Previous DayRE:GoDaddy suspends travel-getaways.com domain
Blog Comment Kudos to you for carrying on with this lengthy fight! It seems to me that GoDaddy could implement a very simple solution; their customers most likely pay with either a debit or credit card, why...
re: bigfootman
Talkback Here I strongly disagree with you because in the last {mmmfty mmmmf} years I have never had a connector to an IDE drive fall out or make bad contact. I have had this happen on several occasions -...
GoDaddy suspends travel-getaways.com domain
Blog I'm very pleased to say that GoDaddy has suspended the travel-getaways.com domain. I blogged in June that to my surprise I had found I was the site administrator for travel-getaways.com, which...
Critics attack 'dangerous' gov't comms-snooping plan
News The government is set to invite ISPs to tender for a controversial scheme that would see all internet and telephone communications monitored
Unboxing openSUSE 11.0
Blog Yes! We got our hands on the hottest, most talked-about technological must-have... it is, of course, the boxed version of openSUSE 11.0! Prepare yourselves for an exclusive unboxfest: My...
EC to cap text-roaming costs
News Operators gave mixed reactions to the move, which is likely to be formalised in October, possibly along with restrictions on data-roaming prices
Lenovo debuts new small-business notebooks and services
Blog With Intel and Vodafone along for the ride, Lenovo today launched a brand-new SL range of small-business-focussed ThinkPads, refreshed the T series (performance), R series (mainstream) and X series...
New Linux kernel expands virtualisation support
News A longer-than-usual release cycle results in improvements for virtualisation, wireless mesh networking, multimedia and other features
TokBox Releases Desktop Client
Blog TokBox, which I wrote about recently, has released a desktop client based on Adobe Air. This is an interesting development for several reasons. To summarize briefly, TokBox is an Adobe...
.me TLD to launch Thursday
Blog Just had an email from one of my domain name registrars - apparently the .me top level domain will be opened up on Thursday. It's already been around for a couple of years, but only as...
Dialogue Box 4.2: Atom power hits the desktop
Video Intel's Atom is out on the streets, promising a new era in low-power computing. But is it more spin than win?
Isn't iPhone a limited market .... as it is?
Blog I really think the hype is just that. The iPhone is for fashionistas who think it somehow makes them cool, or Geeks who like working complex things. Most people just want to dial, talk 'n text,...
On roaming, fibre to the home, and the Marquis de Sade
Leader Maximising broadband gain is a power game. Europe's regulators should not spare the whip
LG to fuse PC and mobile divisions
News The manufacturer plans to increase its focus on smartphones and ultramobile PCs, but will continue to make notebooks
Does virtualisation stop at the server?
Blog Think ‘virtualisation’ and what comes to mind? I don’t mean Diane Greene’s exit and Microsoft’s Hyper-V, I mean what type of virtualisation and where? Mostly we think of server consolidation,...
BT to roll out fibre to 10m UK homes
News The £1.5bn scheme may catalyse regulatory change and enable up to 100Mbps broadband across the UK, but critics are questioning the numbers
Apple: Weekend iPhone 3G sales hit one million
News The company says one million handsets were sold and 10 million apps downloaded from the new App Store in the three days after the iPhone 3G launch
For me the IDE cable is the one
Talkback To remove it from the HDD you have to tug at the ribbion bit of the cable right next to where the connector is. I have lost count at the number of times the back has snapped off and left the rest...
Barclays to offshore 1,800 IT jobs
News Roles in global infrastructure and service delivery are set to be scrapped in the UK and new jobs created in Hungary, India and Singapore over the next two years
Dell Latitude X300
Member Review Has a re-occuring issue where the presence of the battery can stop the system from powering up. Overtime the mains power connector becomes loose and prone to accidental removal.. not an issue...
UK lags behind in open-source uptake
News Business in the UK are slower than their European and US counterparts in adopting open-source software, according to recent research
Viacom, YouTube agree user-info deal
News YouTube will be allowed to mask out usernames, IP addresses and viewing histories from data it must hand over to Viacom as part of a copyright-infringement suit
Intel unveils its Centrino 2 platform
News The chipmaker's latest mobile platform brings new processors, chipsets and graphics engine, along with improvements in wireless capability and security
My notebook's bugged
Blog There's a bug in my notebook, what am I gonna do? We're talking about Thrips (Thysanoptera), those tiny fringe-winged insects, also known as thunderbugs or thunderflies. At this time of year, given...
Frankenstein's monster
Talkback Ok. Here ya go! If you want something to crow about, this is the one. When will inventors begin to give consideration to what they create before realizing their vision? I'd love to know their...
BITS = Bugs In The System
Talkback Well there's certainly a lot of software problems going on aren't there? First it was millions of public records lost in transport! Now it's a corrupted travel system. What next? The race for...
Dang, Darn, Damn Small Linux!
Blog I've been looking at a very interesting variant of Linux called Damn Small Linux, (hereafter called DSL). Its 3 major contributors have basically taken a minimalist approach to Linux and have...
