Daily Archives: Thursday, October 10, 2013

  • An apposite typo?

    Steve WoodsBristol, Language, Oddities, Politics

    I’m not a regular reader of the minutes of meetings of Bristol City Council’s Audit Committee. However, there’s an absolute corker of a typographical error on page 3 of the draft minutes of its 24th September 2013 meeting (PDF).

    image of BCC audit committee minutes

    Will anyone down at the Counts Louse (as real Bristolians call or) or City Hall (as the Mayor has renamed it) be eagle-eyed enough to notice?

    Under no circumstances Lord Fraud should not be confused with Lord Freud, a Conservative peer who only pretends to be a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions with responsibility for welfare reform. 😉

  • GNU Make 4 released

    Steve WoodsLinux, Open Source, Tech

    GNU head imageThe GNU Project has announced the release of version 4 of GNU Make, the software’s latest stable version.

    Make is a utility that automatically builds executable programs and libraries from source code by reading files called makefiles which specify how to derive the target program.

    This latest version provides support for Guile integration as an embedded scripting language for makefiles, as well as other new features and many bug fixes and performance improvements. There are also some backward-incompatibilities.

    Potential users are advised to read the NEWS file that comes with the GNU make distribution for complete details on changes visible to the user.

    Make can be downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/.