Too Far Afield

ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux

Less Watts – Saving power with Linux on Intel platforms (see also: PowerTOP)

ATI’s new open source strategy and Ubuntu

Ubuntu Xorg maintainer demonstrates bulletproof X, which is an easy way to fix your X server configuration, if X failed to start with your current configuration. Configuring X was one of my first Linux annoyances after switching from Windows to Debian.

Sanity check: How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software and How Microsoft conquered China [via p.m.o]

GraphThing is a tool that allows you to create, manipulate and study graphs.

Truth Happens.

Mike Shaver of Mozilla asks: Why wouldn’t you choose the web, given its record and power and openness?

Dell to offer Ubuntu [via p.u.c]

The Graphing Calculator Story is another example of the infamous Subvert from within! philosophy.

Bruce Schneier on the Non-Terrorist Embarrassment in Boston

Operation Cold Comfort Successful

How to hire Guillaume Portes or what you should better avoid, if you really intended to write an open standard. This is about OOXML by the way [via p.g.o].

Microsoft redefines Free Software [via p.g.o]

Interview with Mike Melanson, lead engineer on the Linux Flash Player team [via Jeff Waugh (p.g.o)]

Good crisis management: Anatomy of a(n ongoing) Disaster

So you want to stream a conference? Read that article.

If you’ve got an IBM motion sensor in your laptop, you can do cool things with Compiz.

It’s not happening here, but now! Pictures of the new amnesty international ad campaign [via Jason]

Keeps bloggers awake at night: Das “Heise-Urteil”. Pauschale Haftung für Kommentare und Forenbeiträge? Die Analyse im Lawblog.