I wanted to do this and couldn’t find any examples, so I’ve posted some notes on how I did it.
Building a Debian package using SCons
August 19th, 2007
Multi-monitor laptop
August 17th, 2007
Keith Shaw has a short video over at NetworkWorld demonstrating the DisplayLink technology in a couple of different forms.
Virtualisation
August 16th, 2007
A while back I thought virtualisation technology was going to be the hot topic of 2006. Well, it was, in certain niche areas, but the momentum is still growing.
Shortly after VMware’s amazing IPO, XenSource, a spin-out from the Cambridge Computer Lab, have been bought by Citrix in a deal worth $500M. And not all of the money is virtual – there’s a good chunk of cash there too.
Many congratulations to my pals there, who will now definitely be buying the drinks next time we meet at the pub.
But this is also a nice challenge to those who don’t believe you can make money from Open Source…
Getting too absorbed in my work?
August 16th, 2007
One of the pictures that didn’t get used in the recent Guardian article:
Many thanks to John Robertson, who owns the copyright, for permission to post it.
What’s NXT for Mother’s Day?
August 15th, 2007
Suppose you’re a successful UK high-tech company with an interesting loudspeaker technology. Who would you naturally partner with?
Why, Hallmark greeting cards, of course.
Financial review
August 15th, 2007
This is an interesting site: TheFunded.com allows people who have received VC or similar investment to review and rate their investors. An intriguing idea.
Internals
August 14th, 2007
At CamVine, we’re starting to experiment with using an AppleTV as a server component of our CODA architecture. Being engineers, the first thing we had to do was take this beautiful piece of kit and dismantle it. Michael has a great photo on his blog.
Being framed
August 11th, 2007
Just starting to get to grips with the new features in iWork.
Keynote has a nice one: When you select the fill/outline characteristics for an object such as a photo, one of the stroke types is ‘picture frame’ which puts a fancy border around the thing you’ve selected.
This is very cute, but there aren’t many frame types available. Over at KeynoteUser, however, they’ve discovered that there are many more hidden away inside Keynote, which can be enabled with a quick hack.
Oh, and it works in Pages too, with a minor modification.
Shall I compare thee to something?
August 8th, 2007
I’m always a little bemused by those who make bold comparative statements without specifying to what they’re comparing something.
Here’s an example. I find myself tonight in a Bed & Breakfast near Gatwick airport. The little sachet of shampoo in the bathroom says:
Well, that’s good. Mmmm… Wait a sec….less harmful than what? Than the animals, presumably?
The Mac sites are buzzing…
August 7th, 2007
Announced today – new and very pretty iMacs, an update to iLife, and iWork now has a spreadsheet application and many other improvements.
An iWork update will certainly make me get my credit card out. I’ve become a great fan of Keynote and Pages, and the fact that Pages now has a ‘track changes’ feature means that most of my reasons for starting up Word have now vanished. Hurrah!
Have a look at some of the iWork demo videos on Apple’s site. Looks very pretty. My family pack is already on order…
Oh, and the Mac Mini is now a Core 2 Duo machine.
Laptopia?
August 7th, 2007
Not long ago, Dell announced that it was starting to ship computers with Linux installed.
Now Lenovo have followed suit. Lenovo are a large supplier of PCs, having bought IBM’s PC business a few years back.
This is encouraging stuff. Linux’s biggest handicap in the past has been that users need to install it, which put it at a big disadvantage when compared to other PC operating systems.
Upgraded!
August 5th, 2007
I’ve moved Status-Q to a new version of WordPress on a new server. Please let me know if you notice any hiccups…
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