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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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Thecus Back To Life
The Thecus N2100 whose untimely demise I blogged recently is now, I'm happy to report, back to life, thanks to some help from the folks at Thecus in Taiwan. I'm putting some finishing touches on the OpenBSD install notes that should be ready in a few d... 		26-Nov-2007
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A Bigger, Better Tomcat Guide
My colleague in communications, Jason Brittain, has finished revising Tomcat: The Definitive Guide. The Second Edition was just released (October/November, 2007) and covers Tomcat 6.0. Coverage has been expanded in almost all areas; the first edition's... 		4-Nov-2007
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IPv6 or Bust, and, Farewell IPv6 Samurai
In case you've been off-net for the last ten years, you should know that the Internet is running out of IP addresses - the telephone numbers of the Internet - at an alarming rate, and will reach the failure point within three or four years. IP is the I... 		31-Oct-2007
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Time for a really new cell phone
The OpenMoko website started selling the developer preview of the Neo1973 cell phone on July 9th, as promised. Linux-based and all open source (except for a tiny shim around the GSM module), this is the phone that most every open source developer shoul... 		9-Jul-2007
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My talk at OnLinux (October 2007)
It's confirmed - I will be speaking on OpenMoko at OnLinux in Toronto in October, 2007. OnLinux promises to be a large gathering of local open-source talent as well as project leaders from around the world. 		3-Jul-2007
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True Cybergeeks will route around the iPhone hype
Everybody's heard the hype about the closed-source vunderkind cell phone that is supposed to "revolutionize&... 		26-Jun-2007
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Flying Thecus has hard landing...
The Thecus N2100 sits idle in a corner, because the vendor changed the software in a way that breaks the ability to install most open-source OSes. The OpenBSD install, like many others, depends on setting certain firmware commands to be saved in the ... 		14-Jun-2007
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On Strike for a better world?
When I mentioned on a mailing list that I don't use Skype because it's closed source both at the protocol level and at the code level, and further they don't even provide binaries for OpenBSD, a colleague on that list wrote back: This is pretty strang... 		13-Jun-2007
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The Open Source Cell Phone
I've wrtten here before about Asterisk, the open source PBX telephone system that runs on generic PCs (among other platforms). Now there's an open source cell phone! OpenMoko is the software project (see their wiki page first; the home page is kind of ... 		30-May-2007
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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: An Eternal Brown Triangle
In the bad old days of computing - the mainframe era - it was common for IBM to try to prevent customers from using cost-effective third-party solutions in conjunction with expensive IBM mainframes by spreading "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" ... 		21-May-2007
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Monty Python's Flying Thecus
OK, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago now for JavaOne, and I bought a Thecus. If you don't know what these are, find out before you read on. I wrote this blog entry at the time, but am just now catching up; ... 		12-May-2007
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JavaOne Summary
This has been a very busy week at JavaOne, with lots of new announcments but few major ones. One of the largest announcements was a small but powerful technology called JavaFX, which is potentially very significant because it provides a compositional A... 		11-May-2007

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