To wrap up the end of month I’m going to include another ‘things people have typed into Google to find my web site’ thing. Here are some of the more interesting ones. First, someone is obviously looking for a lot of stuff about ‘sungate’ – I believe it’s a company in the US: ‘sungate dvd’;… (read more)
Lot of fuss about National ID cards for the UK at the moment. Basically, as currently discussed, I’m not convinced this is a good idea at all. There are a huge number of unanswered questions. Not least, what is/are the underlying reason(s) for the introduction of the cards in the first place? What data will… (read more)
“Summarize your computing experience in a single sentence …” Debian, KDE, Mozilla, Mutt, Fetchmail, Procmail, GPG, SpamAssassin, Clam Anti-Virus, Vim, Psi, Xmms, GIMP, LaTeX …
My current set of headphones, that I use at work, gave up the ghost and so I went off to purchase a pair of new ones … I ended up getting a pair of Sennheiser HD497 headphones. They look like this: They seem rather nice – the sound from them seemed to be rather top-heavy… (read more)
This quiz/survey/thing seems to be doing the rounds at the moment: 1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says: “The FAA ordered the skies cleared. Within two and a half hours, all 4500 planes were on the ground.” (Bruce Schneier’s ‘Beyond Fear’) 2: Stretch… (read more)
If someone asked you to email them your username and password, you’d think it was rather strange, yes? So, imagine my surprise when our corporate intranet web page announced: “If you are a [special service] user and you wish to use your account over the Easter holidays, please e-mail [Tech Support] with your username and… (read more)
Meant to post about this before … I have been listening to LUG-Radio, which is “four Linux fans […] sitting around and talking about the world of open source software. From the slightly more serious, to the entirely frivolous, this is internet radio by and for ordinary Linux users, who can laugh at themselves.” It’s… (read more)
