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Color management in Firefox
I’ve bought ColorHug to make color profiles for my monitors. ColorHug is a great device for the price and it works without problems on GNU/Linux. Using it together with dispcalGUI I could easily create the color profiles. Making a color profile is one thing while applying it is another problem. My experience with color management […]
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Bye bye LTSP and KMail
I upgraded my LTSP installation and it stopped working again. After fixing some problems I got stuck with another one. Googling didn’t help and LTSP documentation seems to be reducing rather than expanding through the time. I’m no longer going to waste my time to get running underdocumented software with tricky dependencies so I’ve abandoned […]
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Using Mac OS X
I use a proprietary operating system even on a desktop computer now. I’m forced to use Mac OS X at my job. Apple says OS X Mountain Lion is an easy to use and incredibly powerful system with features I’ll love. In my user’s experience the system is primitive, inflexible and chaotic. It’s very hard to find […]
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FreedomBox
There is an interesting article The Tangled Web We Have Woven by Eben Moglen in the current issue of Communications of the ACM. Eben Moglen makes some good and serious points about our privacy and about future of democracy in the era of internet services. I also suggest watching the talk of Eben Moglen and […]
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Free Software Foundation asks us for donations
If you care about free software, please consider making a donation to the Free Software Foundation. Current FSF’s fundraising campaign runs till January 31st. You probably know why it is important to support free software and what is the role of the Free Software Foundation, so please don’t be inactive.
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20 years with Emacs
IIRC, it was about 20 years ago when I ran Emacs for the first time. I originally used it on a System V system as a civilized alternative to vi editor. But during the time I became an Emacs power user, learned Elisp and started to use Emacs as my primary working environment. Emacs, as […]
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Free Software Foundation supporter
I’ve been a free software advocate for nearly two decades. Supporting and promoting free software hasn’t been easy. Some effort and actions were more successful, some less. But we’ve achieved a lot during the time and we might get satisfied with the results. But after continual raise and success of free software in the last […]
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A successful free software project funding
People don’t like paying for music and they don’t like paying for software. It is not easy nor common for an individual or a small project to gather any significant money for free software development, i.e. to get real compensation for some work and to make living of it. But fundraising for this SBCL work […]
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Proprietary, proprietary, proprietary
A famous businessman has died some time ago and the whole world has praised him as a hero who changed the computing. Well, there were some more realistic views (e.g. rms), but those exceptions were hardly noticeable. We like celebrities and we prefer listening to heroic myths rather than to unpleasant truths about less or […]
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Getting organized
I’ve never been successful in keeping really useful and up-to-date diaries and todo lists. Well, one can think: “If it’s really important I won’t forget about it and the other things don’t matter much.” But if nothing else then family life can cause semi-chaos making really difficult to get anything done. Nevertheless an important change […]