Month: January 2010

• ♺ @xenijardin: RT @bodrell convince a musician to mention secret copyright treaty during award acceptance, please. #

• “/&%$#/&%”# borked the touchscreen of my SmartQ7 with a straight vertical fall from waist height. DAMN! #

• non free software is nice ? ♺ @schestowitz: #Ubuntu #GNU #Linux 10.04 Incorporates Nice Additions *http://ur1.ca/kyok *http://ur1.ca/kyom #
• @pietercolpaert: good luck with your #exam !A #
• eleicoes para que, ne? ♺ @JNegocios: Durão Barroso convence Paulo Rangel a candidatar-se à liderança do PSD http://xl.pt/r/cIj5dg #
• @pietercolpaert great ! 😀 #
• ♺@TheEconomist Much talk about EU plan to bail-out Greece with gloomy economists predicting the other PIGS(Portugal and …) to follow. #WEF #
• ♺ @glynmoody: Wikileaks shuts down because of lack of funds http://bit.ly/4platw pl. make a donation, no matter how small, we need this site #
• ♺ @jwildeboer: Spread the word and sign this support pledge for Denmark going ODF! http://is.gd/7ibFH #
• I just transferred 50€ to Wikileaks, please do the same if you can. We need that site! http://bit.ly/4platw #
• Porque é que no concurso para o novo Magalhães o formato da Microsoft (#OOXML) é uma exigência para os fornecedores? #
• A Dinamarca é apenas o mais recente país a adoptar o ODF, depois de vários outros na UE. E Portugal? Continua a defender a Microsoft… #
• ♺ @slashdot: Denmark Chooses ODF Document Format http://bit.ly/cysdHy #
• Numa altura em que têm de poupar na despesa, impõem requisitos que tornam as propostas mais caras e dão à Microsoft a escolha do vencedor. #
• Thinking how people have no idea what multitasking OS really means and how Apple is deliberately borking the UI in order to appear monotask. #
• Bora apoiar a Dinamarca por utilizar ODF? http://is.gd/7ibFH. Retweet, sign, help! NOW! #
• LOL: Paulo Querido Facts: http://pqfacts.blogspot.com/ #

• ♺ @mind_booster: iPad DRM endangers our rights | #iPad is #iBad [PETITION] http://ff.im/eYS4v #

• «The EPC also plans to remove the patentability exception to computer programs, so as to be consistent with the provisions of TRIPs.» WTF? #
• @zoobab did you read that in the PDF? EPC is being revised in order to allow #swpat ! http://i5.be/aoK #
• @jwildeboer why does the date matter so much? Is there a later document which contradicts it? #
• ♺ @rcweir: “OLPC for Haiti” (My two are on the way) http://bit.ly/dozehZ #
• I haven’t given a really good use of my OLPC CM1, I’ll be sad to see it go, but glad to contribute this way. Total OLPC donations from me: 2 #
• ♺ @webmink: Excellent rationale on Firefox lack of H.264 draws on GIF and MP3 lessons. http://bit.ly/dBBcZ6 #
• ♺ @schestowitz: Former #Microsoft employee announces that #Canonical will send #Ubuntu users to Microsoft’s datacentres http://ur1.ca/ktdj #
• ♺ @notmyfuckingidentica: Hey !foss supporters, here’s a nifty !HTML5 OGG Theora YouTube petition: http://ur1.ca/ktmu !playogg !gnu #
• @jwildeboer if there’s any doubt why we need Neelie, the latest EDRi GRAM says it all! http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.2 #

• ♺ @fsfe: FSFE awarded Theodor-Heuss-Medal – “trendsetting organisation” http://tr.im/LCQG !fsfe !fsfs !gnu #freesoftware #
• @support pt for “redent” or “repeat” is “repetição” and not “repetência”. #
• @zoobab Agreed, it could be made stronger by explicitly talking about swpat but it seemed clear to me that’s what they were talking about. #

• ♺ @rcweir: ODF 1.2 Part 1 now out for public review. This is the core part, 838 pp. We’re in sight of shore now. http://bit.ly/932b0k #
• So, was #Avatar rendered with #Ubuntu or #RedHat? Reports vary… important thing is: Not Windows, Not Macintosh. GNU/Linux did it! #

• !Ubuntu NBR 9.10 made a serious effort to be hard to install when you have no CD drive unless you use ubuntu or Windows. #fail #
• The easiest solution was to install !ubuntu nbr 9.04 and upgrade. #
• @rafaelwv it didn’t. I tried it, didn’t boot *once* #
• Yes, I tried Unetbootin. It didn’t boot *once*. #
• Novo autor no http://blog.softwarelivre.sapo.pt: @brunomiguel 🙂 #

• ♺ @lutzgh: Ask YouTube for Ogg support! http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/youtube-ogg !gnu !playogg !fsf #
• More #swpat minefield ♺@zoobab: Motorola asks ITC to ban the Blackberry ouf of the US market for the violation of 5 patents http://i5.be/amK #
• ♺ @zoobab: Activists kicked out and the public had to sign NDA in order to talk about ACTA: http://i5.be/amL #
• Since the governments arrange #ACTA with media corporations behind closed doors, we citizens should create an independent TA. #
• WRT to #ACTA I cite RadioHead: «they don’t, they don’t speak for us» #
• Another “%&#$ you Google for imposing patent encumbered H264 in tag thus polluting the #html5 standard. Thanks a lot, buddy! #
• “%#$&” you Vimeo, just as well. #
• Ask YouTube for Ogg support! Ask YouTube for Ogg support! http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/youtube-ogg #
• I say ask Vimeo as well! http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/youtube-ogg #
• @pietercolpaert because of reconvert issues. But they could allow people to post in Ogg/Theora and play that. But noo…. #
• ♺ @schestowitz: #Microsoft Takes a Hit at #Linux with More #FAT Patents; #McKool et al Assist Some More Patent Trolling http://ur1.ca/kix7 #
• @jacerdeira: it´s #swpat so it´s just as bad and trivial. #
• this nice pseudo Italian restaurant has free wifi for the customers. love it already. food is good but not memorably so. #
• @brunomiguel: optimo , e certamente bem vinda a participacao de mais autores. trato disso mal chegue a casa . muito obrigado ! #
• @JMF1957: a TSA bem que pedia uma boa desculpa para despir miudas giras nos aeroportos hehe #
• today´s messages powered by !elmdentica. so happy to have written a nice program that happens to work with my !freerunner #
• @brunomiguel: por favor regista um utilizador no blog e manda-me um mail a dizer qual e. #
• @jwildeboer congratulations! #
• Wondering if I’ll meet with enough of my friends at FOSDEM’10 for some #needbeer at night 🙂 #
• ♺ @gnufs: Sourceforge & Google are blocking more than 170 million people from accessing #freesoftware: http://ur1.ca/kizj #
• #freesoftware This http://ur1.ca/kizj reminds me that I must move !elmdentica from google code. gotta talk with the e17 people… #

• ♺ @BreakingNews: China says U.S. calls for greater Internet freedom are harmful to bilateral ties in response to speech by Hillary Clinton #
• Regarding internet freedom, the US are not exactly going in the right direction thanks to copyright and software patents, though. #
• ♺ @mind_booster: Liked “Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last September” http://ff.im/eFCgU #