About Author: Philip

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Born and raised in England, moved to France for 10 years, then to the USA (Oregon) in 1992. Various interests including Ham Radio, Shooting and Photography.

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Book Review: OpenAM

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– Posted on April 23, 2011Posted in: Reviews, Technical

At half the price, I might have been a little more generous in my rating (but not by much).

The book starts by giving a brief history of the product, in all its various forms and insists upon pointing to Oracle as being the keeper of the flame for OpenSSO, which is hard to swallow given their stated intention to kill it, removing public access to binaries and to a lot of information. I know the author works for them, but really! Read the rest of this entry »

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Life with the Macbook

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– Posted on April 6, 2011Posted in: Technical

Yesterday, Simon, my son, took his first real look at my Macbook Pro. He stared at it for a few moments, and said “where are the mouse buttons?”.

That was the point at which it struck me that the world is pretty much conditioned to doing things “The Microsoft Way”, and that Apple is a really excellent example of showing that not only are there alternatives, but some of them are actually better. Read the rest of this entry »

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Fallout

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– Posted on March 18, 2011Posted in: Disaster, Science

The media world-wide are doing a fine job of stirring up panic and spreading half understood, and partially correct “facts” about the reactor problems in Japan.

There are continuous references to “meltdown”, “Three Mile Island” and “Chernobyl”. Its worth looking at these to see what is really behind the references. Read the rest of this entry »

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Useless “experts”

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– Posted on March 13, 2011Posted in: Disaster

The world, and especially government and government affiliated organizations are full of experts. Experts in everything, telling us all how we should behave, think and react to almost any circumstances you can think of. Read the rest of this entry »

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I think I am a convert.

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– Posted on March 11, 2011Posted in: Technical

My old laptop (a Thinkpad T43) is getting old. It is slow, its disk is small (and full), it needs a new battery, memory (2GB, can’t go higher) is too small for a lot of what I need to do.

So I started looking around for a replacement.
I noticed that a lot of colleagues and friends seemed to be using macbooks. I also noticed a lot of them on airplanes and in the different Red Carpet lounges I visited at different airports. People demoing software seemed to use virtual machines running on macbooks. Read the rest of this entry »

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Scientists say …

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– Posted on February 20, 2011Posted in: Science

Its not at all unusual these days to read just about any story which includes the magical words “scientists say”. Mostly, these will be stories of impending catastrophe, or backing up some government scheme to separate the electorate from many billions in new taxes. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Gun Obsession

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– Posted on February 6, 2011Posted in: Social

A reconstruction of the discussion thread from Facebook.
Everything is verbatim as it originally appeared, except for my entries, of which all but the first response were all lost, so my comments may not be word for word as they originally appeared.
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