Monday, 12 Mar 2012 04:30:50 · 3 minute read · 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 a Starbucks serviette.
Applications crash and can take down a system, if we could virtualise the application and separate it from the system then it couldn’t bring it down. This was the subject of my diss and I mostly implemented it using OpenSolaris Zones.
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Wednesday, 08 Feb 2012 17:45:47 · 2 minute read · 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 my final year of uni I pretty much managed it, but I now look back over the last few months and see that I’ve not posted anything really since early December, and before that sometime in October.
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Sunday, 25 Dec 2011 08:00:21 · 1 minute read · Comments
Just a quick post to wish you all a very Merry Christmas
Saturday, 10 Dec 2011 23:52:18 · 1 minute read · 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 open source WebOS rather than just killing it. It turns out that that is exactly what they are going to do.
Now this raises an interesting question, could WebOS be more open than Android?
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Sunday, 30 Oct 2011 15:38:27 · 1 minute read · 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 EULA before we use it. It’s pretty standard in the proprietary world to put measures in place to restrict a user’s use of the product. I am pretty confident that hundreds of users click “accept” every day without reading such a license , let alone understanding it.
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Thursday, 13 Oct 2011 10:01:24 · 1 minute read · Comments
Co-writer of the C language and co-creator of the UNIX operating system Dennis Ritchie sadly passed away last Saturday. It seems his death was somewhat overlooked due to the passing of Steve Jobs.
Thanks to Ritchie’s contributions to computing, we have the C language and its derivatives (including Java, C++, Objective-C, JavaScript, and more), and UNIX with its derivatives (including Mac OS X, BSD, Solaris, Linux).
Thursday, 06 Oct 2011 06:04:13 · 1 minute read · Comments
I sat down at my computer this morning before work, I glanced at my tweets, then at my RSS, I realised what had happened.
Yesterday the world lost a great man, Steve Jobs.
I know that this will be plastered all over the Internet, I know that newspapers already have obituaries written, but I wanted to pay my respects to this great man.
Steve’s keynote speeches were always brilliant, it was these speeches that made me so enthusiastic about Apple products.
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Monday, 19 Sep 2011 19:01:36 · 1 minute read · Comments
Sherlock is one of my all time favourites. No, not the stories, the game!
Written by Everett Kaser many moons ago, I first played this classic game on DOS and taught how to play it by my Dad. At the time it felt fairly hard, and it still catches me out from time to time now!
This is my current “I’ve got five minutes to fill”, or indeed “I’ve got half an hour to fill” game.
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Sunday, 11 Sep 2011 18:46:00 · 1 minute read · Comments
A couple of friends have made some apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch, so I thought I’d quickly plug them :P
First up is Wager by Tom Diggle. This app is handy for calculating the return and profit of many betting types.
It sports a succinct UI which is both fast and effective and allows for multiple bets to be stored for later reference.
Find it on the App Store for just 69p!
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Sunday, 21 Aug 2011 19:06:15 · 1 minute read · Comments
Last weekend it was Faye’s 23rd birthday. Having asked her previously she had joked about an iPad, so I saved and an iPad she got. A 32GB, Wi-Fi only iPad2.
I’m impressed with the device, I’ve played with them in the Apple Shop, but having one at home is nice. Faye has an old G4 iBook, this new device has somewhat elevated the iBook’s duties. The iPad gets used for games, web browsing, email (both through Mail.
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