Previous DayHomebrew Cosy Cottage - A High Tech Old House
Blog Our little cottage in the Black Mountains is nestled in the middle of nowhere, down a long, winding, single track lane. One of the wonderful things about living in the middle of nowhere is the...
Could they be sold saparetely?
Talkback It's clear that Microsoft have a lot of faith in their product, otherwise it would be crazy to sell something for £400 when there are free online alternatives. As the article hints, not every...
Kudos to Fujitsu Technical Support
Blog I mentioned earlier today that I was not able to get a Wireless-N connection between my Lifebook S6510 and Linksys WRT350N router. I have just been on Fujitsu live support chat, and I believe the...
Carbon copy the future of physics
Blog More exciting news from the increasingly carboniferous world of solid state physics. A paper from two researchers, Yakov Kopelevich in San Paulo and Pablo Esquinaz in Leipzig, reports that good old...
Expert: CPS hack tool guidance 'confused'
News Crown Prosecution Service guidance for the interpretation of laws designed to stop the distribution of hacker tools has raised fears that people could be prosecuted for distributing network-testing...
Can AMD's heir apparent turn its fortunes around?
Analysis Company president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer is being groomed to succeed Hector Ruiz, but first he must prove that last year's engineering mistakes were an aberration
Intuit bug resurfaces at public Wi-Fi hotspots
News A bug in a flawed QuickBooks update that deleted users' files could strike again if the software is used at public Wi-Fi hotspots
Call for papers now open: scam or substance?
Blog As expected this week, as soon as we had shrugged off our new years hangovers, the 2008 software development conference season publicity programme kicked into gear. Whether you are thinking of...
MPs demand tougher data-breach sanctions
News The Commons Justice Committee has called for new reporting requirements, greater enforcement powers and improved funding for the ICO
"not 100 percent effective"
Talkback Immediately following the last "patch Tuesday", my XP partition will open with no icons, on the desktop, or I will get a message saying,"windows explorer has encountered a problem and has to shut...
Linux saves the junkyard dogs
Blog A crisis call comes in from on high to inform me that we'll have four people in a porta-cabin on a client site and they'll need access to their e-mail, Internet & need the ability to share files -...
Just adds more weight to MS Office competitors
Talkback Microsoft have shot themselves in the foot once again by trying to force the market in the direction they want. There is a huge amount of archived material in these old formats which will now have...
Office 2003 update blocks older file formats
News The latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 has made a range of older file formats inaccessible, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations
Nigerian company seeks $20m OLPC 'damages'
News Lagos Analysis Corporation has gained an injunction that could halt the distribution of educational laptops to children in the country, to the OLPC's bemusement
RE:Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog Comment Nice review -- I've always found LifeBooks pretty solid pieces of kit. Look forward to seeing the rest of your report. Can you tell us how much the S6510 cost?
BlackBerry Pearl 8120
Member Review The 8120 is a good upgrade from the 8100, with the addition of Wi-Fi and hopefully the resolvement of the problematic tracker ball. I like the concept of Blackberry but was never a fan of the full...
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac: a first look
Preview A new version of Microsoft Office for Mac is due in a couple of weeks. Here are our impressions after testing the release candidate for a month or so.
RE:Vista to XP - Two weeks later
Blog Comment I bought an HP laptop computer running Vista Business Edition, decent specification with upgraded memory, and was immediately disappointed with the performance and idiosyncrasies of the system,...
Ask Bill
Blog Now's your chance to ask Bill Gates a question via the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7161359.stm I note the item refers to asking Mr Gates himself a question, not Microsoft. Also...
