Wed, 05 Dec 2007

OpenSolaris

What is Solaris anyway? And haven't I long wanted to find out about BSD, too? OpenSolaris.org - FreeBSD.org.

Posted on 05 Dec 2007 at 17:46 in /technology. -- Permalink

Amity website "Newsroom"

We created a "Newsroom" page on the Amity website - a collection of links to our "press releases" (which we release to anybody but the press ...). So far, we have released 4 such texts: 3 in October and November 2006, one today. Our press work is a quixotic fight, with virtually everybody saying yes and doing no.

Posted on 05 Dec 2007 at 15:23 in /work. -- Permalink

Dictators of Wikiland

Wikipedia is devoted to democratic consensus and the free exchange of ideas - right? Wrong! Apparently, it is run by an evil junta, whose members use a secret e-mail list to destroy anyone questioning their dictatorial rule. (Kerim twittered about this.)

Posted on 05 Dec 2007 at 14:24 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Gnome Blogs

I've been looking at a few of the blogs listed on the Gnome Blogs site. Most of the 98 blogs do seem rather dead, but there's some pretty good stuff, too.

Posted on 05 Dec 2007 at 14:13 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Lynx under Windoze

I have these periods when I love using text-based browsers. Lynx works under Windoze, sort of. Chinese characters are a big problem. - I prefer Links, but this I'd need to compile myself: fine in Linux, of course; way too much hassle in Windows.

Posted on 05 Dec 2007 at 13:55 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink