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"Ranted in his bog" - I had pictures in my head of an irate Mr. Starks going crazy in his loo, crapper, dunny [for Peter64], w.c., lavy, bathroom, restroom, privy or outhouse, but no he just simply wrote about in his blog.

The Free Software Foundation is suing Linksys over their use of GPL licensed code without complying with the requirement to publish changes publicly. There is talk that they may well settle out of court - http://preview.tinyurl.com/gplinksys - This made me wonder why they would do that? Surely, if y...

I have a sneaking suspicion that the push for a U.K I.D. card comes European harmonisation. I moved from the U.K. to mainland Europe about ten years ago. Here on the Continent it's seen as normal to have an I.D. card. When I tell people that I.D. cards don't exist in the U.K. I get a look of bemusem...

I really enjoyed the show this week - the chat with the Chinese caller was great!

The World really is flatter!

and with Dann it really is more flatulent.

Is Dann trying to sabotage the Linux Cranks?

Pling! Pling! ... Crunch-cruch... Pling!

The only thing they're missing are Dann's burps and farts.

Maybe, that'll be next week.

http://linuxcranks.info/mp3.xml

I'll have to cross my fingers that the 80 or so entries in my podcasts playlist get imported over to 2.0. Just thinking about having to put all the links in manually is making me think I should have thought how I was going to move to a different feed catcher later. Maybe, I'll have to give bashpodde...

Anybody know if Amarok2 imports the settings, such as the podcast playlist, from version 1.4.
Or does it just carry on using the same instance of the back-end database?

I ran into a bug that stopped certain applications opening under Ubuntu. A real show stopper that had me stuck for a while. I then found I wasn't alone: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/issues/detail?id=12 and that it was configuration issue regarding compcache. On the compcache bug forum I got he...