Posted January 26, 2010 at 10:08pm
“How many of you have broken no laws this month?”
There are too many laws, and the wrong things are illegal. Drugs, sexual publications, hiring a housekeeper and not paying Social Security, jaywalking, loitering, nontraditional sex or marriage, paying someone less than a government-set wage, not wearing motorcycle helmets, owning or wearing guns, choosing your own medicines, designing or constructing your own house, owning software that can copy DVDs, exporting cryptography, driving at the same speed as the rest of the traffic; all these things should be legal. What laws have YOU broken this month?
Any country that makes every citizen a felon is heading for real trouble. We need to reform the legislative system that keeps producing too many of the wrong laws. I first said this in a speech to the First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in 1991.
— John Gilmore, Entrepreneur and Civil Libertarian - http://www.toad.com/gnu/
Posted January 19, 2010 at 10:00pm
Posted January 19, 2010 at 9:47pm
sushi, uh? download packages for offline linux install
Hi,
Years ago, especially running rpm oses, I was travelling around cd-rws downloading packages from rpmfind or full installs, to satisfy my “dependences”. Today I found sushi, uh? by lifehacker and a mailing list I’v discovered.
I’ts very useful with awful wifi drivers that turns your distro unusable on our 2.0’s lifes. Can solve a driver problem with python and your friend’s compy :D
Posted January 12, 2010 at 8:00pm
ubiquity + calendar
When I am lucid, I remember to save time with ubiquity for my firefox’s usage. My first uses, was update twitter status, but today it’s time for easy google calendar use.
Just select text, launch ubiquity (my shortcut is shift+space), start typing word of “calendar” (cale..) and press enter.
result:
there are 80 commands included for webservices or other stuff, and easy scriptable to add new one using API and share with others. With a little of practice you can save a lot of browser time.
