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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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W3C and DRM
Yes, DRM technologies are defective by design. They make problems to legal customers, preventing them to use the content they paid for in normal ways like viewing or playing it on any device they own or using their favorite and trusted software. They are also exposed to privacy issues. On the other hand those who […]
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Let’s stop DRM in HTML5
Please consider signing the petition to stop DRM in HTML5. EFF provides information about the problems of the proposed W3C standard. The petition should be signed before May 3rd.
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Need for democracy in social networking
I’ve read a newspaper article about closed accounts on Facebook. They wrote about incidents such as blocking an account of an activist due to complaints deliberately submitted by his political opponents, or permanent closing of an account based on Facebook detection of posting copyrighted images despite the images were actually copyrighted by the account owner […]
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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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ZFS user
I decided that it is a good idea to replace my complicated hard drive setup utilizing parted + mdadm + vg* + lv* + mkfs + fsck + fstab + whatever else with just zpool + zfs. Let’s run zpool once and then create and manage file systems without artificial constraints, without unnecessary administration overhead […]
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System reinstallation
Linux Containers became unable to start after host system boot on one of my machines. They started fine on boot but any later attempts to start any of them failed with a weird message Invalid argument – pivot_root syscall failed. I couldn’t get help on that and obvious actions like trying to stop some daemons […]
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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.