by Jono Bacon | Oct 5, 2004 | Uncategorized
Photos from the Voluntary & Community Sector Open Source Meze in London I always find it amazing how reliant on everyday household items we are. Months will go past and you won’t even think about how much you use your toaster, oven or some other device....
by Jono Bacon | Oct 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
Well, I got my patched Orinoco driver working, and I also got Kismet working and so it outputs what it finds by speaking to me with the Festival speech synthesis system. It is pretty damn good – I still have no idea how to use it to its fullest potential, but it is...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
This week has pretty much reflected exactly what being a freelancer is all about. I have had late nights, early mornings, a variety of different things to work on, challenges speaking to vendors who can’t their arses from their elbows, and I did the whole lot...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 30, 2004 | Uncategorized
I stayed up pretty late last night trying to patch the Orinoco driver so it can slip into monitoring mode. It turns out that the version in 2.6.8 is 0.13a and version 0.15 has the interesting monitoring code in it. Anyway, dragorn from Kismet hacked together a patch...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 29, 2004 | Uncategorized
Got up early today and started writing up some SuperDisc pages for PC Plus magazine. This kind of work is always interesting because I often get to see a broad subset of quality from different vendors. This is no Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia or other big name...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 28, 2004 | Uncategorized
Recently, I have been reading Alan Cooper’s The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, and it is quite evident that although Cooper has worked in software and usability for 25 years, he has a bit of a hatred towards the familiar box of circuitry that most of us use....
by Jono Bacon | Sep 27, 2004 | Uncategorized
Well, I just wrote an article about some things that were knocking around in my head for a while. The result of my key tapping has been shoved onto my O’Reilly Blog in the form of Dumbing down the decision. Anyone who is familiar with UK loans adverts will...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
Things seem to be going pretty good at the moment – got some articles sent off and I am finishing up some other bits and bobs. I went over to Birmingham yesterday to meet with Exposed Magazine to start a new column with them on the local metal scene. I submit my...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 20, 2004 | Uncategorized
First of all, thanks must go out to everyone who passed on their birthday wishes. Thanks so much, I am really grateful. I had a bit of a birthday bash on the Friday night, and I managed to put away a remarkable amount of lager. It was a great night and it took most of...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 16, 2004 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I headed down to London for the Voluntary & Community Sector Open Source Meze. It was a great day and I had the opportunity to meet some really interesting people, many of which I have spoken to over email before. I think Dan, Adrian and the rest of the...
