Berni's blog

I am missing Vox groups. It was one sure way to find people to follow with common interest. The "find people to follow" categories are very weak by comparison.

What is it with the weather. Overnight rain was heavy...someone was throwing swimming pools about this morning. Now its sunny. I recon hibernation is the answer.

BBC kills linux iplayer

Gory details here: http://linuxcentre.net/get_iplayer-dropped-in-response-to-bbcs-lack-of-support-for-open-source

Yes the Berni here is me....

Carefinder Team Blog

Drupal is good

Converted my website over today. Very powerful tool. More: http://drupal.org/

Local info here: http://www.drupal.org.uk/events/drupal-surrey

Microsoft looses patent battle and must stop selling word next month

http://blog.cytalk.com/2009/12/microsoft-loses-word-patent-appeal/

Office 2010 busted

Grrr. Been trying to download Office 2020 beta for several hours. Major problem the download program keeps crashing explorer 8. It seems Microsoft's own download program violates Windows XP protection from service pack 2. To work round this you need to edit your c:\boot.ini to remove the /NoExecute=OptIn parameter here:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect  /NoExecute=OptIn

Reboot - do the download - and then restore the setting and reboot.

What a pain!

Reference: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/thread/17194e7a-b2bd-4bae-9af5-b8dc366a41e0

Me again

Sorry for silence here. Gosh since summer too....too much time wasted on Twitter. 

However, Twitter is starting to get me down. Far too many commercial "get rich quick" types in recent days. I am beginning to think they all come from one person...

If you plagued too I recommend use Twitter groups to manage . If you do want to keep an eye on them  set-up a reciprocal group and bin them in there. Keep real twits in meaningful groups and only look at those. See my profile for an example:

http://twitter.com/berni42

I also have some private groups for family. Hopefully the sales type will run out of enthusiasm soon. 

Patents getting me down

After hearing Microsoft have recently been granted the patent for emoticons....thats those smiley or unhappy faces we have all used in emails for years....by contrast this cheered me up:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9803429-16.html

Someone at IBM has a great sense of humour!

But KVM is better

Sadly Xen is not well loved at the moment. Someone told me Citrix are holding back latest kernel work ... worse it is not stable on Debian Lenny. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517449

Fortunately it takes but a moment to convert guests over to KVM.  Kvm is backed by red hat and they seem to be doing all the right things.

KVM start here: http://wiki.debian.org/KVM