Posted on Sat 04 November 2006 in geek
The open source world has been buzzing with comments on the impact of the joint announcement by Microsoft and Novell. From this distance is does look like getting into a cage with a 800lb Gorilla and hoping he'll be nice to you. The after shocks are being followed by the …
Posted on Tue 31 October 2006 in geek
Harald Welte has an interesting post in his blog today about the effects of GPL enforcement actions.
The GPL can mean different things to different people. To some it is an engine of social change, freeing software of the corporate manacles. To others it is a pragmatic license that engenders …
Posted on Sat 28 October 2006 in geek
I've been trying a few new things this week. One of them was visiting the new food market in the Arndale in town. It looks like a lot of the farms that turn up to the regular farmers markets have a place in there. There is also a massive fish …
Posted on Wed 25 October 2006 in geek
As has been noted previously I suffered a bit of a data loss when my Palm failed and the hotsync had not been doing it's job. I'm now going for multiple redundancy with two open source tools, VfsBackup and RfBackup which will do a backup to an external SD card …
Posted on Wed 18 October 2006 in geek • Tagged with google, rss, web2.0, webapps
Web 2.0 is a lovely little marketing buzzword that is bandied about a lot. It refers to the concept of applications running on your web browser. It used to be that people thought Java apps would be what everyone would want but it turns out that AJAX can provide …