So apparently the forthcoming Ubuntu Dapper release will include on a forth, yet-to-be-announced architecture. There have been a lot of SPARC fixes going in ... and it's a Forth architecture ... it must be Ubuntu Open Firmware!

We cleaned out UCC's Shenton Park storage area, and the sheer number of vt320s gave me an idea for the UCC vt320 delivery service:

Playing a whole lot of ET recently, can't wait for ET:Quake Wars to be released.

Set up 1.6TB of RAID 1+0 at work, and it struck me how document and data management is quickly becoming a mainstream problem. Most people store their files without any software assistance, but this breaks down once you get a few hundred GB of stuff. It's probably a solved problem for large businesses, but I haven't really seen any small-scale tech for this. Is great search like Beagle or the various Desktop searchapps the solution, or will WinFS be required? What's the Free desktop's answer to this problem? Also related is Long-term backup.

I know UCC could sure do with some help organising its amorphous mass of data that's spread over too many filesystems. Maybe what I want is some sort of intranet/CMS/wiki site for top-level organisation, but that supports direct links into the filesystem that work regardless of which computer you're using. Actually, with the gnome-vfs integration in mozilla plus sftp this might actually work on Linux.