Monthly Archives: July 2002

There’s some pretty screenshots of KDE 3.1 Alpha 1 here.

And in response to my post about the UK accepting open source software, Mark replies,

Amazingly enough, the Irish government is in the pocket of Sun, MS & IBM.
They turned down MS’s offer to build the government portal sites, and turned to Sun to do it with iPlanet on Solaris.
MS sit in the front end, and AS/400’s & S/390’s do all the heavy lifting in the back. Some one in there is canny enough to get it kinda right, he/she just isn’t the one running the entire techie show. We need a national IT tsar, someone who isn’t a clueless idiot, but not someone smart owned by one of the vendors. Ideally, he or she could take a big stick to eircom and other luddites to get them moving on the infrastructure we really need.

Found via IRC, Common Interview Question.

Out on the beer again eh? Here’s a beer troubleshooting matrix I was mailed this morning. Thank you Google for finding it for me!

The new Mozilla 1.1beta doesn’t play very well with Galeon 1.25 so don’t try and mix them or “bad things will happen”! muhahahaha!

Be careful when tuning your Linux servers. Sometimes strange things happen. I followed some of the directions listed here and our server rejected half the connections to Apache. I rectified that by making the values smaller, like this:

echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
echo 19000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

Stats are up on previous days, so when tuning file handles go up slowly, not to the levels the previous document stated.

Ok, so the UK Government recognises open source software. That’s great for them. Meanwhile, those of us stuck in the e-commerce non-hub of Europe that is Ireland have to condent with a Government that’s in the pockets of Microsoft. Maybe this’ll have an impact on things here as we usually tow the line when the UK does things.

Mandrake’s operating losses are down! Good news for the makers of the best Linux desktop distribution! More info to be found in the MandrakeSoft Shareholder Newsletter.

Salon introduced Userland weblogs today. Here’s Dave’s side of the story. I’m going to keep an eye on this. I’d like to see what success a mainstream company has introducing weblog technology to the masses. What would happen if every website offered weblogs? Would a community grow up around that site?

In other news, Niall pointed the ILUG at this story which says Bill Gates was shat on. Sort of.

Linus compares vi patches to a new sport – I’ve bungy jumped but I wouldn’t do it the way he suggests!