Previous DayCivil Service Syndrome
Talkback Over several decades of interacting with the civil service I became well aware of the civil service syndrome. This describes the somewhat inefficient and indolent civil servant, with enough...
Nokia Siemens denies Iran web snoop
Blog Nokia Siemens has denied providing deep packet inspection capabilities to the Iranian authorities, following an article in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. The WSJ published the article which...
Hosted virtualisation suites: a group test
Group Test If you need to run virtual machines on a workstation rather than a server, which is the best platform? We test VMware Workstation, VirtualBox, Parallels Workstation and KVM under Ubuntu, along with...
Schneier: Security neglected in economic gloom
News While it may seem logical to downgrade security, Bruce Schneier argues that security should be maintained or boosted, as systems become more business critical in a recession
Gov't CIO weighs up public-sector app store
News Government IT chief John Suffolk has said he is considering an applications store for the public sector
Installing VirtualBox with USB Support
Blog This is a big thank you link for Ubuntu1501, an Ubuntu guides, tweaks and hacks blog. I have my first workshop under the aegis of my new business, and I'm running the Windows-based...
Topological insulator is hot new discovery
Blog Bismuth telluride. That’s the latest material to spark interest among the physicists in their search for exciting new things to do with electrons. Recent investigations using high energy X-rays at...
The Bluetooth frock conundrum
Blog Imagine, if you will, that you are a trendy girl about town. You have your mobile phone with you, of course, and it rings. But you don’t hear it. You are, after all, about town, which in...
LHC restart pushed back again
News Cern's flagship particle accelerator, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected
Intel showcases new technologies
News The chipmaker has provided insights into a number of research projects that extend beyond its processor business
Steve Jobs had liver transplant, says WSJ
News Apple's CEO received a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago, according to an unsourced report in The Wall Street Journal
RE:Head in the Data Cloud Pt.II
Blog Comment Note: be aware there's a bug affecting a few people - the ubuntu one daemon hogs a gargantuan amount of memory and slows my laptop right down. Aparently a fix is imminent. In the meantime I'm using...
Early warning failed to put NHS IT back on track
News The government was warned back in 2004 that immediate action was needed to fix problems in the £12.7bn programme to revamp NHS IT, official reports have revealed
Does offshoring or outsourcing increase the data privacy challenge?
Blog Last week’s IDG Research Services survey commissioned by RSA highlighted the lack of strategy in place in most organisations for outsourcing business services and information to the cloud. It is a...
Nortel to sell wireless tech arm to Nokia Siemens
News Former telecoms equipment giant Nortel has agreed a $650m price with Nokia Siemens Networks for its wireless business
Is Website-Envy Provoking Digital Plagiarism?
Blog Programmers involved in web design and development are arguably somewhat distanced from the nature, form and origin of much of the content that they make sparkle and shine. Should we be surprised...
RE:Bizarre Windows 7 Downgrade/Upgrade Policies Coming
Blog Comment I'm not sure where exactly in the process it happened but when I tried "upgrading" a clean, only run for a day copy of Visaster to Win7 RC, I got a huge folder named Windows.old just like when I...
