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Barney's blog. Just a load of old shite really.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Happily, I am now back on Ubuntu, and to cheer me up further, I have just read that CentOS 5 is out.
For those that don't know, CentOS is a superb Linux distro for servers and workstations - not bleeding-edge, but very stable and secure, and it's binary-compatible with Red Hat.


I'm sitting here, waiting for a down-time window so that I can get on with a server migration. For various reasons, I am using my old Windows XP laptop today (it's a rare occurrence these days) and I decided to patch it.
Man, Windows is crap. Since moving to OS X full-time, and playing with Linux and Beryl part-time, it really does bug me these days; XP is ugly and messy and tired and generally rubbish.
What really annoyed me today though was "Microsoft Update". I kicked it off, and got the good old "checking for updates" bar in IE7. I then got bored waiting, so I updated Firefox, iTunes, Quicktime and my AntiVirus. IE is still "checking for updates".......
Winblows is the only O/S that is this crap at patching, and it's also the one that needs to be best at it.
Man, I can't wait to get back to a decent O/S; I'll be rebooting to Ubuntu as soon as XP is done with the patches.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

I blogged previously about a documentary called "The Great Global Warming Swindle" (spoiler follows).
One of the main arguments put forward is that Global Warming is a natural phenomenon, is a result of solar activity, and that our carbon emissions as human beings have very little to do with it.
I was therefore very interested to read that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years.

Monday, April 02, 2007

Oh, it's all happening........ :)
Apple and EMI are going to offer DRM-free music via the iTunes store.
Next, this Jeff Han video shows off more of his multi-touch technology, which looks awesome. It's also interesting that he's not talking about Apple too much. I mean, it's probably a long shot, but I am waiting for Apple to update their displays before I possibly order a new one....... ;) (and Leopard is due in a couple of months).
A French ISP have launched a unique web page.
And finally, Google have launched a top ISP service (check the date).