Monthly Archives: December 2002

BUG backpackers hostel reviews Brodies Backpackers Hostel – and the one hostel I know is good (Martina’s been there and speaks highly of it) is booked out but also gets good reviews at this site. I can *probably* trust this review site. I’ll keep searching.

BUG backpackers hostel reviews A1 Playfair House Hostel – I’m trying to find a hostel in Edinburgh. Here’s reviews of the first one on a google search for “Edinburgh hostel”. Which review would you believe?

Zimran picks up on the story that MS will ship Linux apps within 2 years. I doubt it somehow but I will welcome it if it happens.

Soup is Good – it certainly is. the guy(Bill Gates) gives $100 million to India to fight HIV/AIDS and then has his corporation invest $500 million to undermine the Indian Government’s attempts to use open source software in their government systems.

Golden Rules for optimizing your pages – via PHP Everywhere.

Interview with Tim Perdue. GForge and behind the scenes at SourceForge – very, very interesting. What really happened at VA Linux.

How to get on Fark

David Isenberg on the stupidnet – MSFT may have a monopoly, but it doesn’t have the poles-and-wires monopolistic advantage that the telcos have. The potential for a marketplace in stupidnet applications exists.

hello my computer was making a strange hissing noise.. I wouldn’t go near this PC if I was asked to fix it!

Learning by Shipping – this reminds me of the idea behind “Crossing the Chasm”. Early adaptors use a product in ways they find useful and maybe in ways the original maker didn’t even think of. Different market segments use products in different ways often. I might be (reasonably) happy to compile and manually install open source software, but 99% of people won’t, and that’s one major reason they don’t use Linux or anything but Windows/Mac OS.