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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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I've been thinking about open source and how it fits into our wider economy recently, given the big push behind it, and also trying to understand the practicality of the fanboys calling for everything to be open-sourced. I'm focusing on the home user market, because that's where my passion...
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Oracle Linux adopters labelled 'idiots' . "Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet Australia that in the weeks following its announcement to adopt Oracle Linux , upset Linux enthusiasts phoned, e-mailed and wrote about the company online to complain at the decision. "People called us out...
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Apple and Google working on projects together . Oooh, guess Apple needed something to keep the iPhone hype up. But seriously, two big, innovative, secretive, market-leading companies working together could prove to be a very powerful alliance, and bad news for their competitors, namely Yahoo! and Microsoft...
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Stumbled across OpenMoko today, via Engadget , and it's very, very impressive , especially for an open-source project. It's essentially an open-source attempt at creating a next-gen mobile software stack that rivals the best out there. The basis is a touchscreen device, with a couple of buttons for turning...