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Has the transition to Intel gone “seamlessly”?

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Ben Lavery — No Comments ↓

At WWDC 2006, Steve Jobs said the following about porting OS X to the Intel architecture “Porting an operating system to an entirely different processer architecture is no easy task and our software team did a magnificent job of taking Continue reading →

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Sandboxing

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Ben Lavery — No Comments ↓

Back in 2010 I complete my dissertation.  The idea for my diss came to me while sitting in Starbucks in Camberley sometime during my time at Sun Microsystems, probably early 2009.  The idea was quickly jotted on the back of Continue reading →

Posted in Musings | Tagged iOS, iphone, Mac, OpenSolaris, os x, sandboxing, virtualisation, windows | Leave a reply

Just an update

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Ben Lavery — No Comments ↓

Once upon a time I had the notion that I would post something vaguely interesting or helpful once a month.  While working at Sun that was easy (also making myself blog about my weekly activities for later reference helped), even Continue reading →

Posted in General, Mac Hardware, Musings, Second Life, Trains | Tagged ERTMS, imac, lsl, second life, trains | Leave a reply

WebOS ‘more open’ than Android?

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Ben Lavery — No Comments ↓

Ars Technica recently published HP’s decision means webOS could end up more open than Android. The fate of WebOS has had people pondering since HP announced it was going to stop developing WebOS.  It has been suggested that HP should Continue reading →

Posted in Android, Mobile, Musings | Tagged Android, freedom, open, RMS, WebOS | Leave a reply

Do I really agree with Apple’s EULAs?

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Ben Lavery — No Comments ↓

After the death of Steve Jobs Richard Stallman has said some somewhat callous things about Jobs and Apple and how they have us in “digital handcuffs”. When we purchase a piece of Apple hardware or software, we must accept a Continue reading →

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Record Shops

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Ben Lavery — No Comments ↓

I found myself in the local record shop recently, Faye’s brother wanted to browse.  I was loitering around, glancing at the shelves and having a flick here and there.  And I just thought to myself, I don’t enjoy being here Continue reading →

Posted in Musings | Tagged music, shopping | Leave a reply

The Computer

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Ben Lavery — No Comments ↓

We live in an age where computers are all around us.  While they may not yet be embedded into every object we come in contact with, they are on our desks at home or in the office, and in our Continue reading →

Posted in Musings, Rants | Tagged Computing, Linux, os x, unix, windows | Leave a reply

Android to lose MP3 capabilities?

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Ben Lavery — 1 Comment ↓

Google has chopped the H.264 codec out of it’s Chrome browser and replaced it with it’s own, open source, WebM codec – All in the name of openness…

Posted in Google, Musings, Open Source | Tagged Chrome, Flash, Google, H.264, MP3, WebM | 1 Reply

Away from civilisation for five years

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Ben Lavery — 2 Comments ↓

The other evening Faye and I watched the film, Cast Away.  I didn’t watch the whole film, but the overall plot was man gets stuck on island, everyone thinks he’s dead, he comes back after five years. I started to Continue reading →

Posted in Musings | Tagged Apple, Microsoft, mobile phones | 2 Replies

The End of an Era…

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Ben Lavery — No Comments ↓

Graduating on the 15th of July means that I am no longer tied to the Aberystwyth University, legally no longer a student, and at the end of my 18 year ‘career’ in education…

Posted in General, Musings, Sun, Uni | Tagged aber, aberystwyth, Aberystwyth University, faye, Graduation, PJM, Sun, University of Wales | Leave a reply

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