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Monty's helping the DoJ understand the impact of Oracle buying Sun on open source in general & MySQL in particular http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009...
Blockbusting list of Sarah Palin's rhetorical flourishes to bookmark ready for her run at the US presidency: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
@atmanes I don't think BT will let me reboot their network but it's worth a try.
Looks like @BTCare offered to help & then went home. I think it must be martini o'clock.
Hmm. R Installer ran, succeeded, terminated, left me with exactly no clues about what to do next.
Installing R (the one from REvolution).
So looking forward to getting help from @BTCare. Hope it doesn't turn out to be another "reboot & run" agent...
When I finally try to call someone for help (BT is a phone company after all) the agent I reach has no way to help and can't redirect me.
When I try to get online help, BT has no contextually-correct help so I am at the mercy of the byzantine & condescending "help system".
That would all be fine-ish if BT's web site didn't then reject the password attempt every time, or direct me to a 404. (Getting the idea?)
For online billing at BT, I must reset my password again. The process uses a corporate-grade password never used before. Just to pay them.
BT security questions: "On what date did service start on this line", "What numbers do you usually call", "How much was your last bill" :-0
@davest Indeed, @BTCare just tweeted me...
@BTCare Yes, that would be great, please e-mail webmink (at) gmail.com & we can establish contact.
I cannot begin to express how much I hate British Telecom & their online billing service. It is customer-hating in byzantine ways.
SunMink blog: links for 2009-07-09: Woot : 11 Undocumented Features Of Google Chrome OS Woot has .. http://blogs.sun.com/webmink...
Still no Google Gears for Firefox 3.5. Is Google using its position to push Chrome? Certainly not responding to users. http://groups.google.com/group...
@mcfedr I note they chicken out when it comes to Islam.
Women In Technology are cougars according to O'Reilly Books http://www.amazon.com/gp... [via @jperlow]
Reaction to Eire blasphemy law (not progress FWIW) seems to involve the right to intentionally grossly insult people. http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2009...
Google as Open Source's biggest foe & friend: http://www.infoworld.com/d... [learning the "Unbreakable" lesson from Oracle, it seems]
Woot : 11 Undocumented Features Of Google Chrome OS - http://www.woot.com/Blog...
Woot has made these lists into an art-form and this one is a classic. - Simon Phipps
♺ @woot: 11 undocumented features of Google OS: http://www.woot.com/Blog...
@mjasay You need to see the enormity of the Free software wave in Brazil to understand how your perception of evil is misplaced in this case
@aslam I think there's a symbiosis possible, but the article I'm referring to is missing it entirely.
@mjasay Your failure to celebrate the success of the free software community in Brazil is what stuns me. The hat is a trivial byproduct.
Amazed to find yet another @mjasay CNet post hating the success of the Free software community.
SunMink blog: Lula's Free Java Ring: The Brazilian economy is powered by the Java platform - even t.. http://blogs.sun.com/webmink...
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