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NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua beta is now available with the regular Mac OS X Aqua interface. In other words, it now integrates completely with OS X and looks like any other Mac application. The build is based on OpenOffice.org 2.0.3, which is the latest version available. Pay for it now and help fund . . . → Read More: NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua beta is available The Economist, not for the first time, has an article where fuel consumption is quoted in miles per gallon (mpg) and km per liter (km/l). In Germany, and as far as I know, in all other European countries fuel comsumption is measured in liters per 100 km, the same in Australia. I’m not . . . → Read More: Where do people use “km/liter” for fuel consumption? Pandora has been mentioned in the press quite a bit recently, but until today I hadn’t got around to trying it out. Pandora is a way to find music you like. You feed it with a few artists or song names that you like, and Pandora puts together a playlist that contains tracks . . . → Read More: Discover music you like The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has warned that war crimes may have been committed in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, and the BBC looks at whether that could be the case. My view is that the EU countries should have been saying the same thing loudly a week . . . → Read More: UN thinks war crimes are taking place in Mid-East If you add Linux-based network disk storage devices to your home network, for example the much loved “SLUG” (a.k.a NSLU2), you are probably going to have to find out something about how the file-naming systems in Linux work, compared to Windows or Mac OS X. Otherwise, when you copy files back and forth between . . . → Read More: Useful info on cross-platform file-naming Finally someone has gone to court rather than allowing themselves to be bullied by the RIAA (the body respresenting the recording industry in the USA). The RIAA likes to scare people into settling out of court by threatening to sue those they think have uploaded music into the internet for mega-massive sums of money . . . → Read More: Record industry gets egg on it’s face This is really how most large companies work… (click on the picture) …and it is a great time-waster watching it The Merriam-Webster dictionary has added the verb “to google” to the 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary which is being published later this year. Which means Google joins the list of brand names that have become nouns or verbs replacing traditional words like “hoover” (vacuum-clean), “kleenex” (tissue) – or of course in Germany . . . → Read More: Google is now a verb I work for one of the larger asset management companies in Germany. Asset managers set up and run all sorts of investment funds. Banks and asset managers are pretty twitchy about losing their data and about Information Technology Security (with capital letters). One of the last systems I worked on had to be . . . → Read More: We’ve got a data-leak… pass the superglue! |
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