Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Blog upgrade

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Today, I finally got round to upgrading to WordPress 2.2 -- yay me. It was about time really, since this site was stuck in 1.5 for ages. Now I'll have less spam to deal with on this blog, which will be a big relief. Coming soon: a new look to ...

Debian GNU/Linux on my ASUS M5623N

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

After trying and failing to get X going on this laptop with a BLAG install I decided to fall back to the tried and tested distro - Debian. For this install, I used a Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge) snapshot CD from 21st October 2004. I booted from the CD typing ...

Commies and pirates

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

This is the first of my flat file reading list imports. Over the last year and a half, I have been storing the URLs of online articles I've read in a text file to keep a record of my reading. Almost everything news oriented I read made its way into ...

The Limits of Free Software

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

I wrote this essay back in 2004 as a follow up to another on the connections between Free Software and anarchism. It seemed a logical continuation on the theme. It was originally published in the March 2004 issue of the (seemingly late) online journal Tangentium. Another one I only got ...

The Free Software Movement – Anarchism in Action

Monday, December 22nd, 2003

I wrote this essay back in 2003 and it was originally published on Indymedia UK back in December 2003 (see that link for some discussion of the piece). It was also published in Freedom newspaper sometime in 2004. For some reason, I did not get around to posting here on my ...