Today, I came across an article on cbc.ca untitled "Quebec government sued for buying Microsoft software". From what I gather from the CBC article and the court document, the title is a bit misleading and should rather be something along the lines of "Quebec government sued for not considering non-proprietary software solutions".

I have been using Unfuddle for a while now. Besides relieving me from having to setup and maintain a SVN server, the ticketing system makes it easy for my clients, my partners and myself to keep the communication / feedback channels simple and straight-forward.

When I setup a new project, I usually create a user that has read-only access to the repository. This allows for easy and secure checkouts and updates on the server. While trying to checkout a project on a machine, I recently came across the following error message:

I was surprised to see recently that the Google search results obtained via Firefox search plugin on Daryna had a much different look. It really didn't bother me until I had to perform an image search. This option, or any advanced options for this matter, are missing from the results page.

Hm. Not fun. So, I embarked on the quest for finding out how to revert back to the un-mintified Firefox plugin. And then I came across this: