Bits and blogs

The real reason to celebrate GNU’s birthday

macag — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:49:28 +0000

GNU represents the start of free software, which is awesome in itself, but also many, many other movements, all based around the idea of sharing and collaboration. Another world is possible!

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The real reason to celebrate GNU’s birthday

macag — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:46:58 +0000

GNU represents the start of free software, which is awesome in itself, but also many, many other movements, all based around the idea of sharing and collaboration. Another world is possible!

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London Stock Exchange in denial over system outage

macag — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:07:33 +0000

Root cause analysis looks like being more painful than root canal work and even more costly…
One of the world’s leading markets can’t say what went wrong three days after it was out for a most of a trading day. Shameful.

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Companies don’t see social networking value? Show em Digg!

macag — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:01:46 +0000

Despite the hype, social-networking isn’t on the agenda at most large companies around the world, according to a new study.

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London Stock Exchange suffers .NET Crash

macag — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:19:28 +0000

If you really want to know why I’m so pro-Linux on servers, you need only look at the London Stock Exchange’s total melt down on September 8th.

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Govt appoints new NHS Chief Information Officer

macag — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:00:27 +0000

More than six months after the departure of Richard Granger, the government has appointed a new NHS chief information officer and as well as a new director of system delivery on its ongoing £12.7 billion National Programme for IT.

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HMRC IT caused £2.8bn credit bungle

macag — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:21:02 +0000

Taxman bullies citizens after its own IT systems wiped salaries and bungles tax returns.

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Dublin Airport radar brought down by faulty network card

macag — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:37:53 +0000

Dublin Airport is working with air traffic management (ATM) system supplier Thales to tackle a serious radar system malfunction, after the error delayed numerous flights.

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Software piracy hurts open source says Sun. Really?

macag — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:35:40 +0000

“Piracy hurts open source because open source asks people to help give back and contribute code, but they say ‘why should I help? I have Microsoft Office for free,’” according to the community manager for OpenOffice. I don’t think she gets it.

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London’s Oyster card system fails again

macag — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:33:13 +0000

London
’s Oyster card system used on public transport has suffered another failure, just two weeks after it crashed wiping the cards of 40,000 travellers.

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