Tag Archives: Holy Shmoly

Good Old Adventures

Karlin takes on the Irish Government on their proposed data retention laws.

… and note that there’s no mention of the far more crucial 2002 amended Directive, voted in last May by a spineless and ill-informed EU Parliament, which allows for up to SEVEN YEARS data retention.

The Art of Unix Programming – whatever you think about ESR, he is a prolific writer, and even occasionally comes up with some gems. From a quick scan of the index of this online book it looks like a good read. Must dive in.

Sounds like Bouncers is a play I should see! More info available through Google.

Musings: News aggregator for Linux? – It looks bad alright. Some of the most promising rss readers are just plain broken or incomplete. argh!

Net firms bouncing back – Someone’s making money on the Internet? Finally..

MySQL Control Center – very, very nice MySQL GUI . (via Keith Devens)

Oil for Blood

Placards with “No blood for oil” adorn anti-war protests. That slogan gained respectability last week from the respectable Nelson Mandela.

So why do so few UK schools use Open Source? – A few years ago I tried to get Linux into a local school without success, *humph*

Mark points to the new release of Ad Aware. If you have to use Windows when browsing the net use this software to clean out your system!