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
- Links 31/07/2026: Microsoft Now Says Slop is Bad (LinkedIn Cracks Down on It), LinkedIn Narrows Down Size (No Expansion)
- Links for the day
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: From Alicante to Munich: Another Smooth Ride
- Campinos is intent on transforming what was originally envisaged as a temporary public office into his own permanent personal feather-bed
- Daniel Pocock and the Important Observation About Threats of Cult-Like Behaviours (No Rationality, No Reason, Just "Mob Rule")
- It's a threat to Europe's sovereignty
- The "PIP Parade" of IBM's Lousy Management, Which Said "Blockchain" Was the Future
- In a healthy company such a CEO would be punished for utterly wrong visions and predictions. Not at IBM...
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 135 Out of 200: Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) That Does Not Disclose Financial Activities Before August
- It certainly looks like they keep losing the remaining women that still exist in the firm
- Links 31/07/2026: "Climate Cover-Up Continues" and Pesticides "Cook the Planet"
- Links for the day
- Datacentre 'Boom' Sceptics Aren't Luddites, They Recognise a Threat to Human Survival (Not Limited to Climate Change)
- Archaeologists very well know that no species will survive forever
- Microsoft's Claims Are Based on a Big Lie
- the bubble is coming to its hard limits
- Don't Lose Sight of the Impact of "End of 10" (Vista 10)
- GNU/Linux has taken off fast
- Microsoft's Debt Continues to Steadily Increase, Not Counting Hundreds of Billions in Secret/Hidden Debt
- The mass layoffs will carry on, maybe labelled LITE
- IBM is Circling Down the Drain, the 'Growth' Comes From Beancounting Tricks and Salary Cuts
- IBM was down 2.17% yesterday
- Microsoft's "Headcount" Distracts From How Big a Cull It Had This Month
- It also speaks of numbers "[a]s of June 30" though the "buyouts" were effective July 1 and since then well over 10,000 workers have vanished
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 30, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, July 30, 2026
- Gemini Links 31/07/2026: Music, Journaling, and Longing
- Links for the day
- More Fake News From (and for) IBM, Nobody Ever Held Accountable for Fraud
- Companies that turn a blind eye to their own corruption end up recruiting more corrupt people and sacking those who object to the corruption
- Links 30/07/2026: Smol Document Server and More PalmOS-ing
- Links for the day
- Links 30/07/2026: Microsoft Refuting Its Own Slop Hype and "Amazon Is Gutting Its Hey Hi (AI) Division" (GAFAM Bubble)
- Links for the day
- Today The Register MS Published "AI" Spam and Fake Article by "Senior Technical Marketing Engineer"
- unethical practices
- Cult inquiry parliament leak fallout
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Techrights Will Always Protect Sources
- Our #1 priority is sources
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Legal Concerns and Suspicions of Irregularities
- complaints submitted to OLAF
- The Era of Silence
- So stay silent, remain hidden
- GAFAM and IBM Dying in Massive Debt, Hence the Mass Layoffs (Increasingly Silent Layoffs That the Media Fails to Mention)
- the integrity of this economy is only as good as its leaders or those who govern the market
- TheLayoff.com Deletes Comment That Called IBM's Previous CEO, Ginni Rometty, "Gin 'n Tonic"
- It is hard to believe the comment was deleted for being a duplicate (in another thread)
- The Mainstream Media Continues to Overlook or Intentionally Ignore Hundreds of Billions in Hidden/Secret Microsoft Debt
- the issue is that Microsoft's crisis is a lot greater and broader than this
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 134 Out of 200: What "Majority Rules" Tell Us About the Litigant
- we press on with this series
- Overshoot Day Sites That Contribute to the Problem
- Some of these are not even accessible (at all) without JavaScript
- Microsoft May Have Gotten Rid of 8% of Its Workforce This Month
- It's hard to know what's really going on because there's no transparency due to NDAs
- Links 30/07/2026: "Age of Irrationality", Google Losing Money, and "House of Ellison is on the Brink"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 30/07/2026: Homeworlds Notes and Manuscript Submitted
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 29, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, July 29, 2026
- As Expected, Facebook Collapses, Microsoft Hides Massive Debt
- GAFAM is a giant mountain of debt
- At The Register MS "PARTNER CONTENT" Means Company Writing Fake Articles About Itself and Its Own Products
- At The Register MS, content-farming has become a thing
- Staff of EPO Cautions Against Unlawful Weaponisation of PIPs Against Industrial Actions That Protest Corruption
- PIP-like sanctions against anybody who does not toe the line of Cocaine King?
