Archive for November, 2008
State of hardware support in Linux
Sunday, November 30th, 2008I’m getting increasingly annoyed by the state of some aspects of hardware support in Linux. My laptop (old Dell Latitude D610, Intel-based with ATI graphics) used to suspend/resume correctly with Linux 2.6.24 (ie, > 95% success rate). Later changes made the success rate drop significantly, and added a problem with kacpid taking 100% CPU because [...]
-vote@ discussions on DFSG violations
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008There have been 470 mails during the last month in the DFSG violations threads on -vote@, but only 10 posters have contributed more than 10 mails so far: 85 Robert Millan 51 Manoj Srivastava 18 Pierre Habouzit 18 Josselin Mouette 16 Thomas Bushnell BSG 14 Stephen Gran 13 Frans Pop 13 Ean Schuessler 13 Adeodato [...]
Living in France? Not an April member? You are WRONG.
Thursday, November 13th, 2008I’ve been a member of April, the french association for promotion and defense of Free Software, for a bit more than a year, and I often regret not becoming a member earlier. (I was feeling so guilty and shameful about not being a member that I actually postponed becoming a member.) Stop feeling guilty and [...]
Universal Studios’ Automated Copyright Notice System
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008FTWCA copyright issues, there’s interesting stuff on Universal Studios’ Automated Copyright Notice System website.