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Firefox's Inspector Tool as 3D Modeler (Seriously) Monday, May 06 2013

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"Firefox 20.0 has a nifty little feature of its 'Inspector' tool that allows you to view HTML elements as 3D objects, I wanted to use it for something it wasn't intended for: 3D Modeling" ...

Introducing the Humble Deteriorating Bundle! Friday, December 16 2011

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"I purchased the first Humble Indie Bundle, and I'm glad to have not purchased the last seven. Why? I know what you're thinking, `it's monetary motivation for developers to port their games to Linux`" ...

New Identi.ca Share Button Thursday, June 30 2011

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"I've talked a little bit about the half-PHP-half-JavaScript Identi.ca share button I wrote, but I really haven't shown it off or explained how to use it. It's kind of pointless to write it for myself" ...

Potential For Free Animation Software Dead? Friday, June 24 2011

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"There was a time I was obsessed with finding good, free, stable, Flash animation software, because at the time I was also obsessed with Homestar and other online cartoons and I wanted to make my own" ...

Track Me! Just Track Me, GNOME Project! Tuesday, March 01 2011

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"The upcoming GNOME 3 release will be making some controversial changes, such as removing the Window List from the panel making for a more 'task-based environment' as they say" ...

Web Development, Better Done On GNU/Linux Friday, February 18 2011

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"I often tell people that setup, configuration, writing, scripting, and other general development of any website is better done on the same web server, or OS, as the web server" ...

Interview with Richard Stallman (2011) Monday, February 07 2011

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"Free Software activist & computer programmer Richard Stallman 'I personally have escaped from proprietary software [...] I started the Free Software Movement so that everyone could have this freedom.'" ...

Why Indie Games Need GNU/Linux Friday, December 24 2010

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"Indie games are not very popular, on any platform. Windows users started taking games for granted a long time ago. With Windows being the dominant operating system" ...

Too Many Shoot 'Em Up Games Saturday, December 11 2010

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"So we have a few great Free Software gaming engines now, like DarkPlaces used in Nexuiz, Cube 2 used in Sauerbraten, Qfusion used in Warsow, soon id Tech 4 which is used in id Software's Quake 4" ...

GNOME Terminal - Command Summary [Mockup] Friday, November 19 2010

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"Users who are new to the command-line find it intimidating, no matter what operating system, they just find it intimidating. They were introduced to computers with graphics and point-click interfaces" ...

Minecraft Inspired By Cube 2: Sauerbraten? Friday, November 12 2010

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"The proprietary game 'Minecraft', which is written in Java, may have been inspired by Sauerbraten (also known as 'Cube 2'). Minecraft is a browser-based first person 'Sandbox' style adventure game" ...

Advanced Application Launchers With Zenity Sunday, November 07 2010

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"If you're like me, you hate when you're in a hurry and just want to start an application, get right to it, and just start working. Well it never works that way when you need it too." ...

State of Firefox 4.0 on GNU/Linux Saturday, October 16 2010

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"So we've probably all seen the mock-ups for Firefox 4.0 by now, but has any of it been implemented? In the Windows version, yes. On the GNU/Linux version, partially." ...

Problems Don't Always Need Command-line Solutions Friday, October 08 2010

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"We see it all the time, someone straying from one distribution or another because you 'have to use the command-line'. I've even heard that in person, I've heard it too many times." ...

KDE 3 appears in 'The Social Network' movie? Thursday, September 09 2010

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"... from the film's official trailer, you can see what appears to be an old version of the KDE Desktop Environment. This particular still image is from a scene in the movie taking place in 2003" ...

Sum 41 doesn't like Facebook Friday, July 30 2010

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"Popular Canadian rock band 'Sum 41', doesn't like Facebook, perhaps for technical and practical reasons, not really political reasons, but it's still awesome." ...

Why I'm Reinventing Disqus Wednesday, July 21 2010

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"Why am I reinventing Disqus? That is the question I've been getting asked since I 'announced' on Identi.ca that I'd be replacing Disqus with a free (AGPL) comment system that I was to write." ...

LiveUSB Drives: Why, How-to, and Where At Saturday, July 03 2010

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"What fills an entire CD, only fills 17% of a 4GB thumb drive ... In contrast to Live CDs, the data contained on a Live USB can be changed and additional data can be stored on the same device" ...

BASHing Visual Basic Out of the Picture Monday, June 28 2010

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"Awhile ago, two family members of mine were programing something for a simple task, they chose to do it in Visual Basic as the program was going to be running in a Windows" ...

5 Ways Identi.ca is Better Than Twitter Monday, June 21 2010

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"Twitter popularized micro-blogging, indeed, but it isn't fair to say they started it. There are many micro-blogging services, like Identi.ca. I like Identi.ca's focus on software" ...

Meritocracy vs. Democracy Friday, June 11 2010

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"Ubuntu's 'meritocracy' is flawed to say the least. Ubuntu's developers are grossly uninformed as to what the Ubuntu community and users want and need. We need someone" ...

A Windows-style Fix to a WINE Problem Thursday, June 10 2010

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"The problem with emulating Windows -- or since 'WINE Is Not an Emulator' I should say: the problem with developing a 'Windows Compatibility Layer' -- is you end up having the same problems Windows has" ...