what are we doing today, brain?

• The Invisible Closed Source Overhead
  “In this series of posts we will work our way through the closed source acquisition and maintenance path and have a look at some of the more obvious ones.” A really great post (and start of a series) by Brendan Scott.
  (tags: opensourcelaw brendanscott opensource closedsource foss)
• Behavioral Analysis of people in 1974
  “Everybody was kung fu fighting” Nice find by Conrad!
  (tags: kungfu humour funny)
• MSFTextrememakeover: Eight Years of Wrongness
  “Like many, I have been holding out hope that MSFT would gets its act together. In the first two fiscal quarters that looked like it might be happening. But then the wheels came off the wagon and it’s been down hill ever since.” An interesting read.
  (tags: microsoft business technology steveballmer vista windows)
• YouTube - WINDOWS VISTA AERO VS LINUX UBUNTU BERYL
  A really nice demo of both. The Ubuntu Compiz demo is seriously nice.
  (tags: desktop linux ubuntu vista video youtube fun)
• Stop whining about Wine printing! - Bend in the Weather
  A great blog post about how to print under WINE, using MYOB as the case in point. Thanks Matt Useful for all of us trying to help small businesses move to FOSS!
  (tags: mattbottrell myob linux printing wine)
• Making Windows 2003 TIFFs readable in Ubuntu - gar!
  “Technically, Ubuntu/Linux can view the multiple images embedded in the TIFF file, but it is a song and dance affair at the moment that is doable for a techno-dweeb, but not yet accessible to mere humans.” Thanks! This saved me today!
  (tags: microsoftissues tiff ubuntu graphics)

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