Author Archives: Donncha

Joel on Software – Worst Project Ever? – A brief look at what happened inside Napster.

Cringely knows how to stop and change the DMCA. Might take some organisation to do it though.

SpamAssassin – up to 2.41 now, I’m way behind! Seems to be a lot of internal changes too. It now has a configure script!

Twin Towers & plane – Is this fake? Supposedly taken a month before the attack, were planes allowed to fly over Manhattan before 9/11/01?
While googling I found this page, Terrorism & Disinformation but note the source of the writing.

Linux Artist

Cam’s holiday photos in Siberia!

gimp splash screens – how many do you remember?

There’s some disquiet about KDE becoming crippleware in the next release of RedHat out on Monday! AFAIK they gave some apps precedence over others to make the Gnome and KDE desktops look and function in the same way, ie. Mozilla might replace Konqueror!

A guide to building secure web applications – haven’t read it yet, must do.

What’s Google up to?

The Digital Darkroom

Mandrake 9.0 is out!

Theora.org – those ogg vorbis people have started work on a video codec!

The Virtue of Engineering Cynicism – I felt myself nodding in agreement with some of things he said.. *sigh*

– Hehe.

Financial Review – Oil – behind the tough talk on Iraq

This site looks good, but why does it have dark red text on a red background? “Design”?