Monthly Archives: September 2006

Time to boycott LUGRadio

September 28, 2006

It seems that boycotting LUGRadio works. So, I’m going to boycott LUGRadio until they wake up, see sense and redesign their homepage in flourescent pink with polka dots. I have the following sound reasons why they should do this: I would like them to do so. I have met all four gents, so I am [...]

Clerks II

September 23, 2006

We went to see Clerks II today at our new favourite cinema, Harbour Lights in Southampton. It was very good, with a large dollop of View Askew back references but a great story too. I chuckled through the flick and it wraps up the New Jersey stories in a really touching if slightly depressing way. [...]

No(vell) sticky questions

September 11, 2006

In a recent live episode of Novell OpenAudio, Nat Friedman was interviewed and got posed some questions from the floor. One question highlighted that Novell had chosen AppArmour over SELinux and developed XGL in secret. Nat highlighted two advantages of AppArmour over SELinux. 1) It was written by people who worked on the Linux kernel [...]

Whither iFolder?

September 10, 2006

It looks as if iFolder has fallen off the rails as a project. It’s not even included in Ubuntu Edgy, the next release due in a few weeks. It’s a great shame as I really liked the look of it. It has a nice web interface to control the “server” and the client-side utility is [...]

The bailey beareth the bell away

September 9, 2006

I saw this poem on one of the Underground’s “Poems on the Underground” posters and couldn’t help thinking of this little fella and the racket his collar makes when he runs across the field. Pin It