Previous DayMacLinux
Talkback Windows XP is a cookie-cutter product, dictated by Microsoft. With Linux, individual OEMs choose their flavor and develop the customizations. These new permutations can make for "teething" issues....
Lack of Individual Responsibility
Talkback It is frightening that laptops can be lost (mislaid or stolen) in such quantity or at all. While laptops are very nice I tend to wonder how many office based MoD staff actually NEED a portable...
Why AOL wants developers to put passion over profit
Q&A Edwin Aoki, technology fellow at AOL, talks about the effect of the credit crunch on development, and how an individual programmer's weekend project can turn into something much bigger
Patch It, Patch It, Patch It Right Now
Talkback With four critical updates and six moderate patches, this is a pretty heavy Patch Tuesday in terms of volume. Given that the four critical bulletins deal with Windows and Excel 2000, Internet...
Not enough right minded people
Talkback Sadly a lot of people are NOT in their right mind and will sign up to lengthy contracts with ridiculous hidden charges. Vodafone have always been the most expensive, have some shocking customer...
Infosys Q2 results buck economic downturn
News The outsourcing company's revenues grew 19 percent year on year, with second-quarter revenues of $1.2bn
amen to that!!
Talkback i showed my friend that price package, he laughed and said no wonder vodafone are seen as the most expensive network. That is a ridiculous price, no one in their right mind would ever sign up for...
HSDPA Coverage
Talkback In Southbank I manage to get HSDPA coverage for my T-mobile dongle. Not run speedtests but have downloaded files at around 250-300kb/s T-mobile's £10/month then £15 a month after that offer seems...
IBM invests in business partners' training
News A business-development fund aims to encourage its largest partners to take up more skills training around datacentres
Too Right
Talkback Moley, as usual (always?) I completely agree with you. It seems odd to me as well that they would use a version of Linux that is tedious to configure for wireless connection, and this must be a...
Linux-based netbooks returned
Talkback Historically there is a gap between Linux & Windows. People got used to Windows's interface, for example my parents (that's an example lol) have used Linux (Suse, Mandriva ...) but they are...
Data roaming hell - what can we do ?
Blog This is just a friday snippit about what can we do with data roaming charges on smart phones. A recent Euro business trip ended with a heft roaming data charge of over £65 for Vodafone, just for...
Wind's Suse Linux Implementation
Talkback In my own experience, internet connectivity has been an ongoing matter of contention in SuSe Linux over the years. Disappointing when most other versions of Linux find no difficulty in...
What Companies Lack in BI
Blog As much as companies are talking of committing to Business Intelligence principles in their daily work, the concept of BI still seems too utopian and vague to be successfully implemented throughout...
EDS loses unencrypted armed-forces data
News The IT contractor has lost a hard disk containing Ministry of Defence data from its facility in Hampshire
RE:Unwittingly Working For Google.
Blog Comment When your head is full of best tarriffs prices and text/minute deals the technology doesn't seem to enter into the equation. It's rather sad that employees of these companies train up on a need to...
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 with Vodafone mobile broadband
Preview Dell's netbook is now available on 24-month contract from Vodafone. Here are our impressions of the mobile broadband version of the Mini 9.
Lots of Possible Explanations...
Talkback Wow, does this lend itself to a lot of possible explanations. This is something I have been thinking about quite a bit lately, as I have been setting up more of my friends with Linux systems...
HP: EDS job cuts won't affect service delivery
News HP has said it is too early to tell where the cuts will fall, but insists services won't be affected as redundancies will focus on those working in duplicate roles
Microsoft to issue 11 Patch Tuesday fixes
News Starting next week, the company is expected to also provide an 'exploitability index' to help system administrators prioritise the patches
RE:Financial collapse & debunking electronic banking myths
Blog Comment Good article, good thoughts - and a great choice of cars! Those things are immensely popular here in Switzerland, as you might imagine, and everyone I know who owns one has loved it. jw
Google Maps gets search-related text ads
News The internet giant has begun opening another search-related ad revenue source: text ads that show up when people search at Google Maps
RE:Is this just a load of BSS?
Blog Comment Hey Roger - I think the Plain Tech Speak Campaign is a story in it's own right. My first submission: "Highly-robust mission-critical enterprise-grade next-generation intuitive solution" ......
Mandriva 2009 Release Available
Blog Mandriva released their 2009.0 version for download yesterday, and although I have had slightly mixed results with it, they continue to impress me. Those guys work hard, and produce good results....
RE:The Spotlight turns to notebooks - Apple event is on next tu...
Blog Comment I really doubt it Roger, Apple are always so stubborn and to be fair they do make a side connecting module and as a suer I have never found I have needed the optical drive - one more USB and...
Yahoo investor proposes new Microsoft deal
News As Yahoo's stock reaches new lows, a private-equity fund that owns a percentage of the internet company's stock has suggested a deal to sell to Microsoft for $22 a share
Financial collapse & debunking electronic banking myths
Blog In the midst of the current banking collapses and the ensuing madness that comes with it, I had to buy a car for my better half this week. I needed to use a debit card for slightly more than...
RE:Data Quality - Upstream or Downstream?
Blog Comment Great Post Alena, hadn't realised Forrester had released this, thanks for drawing my attention to it. Resolution/prevention at source has to be one of the founding principles of good data quality...
