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"Lunatics!" is back - Crowd-funding, Free-culture, and Free-Software 25 Jul 2013 | 02:25 pm
After an additional year of production work, our free-film project "Lunatics!" is back up on Kickstarter. We have a lot more done - some "finished" animation, voice acting and soundtrack mixing, a lot...
Finding changes in a sorted list: a trick 22 Jun 2013 | 01:34 pm
Think of a phone directory listing with a lot of Browns followed by some Brownes, Brownings and Brownleys. Is there a simple way to identify the places in the sorted list where Brown changes to Browne...
The Googlisation of Surveillance: The UK Communications Data Bill 7 Jun 2013 | 11:17 am
There is a belief that democracies respect the rights of their citizens. Well, they don't. There is a great deal of cant written about that but even the democratic modern state has become so big, so i...
Save time with AWK print 30 May 2013 | 12:10 pm
Since discovering AWK last year I've been using it regularly with tables of data. It seems like everything I do with those tables is faster and easier with AWK on the command line than the same jobs w...
Great book giveaway from Packt Publishing: GIMP Starter Guide 20 May 2013 | 01:47 pm
If you want to learn how to use GIMP, this is your chance to win a book that will teach you just that! Packt made available 5 copies of the great book GIMP Starter Guide by Fazreil Amreen. In order ...
Ubuntu Touch: the (natural) next step in personal computing? 20 May 2013 | 12:45 pm
I don't think many people have realised that we are on the verge of a technological revolution. The computing world is changing, and this is the first time GNU/Linux is catching the revolution as it b...
Wikiweapons and Printing 3D Guns. It's Just a Stalking Horse for What's to Come 17 May 2013 | 10:25 am
When I wrote an article for FSM a few years ago about 3D printing it was a big topic in the open-source community but it had not yet gone fully mainstream. If there was one thing guaranteed to make 3D...
Refactoring in a Multimedia Project with Inkscape, Blender, and Audacity 17 Apr 2013 | 09:16 am
One of the special problems with managing a multimedia project (versus a text-based software project), is that there are often links to external data files which can get broken when you try to move th...
Google Reader: Google Giveth and Google taketh away. Keep Calm and Carry On 5 Apr 2013 | 12:04 pm
Google has recently announced that they will take Google Reader offline. "I won't miss it. Never used the damn thing. Didn't trust the idea of a big company like Google's interests being so aligned wi...
Using kdesvn on a multimedia project 9 Mar 2013 | 02:43 pm
This has been a very busy year for our "Lunatics" project (a free-film/free-culture animated web series about the first settlers on the Moon). As with many software projects, we keep our assets in a v...
