Running Spinrite on my dad's machine. His Ubuntu 12.04 upgrade (from 10.04) went a little pear-shaped, so I was going to see if I could reinstall it on another drive, while at the same time turning his XP machine instance into a VirtualBox image. As luck would have …

There's been a lot of discussion about the role of the Ubuntu Community in the past few hours. Lots of upset feelings bubbling around. I know my previous post came out of venting some of my frustrations.

I think the biggest problem we have in the Ubuntu Community is the …

I don't know if most of you were around in the early days of phones, but there was a time when phone companies actually leased you the phone you were using. Every month as part of your bill you would send them something extra for each of the phones that …

Rick Harding is a dangerous man.

Sure, he may look like a harmless developer, but listen to any of the back episodes of our podcast at Lococast.net, and you'll realize how unbelievably evil he can be.

We're not talking killing puppies evil. I mean planting subtle messages of "you're …

Maybe I should start up the post-startup, to get us back to a simpler time of wealth redistribution for good ideas. We could call it the Holistic Organic Leveraging Distribution, or HOLD-UP, where interested parties can go to angel investers and say, quite pointedly "gimme your money, this is a …