Voting with your dollar
4 Oct 2010 2:12am GMT <rant>There are many ways you can support open source projects. You can write code, you can help out other users, submit bug reports. Ubuntu has a great wiki page as to how you can contribute and many other open source projects do as well. And really the best way you can contribute is to get [...]
Alive and Well (Just Busy)!
25 Feb 2010 2:52am GMT It has been ages since I last posted, and for that I am sorry, but I have kept up with my twitter and identica accounts. Things have been moving really fast for me of late and as a result my blogging has slipped. So whats new in the world of earobinson? I am now working [...]
Ubuntu Shirts
9 Nov 2009 3:45pm GMT Hot off the press, get yours now at the Ubuntu store. Congratulations to everyone on the release of the Karmic Koala (late I know but I wanted to wait till I got my shirt)! And here is a picture of me modeling my Ubuntu shirts (and I know I look grumpy I was focusing on [...]
vrms: 16 non-free packages, 0.9% of 1712 installed packages.
12 Sep 2009 3:20pm GMT Well yet another meem on planet ubuntu, and so without further ado: earobinson@MinusOne:/media/data/personal/hackergotchi$ vrms Non-free packages installed on MinusOne fglrx-modaliases Identifiers supported by the ATI graphics driver linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels nvidia-173-modaliases Modaliases for the...
8 Open Source Websites I Use, and 2 I Don’t
5 Sep 2009 7:25pm GMT I love lists, and I love open source software. Whats more I find that I am using more and more open source websites in my daily life. Without further ado here are 8 open source websites I use: # Site Comment Source 1 Wikipedia Great free encyclopedia Source 2 Reddit Social news site, similar to [...]