Previous DayRE:More on Moblin
Blog Comment Hi Moley, thanks for your frank comments. I would say in all honesty that I agree with your evaluation, but I do indeed try to be 'restrained' in what I write here, because I have learned over the...
RHEL 5.4 beta arrives
News Red Hat has released a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, the first version of the server OS to incorporate virtualisation based on Qumranet's KVM
Orange launches managed videoconferencing
News Open Videopresence is a managed service that allows interaction between different kinds of videoconferencing kit and across various networks
PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives tailored for admins
News After months of work, the open source database management software update is released with a focus on better tools for admin and monitoring
Surrey, London and Peking get a yuan for spintronics
Blog Researchers from the University of Surrey, the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Peking University's Institute of MIcroelectronics have been awarded a £430,000 grant to get busy devloping...
Oracle delivers Fusion 11g updates
News Oracle's updated middleware suite slots into its vision of an integrated software stack that pulls together not only a customer's operations but also the software company's many acquisitions
RE:Ubuntu Netbook Remix - An Acid Test
Blog Comment Oh my, yes. If you have a computer with only 1gb of ram on board and you apply readyboost under vista then there is a very noticable difference. It stops much of vista triping up over paving slabs...
Digital Britain phone levy not enough, says BT
News The government's proposed 50p charge on fixed lines will not be enough to extend next-generation broadband coverage across the whole UK, BT's strategy chief has said
Etymotic hf2 custom fit earphones
Blog It was way back last year that a guy called Andy Shiach came to my house and syringed a thick gloop into my ears. It was in a good cause. Andy is an ex musician who damaged his ears while playing....
Netgear ReadyNAS NVX
Review The ReadyNAS NVX is a highly capable network storage appliance that will work equally well in a small or medium-sized business or at home. It supports a wide range of protocols and is easy to manage.
Security talk pulled after ATM vendor complains
News Juniper Networks has cancelled a researcher's talk at the Black Hat and Defcon conferences following a complaint from a vendor
Ten time-saving apps for KDE 4 productivity
Comment KDE 4 has brought some big changes to the desktop, including these 10 labour-saving widgets, says Jack Wallen
Grey Army
Talkback I love the idea that the over 75s will leap at the chance to get their free ID card. In talking to people and campaigning against these things, it's that very age group that need no persuading....
Windows 7 could be a touch too much
Analysis A lack of apps and users having to buy additional monitors to support the technology may hold back the rate of touchscreen take-up
Optical servers: at the heart of tomorrow's data centre?
Blog Servers of tomorrow will be optically powered, and consume a fraction of the power they do today. This means less heat, less energy consumption and, of course, data centres whose compute power is...
Yahoo's Delicious is added to Chrome
News Chrome's extensions framework has matured enough for Yahoo to release an alpha version of an add-on to use its social-bookmarking service
Services launched for Ubuntu-based clouds
News Canonical will provide services to support companies building 'private cloud' infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls
Lenovo introduces latest ThinkServer lineup
News The servers are intended for small to medium-sized businesses and are 'up to three times faster' than their predecessors, according to Lenovo
Government under fire over ID cards
Analysis The home secretary's announcement that carrying an ID card will never be compulsory for British citizens has prompted many to question its future
WiFi vs. Mobile Broadband (HSPA)
Blog I have to say first that I am mildly surprised to be writing this. I'm sitting in Starbucks, where I came to spend an hour drinking coffee and using their public WiFi access before going to an...
not for everyone in the same way as windows is not for every...
Talkback Well it's not for everyone ok. But I dont see myself going back on Windows personally. So I would say that windows is also not for everyone!! There are things that I can do on Linux and not on...
