Identica doesn’t have spam. Spam from companies. Spam from posters being forced to spam their contacts for some stupid contest
Identica can survive a denial of service attack. During a recent attack on the internet Identica kept humming along while Twitter and Facebook ground to a halt. Identica follows a distributed model
Identica is completely open. Anybody […]
After successfully suing Dish Network for $104 million last year Tivo is now suing Verizon and AT&T over alleged DVR patent infringements. While I am no patent attorney I find this development pretty disturbing. Tivo was an early innovator in the digital recording device market but now has much stiffer competition. Satellite and cable companies […]
Big news coming from the MythTV developer mailing list. MythTV 0.22 will be released the last week of September unless something major gets in the way. The developers will be going into a feature freeze on Sept. 7 and working on bug fixes prior to the official release. I have to say I’m very excited […]
Linux related podcasts come and go. People start producing their shows for various reasons. Some are in it to become “famous” and/or make some money off of it. Some people love the F/OSS community and just want to contribute in some way. It IS a great community. Who wouldn’t want to be part of it? […]
Someone emailed me asking where I got the case for my new Zotac Ion MythTV frontend. I got the case from Mini-box which has a nice selection of components for building small form factor computers (both mini-atx and smaller). Here’s a full cost breakdown of the Zotac box:
Zotac Ion AU Motherboard with dual core N330 […]
The case for the Zotac Ion box finally arrived late Friday and I was happily surprised at the quality of it. I was expecting a cheap plastic case similiar to an external drive case you see at swap meets. In fact the case was all metal except for a face plate covering the front usb […]