They think it's all over...

Posted on Sun 16 September 2007 in geek

A few days ago I briefly mentioned the SCO case. Well it seems the fat lady is very possibly singing now. While in Chapter 11 SCO can't pursue it's litigation strategy. As that seemed to be their primary business plan I don't believe SCO has got long for this world …


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And finally....

Posted on Tue 11 September 2007 in geek

I forgot of course the best piece of news of the last few days is AMD's announcement of Open Drivers. Finally.


Trashing the OS of "Developers"

Posted on Tue 11 September 2007 in misc • Tagged with development

Sun would really like Solaris to re-capture the hearts of developers since loosing so many to Linux. They are certainly making strides in the right direction with their Open Source strategy. However sometimes the creakiness of the code does show up.

I've spent the best part of the day trying …


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Geek bits

Posted on Tue 11 September 2007 in geek

Aidan noted I hadn't mentioned SCO's rather devastating judgement in the Novell case. If I had of been less busy I may well of posted something but in my opinion it's just another step in the long road of SCO's legal campaign. I have long ceased to worry that anything …


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Boxen Required

Posted on Thu 06 September 2007 in geek

As part of my plan* I find myself in need of a hosted virtual machine. The requirements are not very high, a few hundred MB of RAM, 20Gb or so of HD space and an IP address to itself. I'd be happier with a virtual machine than sharing an existing …


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