Looky here, you

Looky here, you

Rather coincidentally, [Federico’s post](https://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2006-04.html#limiting-your-repaint-rate) lines up with some investigations that Frank Smith and I have been taking into the Jokosher drawing code. In Jokosher we tend to get...
You sure you want this on your planet?

You sure you want this on your planet?

Well, it appears [Mr Schaller](https://www.linuxrising.org/) had added myself and a bunch of other [Jokosher](https://www.jokosher.org/) hackers to [Planet GStreamer](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/planet/). Although I can’t guarantee all of my posts will be...
Die spiders, die

Die spiders, die

You know, I *hate* spiders. Sure, I know they perform some important ecological function that is critical in the scheme of things, but I just hate the damn creatures. This uniformed hatred doesn’t just apply to big spiders, no, it also includes those tiny...
Applications, not the OS

Applications, not the OS

[Simon](https://beerandspeech.org/index.php?/archives/78-Advocacy-Getting-Cross.html), I entirely agree with you that much of the problem with advocacy has been too much focus on Operating Systems. I remember my ex brother-in-law once said to me that he didn’t...
Freespire and advocating diversity

Freespire and advocating diversity

So, [it has been officially announced](https://www.freespire.org/) – we now have another community driven free Linux distribution, this time in the form of Freespire. Those of you with eagle eyes, or possibly stalker-like tendencies may have also noticed that I...