KDE 4.1 sanely inside a virtual machine.
- Linux
I have been a windows user from the start and I have fond memories of 3.1 and then 3.11 progressing through each new release until I find myself lumbered with Vista on my desktop PC.
[...]
In the future I predict that Linux will be King, long live the King.
- The Wanky World of Windows
Lie #1: Nothing runs on Linux.
Answer #1: All the programs I need run on Linux. Ubuntu even has a ‘Add/Remove’ option in the ‘Applications’ menu. This lists hundreds of available programs you can download and install for Ubuntu. There is also something called ‘Synaptic Package Manager’, where you can install thousands of things. Anyways, the more people that use Linux, the more applications will be available to Linux users.
Lie #2: Linux is for gurus.
Answer #2: Ubuntu is for human beings! I’m not a guru, and I always use Linux.
Video
- News snippets & Big Buck Bunny aka Peach DVD released!
- Why Hiro is not my hero
Hiro's approach is to prevent fast forwarding or rewinding during ads. Furthermore, the ads are dynamically inserted along with pieces of the show that were omitted from the original file. Once the Hiro software has collected these items, the file will play locally for a few days, after which a new set of ads fetched from the server before it can be played again.
Because everybody will love a good commercial. You will. You must.
- Google says Viacom's suit 'threatens' Net
Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube "threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information" over the Web, YouTube parent Google said in a legal response to the suit.
- YouTube law fight 'threatens net'
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The Register MS Does "Microsoft Says", Fails to Accept XBox is Dying and Slop is a Failure
- The real news today isn't some tweets from Microsoft
- IBM Spammers With LLM Slop Discourage Discussion About IBM Problems and Layoffs
- they would likely not bother had those discussions not hurt IBM's management [...] There is a similar problem this year in IRC
- Pop the Slop Bubble, Don't Ask When It'll Pop or Expect Others to Pop It for You
- It has all along been sold on a lie and it relied a great deal on corrupted (captured) media which played along with deliberate lies because it got paid to do this [...] The slop bubble is similar to the fake-coins bubble
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 68 Out of 200: Based on Their Particulars of Claims, Microsoft's Graveley and Garrett Seem Like the Same Person (Exactly Same Words Used, Sloppily Recycled)
- almost identical (even a description of who they are and how they feel)
- Gartner Group Paid The Register MS. And Now The Register MS is a "Gartner Says" Rag.
- Follow the money
- Microsoft's XBox Exodus Carries on: Corporate VP of Gaming Ecosystem Organization and Corporate VP of XBox Devices and Ecosystem Both Leave Microsoft
- Don't expect what's left of the media to properly report the true scale of the XBox cuts and executive-level departures
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- Google Slop Contains Serious Errors, Google Has Just Been Sued for 1.5 Million Dollars by One Victim of It
- If he wins, the floodgates will open for millions of other people
- Keeping Server Costs Under Control in Age of Zombie-Majority Net
- The Web has become such a sordid mess not just due to chatbots and LLM bots
- People Work for Microsoft Because They Fear No Other Company Would Hire Them
- Why do people still work at Microsoft?
- IBM Seems to be Imitating the European Patent Office's "Young Professionals" (YPs) With Client Innovation Center (CIC), Which is About Mass-Hiring Inexperienced People on Very Low Salaries (Sometimes Unlivable)
- So the future of IBM now is college students without experiences?
- The Register MS is All About MS After the Site Overhaul, Now They Are a Platform of "Microsoft Says"
- They rewrite history for sponsors [...] Microsoft says. Hence, it must be true!
- The Operating Systems statCounter Cannot Identify or Classify
- Is it possible that statCounter just cannot properly decipher and classify systems brought by and controlled by eastern Asia as opposed to Europe and North America?
- IBM Allegedly Used Apptio to Target and Sack (RA) Productive or 'Expensive' Employees, Are Apptio Staff Now Subjected to Layoffs?
- Apptio is one of several companies that IBM buys only to sink together with the IBM boat, RMS Watson
- Gemini Links 06/05/2026: "Who Knows That You Blog?" and New Official Antenna by Michael Nordmeyer
- Links for the day
- Links 06/05/2026: Apple Accepts That It Misled People on Slop and Begins Blocking Software/Games Made With Slop
- Links for the day
- Codecs and Software Patents - Part II - AV1 and HEVC Not Really Safe
- We are, in effect, looking at a sort of cartel (like the one which came out of Germany with MP3)
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XIV - Antisemitism Inside the EPO
- A sensitive topic for the European Patent Office (EPO)
- Gemini Links 06/05/2026: Childhood Memories, Intense People, and Natural Web Exploration
- Links for the day
- Links 06/05/2026: Narges Mohammadi in Critical Condition and Copyright Infringement Rampant in Reddit
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 05, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, May 05, 2026
- Ubuntu is Run by "N00bs" (and It Shows)
- GNU/Linux users are not a small niche anymore
- Gemini Links 05/05/2026: Bad Health, Pomera DM250 On Linux, and Children Using DO
- Links for the day
- Why Chatbots Based on LLMs Cannot Be Improved Even If More Energy (Money) Gets Wasted on Them
- nobody can do it well
- Reading Closely What Microsoft Put in the Report, Expect Many More Layoffs Later This Year
- The only thing that they grow rapidly is their debt
- IBM is Collapsing, the People Responsible for the Collapse Aren't the Victims
- IBM management has plenty of things to distract from right now
- Media: Let's Repeat the Lie About Mass Layoffs Being a Win for a Buzzword
- This says so much about the state of today's media
- The Generations of CS Are Coming to 'End of Life'
- Nowadays everything that is a computer is somehow called "hey hi"
- Links 05/05/2026: Live Nation Problems, Growing Tensions in the Gulf Again (Energy Crisis)
- Links for the day
- Gartner Pays The Register MS and the Effect is Visible (IBM Promotion; IBM Also a Sponsor, of Both!)
