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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Stall­man: Linux used to track Londoners”

Finally, Stall­man sug­ges­ted keep­ing Oyster cards in alu­minium foil when they aren’t actu­ally being scanned for travel, to pre­vent them being scanned secretly.

AUReMIX07 Silverlight Video

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Watch the video here of Frank Arrigo and Monique Eagles here. Yes, you will need to install Sil­ver­light.
This is my first exper­i­ment with Sil­ver­light and the Microsoft Expres­sion set of tools. Using the inbuilt play­ers in Media Encoder saved many days/hours of hand cod­ing; yet I am sure there is more in there that will tickle […]

Climb every Mountain

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Spent the last week and this week on a per­sonal Ruby on Rails pro­ject. This involves sub­ver­sion (as a ver­sion man­age­ment sys­tem), mon­grel, cap­istrano, ftp, post­gr­esql, some smarts with DNS, exim and a two-day com­plete re-install of Debian. That re-install was not expec­ted.
Unix has this won­der­ful and power­ful concept: the root user knows what they […]

Our Virtual Future: There are Cycles to Burn

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Just over the digital hori­zon, your Apple Mac­Book will boot mul­tiple MacOS X 10.x, Win­dows Vista and Linux/Ubuntu oper­at­ing sys­tems at launch. You don’t see all of their friendly faces, but they are there ready-to-go. Get-info on Fire­fox, and you inform the primary OS which of these oper­at­ing sys­tem envir­on­ments you would like the application […]