http://mrpogson.com One man. Closing, all the windows. Thu, 17 May 2012 12:23:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/17/anticipation/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/17/anticipation/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 12:23:09 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12085 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } Today is the day my new roto-tiller arrives, and the Stucco-man gets to work finishing the outside of our home. My new workshop and my new lawn are taking shape, too. If only the little woman would stop giving me ToDo lists of errands, I might actually accomplish something in the near future. My last [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/17/anticipation/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/17/sometimes-the-problem-is-the-pointy-headed-boss/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/17/sometimes-the-problem-is-the-pointy-headed-boss/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 12:09:19 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12082 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } A database of deadbeat parents (not making child-support payments) in UK was moved from one IT system to another and finally yet another and along the way the opening balance was lost so arrears can no longer be calculated properly… Ouch! Sometimes the problem is not the OS or the application or even the operator. [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/17/sometimes-the-problem-is-the-pointy-headed-boss/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/15/retail-is-the-last-barrier-to-gnulinux/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/15/retail-is-the-last-barrier-to-gnulinux/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 13:11:11 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12073 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } We have hardware manufacturers and OEMs willing to crank out supported systems. The last barrier to adoption are retail chains catering to the Wintel monopoly. Read all about it in a thoroughly researched report by The Association of Open Source Software Companies of Portugal. see Laptop retail oligopoly: the unnoticed digital divide “We conclude that retail oligopolies are very prone [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/15/retail-is-the-last-barrier-to-gnulinux/feed/ 45 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/15/floss-just-keeps-getting-stronger/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/15/floss-just-keeps-getting-stronger/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 12:46:58 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12069 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } PostgreSQL improves scalability with release of version 9.2beta: “Major performance and scalability advances in this version include: Index-only scans, allowing users to avoid inefficient scans of base tables Enhanced read-only workload scaling to 64 cores and over 300,000 queries per second Improvements to data write speeds, including group commit Reductions in CPU power consumption Cascading [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/15/floss-just-keeps-getting-stronger/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/14/another-government-gives-active-support-for-floss/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/14/another-government-gives-active-support-for-floss/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 11:17:57 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12060 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } We have read of many governments beginning to show preference to use of FLOSS in procurement and internal use but only a few actively support/promote FLOSS as a national priority. Now Aragon, Spain, has set up an organization to promote FLOSS by encouraging businesses to adopt FLOSS and to facilitate adopting FLOSS. “Open source has [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/14/another-government-gives-active-support-for-floss/feed/ 54 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/13/spies-painting/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/13/spies-painting/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 04:52:44 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12055 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } My spies are painting the old homestead using my new scaffolding. It was Mother’s Day as well…]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/13/spies-painting/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/13/jury-ruled-unreasonable-judge-allsup/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/13/jury-ruled-unreasonable-judge-allsup/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 04:47:16 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12049 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } Yesterday Judge Allsup overruled the jury on one item in their list of questions, “our court of appeals has held that it is the amount of copying as compared to plaintiff’s work that matters for the de minimis inquiry, not how the accused infringer used the copied work. Newton v. Diamond, 388 F.3d 1189, 1195 [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/13/jury-ruled-unreasonable-judge-allsup/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/12/asus-1015px-with-ubuntu-gnulinux/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/12/asus-1015px-with-ubuntu-gnulinux/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 10:30:38 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12043 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } I noticed a post about an ASUS netbook with Ubuntu GNU/Linux and was curious where it was sold. Using Google search with asus 1015px blk003U found 790 hits asus 1015px blk003U site:.it found 430 hits asus 1015px blk003U site:.br found 4 hits asus 1015px blk003U site:.com found 299 hits most of which are from Italy [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/12/asus-1015px-with-ubuntu-gnulinux/feed/ 83 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/11/hp-cloud-services-in-public-beta/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/11/hp-cloud-services-in-public-beta/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 16:55:42 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12034 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } HP has announced a public beta of HP Cloud services. Price for the beta is 50% of the regular price. It looks like computing prices are 1 to 4 cents per gB-core/h depending on classification from small to super-dooper large, object storage is 12 cents per gB/month, storage requests are 1 cent per K requests, [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/11/hp-cloud-services-in-public-beta/feed/ 0 http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/11/larry-ellison-lied-under-oath/ http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/11/larry-ellison-lied-under-oath/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 13:53:20 +0000 Robert Pogson http://mrpogson.com/?p=12021 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } During the trial, Oracle v Google, Larry Ellison was a witness and gave false testimony even after declaring he had personal knowledge of Java: “When Larry Ellison was asked whether the Java APIs are needed to use the Java language, Google objected on the ground that the question called for expert testimony. RT 290:15-19. The [...]]]> http://mrpogson.com/2012/05/11/larry-ellison-lied-under-oath/feed/ 1