Novell trademarks, copyrights, patents, and C# bindings in KDE's Phonon

I have just recently come across a new Linux distribution which has erupted onto the intanut tubes. It is so new it is not even on distrowatch yet. It is called Magma Linux.

The seventh iteration of the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 7x) was held the weekend of February 20th 2009 in Los Angeles. SCALE is an annual conference that has several tracks and has special tracks on Friday. Along with the program tracks, there is an extensive vendor Expo Floor, which includes a Org Pavilion containing several free software organizations.

The web isn't just about static web sites anymore. Web applications, like Google Docs, Gmail and many others, are extremely popular. But confining an important application inside a browser window means that web applications feel like second-class citizens and can get lost amongst the browsing that you are doing. Site-specific browsers (SSBs) are designed to solve this problem.

In Navigating the Filesystem I talked about how pathnames work, the difference between /home and home, and using ls to see the contents of a directory. But there are a few more useful tricks you ought to know about finding your way around in the filesystem on your disk.

Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin said in his blog yesterday (26th February) that the Microsoft patent infringement suite against TomTom, at least at present, does not appear to be a covert attack on Linux.

Being in the security business, I am constantly surprised by how many companies continue to rely on security practices that they know to be poor.

Maybe it's because I'm just coming off having the flu. Maybe it's because at heart I'm an anti-social misanthropist. Whatever - Boxee leaves me underwhelmed.