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Working to Rule

Microsoft recently released service pack two (SP2) for their flagship office product, Office 2007. As I'm not a user of Microsoft products normally I wouldn't have noticed, but Office 2007 SP2 had an...

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A Ruritania of the Mind

I gave up on the mainstream media in 2002-2003, in the run up to the Iraq war. Every single channel in the USA was selling the prospect of war like a product, a new soap powder. I tried to find...

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Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard

I don't often write about my day to day work, but sometimes I run across a problem that is so intransigent that it was a triumph when I finally fixed it. If you take an engineering job in the software...

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Monomania

There has been a lot of press recently about the Open Source "Mono" project, arguing about whether it is safe to use by the Free Software community, and even comparing it to the project I work on,...

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Why Free Software?

Jeremy was asked to take part in the Free Software Foundation's video campaign entitled "I use Free Software, and I support Free Software", which launches on Monday, and decided to do something...

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Still Livin' La Vida Linux

It's been over a year since I wrote about my conversion to a Linux based digital media environment, and since it's the holiday season (or just after) I thought it was time to update the story, and...

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Articles for The H

The H will soon be celebrating its first anniversary. Here are links to some articles written for The H by Richard during its first year. In no particular order, and without explanation :-)...

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Watching the Sun Set

If you click on www.sun.com, you get redirected to www.oracle.com. Sun is no more. The network is no longer the computer. The "Dot" in .COM is now a database. I'm really sorry to see Sun go. I have a...

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Jeremy Allison talks to Linus Torvalds about the Sinclair QL and Pacman

I've been devoid of column inspiration for a while, so here is a video interview I did with Linus Torvalds at Sao Paulo Zoo all about Sinclair QLs :-)read more

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Crossing the Chasm

A long time ago in a galaxy far away.. I used to compere the LinuxWorld Conference “Golden Penguin Bowl” geeks vs. nerds quiz show. My greatest coup was arranging a “Microsoft vs. Google” grudge match...

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