Posts By: Gary

Although both NewsForge.com and the company I used to work for, FormScape Software, are now both defunct, I was interviewed by Jay Lyman about cross platform engineering practices for NewsForge’s IT Manager’s Journal. It’s reproduced here as an un-sanctioned mirror. Title Developers are finding platform lines blurring Date 2005.10.18 8:01 By Jay Lyman Topic Programming… Read more »

It’s not often that I have to struggle to finish a book but it’s taken me over a month to finally reach the end of Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln’s The Messianic Legacy, which is supposedly a sequel to The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. The original was a work of genius; I didn’t believe… Read more »

New hardware, new operating system. I’d managed to get hold of a DEC Personal Workstation 433a, which housed a 433 MHz Alpha processor and decided that this was an ideal machine to test out the various flavours of BSD. Both FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD support the Alpha chip in a variety of hardware configurations so… Read more »

Two ways to make money. The first, find a stray rabbit and ransom it on the net; give me $50,000.000 or I eat the rabbit. If you’ve got any spare cash then Toby’s owner would love to hear from you. The second way is software licenses. Windows licenses to be exact. Microsoft has finally started… Read more »

Last week I suffered a major hardware failure. We’re talking catastrophic failure here; a drive which does nothing but emit plaintive clicking noises and which won’t even show up in the BIOS. The drive which failed hosts this web site. Backup? Well, you’re amongst the poor deluded few who actual read this, so yes there… Read more »

I recently got my hands on a 3rd generation 15 Gb iPod, thanks to my wife buying me one as a birthday present. Not having access to a Mac (at the time; this has all changed since I wrote this post originally) meant it would have to be connected to a Windows box, which hasn’t… Read more »

On the back cover of last weeks Guardian Guide magazine is an advert for the latest book by John Grisham. Now I don’t have any particular axe to grind where Mr Grisham is concerned; he’s not my favourite of authors nor is his legal thriller genre one which I read that much of. My gripe… Read more »