Two weeks ago, Infoworld magazine launched a “Save Windows XP!” campaign. Within 5 days, over 164,000 people signed it, demanding that Microsoft do not end OEM and shrinkwrapped sales of Windows XP on 30 June 2008 as announced, but keep it on the market indefinitely. Microsoft did not seem impressed, as the following quote in […]
Entries from April 2008
Microsoft does listen to (some of) its users
April 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS released
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments
The latest version of Ubuntu, the most popular desktop version of Linux on the market, was released on Thursday, 24 April 2008.
New versions are released every six months and labelled after the release year and month, therefore the latest will be known as 8.04, replacing 7.10. The “LTS” suffix stands for “Long Term Support”, […]
Tags: Computers · Linux · software
Iraq, five years later
April 21st, 2008 · No Comments
On occasion of some spring cleaning in my office I stumbled across an old copy of The Economist (April 5-11, 2003) published as the US forces were marching on Bagdad during the invasion that eventually swept Saddam Hussein from power.
I was opposed to that war at the time (it’s not hindsight, you can ask […]
Tags: politics
Yahoo! Mail “0000-00-00 and 9999-99-99″ bug
April 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments
You may have noticed emails from Yahoo accounts recently that include the string “between 0000-00-00 and 9999-99-99″ at the bottom of the email. Apparently it gets added to outbound email only on new emails that were composed.
It’s a bug in Yahoo which crept in on April 15 during an upgrade. It’s an issue related to […]
Tags: Computers
Toyota Prius hybrid versus BMW diesel
April 4th, 2008 · No Comments
The Sunday Times did a road test, driving a BMW 520d SE and a Toyota Prius from London to Geneva. The BMW used 49.3 litres of diesel, versus 51.6 litres of petrol (gasoline) used by the Prius.
While the BMW’s results are clearly respectable, the figures quoted in the Sunday Times article do not tell […]
Tags: cars