Month: October 2009
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Patents – Eolas strikes again
Microsoft fought a patent battle with Eolas for many years, with a number of twists and turns that made Days of our Lives look like a beginner soapy. Eolas originally sued Microsoft for infringement based on their patent ‘906 in 1998, which describes a method for 3rd party browser plugins to run various forms of…
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Windows and critical systems
I’ve blogged previously about using Windows in critical systems ( Win2k in French air-force fighters and British attack submarines ) and my disregard for this platform in these kinds of applications. Honestly, would you really want a Windows machine running your life-support system when in hospital? or the device that decides whether or not a…
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Tweetdeck on Slackware64 13.0
I recently came across this application ( thanks Nic ) so only natural that I try it out ( especially as I have an issue with the plasma twitter widget in KDE 4.2.4 ). Couple of issues though: requires Adobe AIR only 32-bit packaged only for deb and rpm I did some searching and with…
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Microsoft and its GPL Hyper-V drivers
Considering the lack of general attention this has received in the media, Nick asked me to blog on this topic and set a time-line. So here goes: Microsoft first announced they were releasing the Hyper-V drivers as GPL code on the 20th of July 2009. Note this is an announcement and not the actual release.…
