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
- Slop-Posting is a New Form of S---posting
- We recently caught several more "linux" sites (with "linux" in their domain name) turning to slop
- Losses From Slop Are "Investment", Hundreds of Billions in Debt Are "Growth Opportunity", Layoffs Are "Great to See", and Loss of Business Means "We Need a Slowdown" (for "Safety")
- Microsoft is removing staff, as investment is apparently the act of shrtinking
- Brigading Against Women - Part XII - Toxic Masculinity, Hunting Women, Will Code for Sex
- Who says things like these?
- The Microsoft Lunduke Slop Problem
- Microsoft Lunduke does not support Software Freedom; he serves to discredit many ideas championed by Free software or ideals articulated which are apolitical for the most part
- CDMAG Covers Free Software, New Magazine From Decent People
- If enough people accessed their site, they would not rely on social control media (third parties, censorship platforms)
- Brigading Against Women - Part XI - An Abject Lack of Social Skills (and Not Knowing How to Handle Women)
- GGG enjoy - if that's the right term - very bizarre or esoteric sex life
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- Gemini Links 30/09/2026: Fish Leather, Slop Formation, and ROOPHLOCH
- Links for the day
- In a Lot of Europe (or EU) Android (With Linux) is Bigger Than Windows
- For example in Greece
- EPO Cocainegate: Lots of Money (Over a Million Euros) for Cocaine Addicts, Not for Children With Special Needs
- Next month we'll bring out some more Campinos scandals
- High Court victory: Nigel Farage is 'the Company's own candidate'
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- It Took GNOME's Code of Conduct Committee (CoCC) Over 8 Months to Realise CoC Reports Went Into /dev/null/
- It would be ironic if the blunder's culprits were punished for it, would it not?
- Links 30/09/2026: Microsoft "OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely" and "Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People"
- Links for the day
- The Register MS "Events" As Paid Spam That Promotes and Keeps Afloat Hype About Slop
- This dreary sort of media reads like a soup of words, i.e. like the thing it is advertising
- Digital Independence in the UK and in Western Europe
- We have the technical capacity and skilled personnel to achieve this
- IBM's Anderon as a Mass Layoffs Ritual With a Bailout (From US Taxpayers to IBM) and Other Perks
- Like those empty promises in the first term of the Cheeto dictator
- Gemini Links 30/09/2026: David Bowie, Web Rendering Proxy, Ink and Letters, Gemlog Nostalgia
- Links for the day
- EPO Annual General Meeting (AGM) Will Speak of Financial State of the EPO's Union
- Their work is needed because the EPO breaks the law
- Rust Causes Upgrade Issues in Ubuntu
- They could just keep GNU coreutils in place (nothing was broken about it) and avoid Microsoft's back doors and TPMs
- Links 30/09/2026: "Understanding the LLM Bubble" and "Florida Senate Threatened Legal Action Against Newspapers"
- Links for the day
- It Looks Like Mass Layoffs at "Nordcloud, an IBM Company" Today (a Day Ahead of Red Hat)
- Expect the same from Red Hat next
- British Prime Minister Recognises Social Control Media as National Cohesion Problem
- one has to wonder if addiction to social control media is not compatible with peace
- The Future Isn't Social Control Media (Nothing Will be Left of It, Not Even Archives)
- "Error code: 502 Bad Gateway"
- GNU/Linux Usage in China is Increasing
- China is leaving Microsoft and Windows behind
- 43 Years of GNU and GAFAM's (Especially Microsoft's) Attacks On It
- GNU is very widely used (when people say "Linux commands" they typically mean "GNU programs"), hence it's being attacked a lot
- Gemini Links 30/09/2026: Accelerationism, "The Billionaire is Wrong", Rant About LLM-generated Support E-mails
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- Black Brit on "Pictures Comparing Me to a Monkey" Because of Brett Wilson LLP Client
- "Like Firm, Like Clients..."
- President of the EPO Should be Kicked Out, Not Have His Term Terminated in 2028
- The President is facing more scandals soon
- David Gordon at The Register MS Keeps Feeding the Pyramid Scheme With Fake Articles That Say "AI" Dozens of Times
- How can such a publisher still be taken seriously?
