As a boy I made cipher wheels with paper cutouts, hiding the location of buried treasure was never so much fun. [image courtesy of Wikipedia] Cryptography comes from the need for privacy, and once upon a time I wrote a nice story about the privacy issues in social networking. In short: Facebookâs privacy policy was [...]
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Linux version 3.0
May 30th, 2011 
Wez The last two lines in my .bashrc file prints out a fortune, and displays my kernel version, in every terminal I open. I see 2.6 regularly, more often and more relevant than my birthday. *Linux is turning version 3.0* Close enough to GNU / Linux’s 20th birthday, Linux is turning 3.0-rc1. So what’s new? Well, [...]
Tags: Linux users contribute twice as much as Windows
June 21st, 2010 Wez Interesting. Wolfire games released a bundle of games where you can decide how much to pay, and on average Linux users contribute twice as much as Windows users.
LQ Choice Awards for 2009
February 10th, 2010 Wez LinuxQuestions.org run polls every year, where members get to vote for their best Linux apps. Now anyone cries wolf over missing choices, which seems to be the opposite extreme of being sensible on the net, know that you can make a difference by getting involved on the forums, and suggest those choices to the moderators [...]
Double-plus good for Creative Commons
November 16th, 2009 Wez Canonical doubled donations towards Creative Commons, by matching whatever amount was donated during a week period, up to a max of 3 grand. Nice job Canonical! If you’re a fan of creative freedom, then consider supporting CC :)
