Berni’s blog

After hearing Microsoft have recently been granted the patent for emoticons....thats those smiley or unhappy faces we have all used in emails for years....by contrast this cheered me up:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9803429-16.html

Sadly Xen is not well loved at the moment. Someone told me Citrix are holding back latest kernel work ... worse it is not stable on Debian Lenny. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517449

Fortunately it takes but a moment to convert guests over to KVM.  Kvm is backed by red hat and they seem to be doing all the right things.

KVM start here: http://wiki.debian.org/KVM

Debian install:
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-xen-on-debian-lenny-amd64

Found out today that ltsp works a treat even on very very old hardware. Amd 700 mhz just fine shows Google Earth a treat. More http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/

Could be useful: http://www.carefinder.uk.net ?

Check out the news.Tiscali is not paying its bills:-

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article5874543.ece

If you are a Tiscali customer try to get a MAC code from Tiscali now...You may not need it but you can give this to BT to move your Broadband to a new supplier if Tiscali go bust. Good luck.

Watch this space: http://release.debian.org/  the kit spreads from the US over time....so be patient in the East of the planet.

Meantime 4.0r7 was released last week to roll-up lots of updates.

Our masters have given into big business and authorized the another runway at Heathrow.  I hope this is remembered at the next election.

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm

Sighhhhhh. The media run these kind of stories now and again. Real life is just not risk free. Just be sensible about the sites you visit - as you would walking out in tough streets. And keep your anti-virus updated!

Perhaps a good time to consider Linux?

Microsoft have released an unscheduled or "out-of-cycle" patch for a highly critical vulnerability. Security bulletin MS08-067 (patch 958644) was posted to warn of a remote-code attack that could spread wildly across the Internet. All windows including Vista are vulnerable. Please test the patch against your applications and implement this one as soon as possible.

More: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx