Previous DayRE:Why Normal People Don't Use Linux
Blog Comment Ah I was just going to say that I too have taken to carrying around Ubuntu NBR on a thumb drive and showing mighty folk how they can run it live and manipulate their windows file systems. And there...
Google Apps gets Outlook-sync plug-in
News Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook will let enterprises move users from Microsoft's back-end to Google Apps while keeping an Outlook front-end
Court hears Nasa hacker 'at risk of psychosis'
News A judicial review of Gary McKinnon's extradition to the US has begun in the high court in London, with questions of his health being raised
Tripwire unveils virtualisation-management tool
News Tripwire's vWire virtualisation management software is designed to cut downtime and reduce risk
Bluetooth gets green light for health tech
News The latest version of Bluetooth has been chosen by Continua Health Alliance, an industry group for health IT, as a preferred wireless technology for devices
Cloud pushing telecoms into bandwidth boost
News Net neutrality constraints and cloud computing and are forcing telecoms operators to build more bandwidth into core infrastructure, according to an Ovum analyst
Twitter ye not
Blog We’ve had the hype of celebs I can’t even be bothered to name helping raise the profile of Twitter, and now we’re getting the research that says Twitter ‘aint necessarily all it is cracked up to...
Safari and QuickTime get a refresh
News QuickTime 10 is touted as 'super-efficient', while Safari 4 comes out of beta with promises of faster JavaScript and resistance to crashes caused by plug-ins
Vista users ripped off? What about the rest?
Talkback All Microsoft users are being ripped off. It has always been thus. Check out MS's licensing model around SharePoint or Exchange Server. It's a bloody scandal. A strategy of platform locking, stack...
New iPhones will cost up to 87pc more
News While prices for the new iPhone 3G S models in the US match those of the previous versions on launch, O2 is charging UK buyers a lot more
RE:UK Bing use falls after initial few days
Blog Comment I used Bing for a few days just to check it out, and found it to be an acceptable search engine, but it never had as many sites, on any particular search, as Google or yahoo. I am now back to...
Dell trundles into deduping
Blog I spent some time talking to Dell recently about data deduping: it appears the company is moving into that market. Backing up has always been hard to do. Copying stuff from one place to another,...
Juniper revs Ethernet to 100Gbps
News The 100Gbps Ethernet interface card is an industry first, and is announced far ahead of the standard's actual ratification by the IEEE
Virtual-machine exploit lets attackers take over host
News The exploit for an VMware flaw uses malicious code running on a virtual machine to let an intruder take over the host operating system
Clonezilla rocks the house!
Blog After installing Windows XP, updating it, restarting it, authenticating it, and then installing a stack of Free Software from the OpenDisc DVD, and configuring that (with probably a few more...
Why Normal People Don't Use Linux
Blog aka The Four Eyes A way back I blogged in a self-important and knowing way about Why People Don’t Use GNU/Linux. I'd like to update that now, and thus the appearance of The Four...
iPhone 3G S: a first look
Preview Apple's third-generation iPhone will be available on 19 June. Here are the highlights from its unveiling at the WWDC 2009 keynote.
Apple launches summer product push
Roundup Apple fulfilled rumours in the WWDC keynote with major upgrades to its portable computers and operating system. Oh, and a new iPhone
Windows 7 unlikely to cause leap in PC sales
News Top Windows business executive Bill Veghte says history suggests any bump to the PC market from a new OS will be a modest one
Apple: Snow Leopard set to unleash chip power
News At the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced a technology called Grand Central Dispatch to better tap into multicore chip power
Apple reveals updates to iPhone, MacBook, OS X
News At WWDC, the company showed off a faster version of the iPhone, faster notebooks, plus the upcoming Snow Leopard software, iPhone OS 3.0 and more
Moblin on the Nettop - First Steps
Blog It was recently suggested in a comment to my blog that I try moblin on my Dual Atom Nettop system. I've wanted to look at moblin for quite some time, but had held back because my HP Mini-Note...
