Kindle – powered by Linux

Well, I had to check and sure enough, Amazon’s new Kindle device is powered by Linux. Obvious really – and what’s equally obvious is that there will spring forth a developer community. Given that Amazon has release the tarball it seems unlikely they’re locking things down too hard. While it may not be the prettiest [...]

Can software developers be protected from themselves?

It’s now six weeks since RSA Europe, when I made a diary note to take a deeper look at the SAFECode forum. SAFECode stands for the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code – we can be profoundly grateful that the founders didn’t try to expand out the entire acronym. It also stands for “increasing [...]

Rethinking social networking in 2008

Spooky – I was just collating some thought about social networking then Anne Zelenka posts half of my thought process. The power of the meme or proof of a higher power? Most likely just coincidence but anyway, it prompted me to throw down my thoughts before they get blogged into the past. So, here’s my [...]

World Community Grid – virtual edition?

I’m in the process of downloading WCG (again), this time for my new environment. It occurred to me that I might be able to get more out of it by running several WCG instances as virtual machines – turns out I can, according to James Bliss. Worth a go – but I do wonder whether [...]

There’s something about having enough disk… for a while

I had a bit of a screwdriver couple of days this weekend, building (or, in modern flat-pack parlance) assembling a bed, and also replacing the hard drive in my Archos 340 (AV300 series) audio/video jukebox. This latter task had been a while coming, as my music collection alone now takes up 48GB – the straw [...]

Has it been a week with Ubuntu already?

Its been an interesting experience so far – notably my reading and writing of blogs has suffered as I’ve been tinkering and tweaking, but I think I now have a stable environment, notably:
- Ubuntu 7.10 running Gnome
- VirtualBox for Outlook, Office and Mind Manager access
- Firefox and Thunderbird for Web and personal mail
- KDevelop for [...]