‘One Laptop per Child’ to Switch from Linux to Windows?

As posted to our Ubuntu users Meetup forum, by Jay: One Laptop Per Child may eventually switch from GNU/Linux to Windows http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/23/sigh/ It seems like locking kids minds into proprietary frames still remains a priority for the educators. So here is…  My email correspondence with OLPC just now… ____ To: press@racepointgroup.com Is it true that [...]

Free Yourself from the Proprietary Corporate Greed of ‘Big Brother’: Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Always choose the superior Open Source Free Software. Now, there is an equivalent or superior Free Open Source version of all the best software that exists. Do you use Ubuntu Linux on your PC and laptop yet? Google does.  Did you know that Google’s search engines are all running 100% on Linux?  Not Windows.  Not [...]

Feel Like a Movie Tonight?

It’s the best way to find an awesome movie to watch… I’ve always believed in the Viewers’ Ratings of movies on Yahoo Movies.  That’s how I decide if a movie is going to be any good or not. I don’t even want to know what it’s about.  If the VIEWERS rating is high, it will [...]

Yet Another Reason to NOT buy Vista

…as if we needed one. Microsoft’s Media Center Does Not Record Television Shows from NBC Microsoft has come out with an astounding admission, courtesy of Greg Sandoval at CNet News: “Microsoft included technologies in Windows, based on rules set forth by the (Federal Communications Commission),” a Microsoft spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. [...]

Ubuntu Linux is More Than Twice as Fast as Windows XP — Latest Performance Benchmarks

Ubuntu is 2.3 times Faster than Windows XP, acording to the latest performance benchmarks. ~ Free yourself from the closed proprietary ‘Big Brother’ of Microsoft, Apple, etc. Choose  Open Source Free Software. Are you using Ubuntu Linux on your home computer yet?  Do you use Google?  Did you know that the Google search engine you [...]

What’s the Difference between Real Life and The Internet?

Dimensions of the One Machine Today it contains approximately 1.2 billion personal computers,  2.7 billion cell phones, 1.3 billion land phones, 27 million data servers, and 80 million wireless PDAs. The processor chips of all these parts are feeding the computation of the internet/web/telecommunications system.  (the technium) How did we go from — January 1982, [...]

Have you ever Read your Windows License Agreement?

Check this out… A thorough and clear comparison of the GPL and the Microsoft EULA license that governs the use of most Windows XP® versions. The licence explicitly states that “Microsoft and its affiliates” collect technical information gathered on your computer by the software. They “may use this information solely to improve products or to [...]

Does the term “Community Developed” Scare People?

Here’s my email to the webmaster at ubuntu.com just now: The very fist line… on the very first page… When someone has NO IDEA what ubunutu is….  and they click on a link which takes them to ubuntu.com…. and they read, ABOUT UBUNTU “Ubuntu is a community developed…..” I bet they have NO IDEA what [...]

CBC Will Become First North American Broadcaster to Use BitTorrent

WIRED Magazine — On Monday, the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) will become the first North American broadcaster to distribute television shows free via the BitTorrent protocol.  [full story] ~ If you liked this one, check out Today’s Top Stories — the most popular stories here. They’re listed in the right-hand column, just below the Subscribe [...]

The Pirate Bay to BBC: We Don’t Want To Be Information Slaves

The BBC has published a podcast which takes a look at piracy through the ages, also covering the modern concept of ‘intellectual property’. Of course, no story of piracy would be complete without discussing The Pirate Bay so Peter Sunde also plays a significant part in this 20 minute program. The podcast starts off with [...]

Nine Inch Nails made $1.6 million from new album offered as a free download on BitTorrent sites

If you’re in the business of content creation, take note! So-called “piracy” is your friend… INDUSTRIAL band Nine Inch Nails has made $US1.6 million ($1.7 million) from an album offered as a free download and deliberately leaked to file-sharing websites. The band released its sixth studio album, Ghosts I-IV, online on March 2. Fans could [...]

Companies we Boycott and Why

Sometimes — against huge multi-national global corporations, and governments, and world banker elites — you may feel powerless. But… We’re NOT powerless. Use you hard earned dollars, as well as your vote, to make the world a better place for us all. Here it is! The current list of companies’ products and services that… We [...]

Comcast Admits to Censoring the Internet

Stories of Comcast Censoring Political Content and other Internet Data are Flourishing See: Comcast is Censoring my Internet How Comcast Censors Political Content The Solution: Let the FCC Know you are Opposed Email the link for this page to all your friends… and most important of all… Boycott Comcast ~ If you liked this one, [...]

