August 2009 Archives
"Tuxera exFAT for Embedded Sytems will be first available for Linux."
What is exFAT and why should you care? Because the SD Card Association made exFAT the standard file system for the new SDXC cards, and because exFAT is a Microsoft filesystem that claims to be like so totally interoperable, but it isn't.
All in all, I think Free Software users know from practical experience how to question and why to question; we also have learned about freedom in a way that most people don't get to--as a practical reality, an experience, not just a slogan.
Apple Investigates iPhone Explosion Rumors
"Apple Inc is investigating media reports that one or more of the company's iPhones have exploded in Europe, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Tuesday."
Today's theme is sarcasm. As I was reviewing the Talkbacks I noticed that a number of them were splendidly sarcastic, so I collected them by sarcasm rather than subject matter.
The leadoff Talkback is not sarcastic, but an important reminder about how Skype users "agree" to let their PCs be used as Skype supernodes, and how in Linux you cannot turn this function off without jumping through some major hoops.
The common wisdom is to have a shared home directory in a multiboot setup, but this has its own set of potential problems because it mixes data files and configuration files. So when you're trying out different distributions, your desktop settings may not translate gracefully across all of them. So what's the answer?
