So, I got a bit interested in this Apple vs. Samsung battle this morning, and I’ve caught something I think everyone else has missed. What’s happened is a German judge has granted Apple an injunction preventing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 being distributed in Europe, due to alleged infringement of Apple’s ‘Registered Community Design’ 000181607-0001. RCDs [...]
An exciting and very-nearly-as-good sequel to the classic I hate routers! After that last little debacle I’ve been carrying on running the old WRT-310N, but today it finally narked me off sufficiently again. The wireless congestion in my area is just nuts now: I can see *26* wireless networks from my laptop, all in the [...]
The second release candidate for Fedora 16 Alpha is now out for validation testing. See this email for more details. We have to make a call on whether to ship the Alpha on Wednesday, so we don’t have much time to get through the whole set of validation tests – if people could help out [...]
Pet grammar hate of the day: “As a lawyer, this bill is ridiculous” – FAIL. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. You are the lawyer. The bill is not the lawyer. “As a lawyer, I find this bill ridiculous” – correct. Next time – “hopefully”!
I can read whatever it is you have to say in 30 seconds. I do not want to spend five minutes watching a tortuously padded video version of it, with 30 seconds of ads tacked on the front. Do Not Want. It’s especially annoying if the story looks interesting and there’s no goddamn text version [...]
It’s time for an out-of-cycle Test Day: this Thursday, 2011-08-04, will be the Fedora 15 on Amazon EC2 Test Day. We’ll have AMIs – pre-built ‘appliance type’ Fedora 15 images for the EC2 cloud – available for testing, so all you have to do is start one up and carry out the test instructions. As [...]
Naming issues are one of those fascinating ‘victim of success’ problems. When you’re a lean, hungry startup about to revolutionize the world of cellphones, vacuum robots, macrame or whatever it is, you generally don’t have a marketing department or even someone who could play one on TV. So someone who actually does something useful for [...]
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