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Talkback I totally agree with sakuramboo. #9 at the very least should be called security by obscurity. But as he/she pointed out that this has failed many times. I also feel that while putting a "." in...
RE:Yuil cooler than Cuil
Blog Comment haha that is way too funny. After just spending 30+ minutes attempting to get Cuil to return me a direct link to the homepage of my website, I've decide that it's really not the search engine for...
RE:McKinnon loses Lords appeal
Blog Comment I watched the video, I really hope he gets to stay at home, he seemed like such a regular type of chap.....If he did find out about some kind of free energy device, and he is extradited, then I...
The British Library's online turn-up for the books
Photo With Microsoft's help, the British Library is using Turning the Pages software to make its treasures available to as many people as possible
Sphere, what's the point?
Talkback Are there any stated uses for sphere? with Microsoft Surface you can argue that its a table you can have fun with and maybe even play games on, but Sphere? seriously, is this how Microsoft sees the...
Yuil cooler than Cuil
Blog This is too funny for words. It's a cruel Cuil parody - but unlike most parodies, it doesn't twist or satirise its original. Instead, it does what feels like a very similar job - but it was written...
RE:European LinkedIn rival XING triples its earnings
Blog Comment An interesting articled popped up today which reinforces my view of LinkedIn as the the largest job marketplace out there. Recruitment giants Harvey Nash have done a survey which reveals that 90%...
Lost laptops get open-source rescue service
News University of Washington researchers argue their laptop-tracking system, unlike proprietary rivals, is designed to protect both the PC and the user's privacy
Please README a story, daddy?
Blog Linux blogs elsewhere have uncovered a very nice little bedtime story, contained in the readme file for Gnome's printer manager. "Once upon a time there was a printer who lived in the woods. He...
Nasa hacker loses Lords appeal against extradition
News Gary McKinnon's last chance to avoid extradition to the US for trial will be an attempted appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
RE:McKinnon loses Lords appeal
Blog Comment The whole case is dodgy and just shows how if you have enough power Justice and the law will bend to your will. I don't believe everything that Gary McKinnon says but most of it makes sense. Rather...
Siemens to sell 51pc of enterprise comms business
News The company will sell a majority share of its enterprise communications business to private equity firm the Gores Group, with whom it plans to start a new joint venture
KDE 4.1 released
News The latest version is intended to answer some of the most serious criticisms of the KDE 4.0 graphical user environment
Nortel to provide London 2012 network infrastructure
News The communications equipment firm will supply BT with the infrastructure it will need for WANs, LANs, call centres and fixed-line telephony at the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Sign the Bletchley Park e-petition
Blog As you know, Bletchley Park is under threat. The iconic site is crumbling and desperately needs the external funding that befits its place in British computing history. Well, here's your chance...
pjc158, your reply shows how badly you miss the point
Talkback Open Source does provide millions of jobs around the world, look at the IT boom in India, Eastern Block countries, China, ... You may not know about the companies, most probably because they're...
RE:Vista vs XP
Blog Comment DELL is ADVERTISING the XP "crossgrade" as a product, I saw the ads on satellite TV and a number of web sites. Considering what I know about DELL, it doesn't make sense to advertise a loser, so it...
Making the cultural leap to cloud computing
Video At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, tech execs discuss perceptions of risk and control with SaaS, and how those feelings are changing in countries with different software legacies
DNS checking tool is of questionable value
Talkback I think this tool is of questionable value. I have tried testing from work and from home, and get results that I am using name servers that are in no way related to the ones I have entered in my...
RE:Vista vs XP
Blog Comment I've been wondering about the cross-grade situation lately, and ator1940's post raised my curiosity further as we just took delivery of some cross-graded boxes. So I called my Dell account manager...
Eee Box to ship in September
Blog Having already used the 'Eee PC' name for its successful and rapidly expanding range of mini- (and increasingly not-so-mini — see the latest 1000 model) notebooks, ASUS must have scratched its...
McKinnon loses Lords appeal
Blog According to the BBC, "NASA hacker" Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal in the House of Lords against extradition to the United States, where he could very well get a life sentence for his hackery. ...
Ten tricks to make Linux boot faster
Help/HowTo On the rare occasions Linux needs to be rebooted, you may find the process takes longer than you'd like. Fortunately, there are numerous ways to speed things up
Microsoft's Midori - a green spirit?
Blog If you are or know a student in the UK, you'll know about Midori. It's a painfully sweet clear green concoction with the great taste of melons, somewhere on the other side of the galaxy from a...
Stolen e-passports 'worth millions' on black market
News Thousands of blank UK e-passports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy experts
Fear of huge bills prevents mobile-internet takeup
News The Mobile Data Association has warned that operators need to address consumers' concerns in order to accelerate the growth of mobile-internet use
Amazon unveils new online-payment services
News Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay put the e-tailer in competition with eBay's PayPal and Google Checkout
Intel expands solar focus with Voltaix investment
News The company's latest clean-tech investment is its third in two months for companies specialising in photovoltaic solar materials
Hopefuls seek slice of Google's search-ad billions
News New York-based Clickable has raised $14.5m in funding to help push its search-ad applications, while Marchex has retooled its local-search advertising platform
Vista vs XP
Blog Are vista sales really going as well as Microsoft reports say? I was curious so did a bit of research and found some useful polls and articles that blow their figures out of the water. It appears...
CIO's and Green Data Center
Blog There's a lot that CIO's can do to make the data centers green. The very basic step is to have a green approach towards IT operations and services. The implementation process would include...
Evidently there's a Rattled Cage in Redmond.
Blog I received this email via the zdnet.co.uk webmail today and I thought it would be more appropriate to answer here so jayaram I hope you come back to read it... ...
