Monthly Archives: June 2002

Dave Winer is back online, the hos­pi­tal stay was for a heart bypass oper­a­tion. Dave, unsur­pris­ingly, was a heavy smoker. My mom died a cou­ple of can­cer a cou­ple of days before I started high school, she was a heavy … Read More →

The Big Secret, aka Pal­la­dium, offers “new realms of pos­si­bil­i­ties in the way peo­ple live and work with com­put­ers”. Oddly, it does this by tak­ing away your free­dom to copy dig­i­tal mate­ri­als. Only M$ could come up with such ver­biage … Read More →

Doc Searls has been all over the new CARP con­se­quences. It’s going to be a long time before all the fall­out set­tles, if it ever does. It’s all about free­dom, you know. Noth­ing is more desired, or more feared.

For all your evil needs, there’s Vil​lain​Sup​ply​.com.

The Dan­ger hip­top looks like the next gen­er­a­tion of PDA/phone com­bi­na­tions. But it uses a PDA OS that is not Palm or CE so it’s going to take some work to get devel­oper momen­tum. Still, I signed up as a … Read More →

Linux users have one more rea­son to be happy, /. reports that native Soren­son play­back comes to Linux with Xine v0.9.11a. There were other ways to do this in the past, notably the CrossOver plu­gin, but this was non-native. Even … Read More →