• CUPS bought by Apple

    The CUPS web site has announced that Apple has purchased CUPS and hired its main developer Michael Sweet.

  • GPL Ghostscript 8.60 snapshot in Fedora devel

    I’ve built a snapshot of the new GPL Ghostscript in Fedora devel, due to popular demand. It’s a snapshot from the ghostscript.com SVN repository.  Hopefully it will fix a lot of the problems that the ESP branch was stuck with.

  • Green Financial Products

    There’s an excellent article over at Motley Fool entitled Why You Shouldn’t Buy Green Financial Products. There have been a few of these recently: credit cards that give some proportion of their profit to green causes; mortgage companies that plant a few trees if you stick with them for several years; etc. The Fool goes…

  • 7digital beta site

    I’ve just discovered that 7digital has a hidden beta site where you can filter searches by file format. Finally we can search their shop for MP3 format tracks/albums!

  • Virgin/ntl embarrassingly honest

    I just spoke to Virgin (ntl: as was) to try to sort out some of the problems I’ve been having with their TV set-top box. It’s always a bit of an exasperating experience, and this time I asked them straight out — I said: “Is there any reason you can give me that I stick…