I was reminded of this today when reading Dave Woodhouse's blog. There now exists a petition on the Number 10 website. Also the consultation is still running which you really should fill in if you want to be able to access your BBC content on-line in the future. Dave's own …
Posted on Thu 15 February 2007 in geek
Unfortunately including having hardware available now. However when they do start rolling out I want one. There have been Linux phones before (mostly in the far east). But they still tend to be locked down creations. The OpenMoko is aiming to be the worlds first truly hacker friendly phone. I …
Posted on Wed 07 February 2007 in geek
Well maybe not but are we seeing the first cracks in the facade. I'm not sure how much sincerity Mr Jobs is showing. After all it's not exactly harming the iPod when you can't transfer iTunes purchased songs onto a rival platform. Having said that he makes a valid point …
Posted on Mon 05 February 2007 in geek
Although my system was mostly up to date after my remote hacking it still required a bit of tinkering. Despite everything else rendering fonts in full anti-aliased glory emacs was failing to find some fonts to display text with. It turns out in the end that it was the only …
Posted on Sat 03 February 2007 in geek
So I left my work machine upgrading this evening. When I logged into the VPN to check on it's progress I found a few things stopping it so had to temporarily un-install some packages. Unfortunately I didn't notice the package management tools and ssh get un-installed when I pulled one …