Monthly Archives: February 2009

Liberating the cloud one block at the time

Posted on 27 February, 2009 by Stef

The issue is how to bring the values of free software community to the cloud. According to reports from Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Bradley Kuhn‘s speech has addressed the issue.’  I hope he will include it in the next … Continue reading →

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Pimp your addressbook with Avatargrabber

Posted on 17 February, 2009 by Stef

Who said that syncing is boring? Alfredo Morresi developed the ultimate time-wasting-syncing-social-tool to pimp your addressbook. Did you know that your phone and desktop addressbook can associate an icon to any of your entries? But, honestly, who has ever wanted … Continue reading →

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How long will it take for spammers to harvest this address?

Posted on 12 February, 2009 by Stef

Collabnet updated its discussion service on Funambol Forge so that now the archives hide the full email addresses of members using a simple obfuscation in the html code through a javascript function.’  Apparently there is no silver bullet to stop … Continue reading →

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Everybody loves forums… or do they really?

Posted on 10 February, 2009 by Stef

I often find web-based forums difficult to participate to. Most of the times the graphic interfaces are too rich, clogged with unnecessary information, visually tirening and distracting. Usually they have too many categories to chose from the start page, threads … Continue reading →

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Two days to comment on TLS-authz standard to IETF

Posted on 9 February, 2009 by Stef

Patent encumbered standards are the worst because they seem legit, but instead they can easily become incompatible with Free/Libre Open Source Software.’  Free Software Foundation campaign is alerting the community to act fast: Last January, the Free Software Foundation issued … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-02-05

Posted on 5 February, 2009 by stefano

Monty says: Time to move on MySQL founder leaves Sun. "The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed" (tags: sun opensource development monty mysql) A job does not … Continue reading →

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links for 2009-02-03

Posted on 3 February, 2009 by stefano

Stimulus stimulates crowdsourced oversight, activism – Ars Technica We should setup something like this in Italy. (tags: government democrazia stimulus transparency democracy) Italian red-light cameras rigged with shorter yellow lights – Ars Technica Italians do everything better, scam included. "Italian … Continue reading →

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