Today was mainly spent playing with thoddo (laptop) and hacking PHP.
Come a long way now on Computing coursework with return journeys and a GUI sorted out and more started, but still far too much left to do.
thoddo now has a 20Gb hard disk and is dual booted between Windows XP and a Knoppix hard disk install. This may not sound much, but upon aquiring the laptop I was told it was impossible to install Windows on because it overheats too quickly. My method of installation included patience, intuition and a gel cool pack from the freezer which was re-inserted into the freezer twice during the installation period. Who needs money to buy an expesive laptop that actually works?!
http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf <<-- Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee, of Harvard Business School is my new favourite person (yes I did just say that about a Business academic). A summary of his 52 page paper is basically that file sharing does not have a negative impact on record sales, in fact it may even have a positive effect. It's what teenagers have been saying all along... long live creativecommons and copylefting is all I can say. School was quoted a sum of money greater than the anual wage of our IT technician to upgrade four servers today... oh how we laughed. Mr C gave me an extremely useful article about ASP, web services and .Net the *day after* I sent my geek test off for the job application, grr! Oh well, not his fault 😛