Lots of people seem to be very impressed with Ubuntu, the slick new Linux distro based on Debian, running Gnome. Even my friend and colleague Piers has been bitten by the bug.
To provide balance for all the good press it’s getting, I thought I’d share my experiences. And they’re all bad, unfortunately.
Downloaded the latest release [...]
It’s the end of the week that saw the SDN Meets Labs down in Walldorf. There was plenty of interest (apparently over 300 people attended, way more than in the similar event held in Palo Alto earlier this year) during, before and after (lots of reviews on the ‘planet’ SDN weblog collective).
But despite this interest, [...]
Wow, Robert just gave me a Flickr Pro account, thanks Robert!
I’m going to have to think of ways to make use of the extra bandwidth and picture storage capabilities, aren’t I?
This comes in handy right now as I was talking to Mark yesterday at the SDN Meets Labs and he was trying to [...]
Rain. Lots of it. And I drove through it all this morning, all the way down the A61, to get to SAP University in Rot, near Walldorf. I’m at the SDN Meets Labs event that’s taking place today and tomorrow. The event is a part of the SAP NetWeaver Technology Tour, which serves to bring [...]
Muscle cars
Originally uploaded by qmacro.
Driving down from Manchester to Midhurst, I stopped at the Oxford services on the M40, and parked up next to these monster-engined cars. Being still a kid at heart, I went over and had a long look at the cars and [...]