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A: Blu-Ray, B: HD-DVD, C: none of the above
Blog The one thing that will surely finish off the studios, record labels and their pals isn't piracy, peer-to-peer file transfer or bootlegging. It's their own arrogance and contempt for their customers. It's always been thus, of course, but piracy...
[August 22, 2007, 17:28]
For Arthur C Clarke: out of the cradle, endlessly orbiting.
Blog I can't say how moved I am at Arthur Clarke's death. Science fiction caught me young, especially the sort which holds a mirror to our faces and frames us in the stars above. Arthur Clarke was the exemplar of that sort of science fiction: he...
[March 19, 2008, 0:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A.L.I.C.E. The Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity is one such -- it might have won a bronze medal in the Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence, judged in the Science Museum this weekend, but we draw the line at writing the required...
[October 19, 2001, 17:52]
Bright new future of multicore, circa 1994
Blog An article in German tech publication c't sheds a bit more light on Larrabee, Intel's much anticipated multicore chip. The c't article goes on to say that the cores will be 64 bit compatible and that the vector processing stuff will be 512 bits...
[July 9, 2008, 13:58]
Alternatives to DVB-T in the UK
Blog Cable, in most cases through Virgin Media (DVB-C) In my investigations it quickly became apparent that connecting a DVB-C card (a rare thing in the UK) to Virgin’s cable network was not a good idea since it would almost guarantee disconnection of...
[June 20, 2008, 9:23]
When does Copyrighted Software cease to be Copyrighted?
Blog Its written in C (or at least a lot of it is). Most of the constructs for C are defined in the language. Kernighan and Ritchie could lay claim to everything written in C simply because there doesn't seem to be a lower definable limit to the...
[September 22, 2008, 8:50]
Hardware encryption: Caveat emptor
Blog Heise sister publication c't magazine cracked open an Easy Nova Data Box by German vendor Drecom, advertised as using 128-bit AES. However, by analysing the encryption, c't found that the block cipher was actually exclusive-or (XOR).
[February 19, 2008, 14:42]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog The first problem that I ran into was that the Windows installation disks I have are actually "recovery" media from Fujitsu, and as such they will only recreate the factory-delivered configuration, with Windows (Vista or XP) in the C: partition...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
Migrating Outlook Autocomplete Data (NK2 File Data) to a New Vista/Office 2
Blog That data is stored in an NK2 file that for previous (non-Vista) O/S's used to be stored in C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. That location on non-Vista O/S's is C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local...
[October 2, 2008, 10:03]
Shouldn't your servers be sweating?
Blog And they're demanding of server manufacturers that their products become more capable of running happily in temperatures in excess of 30 degrees C. Weale reckons enterprise execs are asking: "Why does my daughter have a terabyte music server under...
[August 6, 2009, 15:38]
A Not-so-Stupid Nerd Trick in Windows XP Pro
Blog Control C will sometimes stop the program BUT it goes right back to the beginning and begins again. So something like this: “c:\folder name\surprise.bat”. A one line batch file is all you need like: cmd /c “c:\folder name\surprise.exe”
[August 14, 2009, 15:59]
Another fantastic response from Skype CS to a customers problem
Blog Go to C:\Program Files and delete the Skype folder from there. If Skype is not on the list, click Browse and go to C:\Program Files\Skype\ Phone\ and select skype.exe. Locate the shared.xml file found in C:/Users/%Current User%/Appdata/Roaming...
[September 27, 2008, 10:03]
Tuesday
Blog The latest monstrosity, which is actually quite a restrained example of the genre, is the C-One. And now there's the C-One. Tuesday 11/02/03 Old 8-bit computers never die, they simply slip into cyberspace.
[February 14, 2003, 17:03]
Importing Outlook Express in Windows Mail
Blog Make sure that when you set the directory that what is listed in the path is correct (NOTE: Vista can put the wrong path in here sometimes, so instead of c:\mypath it puts c:\mypath\mypath, so check the path to verify that it is correct, and if it...
[September 21, 2008, 10:03]
PHP5 - MIME type quirks
Blog If you go to the GnuWin32 project page on SourceForge you can download the MIME magic files and unzip the archive to your PHP installation folder.mkdir C:\PHP\magic unzip the MIME files into C:\PHP\magic should now contain: magic magic.mgc magic...
[May 6, 2008, 11:27]
Windows 7 RC Cracker Jack Surprise.
Blog One of the really annoying things with Sun's Virtual Box is that it likes to install the first time into the User's profile, usually on C. Well after looking at it for a minute or two, I realized I had run out of REAL hard drive space on the C drive.
[June 2, 2009, 1:17]
Seeking your techno guru
Blog a) File sharing preferences.b) Connect to shared c) Map network drive d) Share to drive letter a) The monitor is being asked to display a mode it does not support.b) The monitor has failed.c) The graphics card has suffered a hardware failure.d...
[November 30, 2008, 17:03]
Mobile Broadband (3G, HSPA) with Ubuntu
Blog Once the connection is up, you can disconnect right away by entering CTRL-C, as you don't really want to work with this connection. When this happens, just open a terminal window and use the sudo wvdial / CTRL-C steps to establish the connection...
[February 13, 2009, 11:03]
Samsung NC20 - A Brief Encounter
Blog The next problem we had to solve was that the 250 GB disk was divided into three partitions; a small "Recovery" area, a 120 GB C: for Windows, and a 120 GB D: for data. I was pleased and impressed to see that the Mandriva installation process was...
[July 23, 2009, 10:25]
Quantum codes, deep space and utter geek delight
Blog Imagine you're two light years away from your friend Bernie, Exactly halfway between you is Charles, who has two balls - one black, one white -- and two light-speed spacecraft that can travel exactly at c.
[August 5, 2008, 0:27]