- IBM, Running Out of Things It Can Sell, is Selling Software Patents
- IBM is not just pathetic; it's actively harmful because it lobbies for software patents and spreads software patents around
- Gemini Links 29/07/2026: Star Trek, Retirement, and ODEs in GNU Octave
- Links for the day
- Links 29/07/2026: "BuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff" (Trying LLM Slop Some More), Scam Altman Mocked by the Media
- Links for the day
- GNOME Curated and Censored by IBM (Under the Guise of "Code of Conduct")
- Felipe Borges (IBM) has just posted a follow-up
- Digital Mass Surveillance as a Hallmark of Failed Societies
- "small leap forward in tech ethics"
- I Found a Typo, Don't Vote!
- Social control media isn't good at adding any meaningful signal
- Jeremy Sands Explained the Harms of Codes of Conduct
- next week the 500th show milestone [is reached]
- Tonight's Earnings Report From Microsoft and Facebook ('Meta') Will be Faked Because They Hide Almost a Trillion Dollars in Debt
- The US economic system is only as honest as the people who govern it
- The Vacuum Syndrome
- Parables help
- The Only Old People Who Can Survive IBM Are the CEO and His Circle of Enablers
- very similar to what's happening at the EPO
- The 'Church' of Moglen/Stallman
- 'reunion' with Eben Moglen
- Microsoft Layoffs Aren't Done Ahead of the Need to Tell Shareholders About "Efficiency" (Tonight)
- Microsoft layoffs won't be "Done" until what's left of Microsoft is "None"
- Microsoft Lacks Growth. Ahead of 'Results' The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Finds Merit in Allegations Slop is Microsoft's Excuse for Price Hikes (Piggybacking Vendor Lock-in).
- At this stage it's not hard to see why many nations gravitate away from Microsoft
- Parliament leaks confidential cult inquiry witness contact list (COFG Victoria)
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Troll-Feeding is Time-Wasting
- in social control media
- WordPress is Technical Debt
- There are a number of technical tasks underway and maybe some testing (this coming weekend or later)
- Will Red Hat Still Exist in 2027 or Just Become a "Brand" at IBM?
- Whistleblowers told us IBM was laying off about 500 Red Hat engineers earlier this year
- Call for IBM Whistleblowers
- If you work for IBM and have something material (like balance sheets) to prove financial misconduct, please try to 'touch base' and establish a secure communication channel we can both use
- EPO Series on EU and Pan-European Corruption, Vote-Rigging, Extending Beyond the EPO Itself
- By Saturday it will be August already, so we'll start preparing for Rianne's birthday
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 133 Out of 200: Lies by Omission
- As usual, the other side wants people to ignore how much they lost
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Streamlining the Decision-Making Process
- Negrão was one of 17 applicants for the position but he somehow managed to end up as the sole candidate on the shortlist prepared by the Management Board in June 2020
- Links 29/07/2026: "Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem" and "$1.5B Anthropic Copyright Infringement Ruling" (Plagiarism is Not "Training")
- Links for the day
- Comments on Today's Judgment
- It hopefully helps clarify what actually happened
- Microsoft Has Fallen to #3 in Singapore
- There are many technically talented people in Singapore or overseas workers who lodge in Singapore
- Thank You, Andy
- Burnham and "Tech Rights"
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Inaction and Incompetence - Part II - 77 Messages Sent, Did Not Even Investigate or Examine Any of the Actual Evidence (British Taxpayers' Money Wasted)
- SRA has become known (even notorious) for inaction
- Inevitable Politics
- In technology, provided the work you do has growing impact (we served almost 2 million requests yesterday), things will inevitably become more political - whether you like it or not does not matter
- Not Only "Loonies Take on Farage"
- pretending that the opposition to the right wing is "Loonies"
- Brigading Against Women - Part I - Bypassing the Legal System by Threatening Companies in Another Continent
- In the next part we'll begin to connect Lozza's online activities (and court activities) to those of Garrett
- IBM is Trying to Turn Debt (Borrowed Money) Into Fake Growth and It'll Worsen Matters
- they put in their balance sheets a fake "growth" in something that does not even exist
- Microsoft Relies on Misleading Narrative of Studios Going 'Independent'; in Reality There Are Mass Layoffs in Them
- This is not a good narrative for Microsoft
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 28, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, July 28, 2026
- Gemini Links 29/07/2026: Arosa, Tired Tuesday, and Constellation Browser
- 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