Berni’s blog

Microsoft looses patent battle and must stop selling word next month

2009-12-22T22:13:04Z

http://blog.cytalk.com/2009/12/microsoft-loses-word-patent-appeal/

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Office 2010 busted

2009-12-10T20:27:29Z

Grrr. Been trying to download Office 2020 beta for several hours. Major problem the download program keeps crashing explorer 8. It seems Microsoft's own download program violates Windows XP protection from service pack 2. To work round this you ne...

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Me again

2009-12-01T08:09:54Z

Sorry for silence here. Gosh since summer too....too much time wasted on Twitter. However, Twitter is starting to get me down. Far too many commercial "get rich quick" types in recent days. I am beginning to think they all come from one person....

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Patents getting me down

2009-07-27T18:29:17Z

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 Someone...

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But KVM is better

2009-07-16T19:10:04Z

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 co...

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And xen is fab too

2009-04-27T20:21:19Z

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

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ltsp is good

2009-03-25T21:30:49Z

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/

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Looking for care?

2009-03-18T15:56:09Z

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

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Tiscali - act now

2009-03-09T21:43:42Z

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 c...

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Debian 5.0: Lenny - should be released today!

2009-02-14T19:59:23Z

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.

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