In response to the forced contribution article on till’s blog, I can only say the following:- The GPL does not force you to do anything, its like saying that Catholicism makes you go to Mass on Sunday. You only need to go to Mass on Sunday if you decide to join the Catholic faith, and …

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With Google’s Design Patent, you might be interested to look at these older search engines to see the similarity to Google. Lycos, AskJeeves, Dogpile, Excite, NorthernLight, InfoSeek, HotBot, Inktomi all bear a striking similarity in basic form and functionality to Google. PS: Thanks to Bos’un’s Mate for the links

Linux Mag article on really cool Apache 2.2 features

Cheap cloud storage, petabytes on a budget

Can this really work?

Dive into HTML5 is an online HTML5 reference manual under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. It will be published in print by O’Reilly Media.

http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

I’ve installed Ultimate Edition 2.2 (64bit) on one my new Phenom II X4 boxes, and will document my experience here, as I install it on the other one.

# aptitude install icedtea-gcjwebplugin

# aptitude install ia32-libs-gtk # dpkg -i –force-architecture –force-depends  skype-debian_2.1.0.47-1_i386.deb