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OS X upgrade
I upgraded OS X on my work computer to a new version. It required two system restarts and made the computer (with an SSD drive!) unusable for about half an hour. This is the so called “world’s most advanced desktop operating system”.
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Smartphone user
I can no longer ignore smartphones, for various reasons. So I bought one, an Android based Samsung phone. One of the reasons I’ve avoided smartphones so far is they run on non-free software. While the underlying operating system is mostly free, phone vendors are active in putting special restrictions on it. Samsung installs its own…
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Another battle with W3C lost
Tim Berners-Lee has officially overridden the formal objection by EFF against inclusion of DRM support into official W3C standards. We were unable to make strong enough opposition and to find some solution. This is bad news for open Web and free software.
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30 years of GNU
There is double celebration here today: the feast day of Saint Wenceslas, the most famous Czech saint and martyr, and GNU 30th anniversary.
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GNU 30th anniversary in Czech Republic?
Does anybody know about any activities in Czech Republic related to GNU 30th anniversary? If there is anything planned, please let me know.
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I Forgot My Phone
This short YouTube movie illustrates in a nice way what I wrote about in my recent post about smartphones.
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20 years of Debian
Debian has celebrated its 20th anniversary last week. IIRC, I’ve installed Debian in 1995 for the first time, version 0.93R5. My very first GNU/Linux distribution was SLS (who knows today what it was?). I switched to Slackware soon and after some time I decided it might be a good idea to try something else once…
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Freedom on Android devices
If you care about freedom and you use Android based devices, please consider donating to FSF’s fundraising program for Replicant. Replicant is free (“free” as in “freedom”) replacement for Android; software freedom is very important on mobile devices. See the fundraising announcement for more information.
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Slaves of smartphones
I’ve been recently present in company of my colleagues for a week. My colleagues are all equipped with smartphones. Whenever and wherever we were doing something, it always ended up by half the people staring into their phones. Typically playing with them in some way as children like to do. Well, we’re an IT company…
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An interesting problem with an e-shop
I wanted to order something from a major Czech computer e-shop. When making the order I chose online payment as the payment method, was redirected to my bank, paid the order and then … nothing. My money was transferred and no order got created. I was without my money and without any order! I guess…