Warning issued on international domains
News The ISO 10646 and Unicode character sets look promising, but they are "C programmer hostile" (and therefore make it easy to make mistakes) and they use multi-byte characters, which is an issue when domain names are limited to 63 or 64 bytes.
[March 13, 2001, 10:24]
Microsoft: OOXML free from proprietary hooks
News As various nations prepare to vote on whether Microsoft's Office Open XML becomes an ISO standard, the software giant is attempting to downplay fears that adopters will be hooked into the company's technology.
[August 31, 2007, 8:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What do you do with an ISO on Ubuntu? Strangely, the Web site for the Linux version might as well have all its documentation written in Linear B — what on earth do these people have against vowels? It is then the work of no time at all, in...
[February 3, 2006, 16:55]
Why Normal People Don't Use Linux
Blog Comment to create a bootable thumbdrive with an iso on it, try unetbootin - you will find it in the Ubuntu repositories. Just slip in a thumb drive, point it at an iso and click go
[June 11, 2009, 0:33]
Why Normal People Don't Use Linux
Blog Comment I haven't found a general purpose utility that will do this for any arbitrary .iso distribution. I know that current "standard" Ubuntu distribution includes a System/Administration menu option that will read an Ubuntu .iso and create a bootable USB...
[June 10, 2009, 11:32]
Why Normal People Don't Use Linux
Blog Comment Is there a simple application that I can use to convert .iso files into .img files so that I can mount them onto a flash drive? Ah I was just going to say that I too have taken to carrying around Ubuntu NBR on a thumb drive and showing mighty folk...
[June 10, 2009, 11:32]
