Even the police are at it… what I mean is ‘blogging’. This policemen used an alias as a blogger discussing his daily work in the British police. His identity has been revealed now and he is emigrating to Canada.
My dead PC
I know I’ve been a bit quiet, but I’m in mourning for my PC that I was so proud to breath in a new life with a fresh new installation of Novell SUSE Linux that died as a result of a power surge the other evening. I haven’t yet opened up to see the extend of the damage…… 🙁
Could be I build a new PC after all and get a UPS 😉 What is sure is that I am not buying a ready-built with MS Windows installed! Linux is the way forward. A new PC means cool graphic abilities with that 3 dimensional cube…. cool!
Breathing some life back into an old machine
Hi readers, I’ve been really busy in my spare time over the last week or so. I had an old Shuttle machine that I built about 5 years ago when I was living in Switzerland, and decided it was time to breath a bit of life back into this beauty. So I installed Novell SUSE Linux. I had some problems with the graphics… as I wanted to run -of course- Second Life on this machine. Bought a Radeon graphics card, that sort of works, but no fancy wobbly windows and 3d cube, but it works. The monitor wasn’t listed -a Samsung SyncMaster 152s, but I worked out the parameters. In fact it is looking sort of neat. Tried both Gnome and KDE desktops, must say that KDE is looking tidier and more advanced. I reckon this machine has at least 1-2 years life left… thanks to Linux. Very neat OS and 60 days free evaluation. The license cost is only about €47 for a years subscription, much less expensive than MS. If you’re fed-up with MS, then try it out. It feels sort of satisfying not to throw out that old machine, that is not really so old after all!
The Age of Conversation
My copy has just arrived. This is an incredible thought-provoking book. If you are a blogger, just buy it. In the future it will be known as the book!
A frog attracts personal information in Facebook
If you have a Facebook profile you should check out your security settings. Check out the article from Computer Weekly on the experiment that Sophos conducted.
Harry Potter lives on!
This article from the Time magazine looks at another aspect of Web 2.0.
Remus Lupin sat in the chair in the teacher’s lounge closest to the coffee booth. He stirred his magically around with a finger, taking a long sigh in and a long sigh out. He knew that tomorrow he would start feeling ill again (since it was only three days from the full moon), and he really didn’t feel like getting sick. He ran his fingers through his light brown hair and looked deep within the black, bitter coffee with a blank expression.
The work of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will live on for generations to come. Only, those aren’t Rowling’s words. They’re Candeh’s, a writer on fanfiction.net who’s penned three books based on Harry Potter…..
The current craze around consumer-generated media didn’t start with Youtube, MySpace or even with blogging. Go back almost 600 years. In 1421, for example, John Lydgate, perhaps longing for just one more tale, wrote an obscure piece entitled The Siege of Thebes, a continuation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The 1970s saw the dawn of fanzines, a pre-Internet form of user participation albeit distributed on mimeograph paper….
Can Google “Street View” Steal Your Soul?
There are several issues pertaining to our right for privacy and how this conflicts to with our right for freedom of speech. These discussions do become very confusing because it affects everyone of us personally and hence discussions can be subjective.
And then we have the factual elements:
1. pervasive and growing use of photography and CCTV
2. what happens to the output from (1)
Lauren has setup a discussion thread that has some active participation with differing viewpoints.
HP Seminarium – Om säkerhetslösningar och Business Continuity & Availability
I have my first speaking engagement in Stockholm on Tuesday – HP Seminarium – Om säkerhetslösningar och Business Continuity & Availability. Should be interesting, first time speaking with my HP hat on. I will be talking about Compliance -Information Security Systems Management (ISSM) Framework. The program says that I will take this in Swedish, but not feeling so fluent this week, so it will be in English. Maybe next time 😉
If you are there I look forward to seeing you.
3rd Life?
I had a tough day yesterday, so was delighted when I found on returning home that Matrix was on the TV…. cool….I don’t watch much TV, so a vegetable evening sounded good… although there was not much of that going on.. the film is quite thought provoking -even second time round, I saw the Matrix once before when it first came out.
Then I was thinking that if the Matrix is our 1st Life, and what we feel is our real life is really our 2nd Life, then this means that SL is really our 3rd Life …..lol 🙂
Privacy and law: 10 ways to win public trust in a surveillance society
This is a clear article on the conflict between the DPA and surveillance that is prevalent. The fact is that the Data Protection Act is not strong enough to protect privacy in today’s surveillance society. In this article Dr Chris Pounder proposes 10 universal standards to buttress the Act and create balance whenever there is interference in private and family life.