Regular readers (all three of you!) may have noticed the recent appearance of advertising in my sidebar.
For the longest time, I was strongly against showing any form of advertising on this site. Partly because I just don’t like it, and partly because the site doesn’t really look that big. Looks can be deceiving however, and [...]

There has been widespread concern around the internet world following Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems earlier this week. It’s no surprise really, when you consider most of the internet runs on the open source MySQL database that will soon find itself in Oracle’s world-class (and costly) database lineup.
I’ve given it some thought, and I [...]

More and more people are now storing music, movies and television shows in digital format and watching them directly on their television screens.
The main benefits of this are

Convenience. It’s much easier to turn on the television and scan through a list of titles than standing in front of a shelf with your head turned sideways [...]

The CEO of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the Open Source Business Conference this week.
At a pre-conference activity last night he encouraged the various open source vendors to make the most of the current economic climate and get out there and start knocking on doors, referring to his [...]