by Jono Bacon | Oct 27, 2005 | Uncategorized
I have this week booked off and have decided to dedicate it to the pursuit of walking around in my pants, eating flapjack and watching Diagnosis Murder. In addition to such important duties, I have also continued work on my MythTV masterpiece. The bits are now fitted...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
Wahay! The case for my MythTV super-machine-of-insane-coolness came in and it looks dang good. The first interesting point is the power supply – a specimen of epic proportions: I stuck the supply in and took a few shots of the delightful case: The board is not...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
Another fun day at EuroOSCON. Saw some great talks. The greatest was certainly from r0ml who gave a stunning talk on the parallels of Open Source from around 400 years ago. There was also the makers fair – an exhibition dedicated to homebrew DIY hacking. This...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 19, 2005 | Uncategorized
Interesting. Microsoft announced about an hour ago here at EuroOSCON that they are releasing three new licenses that may actually be OSD compliant. Although the last thing we need are yet more licenses, it is a pretty impressive fact that Microsoft are bending to do...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
Currently over at EuroOSCON in Amsterdam. I had a beast of a trip getting over here. I missed my alarm for 3am to get over to the airport for 5am. Missed my flight at 6.10am, so headed to the airport and arrived at…6.10am. Booked onto the 8.10am flight which was...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 17, 2005 | Uncategorized
Some of you may have noticed its been a little quiet around here for the last few weeks. This is because I have been away on holiday for two weeks in Florida with Sooz. We had a fantastic time over there and I recharged my rather depleted batteries. It has been pretty...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 26, 2005 | Uncategorized
Today I headed over to Coventry to do a talk for the brand new undergraduates on a multimedia and creative computing course. It was their first day today and it was decided they should be plonked in front of me for an hour, poor bastards. I gave them my opensource...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 24, 2005 | Uncategorized
The hectic week continues, and some good and bad things have happened. Being the optimist that I am, lets start with the bad thing. This specific bad thing lies in the form of pure, unadulterated incompetence from amazon.co.uk. Deep breath Jono…deep...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
The WMITA talk yesterday went well and it was great to see such a positive reaction to Open Source. I am sure that I will be hearing from a number of the delegates in the coming months. After the event in the morning, I headed back to Birmingham to have a birthday...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
Sheesh its early. I got up today at 5.20am to head over to a WMITA event to talk about Open Source and how it can help businesses. At the event I will be demoing XAMPP, Mambo/Joomla! and WordPress on Windows. Windows is the chosen OS as most of the delegates will be...
