Facebook is making a pitch to media publishers: Let us host your content for you, and we’ll make it look beautiful (and give you more eyeballs) in the process.

The egrep program is used to scan files for character strings (e.g. words). Its basic function is to go through a text file line for line, and print all lines matching a search pattern or regular expression to `standard out(put)'.

For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content's own words.

Definition of cybernetics at Principia Cybernetica Web

Over ninety percent of artists and musicians do not make their living from their recording contracts or art sales, so there is no easy life that copyleft will ruin. That said, every little helps. Reputation is the key, and copyleft does not harm reputation. Easy access to your work may even help your reputation.

howtos on Audacity, Kino, motiongraphics, PD, streaming and whatnot

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The VGA tester is a simple circuit with a microcontroller which shows a test screen on a VGA display

An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a marketroid

setting up boxee on ubuntu

Knowing which hardware devices support GNU/Linux is important not only for practical reasons---you want your hardware to work with the software that you want to use---but also for ethical and political reasons.

Does technology liberate or enslave? The tension between technology as empowering versus technology as sinister control continues. The web versus the database, liberation or tool of tyranny?