Previous DayWorks in the home too!
Talkback Good set of points, here, which can also be applied to your relatives - I've introduced openoffice.org and firefox this way, leading to Linux on at least one more home laptop. The only problem I...
RE:What Do We Expect from Netbooks?
Blog Comment As a matter of curiosity I've just completed a 'real life' test of battery life on my Eee PC 901. I run the ubunto 8.10 based easy peasy, but instead of the gnome desktop, I run ROX desktop with...
Some Days You Eat the Bear...
Blog and some days the bear eats you. Sigh. Today was going to be a good day. The Fedora 11 Beta was released yesterday evening, and I had already downloaded it last night at home - both the LiveCD...
G20 police use usual surveillance methods
Blog I went to take a look at the G20 protests in the City this afternoon. I was interested in what technology the police were using to monitor the crowd. I was expecting some new technology, as the...
Microsoft decides to shelve Encarta
News The software maker has confirmed it will move out of the encyclopaedia business, citing a change in the way people 'seek and consume information' today
Rackable puts $25m offer in for SGI
Blog On Wednesday, the storage supplier Rackable Systems surprised many people with the announcement that it wanted to buy the assets of Silicon Graphics International (SGI) for $25m (£17.3m). One...
HP service aims to strengthen trust in the cloud
News Cloud Assure has been launched in an effort to increase trust in SaaS security, availability and application performance, the company says
IBM moves into social networking in the cloud
News LotusLive Engage aims to offer easy-to-use applications with high-security features so a company can get its employees working together outside its firewall
RE:Broken Windows Part 4
Blog Comment It is indeed strange that some of these fundamental issues like frozen widows, or complete systems, go unresolved. In my own experience these now occur more frequently, including in WinXP. It is...
Windows Server 'Foundation' for SMEs
Blog Microsoft has made a play for small businesses feeling the squeeze from the credit crunch by launching its Windows Server 2008 Foundation offering for SMEs with 15 or fewer employees. In an...
Microsoft U-turns on Windows Mobile update charges
News All updates or version upgrades for apps that have already been submitted to the Windows Marketplace for Mobile store will now be accepted free of charge, says Microsoft
Companies to spread outsourcing deals across globe
News A report by the London School of Economics has predicted that the global growth in IT and BPO in various new countries will allow businesses to gamble on many different offshoring deals
Zoho Writer 2.0
Review Zoho Writer 2.0 provides one of the richest feature sets of any online word processor, now more accessible thanks to an interface revamp. And, of course, it's free.
Democratic Visa card for All Africans
Blog Full text of the Interview with the VP - GTPLimited during His visit to Lagos - Nigeria. Emmanuel : International Visa and MasterCard Processors with their new technology are catching up fast...
Boot from an SD Memory Card
Blog This is so cool that I'm just sitting here giggling about it. Many newer computers, with newer BIOS, are able to boot from a flash memory card. My HP 2133 systems can do that. So I just used the...
How to rid your computer of the Conficker worm
Help/HowTo If you're struggling to tackle Conficker, or just concerned your computer may be infected, this guide will help you cleanse your system of the worm and inoculate against other variants
The duck don't like it
Blog A recent addition to the household has been a duck, who alas remains egg-less. In an attempt to make her feel more at home, I bought a kennel on the cheap (sorry, no pun intended), and have been...
RE:OpenOffice to the Rescue
Blog Comment "It really totally escapes me why most people pay money for Microsoft Office these days" Inertia, market share and the de facto standard? There are echoes of VHS vs. Betamax:...
HP considering Android for netbooks, says report
News The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that HP is 'studying' Google's open-source software to use on its low-cost netbooks
RE:Broken Windows Part 4
Blog Comment I am finding this series of blog entries very interesting and enlightening, thanks very much for taking the time to write them up... Re: Hanging processes/windows, this one of the things that...
Opera face gestures
Blog OK, all I’m gonna do on this one is quote massively from the press release and direct you to the Opera web page for more info. "Opera Software today unveiled its newest innovation to be...
Symantec investigates call-centre credit card scam
News The security vendor is looking into allegations that a call centre in India leaked credit-card numbers of its customers to someone who sold them to undercover BBC reporters
Google sets up venture capital arm
News The search giant has announced details of its venture-capital arm, which will invest in industries such as the consumer internet, software, clean tech and healthcare
Broken Windows Part 4
Blog Windows 7 has displayed its roots, it did a Vista trick. Something that seemingly happens at least every other day in Visaster, a window stall where usually an Explorer window comes to a dead...
Jaunty Jackalope's April First jape
Blog What a great day for a calendar bug! Testers of Jaunty Jackalope, the 9.04 'netbook friendly' version of Ubuntu, have found a problem that puts all users of the popular open source operating...
