Posts tagged with: general

Well, it's time I started the slow Wordpress to Habari migration process again, this time with my last remaining Wordpress site: lildude.co.uk, aka this one.  Continue reading ►

Ladies and gentlement, I'm pleased, no delighted, no ecstatic to announce that I have been invited to join the Habari Project Management Committee (PMC), also known affectionately as the Cabal, with immediate effect.  Continue reading ►

Sorry it's been a bit quiet around here recently folks. I haven't been completely offline and neglecting this and my other sites, I've just been lacking the motivation to write or get involved due to recent events on the home front.  Continue reading ►

From the diary of ISC yesterday:  Continue reading ►

Hot on the heels of the news that the The Internet Archive has chosen to deploy one of Sun's Modular Data Centres (aka Project Blackbox) comes this video showing how it stands up to a simulated 6.7 earthquake.  Continue reading ►

4 great posts from Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, that bring you up to speed very quickly on where the company is heading and how it intends on making money in the future. Each post includes a video that very closely mirrors the words written in the post.  Continue reading ►

The time right now, in seconds since epoch, is exactly...  Continue reading ►

As you will have no doubt heard today, Adobe are making available a 64-bit version of the Flash Player for Linux to those who want to be on the cutting edge (it's still alpha).When I heard this, I couldn't help but ask myself "Why? Why on earth do you need a 64-bit Flash player?". I don't think there is a single Flash application out there that has reached the constraints of a 32-bit environment and I doubt a single Flash developer has wished he had a full 64-bit address space, nor do I think they ever will.What's more, Firefox, in which you're likely to be running the Flash player is only 64-bit if you compile it yourself. Why do you need a 64-bit version of Firefox anyway? Are there plans for it to gobble up even more memory than it used to?Anyway, I headed over to the Adobe Flash Player 10 labs site to see what this was all about, and then I found my answer, I think:  Continue reading ►