Previous DayRE:A new threat from the datacentre: you're making your staff d...
Blog Comment Well....it is surprising that this is happening anywhere in the IT industry. I work in engineering at the moment and I will say that the directors and managers (as far as i' m aware) in this...
What has The Simpsons got to do with open source?
Blog Good question, and one that Simpsons writer Joel Cohen sort of answered during his speech at Red Hat's user conference in Boston last week which was littered with brilliant one-liners as you'd...
Which regulations would apply for .SEX or .APPLE registratio...
Talkback Let's say the Apple Computer company registered .apple -- does that mean that Apple Computer could approve or deny the registration of an applicant who is an apple farmer? Would apple farmers...
Aspire 1
Talkback I think the price is too high. If people wait six months, the market will be flooded with these small computers and the price will drop a lot. Acer Aspire 5315-2153, $348 Walmart Special,Mandriva...
Nokia and the battle for open source's soul
Leader The formation of the Symbian Foundation is good news for the mobile industry but the open-source community could see some ethical compromises
First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010
News Nokia predicts the first phones using the new Symbian Foundation platform will arrive in two years' time, although its device chief says this is subject to 'shades of grey'
The realities of server management: Part 3
Video IT managers with expertise in Linux and Windows discuss how both platforms have their challenges when it comes to server management
The realities of server management: Part 2
Video IT managers and industry analysts debate issues around server management, both on open-source and proprietary platforms
I can understand why.
Talkback Having to get back into the market is difficult as most of the modern IT teams/ departments seem to be based around the flawed Microsoft development concept. If MS can't do it why would any smaller...
Scottish Ambulance Service loses encrypted 999 disc
News The ambulance service has lost the emergency-call details of almost one million people on an encrypted disc
Symbian Foundation launch: What members said
Photo Representatives of the major mobile-phone manufacturers joined mobile-operating-system vendors and even operators on Tuesday to announce the Symbian Foundation
Eeenotebook plus XP.
Talkback Exactly how long will XP be supported? Sub-compact notebooks are one of the hottest items around and if XP is suddenly orphaned, what will happen to the support on all these machines? I would be...
Acer Aspire One
Review The Acer Aspire One is better than most netbooks. It's fantastic for anyone requiring a small, cheap machine for basic productivity tasks. However, the battery life lets it down slightly.
openSuSE 11.0 - A Closer Look
Blog Since posting the First impressions blog about the new openSuSE 11.0 release, I have spent quite a bit more time exploring it - in the process of which I have installed it three more times. Here...
Whitehall reports 30 data losses since November
News The information commissioner has criticised further 'inexcusable' data losses in the public and private sectors since the HMRC fiasco in November
Green IT strategies beyond the datacentre
Video Forrester Research's Christopher Mines discusses telecommuting, videoconferencing and training strategies for making organisations' IT greener
Nanowires!
Blog Just in the lunch break (yes! Fed at last!) at the IBM Zurich labs show-and-tell day, which as usual is full of sessions that overrun and no time to do anything except scribble the most...
The realities of server management - a conversation
Blog Please go here http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/video/0,1000002009,39437728,00.htm to check out the first (of 3) slices of our recent discussion here on what our summer server OS...
UNIX is of course far more than just Linux
Blog A couple of weeks back (28th May) I posted that I recommended an innediate trip to the Laughing Academy for anyone still doing work in a UNIX that was non-Linux. I had in mind the proprietary...
Google urges rethink on server efficiency
News Luis Barroso, a Google engineer, says equipment makers' techniques for lowering mobile devices' power consumption do not apply to servers
What will an open source Symbian do?
Blog The announcement of that Symbian is going open source was a shock but in a matter of hours it seems inevitable - and very positive. Despite its dominant market share in smartphones, Symbian has...
Symbian, UIQ, S60 to form open-source Android killer
News Nokia is to buy out Symbian and set up a new open-source platform with Motorola, Sony Ericsson and NTT DoCoMo, forming a major rival to Google's Android
Wow! MS admitting something.
Talkback That was rather obvious from all the comments posted at the time, but it is surprising to hear them (M$) admit to it then say that they will learn from this experience and extend their standard...
Sun: We screwed up on open source
Video Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open-source officer, says the company alienated open-source developers in 2001-02 but is now healing the rift
New technologies in 802.11n
Tech Guide In this guide, we look at the main technology enhancements in 802.11n and examine why MIMO may require an added layer of intelligence to cope with real-world environments.
Oracle to buy Skywire Software
News The purchase of the insurance-software vendor marks Oracle's latest effort to bolster its portfolio in targeted markets
LinkedIn taking a wrong turn on the way to revenue?
Blog The business pages have been full in the past week of the news from business-biased social network LinkedIn that it has just raised $53million in a fourth funding round led by Bain Capital. The $1...
Tech teams failing on quarter of in-house SLAs
News Forrester Consulting research claims IT teams are meeting service-level agreements with other business departments only 74 percent of the time
Gov't appoints tech tsar to cut IT costs
News The former CEO of Logica, Martin Read, is to help the government deliver large IT projects successfully and cut the £13bn annual costs involved
Plug-ins
Talkback BTW, I discovered (I didn't read the release notes) at least for myself that MS Office Plug-Ins work for FireFox 3! That includes Visio 2000 and 2002. Wow! If you don't have the MS Office suite...
Zoom Level
Talkback Basically all you have to do is press the control Key and while pressing it, press the + (plus sign ) key. That will Zoom in or make everything bigger. Press the control key and while pressing it,...
No cheese in Switzerland
Blog It's half past one in the morning, Continental time, and I'm about to go to bed without any supper. I'm over in Zurich courtesy of IBM, which is going to be showing off a lot of its new...
