Monthly Archives: November 2007

Jinxed again for 2008

“No doubt you’ve heard the prediction before — ‘this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop’. At the risk of being repetitive, though, I’m going to go ahead and say it: 2008 really could be the year … Continue reading

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Go, SCO, go!

Seriously guys, you totally win.

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links for 2007-11-13

”Heroes” creator to fans: I’m super sorry ”The message is that we’ve heard the complaints, and we’re doing something about it.” — Good news from Tim Kring on the fairly lacklustre performance of Heroes, Volume 2 (tags: television heroes timkring) … Continue reading

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links for 2007-11-12

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/11/09 Wonderful to see the Mozilla Foundation funding efforts to improve FLOSS desktop platforms, with particular attention to accessibility infrastructure, including Orca/pyatspi and AT-SPI/D-Bus. Thanks very much to MoFo! (tags: mozilla gnome accessibility at-spi d-bus … Continue reading

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links for 2007-11-11

Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way) “Experts have already built and optimized an installer that integrates with the rest of your system. And by ‘experts’, I mean ‘people way fucking smarter than you’.” — Mark Pilgrim points out the … Continue reading

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Love in a time of Facebook

… updated her profile. She is now looking for friendship and networking. … went from being “single” to “in a relationship”. If I hadn’t already known offline, let alone been waiting for it to blossom in excruciating pain for months, … Continue reading

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QoTD: Gough Whitlam

“Only the impotent are pure.” — Gough Whitlam

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