Garbage collection, in a very real sense
This week will be a busy week: between Oxfringe, newly-discovered other fringes, and the ever-present official festival I may not be near email as often as I normally would. To this end I’ve put a Twitter box in the right-hand column of this blog. It’s a nasty piece of Shockwave Flash but it at least [...]
I’m not one for passing on memes and crazy petitions, but Sean McGrath has pointed out that Dell are requesting advice on expanding their pre-installed Linux range.
I think they currently provide, oh, some old version of Ubuntu on two of their billion computer models only in the US, and then only in states whose names [...]
There’ve been some exciting developments with the upcoming Oxford Fringe: Oxfringe has teamed up with On The Fringe, another local creative group with official festival recognition, so we now have even more events planned.
Throughout next week (March 20–25) there’ll be Fringe events every lunchtime (12.30–1.30) in the café at Blackwell’s on Broad Street. It’s open-mic, [...]
This morning a colleague had hardware problems, and duly googled for ‘g200 ubuntu dual head‘. Shortly afterwards I did the same, for ‘coldfusion introspection “line number”‘. We may be on track to produce a zettabyte of data by 2010, but from the looks of it some people are keeping most of it to themselves.