One of the stories I’ve been following the last few weeks has been that of the SCO vs IBM lawsuit in which SCO claim that Linux makes uses of their intellectual property (IP). The story has generated plenty of online press coverage but few hard facts.Opinions vary wildly from it being yet another piece of [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2003
Put that Internet Evil back in the Box!
In case you haven’t been living in a box for the last few days you may of noticed a bunch of news regarding a 12 year old girl and 31 year old ex-marine meeting after establishing a relationship in an Internet chat-room. I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of “The Internet is Evil” backlash [...]
Feeling Hot Hot Hot!
Its not often you see the road melt before your very eyes in Manchester. And no its not because of any hallucinogens, its the 31 degree weather in a city that more used to grey sky’s and plenty of rain.Not that I’m complaining. The last time I remember a summer this good was when I [...]
RIP Zheer
It was a sad day yesterday as I turned off Zheer for the last time. Trustworthy to the end I was just a little concerned by the rattling noises he had been making over the last few months as well as a series of lock-ups when we had particularly hot weather last month.Its not all [...]
I am finally clean
Phew, what a weekend. I got back from the Glastonbury festival on Monday which was the culmination of this years holiday (aka Alex’s Magical Mystery Tour). While it was good to see my folks again and visit some friends that have emigrated down south it was Glastonbury that made the greatest impression.I’ll start by saying [...]
