Adobe Flash Player

Something I seem to have neglected to mention in my posts about freedom is Adobe Flash. This is a facility that is available for Linux but the Adobe version, which is needed for YouTube etc, is not open source. This is another situation where I am torn about whether to stop using it or not. [...]

Some thoughts on Freedom – part 2

Ok, so I’ve been contemplating the practicality of adjusting my computer usage to reduce my “proprietory footprint” and I figured it was worth re-visiting this topic to mention the conclusions I’ve had so far. In order to do this I will address each of the forementioned issues and describe what I can see to do [...]

Home Server – Samba

I’ve been wanting to set up a server in my house for a while now and over the last year I’ve played with various services I could run to make the thing useful.
Back around the turn of the new year I learnt to set up a simple web server using apache (I say simple because [...]

Screenshot

Here’s a screenshot that was sent to me by my friend HUMPY, who is from Holland. I met HUMPY playing ET-F on the Kindergarten server back in 2006. In my geeky way I correctly guessed that he’s running SuSE 10.0…. In my defence I recognise it because I used it for a while. SuSE 10.0 [...]

Some thoughts on Freedom

I listen to a lot of podcasts, mainly about Linux, but also about computing technology and free software. When I first began using GNU/Linux operating systems it was for two reasons.
My first and primary reason is because it gave me an alternative to Microsoft Windows. I have been firmly against Microsoft OSs since I was [...]