Entropy

Remember the tired old argument against using open-source software for meaningful projects? It goes something like this:

You can’t rely on open-source developers because they’re only in it to ’scratch their itch’ and there is no attention to quality beyond their own personal interest

That line used to ruffle my feathers. Seemed like a throw-away line from [...]

Google has been trying to break into the browser market with it’s repackaging of the open-source Webkit HTML engine. The way they’re talking it up, you’d be forgiven for thinking they wrote the browser themselves. But Webkit has been around on Linux for many years now, powering KDE’s browser and file manager. Google aren’t even [...]

Commodore 64 fans will likely remember one of the most original, addictive and outright brilliant games of all time: Wizball. Everyone who does is in for a pleasant surprise: Retrospect have released a port of Wizball for Windows and Mac. Better yet, it ‘just works’ ( and perfectly so ) under Wine, so Linux users [...]

The old saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” seems particularly relevent to my recent series of catastrophes. To start with, everything was running fine on an old AMD AthlonXP desktop. It was plenty fast enough. It was rock solid. Couldn’t complain.

Then I had the brilliant idea of migrating everything to my old laptop. [...]

It seems like everyone has a blog these days. Now, I’m no different – apart from the quality of course.