Byebye Skype for Linxu and Android

So Microsoft bought Skype. I guess that means the Skype clients for Linux and Android will be even more neglected (or removed) and Windows M...Read more »

Is the Linux Desktop getting slower and more bloated?

In his "failure of logic" post "K. Mandla" writes that the Linux Desktop is not getting faster even though all the hard...Read more »

Why Not Scale the CPU on Schedule?

Usually e.g. CPU frequency scaling works mostly by seeing how much of the CPU is utilized and then reacting by setting the frequency to a ce...Read more »

The Second Biggest Android Market Problem

The biggest problem is that Android's Market is hard to grasp, as there is so much stuff in there and people can pretty much post anythi...Read more »

Understanding the Necessity of Wayland

Questioning the necessity for Wayland and the wiseness of the choice has become a phenomena, especially after Mark Shuttleworth annouced ...Read more »

Learning with Android

Learning flash cards with your mobile phone would be great, especially when you're on your way e.g. to work or uni.  With OpenCards, the...Read more »

What Linux means for the Consumer - Drivers, Open Source and Support

When a consumer installs a Linux system, this has various consequences for him, which are sometimes hard to estimate at first. I've writ...Read more »

Refreshing Linux Group Rights

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think there is no other way to let your system know that you e.g. are now member of another group than logging...Read more »

The Essence of Open Source

Imagine your computer breaks down. It doesn't power on anymore. Now imagine you're not allowed to open it and the only person who ma...Read more »

Mpeg Artifacts

I wonder why mpeg decoders always produce artifacts (bad blocks) when decoding a stream with errors. Shouldn't there be a much better wa...Read more »

Amazon MP3

Amazon's MP3 Service does it right and brings support not only for Windows and Mac OS X, but also for all major Linux distributions incl...Read more »

The Infallible Ticket Machine - When Machines Do Make Mistakes

The LinuxJournal posted a great article about good and bad consequences of technology . I have had similar thoughts. What people may forget ...Read more »

Customized Linux Message Notification, I Wish I Had

After writing an alias that shows me what's currently going on in my system ( tail -f /var/log/..., ~/.xsession-errors, ... ) I've w...Read more »

TV International?

I still wonder why TV is not really international yet. We have endless countries with interesting TV channels. Especially US channels would ...Read more »

Automatic Monitor Brightness Control

Why isn't there a software that controls your monitor's brightness level automatically. E.g. if you have a webcam, you could use it ...Read more »

Javascript innovations - How will Opera react?

Until now it seemed Opera was the most innovative Browser out there: Tabs, Browser Sync, "Magic" Input bar, ... Opera had it first...Read more »

Midori

If you want to try out a browser that uses webkit in Linux, just try out midori. It's not a lot like chrome, though. It's not as fas...Read more »

Arjan van de Ven Interview

As I mentioned in my last post, O'Reilly interviewed him and it's a quite interesting read. I only disagree on one point. He says ...Read more »

Registration Hell

I know this is an old hat: You have to register for everything. Then came OpenID to the rescue. Only that it's so complicated to actuall...Read more »