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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 […]
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Using Firefox
I’ve been using Uzbl Web browser for a couple of years. But I’ve recently switched to Firefox. Why? I was using various Gecko based Web browsers before switching to Uzbl, most notably Conkeror. Being annoyed by Gecko problems, switching to a flexible WebKit-based Web browser was a big relief. But things have changed through the […]
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Buggy bug handling
I’ve experienced an especially nasty MythTV bug. It took me significant effort to diagnose the problem and to find the corresponding place in the source code. I decided to report the bug. Looking at the MythTV BTS I’ve found the bug has already been reported but without further explanation and without any attention from the […]