One of the many deficiencies of Digital Restrictions Management is the fact it makes doing legal authorised things hard for paying customers. For example my brother still can't play Blu-Ray disks on his laptop despite it having the requisite a) drive, b) power and c) display resolution. Because the OS …

I run three distributions most of the time. My servers all run Debian which despite recent cock-ups is a stable, unsurprising distribution. Exactly what you want from a server OS. My work desktop runs Ubuntu which is regularly updated, runs pretty much the latest Gnome, Firefox etc and is simple …

I got home today and had a sudden urge to run. I think this is because I've been cooped up in an office all day and needed some physical exertion. I didn't run far, but I did run hard (so to speak).

I've spent most of the morning trying to properly fix the glibc on my Gentoo system. It appears after much analysis my problems stemmed from the backward compatibility to the old Linux Threads system (TLS). Once I specified nptlonly in my USE flags and rebuilt glibc everything worked fine. I …