Category Archives: Soapbox

The next step towards the UK becoming a police state was taken today when the commons voted for the ID legislation. It represenets a remarkable abuse of democracy when over 60% of the public are opposed to such legislation, but … Continue reading →

The BeOS community is certainly undergoing a change at the present time and I’m not really sure where it will lead or if it’s for the better or worse in the long term. What I am reasonably sure is that … Continue reading →

Apparently yT has private copies (repositories) of some “open source” projects. They seem to be (according to the story I heard) porting in changes made to the public repositories but not returning the favour. This sort of behaviour sucks. Do … Continue reading →

So, recently I’ve had a chance to look at the first offering from Ubuntu and know a few of their developers. Their approach is very different to Zeta, but it has brought to a head my feelings about Zeta. If … Continue reading →

Daniel Reinhold announced last week that he was leaving the OpenBeOS kernel team. The announcement came as a shock to many: not only had Daniel been involved with OpenBeOS since its earliest days but was one of its more vocal … Continue reading →

Jess Tipton recently wrote an editorial for BeOS Journal entitled A Practical Look At The Future Of “BeOS” . As has been seen far too often the article was a backwards look as he has decided to leave BeOS behind … Continue reading →

I recently finished reading a trilogy of books that I’d started over a year and a half ago. The story started out really well but then developed in directions that seemed to slow the pace and develop into areas that … Continue reading →

There are some questions that don’t have a sensible answer. They tend to be questions that depend on too many variables and the only good response is a question. One of these questions that I get asked from time to … Continue reading →

Earlier today I watched the first episode of a tv series that has been already been cancelled in the US, but is only just making to the UK. As I watched it I found myself in two minds about whether … Continue reading →