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Movable Feast, Movable Licensing
Movable Type 3.0 has been released under a new licence scheme, with some commentary and explanation from Mena about the move to charging for their software. A lot of people are up in arms about it, but personally I think it’s A Good Thing™, and wish them all the best. Brad Choate sums up the…
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Calling Occupants of Entertained-ful Craft
US budget airline JetBlue have satellite TV built into the aircraft. Each passenger can watch live TV as broadcast on the DIRECTV platform (similar to Sky here in the UK), which is pretty damn cool. Something similar could surely be done with Sky on UK domestic flights, which would make up for the utter lack…
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DNA IIfx
Someone managed to buy an old Mac that belonged to Douglas Adams from eBay — I wonder how the chuff it got from DNA’s home into the hands of a computer scrapper? Tip o’ the hat to 2lmc spool, who got it from linkmachinego.
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Microsoft Swastika Overdrive
Microsoft have released (admittedly a fortnight ago) an update to Bookshelf Symbol 7, a font included in Office 2003, for including two instances of the swastika. It’s labeled Q833407, after the MS Knowledge Base article giving (virtually no) extra information on the update, it’s marked “critical”—the same level of urgency imparted upon recent Windows security…
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SCO Foot Shooting Continues?
According to a Russian security site [babelfish translation], SCO are behind a new worm (Mydoom) which is designed to target www.sco.com with a DDoS attack this Sunday, while propogating itself in the usual win32 email fashion … seemingly the FBI has raided SCO, detained employees and seized equipment. Truth? Who knows — the whole SCO…
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‘A bit early for April Fools..?’
“Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world’s wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for “services to global enterprise”.” Yeah, I know, I had to do a double-take on that one too. The Telegraph article also states that “commercial success has led to hatred of him among his competitors.” This in the same…
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Oooo-looooong!
The martians released their black smoke, but the ship sped on, cutting down one of the tripod figures. Instantly, the others raised their heat rays, and melted the Thunderchild’s valiant heart. Good grief, didn’t NASA learn anything from any of the different versions of The Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds? Those little…