- The Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) at the EPO Explains the Working Conditions and Crisis of Plunder (Less for Workers, a Lot More for Dictators Who Refuse to Leave Leadership Roles)
- Next week will be epic
- EPO Will Stop Working for 10 Days to Protest Against 'Cocaine King' and His Assault on Democracy, Lawfulness, Transfer of Power at EPO
- Strikes, work stoppage, all rolled onto one
- IBM Brings Avalanche to Red Hat October 1st 2026 (Thursday)
- IBM is turning up the heat on staff
- Links 29/09/2026: Mass Layoffs at Microsoft and Backlash Over Data Center Policy of Microsoft
- Links for the day
- Techrights is International
- There are many sites that focus on local communities or nations. We're not one of those sites.
- 5 Years Ago (September 29, 2021) Richard Stallman's Talk in Ukraine Noted
- Let's hope the war will end soon
- Links 29/09/2026: Acceleration, Morale, and ROOPHLOCH 2026
- Links for the day
- Links 29/09/2026: "Scam Altman Is Driving Drunk" and Anthropic Lies About Slop Usage
- Links for the day
- Brigading Against Women - Part X - When Actions of American Men Are Not Judged by Other American Men
- "There is not the slightest suggestion that either Dr or Mrs Schestowitz did anything to invite or deserve it. They are both clearly and justifiably angered, dismayed, distressed and hurt by it."
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: A Source of Pride for Portugal?
- In this part our focus returns to the main theme of this series, namely the current reappointment campaign of the EPO President, as we consider whether Campinos can still expect to enjoy the same level of support from the Portuguese political establishment as he did during the earlier stages of his career
- Computers Freeze Because of UEFI Restricted Boot
- damage is also done to computers running Windows
- It is Very Expensive to Slow Down Techrights
- Garrett's expensive hearing (costing the British taxpayers about 120,000 pounds; he doesn't live here and does not pay tax here) slowed us down for a few days, but we've picked up the pace since
- Linux Has Conquered Mobile, But Desktops and Laptops Matter More
- When people say the desktop "doesn't matter" they seem to be missing the point that workplaces use desktops (or laptops) and a lot of the work gets done not on skinnerboxes but "workstations" or terminals
- Brigading Against Women - Part IX - "What Are You, a Racist?"
- Because behind every strong man is a strong opinion?
- Gemini Links 29/09/2026: "Digital Sabbath", Starting a GemCapsule, and Sterrenkijker 1.1.0
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 28, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, September 28, 2026
- Brigading Against Women - Part VIII - Misogyny Embedded; Like Firm, Like Clients
- It's about back doors
- Chaos Imminent at Red Hat (This Week)
- IBM is 'finishing the job' an ex-IBMer (Ron Hovsepian) did at Novell.
- Microsoft Can PIP Workers (Silent Layoffs) Until Almost Nobody is Left
- Microsoft is gradually vanishing
- The Cyber Show Says Truth Always Requires a Fight, a Struggle
- "Truth-tellers always face struggle and run risk"
- Maladministration at the EPO as a Crisis for the EU and for Portugal's Image in Europe
- Some time soon we'll publish a long article about what EPO leadership means to Portugal
- 3 Years of UK Hosting
- We commend the webhost for standing firm in the face of misogyny
- Tech Labeled "Smart" Does Not Make People Smart
- People who insist on making everything digital are not advancing progress
- Gemini Links 28/09/2026: Truncated Sleep, Plain Text, and Slop Problem Kept Out of Geminispace
- Links for the day
- Links 28/09/2026: "A Growing North Korea Problem" and Independent Journalism as a Lifeline
- Links for the day
- Links 28/09/2026: Microsoft Chatbot "Giving Extremely Specific Advice to a School Shooter on How to Maximize Casualties", ‘Suicidal Empathy’
- Links for the day
- Microsoft's Attacks on Courts in the Netherlands Result in GNU/Linux Growing to About 10% There
- One core issue that justified this and led to this outcome is Microsoft's interference with the administration of justice
- They Create the Conditions for People to Leave, This Way They Don't Call it "Layoffs"
- We keep seeing many stories like these
- Gemini Links 28/09/2026: Wildfire, DOS, and Backups
- Links for the day
- Brigading Against Women - Part VII - 'Trolling' Courts and Legal Systems in America and in the UK (Europe) Costs a Lot to Taxpayers
- They only attend hearings after being arrested
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Portuguese Talent For Bureaucratic Empire Building
- Portugal’s success in securing senior executive appointments at the EUIPO and the EPO is a notable example of how countries seek to strengthen their influence within European intergovernmental institutions
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 27, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, September 27, 2026
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