Previous DayNubuntu? Schmubuntu!
Blog The Problem With Linux or My Problem With Linux or My Problem With everyone raving about how wonderful the new Ubuntu is (well, everyone except ZDNet – whatever were they thinking...
The Russian approach to tackling data breaches
Q&A Kaspersky Lab co-founder Natalya Kaspersky aims to move beyond the consumer antivirus business by helping companies guard against data breaches
Google apps on the Salesforce platform
Video Salesforce has demonstrated Google apps operating on its platform, as the two companies announced a joint cloud-computing venture
C4 cottons onto net neutrality debate
Blog A Channel 4 News report tonight will have the British Chambers of Commerce calling on the government and ISPs to pay up for a broadband infrastructure upgrade, in the face of rising online video...
XP SP3 out on general release
Blog The third service pack for Windows XP has been released to Windows Update for voluntary dowload. The service pack, which has been available to manufacturers and volume licence customers since 21...
little benefit
Talkback If the only savings to be made are on international calls then i doubt they'll attract many new users, there simply aren't that many people making international calls from their mobiles.. I guess...
Actinic Business 9
Review Our only criticism of Actinic Business is that it could be overwhelming for newcomers and overkill for sole traders. But if you have delusions of e-commerce grandeur, jump right in.
RE:Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment The problems lie everywhere on the stack. To some extent, we've fixed the problem at top and bottom - our applications and presentation layers are inherently parallel these days, now we've moved on...
Skype tests mobile Java client
News The company has released a test version of a client for Java-enabled mobile devices and plans to make a public release soon
Is extensibility giving you a headache?
Blog Have you noticed how everything is scalable, extensible, modular, componentised and (yup, you guessed it) flexible these days? Not that it shouldn’t be of course, it’s just that it’s such a heavily...
RE:Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Comment Am I missing the point here? I appreciate that a linear task cannot fundamentally benefit from parallelism, but how many of our daily tasks are purely linear? We constantly run pseudo-parallel...
Zattoo puts live TV on the desktop
Blog A bit puzzling, this. Zattoo is a free live streaming TV service which, like so many, has its own client (Mac, Linux, XP and Vista) and does peer-to-peerage. Unlike the rest, Zattoo comes with all...
Re: about time
Talkback I was surprised when I read your comment about "no free browser for mobiles", because I am running Opera on my Nokia 6234, and I'm sure it was free. So I checked the Opera web page, and sure...
designed to "annoy users"
Talkback It did its job, to annoy. A simple root password would have been a better choice. My new laptop only had vista on for 2 days, but the UAC popped up enough times to encourage me to upgrade to Linux.
Sun sheds light on its open-source future
Q&A Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development
All the open source security you need?
Blog There's a list of 75 good open source security applications, on eSecurity Planet. OK, some of them are variations or extensions of each other, but that's quite a lot to look through... The list...
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Donald Knuth (yes, that Donald Knuth) has given a long and interesting interview with the Informit website -- which I hadn't come across before: it's a joint venture between various tech book...
I hope the diversity of mobile platforms doesn't trip Firefo...
Talkback Handsets are still vastly different from desktops, and mobile software is prone to quirky failures on different hardware - or different versions of the same hardware.
sensible
Talkback Obviously I cannot comment of the salaries involved - nor why the NHS see an increase in the management investment to be justified - but I do think this seems a logical organisational move. The...
Only 1 SATA !
Talkback Are you serious thats crazy, I take it there is more than one IDE otherwise that motherboard is serious rubbish. Probably another one of Dells cost cutting procedures. This is my take on how that...
HP Software Update flaws threaten data leakage
News The company's Software Update tool has been found to contain flaws which can lead to remote code execution or the leakage of sensitive information stored on a PC
Gov't urged to prioritise inclusive web services
News A report by the Public Accounts Committee says those without web access should not be excluded from public services
National anti-fraud centre due next year
News The Attorney General's Office for England and Wales wants the National Fraud Reporting Centre to collate reports of both cyber and traditional types of crime
EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband
News An e-health survey has found almost half of European doctors have a broadband connection, but there are still wide discrepancies in GPs' use of IT across Europe
NHS top IT job to be split in two
News The IT director general post previously filled by Richard Granger will be replaced by two separate executive roles
Lords backs amendment to data-loss law
News The House of Lords has supported a change to the criminal justice and immigration bill which would make it a criminal offence to carelessly release or lose personal data
License is Valid for Both XP and VIsta
Talkback My Fujitsu laptop came with Vista preloaded, and included both Vista and XP Professional recovery DVDs. I have moved back and forth between the two, loading each from scratch, several times. As...
Scientific study about Debian Project governance and social...
Talkback How did a big non-commercial, non-paying community evolve into one that produces some of the most respectable Operating Systems and applications packages available? Two academic management...
