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One of the great things about Linux is that it's an open platform, so you can get round stupid DRM nonsense. The BBC produces lots of great stuff in real media format, but some of it isn't made available to people outside the UK. I want to review some of …

London Kuro5hin meetup pictures now in... we were there

A busy Friday night, about 8pm. I walked into Ben Crouch's Tavern with a friend of mine, and we made straight for the bar. Drinks in hand, we wandered around the pub looking for Have A Nice Day. Hmm, it's harder …

I've finally released the next stable version of omniEvents. This incorporates the huge number of bugfixes. Thanks mostly to Dirk Siebnich's relentless testing, I'm confident that this version of omniEvents is by far the most stable and robust yet.

Full release notes: Version 2.6.2

Dirk wanted to use …

Here's the magic formula to boot into a Windows (slave) hard drive from Grub. Windows thinks that it's installed on the master, but I've moved it over to the slave position. Sadly it refused to boot from there. The trick is to tell the BIOS to remap the drives, and …

ViewLevel 2.0 lets you hide specific posts from users below a given user level. This is a port of Kendra Burbank's excellent ViewLevel plugin to Wordpress 1.5.

There is a new options page for setting the default viewlevel. Filtering is now done at the SQL stage, so unprivileged …

Most religions are good, positive belief systems. The Christian gospels are a powerful plea for tolerance and humility. However, the fundamentally …

The airport-style security measures for Eurostar passengers serve no useful purpose. What are they for? They are make-work and self-aggrandisement for out of control customs officials. I believe they are dangerous, because they are training the general public to follow the arbitrary instructions of any uniformed bureaucrat.

The release candidate of ViewLevel 2.0 is now available. This is a port of Kendra Burbank's excellent ViewLevel plugin to Wordpress 1.5.

There is a new options page for setting the default viewlevel. Filtering is now done at the SQL stage, so unprivileged users now see the top …

I've spent the last several hours trying to link a C++ program statically on our ageing AIX machine. As I've come to expect from IBM's compiler - nothing's ever that simple. What did I expect? They don't even provide a man page, and the linker always kicks out thousands of irrelevant …