There is another piece on the iPhone over at the FSF blog today. While there my be “Free as in Beer” applications available for it the article makes it pretty clear the incompatibility between Apple’s license and copyleft licenses that encourage free (as in freedom) software. The birth of the GPL V3 was a slow [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2008
So it begins
So the DNS attacks are starting. Unfortunately the distributed nature of DNS means people may well get affected if their ISPs haven’t been paying attention. The upshot is it is very possible that you will get sent to a site that may look like what you wanted but is actually what you thought it was. [...]
Server Migration
Not that it will mater to anyone but I’ve now migrated the main wwww.bennee.com server (from where this blog is delivered) to a new virtual server in Germany. My Dad’s server will still maintain as a backup although I need to figure out if it’s possible to replicate MySQL databases. The new server has a [...]
Foreshadowing and DNA
It seems oddly appropriate that on the day it’s reported that keeping the DNA of innocent people criminalises them that George Orwells diaries are to be released. In a thoroughly modern approach the diaries will come out in “real time” + 70 years in blog form. You can find the blog here, rss feeds and [...]
Flying Dutchmen
As previously mentioned I went flying last night thanks to the company social fund. It’s left me wondering if I should join the club and take up the hobby again (once the house is sold and finances are more capable). My main concern is the time budget but I do enjoy it. I was a [...]
Got my logbook, ready to fly
Well I have a spare hat and my old log book packed in my bag in preparation for this evenings trip to Gransden Lodge for a company social trip. According to the log the last time I flew was in 1992 so it’s been awhile. I actually had two flights that day. The first one [...]
Bit of kink
I’m not sure what to think about the implications of the Max Mosley story. It’s not like I hold the head of the FIA as any sort of role-model for how to live my life. And apart from a little prurient curiosity as to what he was getting up to it’s really none of my [...]
Beds, Coffee, epic win
I don’t know if the SNP candidate plays Warcraft, but if he does he gets the thumbs up for his delivery of Epic Win. Although sleep last night was slightly patchy this was mainly due to the heat and the small feasting colony of mosquitoes that seem infest these southerly climes. The new bed however [...]
screenrc
I’ve been using screen more and more out of habit recently. I used to use a lot of tabs in Gnome Terminal on each project I’m working on. Now I run one terminal per project with a screen session for all the sub-sections. It seemed a good time to revisit my .screenrc which looks something [...]
Alpha, ALPHA!
Work has finally got a replacement coffee machine which has prompted an experiment. I’m a staunch tea drinker having never acquired the taste for coffee. However over the years I’ve cut sugar from my tea and developed a taste for many bitter flavours. It seems I shouldn’t ignore the drink that is so renowned by [...]
