Previous DayA Tailored Fix For The Downadup Worm
Blog A useful tool for fixing downadup can be taken from here. This is an auto command line scan designed to hunt down and root out downadup. It should really be run in safe mode and comes in the form...
Unrealised savings
Talkback With the advent of the computer age and the binning of punched cards and the like, headlines loudly heralded the advent of the paperless age, everything would be done by the computers and fewer...
The GIMP and image batch processing
Blog On my onward journey with learning GIMP, I wanted to do some batch image processing. I built a web site for the artist Ken Campbell many years ago, when tables were layout tools and transparent...
RE:Torvalds abandons KDE for Gnome
Blog Comment At the very least, this makes me feel better about not being able to work with KDE. Try as I might, I haven´t been able to make enough sense of it to use it as my desktop manager. Now at least I...
A billion internet users can be wrong
Leader Global internet usage reached over one billion unique visitors in December, says ComScore. However, the web is not the net
EU supercomputers to be used for fusion modelling
News Nuclear-fusion researchers will be given access to distributed supercomputer processing power to aid their sustainable energy quest, the European Commission has announced
Microsoft delays plans for Iowa datacentre
News The project, announced only five months ago, is now on hold as the software maker looks to trim its capital expenses
Downadup infection numbers
Blog Estimates vary wildly as to how many PCs have been infected by Downadup, the virulent computer worm also known as Conficker and Kido. The Telegraph puts the number at over 15 million, while...
Torvalds abandons KDE for Gnome
Blog Ticked off at the latest revamp of KDE, Linux progenitor Linus Torvalds has switched to Gnome. Apparently he thought KDE 4.0 was a "disaster" and "half-baked". Harsh words indeed. In an...
Microsoft accused over $8.52bn Vista bill
Blog A Washington academic has estimated just how much it cost the world to become "Vista Capable" and the figure is a very heft $8.52bn. "Vista Capable" in this sense is the term that Microsoft and...
Garrr... we have connectivity!
Blog "After four weeks of battling stormy seas..." We don't get many press releases that start with those words. Imagine: "After four weeks of battling stormy seas, Bizmal Technology leveraged...
AMD claims power saving in updated Shanghai
News The company has updated its line of 45nm quad-core Opteron processors, launched in November, with five new models it claims are aimed at reducing power
Tesco apologises for Dell Mini 10 mix-up
News The retail giant is offering refunds to customers after its website briefly advertised Dell's as-yet-unreleased netbook
RE:HP 2133 Mini-Note
Blog Comment Lenovo S10e, Windows XP, Ubuntu and Windows 7 Beta Jamie, I just bought a Lenovo S10e netbook at a substantially reduced price. It's solidly built in the Lenovo tradtion with a nice keyboard....
Apple QuickTime gets critical security update
News The Mac-maker says the vulnerabilities could potentially allow a malicious attacker to take control of a person's system and execute arbitrary code
Worldwide internet-user total passes 1bn
News In December, global internet usage reached over one billion unique visitors, while the Asia-Pacific region accounted for the biggest chunk of people on the internet during the month
Philips to shed 6,000 jobs
News Philips will cut the jobs over the coming year and halt its €5bn share-buyback programme, in response to the global economic recession
Autism expert: Nasa hacker should not be jailed
Video Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge, says Gary McKinnon may experience 'psychiatric difficulties' if jailed
DRAM-maker Qimonda files for insolvency
News The German memory manufacturer now intends to reorganise its businesses in line with a restructuring programme that was announced last year
Time lawyers got to grips with encryption
Comment Wherever you look, encryption is playing an increasingly important role, but in law its status is poorly defined. It's high time that changed, says Jeremy Phillips
Here we go again...
Talkback "Windows Update" is already tied to IE, so am I overly cynical in suspecting that MS will deny updates to people who choose an alternative browser? I have this horrible feeling of deja-vu: "When...
Photos: Panasonic Toughbook CF-T8
Photo Check out the key features of Panasonic's latest 'business ruggedized' notebook.
Intel chairman Craig Barrett to step down in May
News The chairman and former chief executive, who joined the chipmaker 35 years ago, plans to retire from the board at the annual shareholders meeting in May
Socitm calls for increased council IT spend
News The public-sector IT organisation has made the case for new investment, despite the prospect of tightening finances
Windows 7 beta deadline extended
News In a blog posting, Microsoft says it will make the test version available longer than expected, but suggests people download sooner rather than later
Microsoft reveals EC's plans for Windows browser
News In a regulatory filing, Microsoft cautions that it may have to offer access to other browsers and potentially disable parts of Internet Explorer
Mobile operators set to receive rate cuts
News The Competition Commission has proposed a lowering of the rates paid by one operator to another to connect a call over their network
Migration migraines: the top seven DBA data headaches
Blog Once or twice a year I get to work with an excellent DBA pal from Illinois called Jason Froebe who describes himself as a, “Perlmonger capable of speaking fluent munchkin.” His personal blog is...
