Fedora Core 5 on iBook G3
This was not as easy as it should have been. The media check failed, (erroneously I believe, as the sha1sum checked out), and then the graphical install wouldn’t work. I […]
Open source
Free software, some of it the best software around.
ITV Deserve to Go Down the Pan
So they’re moaning at their advertisers. As far as I’m concerned, they deserve to lose their revenue, just as they’ve lost their ratings. ITV plc has no interest in the […]
Apple closes Darwin
Sad bad news for Mac users who believe in open source. Apple have closed down OS X, or at least the Intel version, “for fear of pirates”. This is not […]
Firefox 1.5
Oooh, new Firefox. Wow, fast! Ahhh, doesn’t look and feel as nice as Safari. Aha, now it can look like Safari. I still prefer the look and feel of Safari, […]
Horros, horrors, horrors…
This frightening Guardian article on the horrors of software patents gets bonus points for its references to the wonderful Les Miserables, and for the use of the word bollixing (which […]
IO ERROR » WordPress sidebar login form hack
I came across this very neat hack to put a login form on the side bar. It’s already there – no tweaking necessary!