- Follow the money
- The Register MS Published Fake Article That Mentioned "AI" Almost a Dozen Times. It Got Paid to Do This.
- If you keep seeing the term "AI" quite a lot in the media, be sure to check who pays for it
- Links 05/05/2026: Germany, Depression, and Control of Online Discourse in Geminispace
- Links for the day
- Links 05/05/2026: "Republicans Made Children More Expensive" and "Internet Blackouts" Cripple Economies
- Links for the day
- Microsoft Lunduke Has a Serious Problem: He's Fronting for Sites That Insist on Exposing Children to Pornography
- He's even contradicting himself a lot
- What "Age Verification" Laws Are About
- We know based on experience (even predating the Web) that kids will find workarounds, so such restrictions are difficult to enforce
- Unsustainable 'Tech' (Debt) Giants Rely on US Taxpayers for Bailouts and Subsidies
- In the past 6 months Oracle and Amazon alone borrowed over 100 billion dollars
- Future-Proofing Techrights
- 2 days from now this site turns exactly 19.5 (years)
- Microsoft is Waning Like IBM
- There will be lots of "ex Softies" or "former Microsofters" out there
- Chatbots Are Not Replacing Web Search, But They Contaminate Results
- People still value pages written and curated by humans; they use search engines to find these
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 67 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Claims Against My Wife and I Assert 'Distress', But It Was Just a Copy-Pasted Template (Mechanical Crocodile Tears)
- Can barristers charge 10,000-15,000 US dollars (about $1,000-1,500 per page!) to do such shoddy, sloppy work?
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 04, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, May 04, 2026
- Links 05/05/2026: Energy Crises, Data Breaches, and Journalists Murdered
- Links for the day
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XIII - Health and Safety With Cocaine
- That they are trying to approach us (the President's own family) is a sign of weakness
- Codecs and Software Patents - Part I - The 2026 Status Quo
- It's frustrating to see how little (almost none) media coverage exists for these sorts of matters
- Gemini Links 05/05/2026: ASCII Chessboard Without HTML and Ongoing Antenna Migration
- Links for the day
- Links 04/05/2026: Economics of Slop Discredited, Democrat and Republican Voters Want Cuts to Data Centres
- Links for the day
- IBM's "FutureNow" is the Rebranding of the Client Innovation Center (CIC), for Lobbying Purposes by IBM While Halving People's Salaries
- So says a new comment
- Libera.Chat Openly and Publicly Admits It Has an LLM Slop Problem (Chatbots in Its Channels)
- If there's a policy that bans chatbots (not humans), there's even a moral imperative for it
- Microsoft: Yes, We Are Losing Windows Users and Yes, We Have Problems With Payroll (So We Lay Off Essential Workers)
- From what we can gather, "hey hi" is now the name of everything at Microsoft
- Ubuntu.com While Ubuntu.com is Under DDoS Attack and Intermittently Offline Due to Windows Botnets: Don't Use Ubuntu, Use Windows Instead
- Unbelievable, as this is their advice when Windows zombies hammer away at their Web site and general infrastructure
- Links 04/05/2026: "DNC Covering Up Its 2024 Autopsy" and Rudy Giuliani in Critical Condition
- Links for the day
- Linux Kernel Tainted by Software Patents That Make Linux Worse and the 'Linux' Foundation is Compiling Bribes to Enable This (Promotion of Monopolies and Tolerance of Software Patenting)
- Why you need to reboot when a serious bug is found in Linux? "Licencing"...
- ChromeOS and GNU/Linux Exceed 5% in New Zealand
- Can we expect New Zealand and Australia to divest from GAFAM?
- Links 04/05/2026: Energy Shortages Become More Visible, Germans Reject Military Service, Merz Says US 'Humiliated' Over Iran
- Links for the day
- KDE's Cornelius Schumacher Explains Why You Should be Slop-Free
- Output is not measured by quantity of words
- The Real News is Botnets (e.g. Windows With Back Doors), Not Iran
- Let's focus on the botnets [...] Microsoft's aim is the opposite of security
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 66 Out of 200: Alex Graveley Did Illegal Things, Then Asserted Mentioning Those Illegal Things is Privacy Violation
- Alex Graveley "has suffered damage and distress" when the public found out he told women to kill themselves
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XII - Outsourcing Everything to Microsoft, Which is Illegal
- Today's EPO isn't about technology or law
- Melissa Chan on Why Press Freedom Matters to Everyone, Not Just Journalists
- dispelling a myth
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 03, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, May 03, 2026
- Gemini Links 04/05/2026: Another Old Web Pillar Gone and Simple Lobsters Mirror for Gemini
- Links for the day
Comments
gggggg
2008-05-27 19:04:55
http://lwb.lawnet.com.sg/legal/lgl/rss/legalnews/57100.html
Just read it. It's hilarious...
"A SINGAPORE firm has threatened to sue websites that use pictures or graphics to link to another page, claiming it owns the patent for a technology used by millions around the world."
"'Website owners are just upset because they never had to pay for it before,' said Mr Smith.
VueStar will begin enforcing its patent claims in Australia and the US 'soon', he said, and the firm is also working on invoices for Internet heavyweights like Google and Microsoft. "
Hahahhaha
Thank AlexH, because he simply don't care...
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-27 23:11:51
It's an insane world. Even the double-click is patented. The smiley too. With the current dysfunctional law, a default Apache installation is a crime.
Victor Soliz
2008-05-28 03:15:56
Victor Soliz
2008-05-28 03:18:53
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-28 03:25:28
touch
2008-05-29 06:30:09