The recently announced Microsoft Surface looks conceptually the same as research as done by Edward Tse.
By clicking visiting Microsoft Surface website and then clicking on the “Origins” link at the bottem of the page, you can learn that beyond a doubt (ahem), that Microsoft were the sole inventor of the concept.
But no one has accused them ever of capitalising on other peoples ideas.
Tomorrow I leave my current job (of over 2 and a half years) at CargoWise edi and a week later I’ll be joining Atlassian Software Systems as their new Release Engineer.
If you don’t know Atlassian, they are the awesome makers of JIRA and Confluence - and they totally grok Open Source.
I’m really excited about my new role - it will be fantastic to face a whole bunch of new challenges and work with a very intelligent group of new people.
Usually, I don’t blog about career stuff - but today I couldn’t help myself 
Hey guys! Just thought I’d do a quick shout out and remind people that tomorrow is SLUG’s first BootCamp.
BootCamp is not a geek fest - BootCamp aims to help people (not geeks!) get into using Linux.
So if your reading this and want to see what Linux can do for you - come along
HP has been kind enough to sponsor the event with approximately 30 linux demo machines (with sexy 30 inch widescreen monitors) and a wonderful venue at HP campus (410 Concord Rd, Rhodes, Sydney - map).
You can find out more on what’s on by checking out the schedule for the day.
Day Starts at 10am and finishes at 6pm - People from all over welcome
Anyone had any experience developing DOS applications for the Symbol brand of barcode scanners? I have a friend who runs an Apple Store wanting me to write some custom applications for it.
DOS was a bit before my time - so a better question would be “what can I use to develop applications for DOS?”
“Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez sat down with Fortune recently to map out their strategy for getting FOSS users to pay royalties. Revealing the precise figure for the first time, they state that FOSS infringes on no fewer than 235 Microsoft patents.”
If FOSS is infringing on so many patents, Microsoft, I think it’s time that you should cough up some evidence.
If you use Windows, you may of noticed a large hiberfil.sys folder in your system root (Say, C:\) this is the hibernation file that Windows uses to store the contents of ram when you hibernate your system.
Before Vista, if you wanted to free up some space, you could simply just turn off hibernation and delete the file.
Unfortunately Windows Vista likes to keep it around even with hibernation turned off in the Power Management settings. In my case a 4GB file. It’s undeleteable and who know’s why simply having hibernation off would still require you to keep the file.
To get rid of it run your command prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator then type:
powercfg -h off