Problem: some of the larger SunFreeware packages won’t install because they run out of space.

(No. 1 in an uncharacteristic and occasional series of potentially useful tech notes. :-)

If you’re installing the JASS toolkit on Solaris, there are a few extras that the docs don’t clearly mention.

”… was seized by gunmen identifying themselves as secret police agents, it was claimed today.”

“Freeze, we’re secret police agents … DOH!!”

”…that makes ‘dumb’ bombs smart.”

…Rejects claims that prototype testing on the President proves it doesn’t work. “We said ‘bombs’, not ‘bombers’”, clarifies top general.

For Douglas, who came back.

Simple but effective.

We were hoping to carry an exclusive interview with a leading blogger today but, despite the use of several industrial-strength deep extraction mining tools and the waving around of one of the latest Macs, we were unable to extract him from deep inside his own arse. However, we did catch a few distant echoes of phrases like “Trackbacks” and “viral community-led ethos”. Nope, we couldn’t make sense of them either.

Does the populist stance on the prospect of war against Iraq recently adopted by (most) European leaders mean that this is the first time the British people have wished the French or the Germans ran the country?

Support for British backing of an American-led war against Iraq has increased dramatically in the last 24 hours. Latest surveys show 80% of Britons in favour, after Prime Minister Tony Blair revealed that weapons inspectors had found child pornography on the hard drive of Saddam Hussein’s PC. Simultaneously, the FBI revealed that a credit card belonging to “S. Hussein” appeared on a list retrieved from the Candyman web site.

The survey also found that: * 75% wanted paediatricians, beauticians, bibliophiles and JPEG files prosecuted for crimes against children or, failing that, torn apart by howling mobs; * 55% believed that the slightest suspicion of paedophiliac behaviour justified the immediate application of the death penalty; * 30% would offer to undergo execution themselves in case they developed paedophile tendencies at a later date; * 15% thought that the safest way to prevent “a wave of child abuse from overwhelming the country” was to “slay every infant in Bethlehem below the age of two”, a suggestion that was immediately adopted as policy by the Israeli government; * 10% of parents felt that they had unwittingly overstepped the boundaries by staring at their own children for single periods lasting more than ten minutes, and they should therefore “pluck out thine own eyes”; * 5% beat our researchers to death as soon as they heard the word “pae—”.

You don’t need a zoom. You’d do better with a more boring lens.