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A day for joy! Rationality won and the EU rejected software patents. However, EFFI has already stated in an interview that some sort of patent legislation should be in place EU-wide to prevent the problems with different patent laws currently in place in EU countries. Count one victory for the small businesses and people.

I recently started playing around with F-Spot, an application for personal photo management for Gnome. The functionality of the program looks promising and might end up being the program we use to manage our photos. After all, we do have enough of them… But don’t get me wrong, F-Spot still needs quite a bit of [...]

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As a recent victim of backup failure (although not due to tapes failing) I loved the John Cleese video on backup failure (via). Even if it is an ad for LiveVault, go take a look and have a laugh. Why, oh why, can’t we have better systems available for backups? I know that I’m simply [...]

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The recent testing of mobile phone viruses and car systems (see F-Secure’s notes on their testing) got me thinking that sometimes limiting the amount of options and choices is a good thing.
The current trend in most devices with any kind of semi-permanent memory (hard-drives, flash memory) and connections to other devices (think iPods, phones, [...]

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I finally installed Mono (C#). My reason why and some thoughts on Mono in general.

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