Acer Aspire One price drops
Blog Of the currently available netbooks (although more are on their way soon), the Acer Aspire One...
New Debian GNU/Linux Update
Blog A new Debian GNU/Linux Update was released a few weeks ago - well, actually one and a half new...
Novell - Microsoft deal extended
Blog Who would have thought the Novell-Microsoft deal would lsat this long? It originally seemed to be Novell inviting its customers to cave in to Microsoft's unsubstantiated patent claims against...
Transys comment speculation
Blog I've been pondering why it's so difficult to get any official comment out of any of the organisations involved when it comes to what is happening with Transys. Transys is the consortium which...
IDF: Intel announces TV platform, channel, chip.
Blog I'm in a keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, and Intel has just announced two major iniatives in combining IT and TV. In conjunction with Yahoo, Intel has created the Widget Channel, an open...
Another key Motorola figure goes
Blog Motorola's head of consumer mobile products, Rob Shaddock, has resigned from the company. Shaddock's resignation is only the latest episode in a long-running saga for the company, which is...
Vista downgraded to XP on third of machines...?
Blog According to various reports, Vista has been downgraded to XP on a third of machines globally. Both TGDaily and TechNewsWorld are reporting claims that approximately 35 percent of Vista machines,...
RE:... But Still a Few Things Amiss (with Vista)
Blog Comment I class myself as a pioneer with technologies, ie. I like to try the new and push forward the technological curve - patience is great thing to have on your side - but its difficult to have patience...
[August 20, 2008, 11:06 by adamjarvis]
RE:Intel SSD - details. 32-160GB, production in next 30 days, £...
Blog Comment One question is how it compares to 7200RPM laptop disks which are a quarter of the cost? Comparing to 5400RPM disks is a bit of a cheat. I've been using them for 4-5 years now and they do make a...
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
Blog Cloud computing is big news -- for all the right and all the wrong reasons. But is a bad definition taking the blame away from the organisations responsible when things don't work? As someone...
IDF transports of delight
Blog Rather a lot of odd vehicles around at IDF this time around. There have been two motorbikes - one during Pat Gelsinger's keynote, one at the SSD briefing - and a BMW stuffed with gizmos, again at...
Lessons What I Have Learnt
Blog I recently finished my first proper bit of remote web building work as an independent web designer/builder! And here are the lessons I gleaned, with the help of the effervescent Mr A.: 1....
Is Virtual Studying Progress?
Blog A postgraduate degree which allows students to develop a professional IT qualification without getting off their butts has been launched by the University of Aberdeen. Whatever next, jobs you don’t...
Intel SSD - details. 32-160GB, production in next 30 days, £400-ish
Blog Briefing time! Intel is telling us about its solid-state drives. There are two types of SSD, the multi-level cell NAND flash and the single-level cell NAND flash. Multi-level cell stores more bits...
Mobile Networks Threatened - DEFCON Hackers Could Help
Blog Mobile Networks Threatened - DEFCON Hackers Could Help Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com If you are worth your weight in code, you know that the “hot spot” this month was the annual...
Tigers to spring on 'anti-competitive' Microsoft?
Blog Organisations in Taiwan and China seem to be tensing their muscles to spring onto Microsoft and go for the software giant's throat -- metaphorically of course. The China Post reported on...
Dell and Lenovo netbooks ready to land
Blog So, how's the netbook thing going for you? Personally I'm yet to be convinced I really want one – I've played around with a couple of Asus Eees and haven't quite figured out what I'd need a netbook...
Craig Barrett's love life hits IDF
Blog As I type, we're half an hour into IDF proper. Pat Gelsinger, patron saint of IDF, has called chairman Craig Barrett a wally – well, Waldo, after the American version of the stripy-jumpered...
Exam site pulls MS certification questions
Blog A site that proudly and explicitly sells "real exam questions" for various IT certification exams has apparently been nailed by Microsoft for selling, er, real exam questions. Pass4Sure still...
Thoughts On Windows Driver Updates
Blog I've been dealing recently with the rather messy situation involving device driver updates for Windows. The problem is this. You buy a nice shiny new computer, perhaps even a laptop like I did....
Seems to be the way the world has gone.
Talkback The standard is flawed and incomplete but the only appeals that can be made are about the ancillaries such as the voting process, wrong color paint on the ceiling at the meeting when the decision...
[August 19, 2008, 12:31 by Yellowcave]
Get with the zooming program
Blog Hands up who didn’t read the spec properly :*). Foolish, schoolbory error. I have been working on a job and the design spec says “Assume the text size is fixed [my emphasis] in...
