Author Archives: Donncha

Review Results: A Summary of our Desktop Linux Reviews
Problems at MandrakeClub.
Review of Xandros Desktop 1.0
Interview with Michael “Monty” Widenius, designer and lead programmer for the MySQL database.
John discusses PHP.
Jeremy used his laptop on an internal US flight? I asked if I could use my Gameboy Advance on our flight to Crete last summer and was told I couldn’t. Same went for other electronic gear such as CD players.
the ghosts of online travel information – good read. I’m heading out into traffic right now and a wireless connection to some traffic/transport organisation would help. Meanwhile, in the real world, the rest of us listen ot the traffic reports on the radio.

I love the session support in Galeon 🙂

Mozilla 1.2 is out. The Galeon RPMs won’t work with it so I’ll probably have to install Galeon from source..

Linux 2.6 on Horizon

The spy inside your home computer – “Avoid Explorer”.. hehe.

Mark went to see “Bowling for Columbine”, sounds good, must see. I’m more than likely going to go see “Die Another Day” too, like all the other lemmings just because of the name, sorry Mark!

Salon.com News | The air industry’s worst nightmare

The war on terror took an unsettling turn last week with the resurfacing of Osama bin Laden and the FBI’s announcement that al-Qaida is planning “spectacular attacks … [with] high symbolic value, mass casualties, severe damage to the U.S. economy, and maximum psychological trauma.” The FBI identified the U.S. aviation industry as a prime target for al-Qaida, and although critics have complained the bulletin was vague, Salon has learned that in the days before it was issued, national security executives met secretly with top airline officials to discuss the risk that high-tech portable missiles might be used against commercial jets.

Anti-pirates hit Danish P2P users with huge bills

Web Manager’s Weblog – good read.

Way back when – interview with Brewster Kahle, inventor of the Wayback machine. I remember finding my xoom.com site from back in 1999 on it. I linked to it here a few months back, somewhere!