TorrentFreedom.com Offers 100% Anonymous and Unrestricted Internet and BitTorrent

With a militant style more associated with the crew of The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreedom promises to put the user back in control, by offering a new BitTorrent-optimized, zero-logging, 100% anonymous VPN service, guaranteed to punch a hole through throttling ISPs. In other words, total internet anonymity — for everything you do on the internet — [...]

Hip European Politicians say, “Filesharing is Not Theft”

The Pirate Bay and Filesharers Backed by Swedish Politicians In recent years, the Swedish Green Party, which holds 19 seats in parliament, has taken a clear stance on filesharing. Following the raid on The Pirate Bay in 2006, the party board released a memo entitled “Free the files!” in which they suggested to fully legalize [...]

Must See Movies and Videos

Cozy up with a Cuddle Buddy and a Bowl of Popcorn… These Movies You Must Not Miss! These are movies you can watch online that I consider “Must See” for everyone… Just click any of the “watch now” links below to begin watching the movie, or click on any of the “download free” links below [...]

Google’s New Internet Television Network

This really is the new Media And the bastion of what’s left of Free Speech, and real democracy… As I always say, Thank God for the Internet! Often, it’s the only place you’ll hear the real truth about what’s going on in the world. Everyone knows that Google ranks the most important web sites on [...]

How To Not Get Sued for File Sharing

The recent article, How To Not Get Sued for File Sharing from the Electronic Freedom Foundation, makes me think… First, I highly recommend you read it. Follow the link above and study it. Meanwhile… Remember the old days…. when your friend wanted to borrow that book on your bookshelf. And you loaned it to her. [...]

A few really cool things you can’t live without…

the future of computers – spreading like wildfire ubuntu.com the free (far better) microsoft office replacement openoffice.org the free movies, music, audiobooks superstore brucewagner.com/free the hottest new movies for free 1 mininova.org/search/FxM/seeds the hottest new movies for free 2 mininova.org/cat-list/4/seeds the hottest new audiobooks for free mininova.org/sub/51/seeds some of the kicks I’m currently on del.icio.us/brucewagner/kicks [...]

If you create or download torrent files…

…please listen up! There is NO REASON to upload a torrent containing .uif files, or .daa files. There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON not to simply upload things as .jpg files, or .mp3 files, or .avi files, or .iso files. There’s no reason even to upload things in .rar or .zip compressed files. What the heck [...]

Is it Wrong to Expect Tech Support for a “Free” Product?

There has been a lot of misunderstanding about my position on the lack of Tech Support for the uTorrent product, by the publisher, BitTorrent, Inc. The basic arguments that have been put forth, seem to fall into one of two lines of reasoning… either… (1) “How dare you have the nerve to ask for Support [...]

Download Everything at Barnes & Noble for Free?

Could you please give me your opinion about this video? Go to http://brucewagner.com/free and go down to the “quick video tutorial” and click the play button…………..and tell me your honest opinion…..? If you like it…. Please feel free to forward the link to all of your friends…. : ) Thanks! More on this: TorrentFreak The [...]

BitTorrent / uTorrent Support Forums

On the official uTorrent site, there are attached forums… for which the premise is supposed to be… support of the uTorrent user community. However, as it turns out, the good folks over at BitTorrent, Inc. (bittorrent.com), who recently BOUGHT uTorrent (utorrent.com)… apparently are not paying attention… Because the official uTorrent Support Forums are being run [...]

Is Microsoft Guilty if Ransom Note is in Word?

A great editorial from Sunbelt Software… Should Technology Makers Be Responsible for How You Use Their Products? It’s becoming increasingly popular to extend legal responsibility for illegal behavior way beyond the person who actually commits the crime. Bartenders are sued or even charged criminally if a person who buys alcohol from them drives drunk. Gun [...]

Downloading Oprah and The Secret, plus Eckert Tolle’s A New Earth, and Marianne Williamson

I have been getting a lot of requests for information about how to download a copy of the various Oprah shows about The Secret: Law of Attraction. Oprah has now done TWO shows about The Secret, in only two weeks! Of course, she has also done two Oprah After the Show‘s, on The Secret, on [...]

How to Download Everything you Want for Free

I’ve created a new guide to the coolest new (FREE) technology, called BitTorrent. It allows you to download (FOR FREE) tons and tons of media…. Everything is available — ALL movies, music, tv shows, books, videos, audiobooks, etc. Of course, do not download anything that is protected by copyright…. But there is TONS and TONS [...]