Reliability of “Citizen Journalism”

There are two stories this week on the subject of “citizen journalism” which have a common thread.
First up, there’s this story in the Telegraph about Disney using IMDB quotes for one of it’s movies. Jason Solomons, probably one of the UK’s best film reviewers is concerned about it:-
These online postings are unreliable. […]

Free Virtual Machine Software (PC, Mac, Linux)

Sun have released a some free (yes FREE!), open-source virtual machine software called VirtualBox.
If you don’t know what a virtual machine is, the best way to put it is that it allows you to run a machine within a machine. You start your PC then run a piece of software and then tell it to […]

The Mac…

… is Going Back.
Replacing it will be a Windows/Ubuntu dual-boot.
Your mileage may vary with it.

Lol Leopard

Nice to see it’s already installed.

Open Source Development Tools on Leopard

Something I should add from an earlier post is about using the latest version of OSX, Leopard.
This isn’t a criticism of Leopard in any way, but I have noticed that some of the open source tools aren’t playing too nice with it. Installing the Python/MySQL library meant editing some source code using some tips on […]