Sometimes it becomes important to be able to save a selection of text from a website page for future reference. This is where QuickNote comes in handy.

"I found a little more time to work on UniView while flying to the US for the I18n & Unicode Conference yesterday, adding a bunch of additional useful features..."

http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/

Although OpenOffice.org Writer and AbiWord top the list of open source software for those who write for work or fun, they are not the be-all-and-end-all of writing tools. In fact, there are quite a few other nifty applications that can help you to collect ideas, manage notes, edit documents, and even improve your writing.

I'm going to talk about the community's idiotic ... treatment of this subject. Too many other people have talked about what the problems are, and why they do or do not matter, to discuss that would be a waste of my time. I'm going to discuss why those people are all focusing on the WRONG thing.

"The New York Times’ review of Dell machines featuring the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution is a recent illustration of the problems one faces confusing price and freedom, then deciding that freedom (the more important of the two) isn’t worth talking about..."

It appears that Google has underestimated the desire for storage with free webmail services, while the competition (Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo) have grasped the issue and are upping capacity. The Google response has been to dribble a little extra into the free Gmail service, while charging up to $500 a year of you want more.

Project leader Matthew Dillon is starting to commit parts of his HAMMER file system work into DragonFlyBSD; he anticipates it being available in beta form by the 2.0 release at the end of this year. He posted a design document, describing how it should work.