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Archive for November, 2007


28
Nov

How creativity is being strangled by the law - Larry Lessig

Through Michael Hyatt’s blog, I came across this talk from Larry Lessig at TED about how the current copyright laws limit the creativity of people. Apart from the talk being absolutely informative, there are two great examples of creative work, that, according to today’s copyright law, are not permitted:
Javier Prato’s “Jesus Christ - The musical”

And [...]


21
Nov

Don’t give up on Vista?

After all the Mac guy vs. PC guy videos, you might think they’re running out of ideas. Not so. This one is too funny (especially since I’m struggling with Vista every day…):


20
Nov

Windows Powershell 1.0

Today I ran into an interesting problem. I wanted to print out a search result set - I needed to check off some of the files that I found from a Windows Search result, and add the ones that weren’t checked off to another list. Apparently, the only option in Windows is to make screen [...]


20
Nov

Skype 2.0 beta for Linux includes video

Skype announced the release of a beta version of Skype 2.0 for Linux. The new version supports video, so Linux Skype users can now put the webcam to good use.
The Linux beta can be downloaded here. Hardware requirements are:

Processor: 1GHz or faster
RAM: 256MB
Hard disk: 20MB free space
Microphone and speakers, or headset
Internet connection, broadband is best, [...]


16
Nov

Linux game company opens doors, releases first game

On November 3rd, 2007, Sixth Floor Labs LLC announced that they launched their business. The press release can be found here.
They also released the first release of Project Alexandria, an Asteroids-like arcade game. This is downloadable for free here.
Although it’s commendable that a company decides to make Linux games, this game’s graphics look very much [...]

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