Archive for the 'Politics' Category

MP3Tunes and EMI

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

An e-mail dumped into my inbox today, from the CEO of the MP3Tunes service, that I use for backing up my music collection. It stated that EMI claimed that this use was illegal and had sued MP3Tunes (this happened a while ago, I know). This isn’t even a case of so-called “piracy” that you claim [...]

Why GNA! is better than Savannah

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

In the beginning there was…blah, okay I won’t go that far. Though, the first host provider I used was SourceForge.net. I used that for three projects:
GFSGL, GFSI and GoldenFiles. Mostly random stuff there, not too large projects.
Then one day I thought about this and well, using a proprietary website to produce and manage a [...]

Where is the madness police?!

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Okay, I was just made aware of the Brazillian Mandriva store by Claudio. The DARNED THING USES ASP! AFAIK it isn’t Mandriva that runs it (duh), but STILL!
For a little more clarification:

[0 zerodogg@drizzt html]$ HEAD mandrivastore.com.br
…junk…
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
…junk…
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Someone tell me I’m dreaming! *cries*

I see a gnome on the horizon!

Friday, December 16th, 2005

If you haven’t heard about Linus’ little outbreak on the gnome ML yet then I think you should get out from that rock and back to the real world (either that or you’re one of the few non-geeks that happen to pass by my blog :).
I like GNOME, but I don’t use it. I [...]

EFN

Friday, December 16th, 2005

EFN stands for “Elektronisk Forpost Norge”, or in English, “Electronic Frontier Norway”.
EFF’s cusin in Norway.
I’ve been voted (I think it was a vote) to become a member of the board of EFN as a representative for EFNU (EFN Youth). This will hopefully be fun, productive and interesting. One thing is certain, there’s a LOT to [...]

“Trusted” computing? I don’t trust it.

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

If you’re reading on Planet Mandriva then you’re probably tired of hearing of this but for those that aren’t here goes.
There’s an excellent animation about so called “trusted computing” up at http://www.lafkon.net/tc/. Or, if you’re lazy, here’s a direct link to a “super high” quality XviD.

Finally… Victory! :o

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Finally the Norwegian government is changing. The socialist side won, of which I am extremely happy. SV, of which I am a member, did not get as many votes as we hoped for, but still I am happy. AP did extremely good, of which I can nothing but congratulate them. Currently it appears that we’re [...]

The Norwegian election - vote SV

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

If you live in Norway and are uncertain of what to vote then this might give you a hand. I am a socialist, and a member of SV.
So if you’re uncertain, please think about someone other than only yourself like the right hand side wants you to.
There are more important things than cheap gasoline and [...]