If you’re powerful and losing market share because you can’t innovate, litigate. Microsoft have decided to attack TomTom who are a European-based GPS provider. But the attack is also a proxy assault on Linux which TomTom uses in their product. Keep an eye on this one as it goes through the courts.
Archive > February 2009
Katmouse and Twitterfeed
Actually this is more a post to test if twitterfeed plays nice. Twitterfeed is a nice simple tool to take these blog posts via RSS and throw them on twitter thereby informing more about my deep and meaningful posts, witty commentary and sheer good looks. Or something. However I thought I’d throw in a short [...]
Barcamp Adelaide 2009
Went to an interesting event on Saturday. It was a Barcamp in Adelaide which is something I’ve heard about from Meatball and others but never attended myself. A Barcamp is a rather informal meeting of a modest group of people who have the common thread. In Adelaide’s case it was a strong interest in technology. [...]
Easy Wine
For those of you who are new to Linux, and the dreaded command line (CLI) in particular, you can use wine in the try and pray mode. As I’ve said before around ¼ of games will work like that. However to get a higher success rate and an easier installation process you should consider using [...]
Wine 1.1.14
I’m going to introduce WINE which is all about running Windows based applications on Linux and other operating systems, such as the Mac. WINE is open source. The ability to use Windows based applications is very useful for many Linux users. For new users this mitigates the learning curve of so many new applications at [...]