Archive for January, 2009

MPs ensure themselves a friendly recession

While we’ve all been distracted by current events, our Labour government – with the support of the Conservatives – have slipped in an Order to reverse the High Court judgement requiring them to release details of their expenses. And why wouldn’t they, when previous requests have revealed such delights as £1600 on window cleaning (Barbara [...]

Ubuntu LTS scorns your initrds!

We have a number of developer boxes running Ubuntu 8.04LTS at work. For various reasons, we still have a few of the older boxes running Fedora 8, and we’re gradually moving them into the Ubuntu world. Today we moved two more developers across. One was fine – everything worked, all was good, little elves danced [...]