10/06/08: Welcome litenverden.org
"Liten verden" is Norwegian for "small world". That's where we all live.
This little blog is intended to be a “lab book” for my activities with and learning about technology I find useful in building (or rebuilding) and sustaining a Free, open, and dynamic technical culture. That is a broad domain. Here, you will find articles on open cell telephony, open computing, Free culture, and, from time to time, sustainable life-style. I see all these things as related. I hope this will help people who are trying to understand and promote Free and open technology for whatever peaceful and just reason they may have.
The burden of dealing with spam and poisoned links in comments has forced me to close this blog to non-members. You can request membership by email. Decode my address below.
Frihet
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frihet dot 2 at
litenverden
dot org
This little blog is intended to be a “lab book” for my activities with and learning about technology I find useful in building (or rebuilding) and sustaining a Free, open, and dynamic technical culture. That is a broad domain. Here, you will find articles on open cell telephony, open computing, Free culture, and, from time to time, sustainable life-style. I see all these things as related. I hope this will help people who are trying to understand and promote Free and open technology for whatever peaceful and just reason they may have.
The burden of dealing with spam and poisoned links in comments has forced me to close this blog to non-members. You can request membership by email. Decode my address below.
Frihet
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frihet dot 2 at
litenverden
dot org
10/06/08: LibriVox And The EeePC
Check out http://librivox.org/. LibriVox is a community of audio book readers, editors, and listeners. From the website: "LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books."
I recently signed up and recorded a book section to see how it worked. It's pretty cool, I must say. Also cool was the way in which I recorded my section. I loaded Audacity on my Mandriva EeePC and connected it to a Samson C01U USB microphone. Yep, I connected the PC to the microphone. The mic is bigger than the PC.
The combination makes a good recording rig. The EeePC is cheap, takes up little room, requires very little power, and makes almost no noise. Audacity is LibriVox's most popular recording tool (open source, works well). What better way to make public domain recordings than with Free and open software?
Frihet
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I recently signed up and recorded a book section to see how it worked. It's pretty cool, I must say. Also cool was the way in which I recorded my section. I loaded Audacity on my Mandriva EeePC and connected it to a Samson C01U USB microphone. Yep, I connected the PC to the microphone. The mic is bigger than the PC.
The combination makes a good recording rig. The EeePC is cheap, takes up little room, requires very little power, and makes almost no noise. Audacity is LibriVox's most popular recording tool (open source, works well). What better way to make public domain recordings than with Free and open software?
Frihet
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04/12/08: More Real Linux On The EeePC (Mandriva)
After trying eeeXubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and two flavors of Mandriva One 2008.1, I replaced the Mandriva One KDE RC2 I was running with the official Mandriva 2008.1 Gnome release. As I had thought it would be, Mandriva is the "real" Linux way to go for the EeePC. The installation was textbook. Everything including WPA2-PSK wireless worked -- with native drivers.
03/25/08: A Force To Be Ignored
I was reading an article about Microsoft's patent strategy at Linux Today this morning. It got me thinking, so here is one of my infrequent philosophical posts.
In the United States, the best strategy is to see Microsoft not as a force to be reckoned with, but a force to be ignored. There is little hope for just action from U.S. legislative bodies, the dysfunctional USPTO, or the Justice Department. This is not unusual. Even a light reading of European and American history tells us that only rarely has government really served the interests of the people in the regulation of commerce. In the United States, this is not one of those rare times.
In the United States, the best strategy is to see Microsoft not as a force to be reckoned with, but a force to be ignored. There is little hope for just action from U.S. legislative bodies, the dysfunctional USPTO, or the Justice Department. This is not unusual. Even a light reading of European and American history tells us that only rarely has government really served the interests of the people in the regulation of commerce. In the United States, this is not one of those rare times.
03/22/08: Real Linux On An EeePC (Ubuntu)
I have had an EeePC Surf 4G for two weeks now. I fired it up to see what the Xandros Linux distribution looked like and decided that was not for me. For two reasons. First, Xandros, like SUSE, has drunk the Microsoft "kool-aid", (1) and second, because it is not a clean GPL product. It may not even be GPL compliant where GPL software is used (it's unclear). (2,3) I found clicking the "I agree" button on the license agreement really hard to do -- even if it was only to see what Xandros had done.
11/22/07: Android Philosophy
I found and interesting post about Google's Android project this morning on ZDNet.co.uk (1). I am aware of the "openness" debate going on in the FOSS phone community about Android at this time. Even if it is not perfect, Android seems to offer good organization, good tools, and a large, focused and communicative community. It is a step in the right direction and certainly has a chance to catch on. This post offers an opportunity to read what Android's creator, Andy Rubin, thinks about the project.
Frihet
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Frihet
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- http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39291001,00.htm
11/18/07: OpenMoko GTA01 USB Networking
Category: OpenMoko GTAO1
Posted by: Frihet
Following is my networking checklist. It is crude, but it works for me.
11/17/07: Flashing OpenMoko GTA01
Category: OpenMoko GTAO1
Posted by: Frihet
This is my checklist for flashing an OpenMoko GTA01 image (rootfs and kernel). The steps will also work with Qtopia images. This is a living document and may change from time to time.
