I've been using iTunes since getting my first iPod in late 2004, a first-gen gold-coloured 4GiB iPod mini that IBM sent me as a freebie for taking part in a Linux on PowerPC outreach programme. It required iTunes for Windows XP to be installed on my Dell Latitude to synchronise music from my laptop to […]
Google Earth has had 3D building views for a while, but I didn't realise how good the quality of the newer photorealistic buildings were until I decided to recreate one of my favourite skyline shots using Google Earth. At the thumbnail level, it's hard to tell which is which. Gobsmackingly impressive stuff.
My blog software, WordPress , has been nagging me to upgrade it for a few days now. It's normally an easy process: go to the website, download the tar archive, untar into a temporary directory, then cp -a the files into my blog's Apache virtual host directory. However, Aq noticed a slightly easier way: use […]
Today, I start my new job working as a Distributed NOC Engineer for Linden Lab , developers of Second Life . This is the crest of a hill I've been climbing since early March, when I was made redundant from my last job: I spent a few minutes converting my rich text CV to plain […]
After Microsoft and Novell 's announcement that they are to start collaboration on tighter integration between Windows and (admittedly SuSE ) Linux, there has been a lot of bollocks kicking around from people squealing " this will be bad ", " this will be really bad ", " oh no, it's the end of the […]
Two sides to the same story : Linspire are releasing a freely-available, freely-distributable, community-led, Debian-based Linux distribution ( sound familiar ?) to be called Freespire . Linspire's edge is that they will distribute non-free drivers, such as for nVidia or ATi graphics cards, as part of the core distribution, and not from optional repositories a […]
The Clan #lugradio Maps site has been updated with new download locations for the maps, and a shell script to assist Linux users (and Windows users running Cygwin I suppose) in keeping their clan maps up-to-date. The script defaults to downloading to ~/.etwolf/etmain , so if you've changed that from the default, make sure that […]
After reading about Bill Gates' inconsistent predictions for the future with regard to voice recognition, here's further proof that Gates doesn't have a fucking clue what he's talking about : The other fascinating thing about this change is that it has, to some extent, fulfilled Bill Gates's prediction of January 2004 that " Two years […]
At last, someone at Google has realised something that I and others have known about for ages: it takes ages to install applications on Windows because everything is disparate and has its own installer. On Ubuntu , I can fire up a simple Add Applications applet which allows me to browse a selection of apps […]