Angus Thinks

Author: AngusThinks

  • The Girl in the Cafe

    “If anyone can make a romantic comedy about the G8 conference that engages a mainstream audience, Richard Curtis can.”

    Read the BBC Press release for more information.

  • chocolatereview

    http://www.chocolatereview.co.uk/

    Reviews of chocolate bars, with ratings and reviews !!

  • flyspray subversion integration

    Somebody asked me to post a link to the script that integrates flyspray and subversion:

    Script is Attached to Bug 301

  • Inquirer, HP and Carly Fiorina

    The Inquirer has made a truly mischievous offer to Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP. The company, resulting from the merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, is in considerable difficulties, as the inquirer has merrily written about in articles like The three ways HP has screwed up and How HP totally lost the support plot.

    But now in a remarkable offer they have asked Ms Fiorina to write a column. It seems unlikely that Ms Fiorina will take up the offer given the consistent history of criticism that she has faced from The Inquirer but perhaps she will? Who knows? What if she does say yes? Will the inquirer find itself publishing a series of articles criticial of itself? A revenge on months of sniping?

    It seems unlikely. But stranger things have happened.

  • Windows XP advantages?

    … with Windows XP I don’t gotta worry about emailing viruses to my friends and family at all. The built-in email client Outlook Express does it automatically, in the background.

    From divisiontwo.com via Macslash.

    Disclaimer: I use Windows XP sometimes but not outlook express

  • iBook restore DVD

    I was recently trying to install a particular package from the basic Mac OS X installation (Address Book.app) which for some reason had been deleted. Probably in a desperate attempt to free up some disk space.

    It took me some searching before I realized that the packages are located in /System/Installation/ on the iBook’s restore dvd.

    It isn’t the most obvious location by any means.

  • Trackback spam

    Unfortunately I’ve had to disable trackbacks for the time being due to excessive spam.

    I’m not entirely sure if it is possible to do a test to see if trackbacks are from real people or not.

    If I can come up with a better idea I’ll start using it.

    Not that anyone really found the stuff on this weblog worth trackbacking anyway, so little is lost 🙂

  • Single Sign on?

    I’ve been wondering whether it makes sense to try to implement a single sign on system.

    I now have 2 bug tracking systems, a wiki, a webmail system and this web log. All of these have different authentication systems.

    Maybe we need a common standard in web applications like RSS but for authentication?

  • iMac Mini Disassembly probably ok?

    Daring Fireball has a comment from someone who saw a Mac Mini being disassembled and it sounds ok.

    A standard issue putty knife and some assistance from a jack knife were all that was needed to crack the case.

  • New iMac Mini!

    Apple just anounced the Mac mini. A small, little mac that starts at £339 or $499.

    At last the cheap mac that everyone has been waiting for. It doesn’t include a screen but it has an optical drive and a processor, USB and firewire.

    It’s pretty much the equivalent of the current iBooks without screen or keyboard. And curiously similar to the mock up that somebody posted details of a few days back. Perhaps they had seen the unit but couldn’t actually photo it then?

    Really great news. I hope it sells as well as I think it will.