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October 15th, 2006 | andre

Fedora Core 6

If we believe the schedule , Fedora Core 6 should be with us this Tuesday. In the past the Fedora team honored their own deadlines, so hopefully we will enjoy a new rollout of the wonderful Linux distribution. more »
October 15th, 2006 | andre

Even FSA can be beaten

Following a tribunal ruling, the Financial Services Authorithy , UK's financial regulator, will have to pay legal costs of two men it tried to fine in the so called Cyprotex case, reports BBC. more »
October 9th, 2006 | andre

Japan: is electronics industry dying?

A recent article on BBC cites an interview with the former Sony executive whines, that the Japanese industry is losing to competition, mainly from US. But reading into the article further reveals, that the main victim of the battle between Sony, Apple and Microsoft is actually the executive himself, who apparently didn't get along well with the newly appointed welsh replacement. more »
September 21st, 2006 | andre

Fighting spam 3

It is really amazing - so far my spam filter has prevented more than 3,500 spam comments! See here for more info on the issue. more »
September 20th, 2006 | andre

Free beer?

Open source is making its way into breweries! An OS beer recipy is available on freebeer.org , and beer based on it is being sold, mainly in Scandinavia. more »
September 18th, 2006 | andre

Energy prices

Wholesale prices for oil and gas are going down, but it doesn't look like British Gas is going to reduce the retail prices. more »
September 17th, 2006 | andre

Black and white - tired of zapping annoyances!

What can be done in order to cause people not to use dark background and light font color on their web pages? Reading long text, which looks like this can be frustrating! Yes, I know about bookmarklets and use them extensively (you should as well, if don't already), the "zap colors" one being my favorite, but why do I have to use it in the first place? more »
September 17th, 2006 | andre

UK: major bank fraud prevented

BBC informs us, that a major fraud, targeting account information of private clients was prevented by a new government body, called "Soca". The acronym stands for "Serious Organized Crime Agency" which I find rather amusing. more »
September 17th, 2006 | andre

Mortgage blogging

I saw a link in my favorite property whining blog to an article in New York Times, which talks about mortgage-backed financial securities in the US and their role in the current housing boom. Even more interesting is the quote from John Keynes, given in the blog: "A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in … more »
September 17th, 2006 | andre

Fate

For testing purposes a colleague of mine selected an LSE stock at random. The lucky winner was CRT.L - Chariot Plc, the new lottery runner, which failed miserably during the first public sale of its tickets. Having the luxury of Reuters feed on my workstation, I could easily check, that the new threat to Camelot started around 180 pence per share when they had their IPO in February, but today … more »
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