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Web Essentials
Back from Web Essentials 05 and lovely Sydney. Great conference! Have started to re-write this blog, and there will be a number of changes. Have also signed up to technocrati – Technorati Profile
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DIG! the movie
Went to Dig! last night – awesome film. Funnier (nearly) than Spinal Tap, and waaaay more rock’n’roll than Some kind of Monster. It’s about the Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The Brian Jonestown Massacre were pure rock’n’roll – chaotic and high as kites, quite the contrast to the Dandy Warhols. Great entertainment and…
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Time ain’t on my side
No time for anything at the moment – including replying to messages left on the site. My apologies – I’ll be in touch soon with you pesky message leavers…. Spring has come to Wellington and we only had about two weeks of Winter months ago.
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 is an experimental operating system named after the worst film ever made.
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Wireless Linux
Yeah! A quick change of wireless card and I’m using Linux wirelessly.
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The flipside….
Funny bugger – from “Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability” The SimplyMEPIS version of GNU/Linux I run on my “workhorse” laptop computer includes a full-featured office suite, ftp, chat, and graphics software, and dozens of other useful programs on its installation CD. Windows XP included none of these, and most of the equivalent packages available for…
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Mac and Intel
The Mac is soon to have an Intel processor at its heart. I’ve never been a Mac-head, but it seems like a shame. A little less diversity in computer land. Does this mean that I’ll be able to buy Mac OS and run it on a PC? Will it mean cheaper Macs? Does it matter…
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Three years of bucketFountain
I missed the birthday myself. When I put the site together I doubted that I’d be able to keep it going for a year, but there you go….
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DOS is 25, what can Linux learn from it?
Meanwhile at Slashdot, lessons that Linux can learn from DOS on DOS’s upcoming 25th anniversary.