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Archive for October, 2007

Deceiving checksums

Posted in checksums, linux on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ever tried to copy a file or burn a CD, only to find out that the copy seems just fine, but not according to the checksum? Sometimes it’s worth digging a bit deeper: (or so it seems to me as a geek) ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/hda2/ISO$ cat md5sum.txt d2334dbba7313e9abc8c7c072d2af09c ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/hda2/ISO$ dd if=/dev/hdd | md5sum 1425008+0 records in [...]

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Microsoft Linux? (Soon in more versions than Vista!)

Posted in linux, microsoft, patents on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Microsoft apparently does not think all the versions of Windows Vista provide enough choice for the market. So, to ensure a better selection, they now seem to be looking at Linux systems as well: SuSE from Novell; Xandros; Linspire; and finally Turbolinux. Given these announcements of patent agreements (“protections”), I’m sure said distributors won’t “notice” [...]

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Small victory for web accessibility

Posted in accessibility, www on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The Register reports that a California judge has allowed a class action response against target.com for discrimination against blind users. The website was claimed to be unusable with screen readers, which could be in violation of federal and state laws. While changes have been made to the site recently, the matter can now be pursued [...]

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Microsoft, you are a winner!

Posted in ffii, microsoft, ooxml on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Dear Microsoft, I’d like to present my own invitation to you, on an informal note: my association, the FFII, has just announced the winner of a 2,488 Euro award for lobbying against OOXML. Given that several nominees did not wish for money, and considering the energy you (as the original author) have spent to discredit [...]

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