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The BBC has a story running about a Microsoft ad on their Polish web-site which has been Photoshopped to change one aspect of the original from the US site. Apart from the translation of the words to Polish, of the three people in the original photo (Asian man, black man, white woman – very PC […] This week’s Economist has an article about the possible emergence of a market in house-price hedging derivatives. It’s at Housing Derivatives: Spark of Invention and appalls me. Appalls not least because the writer seems to genuinely believe that it’s a great idea. Still hungover and bleary eyed from the last economic piss-up, we’re already planning […] This site now runs on lighttpd! Apache2 was used previously. It’ a fine web-server, but lighttpd is so much, er, lighter. About 30% lower memory consumption for the same performance. Also, as a side benefit, the config is simpler too. It does, for me at least, everything Apache2 can do: Multiple virtual hosts HTTPS WebDav […] Recently Microsoft launched another attempt to dethrone Google as the search-engine kings of the Internet. Welcome to Bing. Go on, give it a try. You know, it’s actually not bad. In fact it’s quite good. Or at least not too far off as good as a search engine can be. Hooray! The king is […] Friends Reunited, a web-site I joined a while ago and which I’ve rarely accessed, emails me to try and get me to log back in. They’ve started some sort of “Groups” thing and reckon that based upon my demographic and goodness-knows-what-else I might be interested in some of these: – Over Forties Thanks a bunch […] Under KDE 3 I’ve made major use of the wonderful quadkonsole, from Simon Perreault. It’s a lovely thing, allowing you to embed 4 (by default, other permutations possible) konsoles in a single window, with them all resizing together. Kinda hard to explain, but very useful in some situations. KDE 4 comes along and, finally, is […] A while back I wrote a few notes on building a small home server box. Specifically that I had chosen this neat Morex case and this VIA EK Corefusion motherboard.Here in southern Europe the summer has been in full swing, and it got hotter by the day. A few weekends back I thought I’d […] In a book review of three books (The Economist) each attempting to explore the cause of 2008’s global “credit crunch” we are told that it’s simply not fair to lay the blame at the door banks. In a telling section we are sternly lectured that “It was the Basel accords on bank capital ratios………that helped […] Back in January I wrote about the newly-released KDE 4.0, and what a disappointment it was.Since then, and particularly in recent weeks, the FOSS community has been raging with discussions about the perceived issues with KDE4. […] Despite being something of a Linux enthusiast (Linux boxes at home outnumber Windows boxes) I’m also realistic. My main workstation at home runs Windows, due to the simple reason that the applications I need only run on Windows. Yes, I know all about WINE, and use it very successfully on some Linux systems at work, […] |
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