Curious about FLOSS?

Slashdot has a review of Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. If you were interested in learning more about FLOSS, take a look at this book. You can read the entire book online at the link of the book (the link you just passed). If you really like the content, pick […]

Got SD? Get this!

DeviceForge has an article about a new SD flash memory card that converts to a USB memory stick. No adapters required.
Personally I don’t have any use for SD - *curse* *curse* Sony *curse* MemoryStick - but if you do, keep a look out for this new device from SanDisk this quarter.

Which mini?

I’ve been looking at building a PVR. I planned on using an Hauppauge card, in an AMD based system, running Linux and MythTV, in a nice small and quiet Shuttle XPC.
But with Apple’s release of the Mac mini (Mm), there is a smaller, quieter, cooler, and cheaper option. Adding a Plextor ConvertX […]

CUSEC 2005 - Day 1

Day 1 of CUSEC 2005 is complete. The opening keynote, by J.B. Rainsberger, started the conference off with a good talk about group work and some of the issues that arise.
Chris Ness gave a clear explanation of Subversion in his half hour tutorial.
It was great to see many peers from the other Universities […]

Jetta TDI fuel consumption

After 4566km the Jetta has almost reached the end of its “break-in” and I will see the fuel consumption drop (so I’m told). So what better time to post the first round of numbers.
Up to today:
Total KM: 4566.5
Total Liters of diesel: 321.901
Consumption:
14.2 KM/L
7.0 L/100KM
33.4 MPG (US gallon)
This results in an approximate fuel cost savings […]

Last day for donation matching

Today is the last day for the matching of private fund donations to tsunami relief by the federal government. Please give if you can to one of the organizations listed below.

Diesel better than gas-hybrids

Volkswagen Chief Executive Bernd Pischetsrieder is pushing for further development of higher fuel economy car using diesel engines over the much more complicated, and less efficient than expected, hybrid engines.
Here is the story.
Much can be said for the benefits of diesel over gasoline powered engines. The North American market cannot seem to want to […]

Zed Open Sourced

Zed is progressive CBC production that bills itself as “Open Source Television”. It airs weekdays after the 11 pm National news broadcast. This evening Zed aired the documentary “Revolution OS”, a 2002 production investigating the hackers at the centre of the Free/Open Source Software community, and their rebellion against proprietary software.
In appreciation of […]

Right to know or not to know

Where does journalism’s right to inform cross the line of an individual’s right to privacy? Does such a line exsit?
In today’s Toronto Star, the list of missing Canadians from the December 26th tsunami was published. The Star’s editor-in-chief Giles Gherson was on CBC Radio1 this morning attempting to justify the paper’s actions […]