Previous DayCan't really say...
Talkback ... as it's crashed every time I've tried to run the programme since I downloaded it about eight hours ago. Anybody else having a problem accessing the UK site, or is it just me?
RE:Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment Thanks for your comments. I have the feeling now that some my comments were half baked. I finally installed XP as my main OS as a Christmas present to myself so it's over 6 months since I tried...
More on Novell's cheeky tricks at Red Hat show...
Blog More info on the mention I made in an earlier post to the little tricks that vendors get up to at a rival's conference. I'm over in Boston at the moment reporting on Red Hat's annual shindig...
Easy record to brake
Talkback So if there's no previously recorded record in the guiness book of records, doesn't that mean any data you supply would become the record? In which case Firefox 3 is guaranteed the record whether...
Red Hat backs new virtualisation strategy
Blog Linux specialist Red Hat has announced that is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will compliment rather than compete with its existing virtualisation strategy. Launched at...
Almost there with the audio system
Blog Yesterday I completed and successfully tested the control software for the audio system. The software works with the matrix switcher and the APC MasterSwitch remote control PDU to allow the...
Early Verdict On Skype 4.0 Beta - IT STINKS!!!!
Blog I have been debating whether I would risk installing the Skype 4.0 beta release on my test system (there's absolutely ZERO chance that it will ever be installed on my live system). I decided to...
Switch consolidation
Blog We recently had our latest electricity bill in, and it was pretty huge. To try to reduce the next bill, reduce the heat output of the cabinet and speed up the network I decided to combine 5...
Finally my last words on XP SP3, (yeah right, you hope so!)
Blog BTW this is being entered into the blog using FireFox 3, I managed to get one of the 24-hr downloads, but sadly not on this machine. Well we finally figured out the magic cookie for SP3. ...
Disable Firefox 3's 'awesome bar'
Video If you're one of those users clamouring for an option to silence so-called 'awesome bar' in Firefox 3, released on Tuesday, look no further
European IT chief backs net neutrality
News In a speech made to a global forum on internet governance, the EC's Viviane Reding says the net neutrality debate is a 'political question to be answered by the people'
Dutch researchers crack London's Oyster card
Blog Now they've really gone and done it. At the start of the year, some Dutch researchers managed to crack the Netherlands' travelcard, the OV-chipkaart. Now, this card uses the same technology - NXP's...
Fighter pilots, periscopes and device software optimisation
Blog You’ve got to admit it; nothing makes your brain feel numb more than terms like device software optimisation, or DSO to those in the know. It sounds like one of those vendor-created terms designed...
ASUS Eee PC 901
Review The Eee PC 901 is better than its predecessor, the 900. It looks nicer, has a faster, more efficient CPU and better battery life. It's larger and 100g heavier and its keyboard is still too small...
New chief exec makes first Red Hat conference keynote speech
Blog Newly appointed Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst claims that his employer's future lies in becoming an open source advisor to end-user companies to allow them to share internally developed...
Please DO NOT “check for updates” from within Firefox 2
Talkback "Please DO NOT “check for updates” from within Firefox 2 as we are not yet offering it as an update and this does not count toward the record."...
Impressive Distribution Speed at Ubuntu
Blog I booted up Ubuntu today and found an unusually large batch of updates ready to be installed. A quick glance at the update list showed that they were already distributing Firefox 3.0 and...
Wine gets its first stable release
News After 15 years' gestation, the open-source project to get Windows applications running on Linux-based systems finally hits version 1.0
UK operators won't charge for received calls
News All the UK's major mobile operators say they are very unlikely to try charging customers for receiving calls as well as making them
Firefox 3 Missed Download Day Entirely.
Talkback I registered with Firefox to be informed so that I could add the downloads I need on several different home PCs on download day. I was online at around 4am on the 17th and when I tried using 'Help'...
Firefox 3 downloads smash 5m mark
Roundup Since its release on Tuesday, downloads of Mozilla's Firefox 3 web browser have already exceeded the organisation's 'wildest expectations'
A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff deaf!
Blog An interesting side effect of datacentre growth has come to my attention, as part of this month's intense look by ZDNet.co.uk into server use in the UK (based originally into our poll of the ZDNet...
Sometimes it's hard to be a blogger
Blog Bloggers are getting a hard time of it at the moment, according to two stories out recently. Bloggers with a political bent are increasingly being arrested, according to research by the...
Inside Firefox 3's security features
Photo Security takes front and centre in the new release of Firefox. Here's a tour of the main features.
awesome bar is soooooo annoying!
Talkback They should provide an option to switch off that annoying address bar function. I had to go into about:config to disable it, how silly is that? They get more like Microsoft with every release, you...
FCC urged to act on net neutrality principles
News AT&T and Verizon say the US Federal Communications Commission must take action against Comcast for slowing down peer-to-peer traffic to prove net neutrality legislation is not necessary
Google Docs gets limited PDF support
News People using the search giant's online office suite can now upload and view documents encoded with the widely used and now standardised Portable Document Format
Inside Firefox 3
Photo Take a tour of the basic features in Mozilla's new Firefox 3 web browser.
Fujitsu to return £67m to NHS
News Following the collapse of the company's contract to help revamp NHS IT, Fujitsu has to pay back money it received from the NHS in advance payments
Skype 4.0 beta - STILL No Multi-Party Video
Blog Skype has announced their 4.0 beta release, with the typical amount of hype and intentionally misleading propaganda (see below for details). Unfortunately, what they DON'T say, of course, is what...
Microsoft snaps up TV ad service
News The software giant has bought Navic Networks, a company that helps advertisers plan their TV spot purchases
RE:Ya need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah buddy. I got ya servicepack3...
Blog Comment Done some more testing and I have verified with 3 others at the company that have all been independently attempting to install SP3. The trick seems to be that either a) you've used an old version...
