Are your Firefox extensions proprietary software?

01 June 2008

Look up the licenses of your Firefox extenstions, you might find that some of them, such as the StumbleUpon Toolbar, are not free software/open source at all, they are proprietary software,

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Will Epiphany be able to compete with Firefox's extensions?

31 May 2008

Can the forthcoming Epiphany browser based on Webkit compete on GNOME when Firefox has so many extensions?

In this post I look through Firefox's extensions to try work out how many extensions Epiphany would really need to satisfy most GNOME users.

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Firefox is your nanny?

22 May 2008

Firefox 3 now requires extension authors to submit their extensions to Mozilla for approval or to setup SSL. Firefox 3 refuses to install an unauthorised extension.

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Epiphany and Webkit 2008

18 May 2008

In this post I compile and try out the Epiphany browser with the WebKit backend to see how the boys are getting on.

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Swap out your ssh keys

14 May 2008

This post explains how to replace your existing SSH keys with new ones. This is relevant in light of a recent Debian/Ubuntu bug in the random number generator.

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Give Linux a chance

12 May 2008

In this introductory article, I try to write accessibly about why you should try another operating system than Windows, you might even like it!

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Twitter and GNOME integration

10 April 2008

This is part two of our look at using Python with the API of the Twitter social networking website. In this post, we make twitter updates pop-up on a Linux desktop.

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Backing up my laptop

15 February 2008

To my surprise, my laptop has become my primary computer. With my old Fujitsu and my Macbook, I still made a remote connection to my desktop and worked there. However, with my Thinkpad, I have finally found a laptop that I am happy with, I think it is down to the quality of the keyboard. Working locally means I need to back the system up.

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Office Software for Linux

20 January 2008

Are you thinking about moving your computer to Linux, but worried about living without office software? Well don't be. Linux has lots of its own office software.

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OpenMoko vs iPhone - Free your phone or Fight your phone?

13 January 2008

Hello Everyone, I am rather busy at the moment so I am going to pull out some posts from my drafts folder that I never got around to publishing, so the subjects might be in a rather random order or discuss old issues but you are used to that I'm sure! Let's start with a comparison between the iPhone and the OpenMoko Neo1973-GTA02 FreeRunner.

For more on this topic, you can see my `Smart Phones and Devices`_ series.

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How to setup an HTTP proxy with privoxy and an SSH tunnel

21 December 2007

Introduction

After the last post, John Reese wrote in with a number of suggestions. I'll deal with one in this post and later we can iterate around again as we try out his other idea.

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How to setup an HTTP proxy with privoxy

21 December 2007

Introduction

Lets say, theoretically speaking, that a person wanted to access a service that is IP restricted to their home country, but they were currently abroad.

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The Challenge: Encrypt your laptop's /home directory before Christmas

12 December 2007

The reason: people lose laptops

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Encrypt your /home this Christmas: part one - background

08 December 2007

Laptops can get lost and stolen. Besides the inconvenience and cost of replacing it, there is the potential for your personal data to end up in the hands of an identity thief.

I have not finished everything I need to do so I am taking my new laptop with me over the Christmas holidays. This reminded me that it was about time that I encrypted my /home directory. In this article I will explain how I did it. It took a little trial and error, but the good news it that now I have figured out the theory, the process is surprisingly easy.

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It is called Linux, not GNU/Linux, get over it

22 November 2007

What is the operating system that I use called? I along with 99% of the human race, call it 'Linux' when speaking. However, when writing, I often use the term "GNU/Linux" the first time in an article to appease those who use this term. Today I decided to actually think about the issue.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet."

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The One Laptop per Child (in Gold)

11 November 2007

*I have been enjoying a visit of a family member and so have been off computers for a few days. This post was written last Thursday. *

System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 1); backlink

Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.

Mass production of the One Laptop Per Child XO Machine has begun according the the Beeb, congratulations to everyone involved with the project.

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My New Laptop - ThinkPad x61s

06 November 2007

Since my Macbook was stolen in July, I have been meaning to buy a new laptop since the insurance money came, but I just never got around to it, until last week.

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Command Line Warriors is about taking control of your own technology, it looks at our experiences of computing; especially using GNU/Linux, the Python programming language, the command-line and issues such as techno-ethics, best practices and whatever is cool now. If you take control of your technology then you are a Warrior too!

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July 18, 2008
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Shame on Mozilla. They should make developers specify the extension license before hosting it. They should show the license next to download button as well.
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July 7, 2008
> Eventually, after a bit of digging and Googling, I found their Toolbar-License... You simply found the license of the StumbleUpon Toolbar for Internet Explorer. This is another product, much ...
Are your Firefox extensions proprietary software?

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