Monthly Archives: November 2011

Linux likes the Netgear N150… and so do I

In my new occupation, I continue to treat myself to new kit purchase essential new equipment for my business. I’ve already blogged on my experiences with printers on Linux and now I’ve started using a new wireless adapter I’d like to give that a shout-out too. Like printers, I had mixed experiences of wireless adapters… read more

Planet FLOSS Rides Again

I have maintained a blog about my work in FLOSS (and other avenues I’ve explored more recently) for several years now, in two or three different incarnations. For much of that time, I was one of many bloggers syndicated on Planet FLOSS Research, a website that brought together a number of blogs all on the… read more

A little problem with the OSGi Version class

With the release of Indigo, Eclipse hackers have been exposed to a little change in the API of the org.osgi.framework.Version class. Specifically, a new method: compareTo(Version) has appeared. Prior to Eclipse 3.7, comparing two Version objects was done via the compareTo(Object) method. This caused us in the Saros team to suffer a rather subtle bug.… read more