Ekiga VoIP client on Windows
22 May 2008
In this post I install Ekiga, a leading free software Voice over IP client, on the Windows operating system.
New RSS feed, please update now!
13 May 2008
If you have signed up to my site's RSS feed, please update to http://commandline.org.uk/feeds/full/ as soon as possible. Then you will be sure not to miss any of my exciting adventures.
This main feed should work the same as the old one, however, I have provided a number of extra feed options. if that is your bag.
Linus Torvalds on ...
16 April 2008
Linus Torvalds writes the Linux kernel, he also likes a good mailing list flamewar, not least because he has a very sarcasatic wit. Here he is, writing about various topics.
OOXML: the end of the beginning.
06 April 2008
So ISO rubberstamped Microsoft's OOXML, a lame excuse for an 'open' format. Where do we go from here?
OOXML Vote Coverage
27 March 2008
This post aimed to keep track of the OOXML vote as the situation develops and more votes drip out. (It is all over now of course).
Include ODF support in the Linux Standard Base?
26 March 2008
Should the Linux Standard Base Desktop Specification provide a specified standard for office documents? I.e. should the Linux Standard Base specify OpenDocument for office documents as it specifies .PNG for bitmaps?
Countdown to OOXML decision
23 March 2008
So this coming week, we will find out whether Microsoft's ballot stuffing has been successful, i.e. whether ISO will OOXML as a document standard for all of the world.
Is Torchwood just too depressing?
21 March 2008
My review of the BBC TV programme Torchwood. Including, how does Captain Jack fare against Captain Kirk?
Confession: I secretly have another website on the side
26 February 2008
As regular readers will know, this site is about taking control of technology. Both in a practical sense, how to use some Linux program or some piece of Python code, but also more ethical issues such as open source software, free music, or how the government is trying to control and track us using digital technology.
Sometimes I get comments from the regulars when they think I have gone off topic or lost a few screws, the funniest ones are the complaint about talking about stylesheets and the complaint how to use MySQL, which to me seem on topic, but hey freedom of speech!
The Ultimate Home server?
23 January 2008
Background
So I have been using a home server running Gentoo Linux which I made from parts that I managed to scrounge for free from various people. I expected it to last for a few months but it has been on continuously for many years.
Network Solutions - Squat for the Win
09 January 2008
Front Running
Let us imagine an imaginary organisation asks a hypothetical stockbroker to buy a large number of shares, this may well cause the stock to rise in value.
2008 Predictions - Social networking becomes a protocol and the US election
07 January 2008
This post is part of a series where I try to make outlandish predictions for 2008. `Read the introduction for more details.`_
By the time you read this, a over a week will have passed and a week is a long time in politics. Maybe something will happen during the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries to shake things up a bit.
2008 Predictions - More Ubuntu users than OS X and more pre-installed Linux Desktops than Macs
04 January 2008
This post is part of a series where I try to make outlandish predictions for 2008. `Read the introduction for more details.`_
7. A single Linux distro, probably Ubuntu, will have more users than Mac OS X
2008 Predictions - Microsoft OS and the year of unencumbered music
03 January 2008
This post is part of a series where I try to make outlandish predictions for 2008. `Read the introduction for more details.`_
5. New Microsoft OS announcement
Akismet Blues
03 January 2008
I do like British chocolate, but it is hardly famous outside of our commonwealth, it being mostly composed of sugar, fat and 'non-milk solids', whatever they are (no I probably do not want to know). We had better not even mention American chocolate.
So that brings us to European chocolate.
2008 Predictions - GPLv3 and Linux Desktop rollouts in a Recession
03 January 2008
This post is part of a series where I try to make outlandish predictions for 2008. `Read the introduction for more details.`_
3. GPLv3 will become more widely adopted than GPLv2 for new projects
2008 Predictions - ODF and OpenMoko
02 January 2008
This post is part of a series where I try to make outlandish predictions for 2008. `Read the introduction for more details.`_
1. ODF becomes the default file format for Europe
2008 Predictions - in brief
02 January 2008
So, in the last post I scored my predictions for 2007, I got four correct, and two wrong. Not bad, but this year I plan on going even more crazy. It is more fun if we punt and fail than if we say something almost certain and then find out a year later that it is really certain.
Bremen Travel Snaps
20 December 2007
Hello Warriors, I'm back online after a two night stopover in Germany.
