Openbytes

Blog URL:http://www.openbytes.wordpress.com
Blog Tags:Linux, FOSS, IT, GNU, technology, computing, microsoft
Country:United Kingdom

The Linux/FOSS Blogazine! Looking at the many facets of IT, exposing FUD and challenging the Microsoft monopoly.



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It’s been a few years since I reviewed books on the back of receiving a review copy.  Whilst I spent much of my time writing professionally, this doesn’t afford me much time for reading review copies and my spare time is taken up with ha...

Reality and Facebook

on Mar 21, 2018 in: News

Having “used” Facebook for many years it goes without saying how much of an impact it has in many people lives around.  Whether you think that its good or bad that’s your opinion, but the purpose of this article is to look at comme...

I don’t like the term box set for this article. When most people talk of box sets we don’t mean box sets at all. Imagine if Aliens from another galaxy landed here and the trouble they would have.  After learning our languages, they would...

This is the second visit to the world of the WWE.  It will probably be the last for this blog, at least for a while. Following on from yesterdays Raw, lets see how Smackdown fared. I often mention WWE logic and we started off the show with another e...

I took the opportunity to pen some thoughts in regards to my weekly viewing of Raw.  Lets be clear though, with the show promoting Raw as the longest running episodic show, it didn’t start well for me, if we are talking worldwide, the UK’...

I’ve a very good friend, he tackles a wide range of issues from privacy to patents, proprietary software to open source and he does this very well.  He is incredibly well read, well sourced and maybe most important of all, passionate about his...

We no longer live in the Attitude Era.  Storyline’s these days seem pushed out at a great velocity with a diverse range of results from reasonable to cringe-worthy – and thats if there’s a story at all. For those who are wrestling...