What would I really like to see in Dropbox? Signed binaries!

2009-05-25 22:00 No Comments
A few months ago, I asked the Identi.ca community what I could use to (more or less) securely synchronize my documents across the three major platforms (Linux, Mac OS X and Windows), for free. I was introduced to Dropbox. On a recent episode of Security Now!, Steve Gibson mentioned a neat freeware tool for Windows called prio. ...

Got a look at the Gdium Liberty 1000 at FOSSLC

2009-05-22 9:15 No Comments
Last week I attended the Free / Open-source Software Learning Centre's (FOSSLC) SummerCamp 2009. Among the many interesting, informative seminars was a talk on the Gdium Liberty, a (nearly) completely free and open source notebook computer: Besides the many advantages of open-source, it also happens to be solid-state and cleverly modular: the black protrusion below the ...

Linux laboratory

2009-05-19 9:08 No Comments
A Linux laboratory (next to the Fibre optic lab) at Algonquin College I spotted while at FOSSLC SummerCamp 2009. Why doesn't every school have one of these?