It sure looks like the trial on The Pirate Bay will have to be redone. While the verdict still isn’t final until the appeals have either been accepted or rejected, copyright lobbies are using it as pressure material to shut down smaller trackers and filesharing communities in Sweden and elsewhere. …
After upgrading from Intrepid (8.10) to Jaunty (9.04) I noticed a noticeable performance hit, in 2d and 3d applications on my Ubuntu system, running a (rather crappy) Intel 945GM mobile graphics chip. After poking around on the Ubuntu forums I found this thread. The problem seems to be the switch …
Here’s a quick tip on how to draw dotted lines in The Gimp (Open-source Photoshop alternative). I stumbled upon it when I was trying to draw a cut-out line for some promotional design I was making last night. Instructions based on Gimp 2.6.6 behind the cut!
If the judge was involved in three major copyright organisations, with members including several of the prosecutors, how unbiased can his judgement be? Hit the image for fail-graph. (see Torrentfreak for more details) And more importantly, why didn’t this news break earlier … Peter Sunde’s lawyer has already appealed for …
“Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.” Mark Getty, chairman of Getty Images, one of the world’s largest Intellectual Proprietors.
At 11 AM this morning, the Swedish court declared the verdict in the The Pirate Bay trial: all four defendants found guilty, a hefty fine ($3,620,000) and one year jail time for each of them. After following the trial closely for 2 weeks on this blog, I can only conclude …
After a few months of uncomfortable silence, it’s official now: the mod project I’m involved in, Nuclear Dawn, goes retail. The new team (Interwave Studios) obtained a Source engine license, and kicked off the fresh start for the project with a lengthy post and some new media. Exciting times ahead! …
Yesterday, I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu installation from Intrepid Impatient Ibex (8.10) to Jaunty Jackalope (9.04). I recklessly went update-manager -d and just let it run. Backups are for wimps, real men save their data the moment the shit hits the fan. Even when there’s still 12 days of …
There’s been a lot of fuzz about a recently a new service called OnLive (also see Rock, Paper, Shotgun article) which claims to be able to stream high-end videogames to subscriber’s systems, thus eliminating the need for a ‘tricked out system’ and the need to upgrade every year/month. Update: Good …
Time for a quick post about a Half-Life 2 mod which kept my attention over the last few years. It was one of the first total conversions released for the Source engine, and they recently released version 1.2 over Steam: Dystopia.