Previous DayRE:Why Normal People Don't Use Linux
Blog Comment Roger, it looks like I have some good news for you... I was sitting here mulling what you had written, and it occurred to me that Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu... and Mint "Gloria" is current...
Adobe fixes critical flaws in Reader, Acrobat
News In its first official monthly bulletin of security patches, Adobe has remedied 13 vulnerabilities that could have allowed an intruder to take over a computer
Synchronica offers push email for low-end phones
News The mobile-device management firm has released a tool to let enterprises roll out push email for low-end handsets
HP RDX Removable Disk Backup System
Review This is an excellent backup solution for small businesses, and more cost-effective than tape at this end of the market. Performance could be better, but that's our only real concern.
RE:Why Normal People Don't Use Linux
Blog Comment Hello all, Here are a couple of other distros that also make it easy to install their distros to pen drives, Mepis Linux, and Dream Linux both of which are based upon Debian. I have used both of...
Apple's WWDC keynote in photos
Photo Apple execs go onstage in San Francisco to show off the new iPhone 3G S and a new MacBook, plus updates to Mac OS X, Safari and QuickTime
Study: Mobile-broadband speeds are below 1Mbps
News Subscribers in the UK are getting mobile-broadband download speeds that are just a quarter of those advertised, according to a new report
RE:PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
Blog Comment It's an interesting move, but I fear it will do little more than catch headlines. The problem within Whitehall is not technical, but cultural. While Berners-Lee is an expert in information systems...
PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive
Blog Gordon Brown is bringing in the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to help open up government data. Brown made the announcement in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, during a speech...
iPhone OS 3.0: screenshots
Photo Version 3.0 of the iPhone OS will be available on 17 June. Here's a tour of the main enhancements.
No change there.
Talkback If my experiences with O2 are anything to go by, people who 'must have' an iPhone will be the only people on their network in a year's time. Nationwide were so, so smart with their "brand new...
BBC News website taken down by hosting problems
Blog The BBC's news website suffered a 20-minute outage early on Wednesday afternoon, due to problems at a London hosting centre. The heavily-used site was down between 12:20 and 12:40, at times...
Will the cloud help or hinder open source?
Video Experts weigh up the impact of cloud computing on open-source software and Linux
HP, Intel, Yahoo team up on the cloud
News The tech giants have announced that three new research organisations will join their Open Cirrus cloud-computing research effort
Gotcha!
Blog Maybe it's my eyes. Maybe it's my age. Maybe, like the motorcycle test, they're just harder. Whatever it is, captcha has now turned into gotcha. The captcha above caught me out, locked down...
Microsoft spins out software-protection tech
News The software maker, which already licenses out its product-activation and licensing technology to other firms, is now creating a separate company to handle the task
Mike O'Brien becomes NHS IT minister
News Th e MP for Warwickshire North has been appointed as minister of state for health services, where his brief includes Connecting for Health and NHS IT
Microsoft rolls out record Patch Tuesday fixes
News The bulletin includes a host of fixes for critical holes in Internet Explorer, Word and Excel, and important holes in the IIS web server product and other software
Price defines whether Win7 is classed as a 'service pack' fo...
Talkback Windows 7 could well stll turn out to be a 'Service Pack' for Vista. How its defined is by the price charged for a Vista->Windows 7 Upgrade - a minimal price - it effect becomes a service pack. In...
RE:Why Normal People Don't Use Linux
Blog Comment Roger, I haven't found a general purpose utility that will do this for any arbitrary .iso distribution. It is something which I too have been meaning to look into. I know that current "standard"...
Microsoft, Internet Pirates and Web 2.0+
Blog Microsoft needs to do something truly pro-active to rid the Internet of Windows zombies. The programming design of Windows from the beginning has been flawed. Consider the resulting bot-net zombies...
JavaOne: What Sun didn’t say…
Blog As is always the way with these things, attending a big show like JavaOne means you do tend to focus on what Sun Microsystems itself had to say – especially when the company has just been bought by...
