Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (or ET for short) is a FPS (First Person Shooter) game, native for Linux, which borrows concepts from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and uses the Quake 3 engine.

"People handle large volumes of mail in different ways. Keeping everything in one mailbox can quickly become unmanageable because messages you need to read get lost among messages you don’t need to read. [...] Moving messages by hand is tedious and time-consuming. One way to deal with this is to set up rules that automatically file mail into different groups ..." (by Sacha Chua)

OSL from Denmark has just complained to ISO about OOXML

Not to be confuse with the latest boardroom buzz word, synergy is a nice little application that allows the sharing of keyboard and mouse services between up to 4 physical boxes. Synergy lets you use one keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. To do so it requires that all the computers are connected to each other via TCP/IP networking.

Yesterday I wrote about PCMan File Manager, which among other things offers better control over file permissions. Commenter Gavintlgold pointed out that’s it’s possible to get a similar dialog in Nautilus by changing a hidden setting in GNOME.

RMS: «We won't refuse to fix this problem in GNU Emacs, but the best solution is ... don't use Windows Vista. (See badvista.org.)»

RMS: «The US and EU and Canada want border guards to check everyone's laptops for unauthorized copies. They are trying to impose this nasty law through a treaty, secretly negotiated, so as to bypass democracy.

The prohibition of sharing can only be enforced with draconian cruelty. This shows that prohibiting sharing is wrong.

...we're looking at 8.9-inches dolled up in a sub-$500 price tag with a choice of both Windows XP Home or Ubuntu Linux, 8-in-1 card reader, integrated webcam, direct media playback buttons, and a "host of wireless access options."