Tag Archives: bug

FixTheWeb is Coming!

I travel across the Sedgemoor/North Somerset/Bristol council borders, so I’m a big fan of FixMyStreet which puts fault reporting for things like potholes, flytipping and broken lights behind a common interface. Credit to the MySociety charity project, once again. So … Continue reading

Posted in Web Development | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Windows 7: Released with known critical bug

The debian project defines a critical bug as “makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on systems where you install the package.” FSF Europe reported that … Continue reading

Posted in SPI | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Some Good Does Come From Ubuntu

I’ve been mouthing off about Ubuntu again, after the forthcoming release parties were advertised in some pretty inappropriate places, lamenting: “Ubuntu has taken a voluntary-sector aim-for-100%-free distribution, built a private-sector free-and-non-free distribution and gets more love and free marketing from … Continue reading

Posted in GNU/Linux | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments