Previous DayRE:OS Scratch Load Times
Blog Comment Yes they sound like a bunch of meanies don't they? I would recommend you get your self a copy of n-lite (free) this will allow you to customise your own image of XP/vista etc such as slipstreaming...
Introduction to synthesis with Pure Data
Blog A shameless plug for a good man’s book! I met Andy Farnell because he was leading an audio synthesis session at a Pure Data workshop run by Goto10 (who are purveyors of a fine multi-media...
Linux and Apple run better sites than Microsoft
Blog A survey - dontcha love surveys? - shows that Most Linux distros are running better websites than Microsoft. Over one month, Microsoft's home page was down for one hour and 19 minutes,...
EC calls for IT help in the energy battle
Blog The European Commission has said that it sees climate change as an issue which IT organisations and managers around the world should do their bit to tackle and it now has a plan to make a start on...
IBM wins Darpa cognitive-computing contract
News The initiative is the first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency
RE:Mysterious black radio ops in London
Blog Comment Oh, don't get me started about HAARP. It attracts some of the very premium thinkers of the tin-foil hat brigade. There are plenty of odd and untalked about things that HAARP could be testing, but...
Google adds open standard to gadget mashups
News The web giant is now using the OAuth open authentication standard in its mini-apps for the desktop and the iGoogle webpage
Mobile chargers get energy-use rating system
News A group of mobile-hardware heavyweights have joined forces to help cut the carbon footprint of mobile use
NSFW!
Blog The benefits that the Internet brings to business are growing every day. Social media and networking are increasingly important to people’s professional and personal lives. But employers must make...
Nasa uses spacecraft to test interplanetary network
News Nasa is using a comet-watching spacecraft to test new interplanetary networking protocols, while the concepts are also being applied to networks closer to home
Google pulls plug on virtual world 'Lively'
News The search giant's virtual-world project, which launched over the summer, will shut down at the end of the year
Why Chrome doesn't dazzle Mozilla's chairman
Q&A Google made Mitchell Baker's Mozilla Foundation $75m through a Firefox search deal, but she doesn't see Chrome as a threat to that revenue
Samsung mass producing 256GB SSDs
News The manufacturer claims its 2.5-inch, quarter-terabyte solid-state drives offer the 'highest overall performance' of any SSDs being used in the PC industry today
Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support
News Version 6.5 of the open-source NetBeans IDE has support for the PHP scripting language and a preview of Python support
PM comment boosts McKinnon's UK-sentence hopes
News Gordon Brown has spoken publicly for the first time on the future of self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon, who is facing extradition to the US on hacking charges
Benchmarks: AMD's 45nm 'Shanghai' Opteron
Tech Guide AMD's 'Shanghai' processors are the company's first chips to exploit the improved performance and efficiency of 45nm technology. ZDNet's tests show that they have made up important ground on...
Mozilla CTO offers glimpse of Firefox's future
Video Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks to Dan Farber about why the company now commands 20 percent of the browser market and what they're doing to grow
Analyst: Nokia should buy Yahoo
Blog The endless to-ing and fro-ing over a potential Microsoft buyout of Yahoo has, I must confess, got me to the stage of sticking my fingers in my ears and humming loudly. The latest news,...
BT deletes Phorm forums
News BT has deleted user-forum threads discussing its use of the ad-serving technology that monitors users' browsers habits, as they did not provide 'constructive support'
Antivirus firms unfazed by free Microsoft product
News 'Business as usual' appears to be the cautious response from some of the software giant's security competitors
Yahoo shares sink following Ballmer comments
News Shares of the company plummeted following comments by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that the software giant is not interested in a Yahoo acquisition
Microsoft hiring slowdown set to continue until 2010
News At a shareholders' meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer said he expects headcount growth to be much slower for some time to come
Google deal helps boost Mozilla revenue
News In its 2007 annual report, the Firefox backer has reported a 12 percent increase in revenue, most resulting from a partnership with Google
OS Scratch Load Times
Blog I reload the operating systems on my laptops quite frequently. On the Linux side, it is because I am trying various distributions, while on the Windows side it is more often because something gets...
Ballmer rejects notion of renewed Yahoo bid
News Microsoft's CEO says it has 'moved on' from the Yahoo bid, but reiterates that his company remains open to a search partnership, though there are no active discussions about it
