Here were the demiblog links for December: If your kid got shot by the cops, you'd want compensation, too. This family wants some money and a memorial statue at Disneyland Robbers only get "small amount of cash" at bus stop robbery, which is suprising, since people who take the bus usu...

I see this all the time in the online linux press.  It’s pretty funny, especially as no one has really managed to define what `year of linux’ or `year of the linux desktop’ actually means. Here’s a new one for you: there will be no year of linux. Yes, you heard it here at Th...

I wrote it before in my blog, but once (when i was young and wild) i threw a sales rep out of my office, who tried to get into the account (me) by FUDing their competitor. I was responsible for an project in the range of 10 Million Euro, thus i assume they got to much "Deutsche Mark" signs in their ...

A next-generation package manager called Nix provides a simple distribution-independent method for deploying a binary or source package on different flavours of Linux, including Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Fedora, and Red Hat. Even better, Nix does not interfere with existing package managers. Unlike exis...

A next-generation package manager called Nix provides a simple distribution-independent method for deploying a binary or source package on different flavours of Linux, including Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Fedora, and Red Hat. Even better, Nix does not interfere with existing package managers. Unlike exis...

Posted by kdawson (83% noise) View Skip LinuxScribe writes “From Apple’s ubiquitous ‘I’m a Mac,’ to Jerry Seinfeld, to Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ retort, operating system commercials have been flooding the airways. Except that Linux is the one OS tha...

Reposting from Neary Consulting: This is an article accompanying the presentation I gave at MAPOS 08 in London on December 9th 2008. Moving the Mobile industry from purchasing to co-development in free software communities Recently, Matt Aslett wrote an article about the way that attitudes to free s...

Most importantly, when designing graphics for your las vegas gaming entertainment project, don’t forget that logos and brand creatives should easily recreated on standard print media and promotional items. Willmarth Neighbor, director of Mainstream Media at the famous Claudia Jenny Marketing C...

When Dries (co)started his company he made sure not to step on any of the those of the community and the commercial ecosystem around Drupal. Dries stated he wanted to play it nice and offer commercial services around Drupal that would be good for Drupal, for the community, the Drupal companies that ...

The Linux file system hierarchy is much different than that of Windows. So much so that it becomes a show stopper for many new users. I hope to clear up a lot of the confusion here and now at gHacks. So, without further adieu, I give you the Linux file system hierarchy. / - This is the base, or root...