Computer Info

1. I currently use an OLPC XO, with its normal Fedora-based GNU/Linux system. I switched to this machine because it has a free BIOS. I decided to run the machine's usual distro because I was not sure how much trouble it would be to get another distro, such as gNewSense, to run on it.
2. I occasionally use X11 for tasks that need graphics, but mostly I use a text console.
3. I spend most of my time editing in Emacs. I read and send mail with Emacs using M-x rmail and C-x m. I edit the pages on this site with Emacs also.
4. I have several free web browsers on my laptop, but I generally use my own machine only to talk with a few sites operated for or by the GNU Project, FSF or me. I will fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program that runs wget.
5. The programming languages I use are Lisp and C. They are also my favorite languages. However, since around 1992 I have been very busy with free software activism, too busy to do much programming. As a result, I have not had time to learn newer languages such as Perl, Java, Python or Ruby.
6. I believe that one should not buy or tolerate any product with Digital Restrictions Management unless one personally possesses the means to break the DRM. I do not have a copy of DeCSS, so I do not buy or rent encrypted DVDs, or even accept them as gifts. You shouldn't do so either.

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