Fluffy Links – 13th March ‘07

twitterTwitter – the latest in social networking and ubiquitous communication…or a way to flood your phone/IM with messages? It’s curious and I like it so far – my twitter page

Has Open-Source Lost it’s Halo Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry?

Are the Gardai reading your emails(Free registration required)? Not many safeguards either by the look of it.

What to do when your SUSE installation cannot get a package you need but you have the source – try this Rpm Program Installation – Tips for openSuse10.2. I used it for SUSE Linux 9.3

This was funny but the lesson is: sometimes you should read the manual BEFORE something goes wrong like Sarah and the egg

KnutKnut – the cuddly polar bear runs about his garden. Just ignore the German or read my translation in the video description.
Knut has his own blog (German) now too – very modern of RBB (Berlin’s public broadcaster)

Well that last series of Top Gear came to a swift end after just 6 episodes. But here is a clip I hadn’t seen before.
Top Gear: Car Lightning “Embedding disabled by request”

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2 Responses to “Fluffy Links – 13th March ‘07”

  1. till Says:
    March 14th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    Is twittr really the latest? I mean, it’s been around the blog and I still have to find out what I should use it for… ;-)

  2. Joe Says:
    March 14th, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    It’s for keeping up to date with how people are. Instead of calling them or texting them, they volunteer the information and you receive it in the way that suits you – via SMS, IM or just via the web. I’m getting to know about a lot more events and random bits of information from some really clever people.

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