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OpenMoko revisited
OpenMoko was an early open-source (hardware and software) cell phone project. It was designed to be flashed without having to root it or unlock a bootloader; the download tools were open source. It was great, except, it had an A5 CPU, no camera, no 3G ... 		19-Nov-2011
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Splitting an OpenOffice file or a PDF into 1-page PDFs or Bitmaps
OpenOffice has this great bug that's been there since before 1.0 requesting this feature, but nothing's ever come of it, even after 3.3. And the community fork LibreOffice is still building (it takes many hours to compile, even on modern hardware). So ... 		11-Mar-2011
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Apple and OpenJDK
Lest anyone doubt Apple's committment to working with Oracle on the OpenJDK project, Apple just emailed me back on a bug that I filed against the Mac implementation of Java... way back... in... 2003?!? Yup. Apple BugID #3179542 has finally been closed,... 		24-Feb-2011
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Android on FreeRunner
Android or FreeRunner, that is the question for those who want a mostly-open-source cell phone. At least it used to be. Now that Openmoko have all but discontinued development on the Freerunner hardware, the future looks more and more like Android. And... 		13-Feb-2010
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Another Top 10
Here we go again: FBI fabricated "terror emergencies" to justify illegal monitoring of phone calls Bruce Schnier reveals how U.S. demands for monitoring capabilities lead to the Chinese(?) hackers hacking Google ACTA, who taketh away the rights ... 		25-Jan-2010
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OpenMoko: Beginning to End
This article has been withdrawn from the blog; a revised version of it is hopefully going to be published on a commercial web site this month. 		30-Dec-2009
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OpenMoko and Android
A few people have asked me at various times for a comparison of the OpenMoko and Android cell phone projects. Given that I advocate for the former, and also for Java which is (and is not) the base language of the latter, I am expected to be able to ... 		21-Apr-2009
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Site Modernization
Every web site needs to keep improving, and your obd't servant is no different. I started almost exactly a year ago by replacing the old blog software with Pebble. Then I got busy with real work, and had to put aside site maintenance. Around the beg... 		26-Mar-2009
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A Pox Upon all of your getMessage() calls
If you're not a Java programmer, you might as well run along to the next blog entry below. If you are, how often have you seen - or tolerated - code like this in a library you're using? try { clazz= Class.forName(classN... 		19-Jan-2009
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JavaFX: Late to the gate, but sweet
JavaFX is Sun's new Rich Client strategy for Java. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the demos on the JavaFX home page. Unlike Adobe Flash and unlike M$ Silverlight, this technology actually works on "minority" OSes - my OpenBSD laptop wi... 		27-Dec-2008
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Protecting Your Castle
SANS.org has a nice white paper showing how to protect your home network using OpenBSD and other free software. According to the abstract: "It is possible to clean up the back yard with Free Open Source Software and a little design. Using off the... 		21-Dec-2008
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Linus Just Doesn't Get It
Linux founder Linus Torvalds makes an amazing claim about Linux security (or not) on gmane.kernel.org (I'm not even gonna help pagerank that article by linking to it; search the newsgroup name and the date 2008-07-08). Speaking about security fixes, he... 		16-Jul-2008
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iPhone catching up to OpenMoko
People who know I'm involved with Openmoko ask me how the new iPhone will affect the Openmoko project. But as we've seen, the reverse is already happening. Openmoko pioneered having a completely-accessibl... 		10-Jun-2008
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Seam Leaves Home (on good terms)
In addition to cranking out a new stable release (2.0.1.GA) and a new early access release (2.1.0.A1), The JBoss Seam framework has been renamed to "The Seam Framework" and has a new website, http://www.seamframe... 		24-Mar-2008
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Bit o' good news, The real 'An Enemy of the State', etc.
In the U.S. Congress, the House Democrats finally stood up to be counted, voting through their own bill which does not provide a unilateral amnesty for all the law-breaking that went on after 2001-09-11 by the big telecoms violating everybody's privacy... 		16-Mar-2008
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RepRap and The End of Want
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, one of the most pervasive inventions was the "replicator&quo... 		9-Mar-2008
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Ian's Top Ten Today, #1
Here are some links that I found worth passing on recently. This is not a monthly or even a regular listing; I'll repeat this when I have another ten. End Software Patents Jacob C. Hornberger: Hillary Should Have Apologized for Waco in Waco ... 		6-Mar-2008
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KDE4 - First Impressions
As most readers know I use the UNIX operating system, particularly OpenBSD, on all my computers. On desktops I flit about between several "desktop environments" or user interface systems. OpenBSD's default is a simple window manager called fv... 		2-Feb-2008
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OpenStreetMap - Toronto Mapping Weekend, Dec 1-2, 2007
OpenStreetMap is a project to build a free (unencumbered) map of the world, similar in scope to the various commercial web-based maps that you might have used. They're making good progress in some areas and, in fact, the outlines of Toronto are now pre... 		27-Nov-2007
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"The Web Beans Manifesto" is good.
Gavin King is often thought of as the developer of Hibernate, but he deserves as much credit for making Seam, the web framework that unifies JSF and EJB3. Now he's going for the standards hat, making Seam into "Web Beans", a Java Community Pr... 		26-Nov-2007

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