Wow! An update! It has been a while, so whats been happening since October? Well, I finally upgraded my main machine to a 1.4GHz Athlon with 512Mb DDR RAM so there has been much installation and testing of new software going on. It’s running Redhat 7.1 with an upgraded KDE 2.2.1, KDE really is impressive these days, much more so than Gnome in my opinion and the faster hardware makes such a difference. Also, with the extra power I have now switched to Mozilla as my main browser and have found 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 to be extremely stable.
In the past I have mentioned IBM’s Linux watch project, it seems that Citizen have now joined up with them on this and it looks like it is really coming on. I still don’t think we’ll be seeing these in the shops anytime soon though.
Another thing I have mentioned before is the forthcoming Douglas Adams book, well some more info surfaced on this last month. It sounds really interesting and I can’t wait to read it.
In November Alexa launched the Way back machine which is an archive of the web from 1996 to present day, not everything is there of course but it kept me entertained for hours reliving some of the pages I used to visit. On a similar note this week Google expanded its Usenet archive to cover the last 20 years and there are some fascinating posts linked to from their timeline. Is this what history will be like in the future?
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