Sad to learn that Tuxtops, one of the most clueful companies in business (they were always amazingly disclosing about their products), has stop selling the thing for which they were known best: Linux laptops. Far as I know, none of the Linux-only hardware companies sells a laptop any more. I know you can get them from IBM and Dell. And I do see a lot of geeks running around with Sony Vaios. But ... I gotta wonder. UNIX and Linux are proving to be perfect platforms for social computing. But other OSes are still a lot more personal.

I'm interested in hearing what people think about this one.

Search and siezure

A Kuro5hin discussion points to a Geek Press piece on scamming Google. Diabolically harmless. Or at least funny.

Testes, testes, 1, 2, 1, 2...

Nice to see that the new Open Source Development Lab will start by testing Linux and Jabber.

No, the headline is irrelevant. I just like saying it.

Gratuitous Blog Rolling

Just heard from Geoff Allen that xblog pointed to a piece I wrote about presentations a while back that Geoff kinda dug. So he ran with it on his blog, and now I'm pointing back at all the suspects involved.

By the way, I discovered, from spelunking through Geoff's personal site (kind of like our public sock drawers, these things), and discovered that he, like me, and probably like most of us here in the Land 'O Blogs, is tempermentally of the ENFP type. So are my wife and Colin Powell, by the way. We are not alike. Just extroverted, intuitive, emotional and indecisive in very different ways.

Communications R Us

Yesterday I wondered out loud why the new Chaiman of the FCC hadn't adjusted the agency's Web site to his liking, while the official White House site (not to be confused with the WhiteHouse.com site) rolled over immediately. This morning Kevin Werbach, an FCC veteran wrote in with the answer:

The FCC is an independent agency. Though the leadership changes parties, the vast majority of the staff are career government employees. Including the dedicated folks who run the Website. (I created the first FCC home page back in 1995 -- the site has come a long way since then!)

No doubt the content on the home page will shift depending on the new Chairman's initiatives. But most of the FCC's business (and thus what the site includes) is ongoing proceedings.

Mostly I'm wondering what's happening with LPFM, which, for all its good intentions, will almost certainly become a tool of those that have always been most aggressive about putting little radio stations nobody listens to all over the map. That would be religious broadcasters. I have nothing against them, by the way. I'm just betting that they'll be the ones to figure out how to take advantage of the new rules, whatever they are.

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