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Intel's SS4000-E - so you're having issues with one too, eh ...
Blog I had to do some Google searching to turn up the solution to this one. After doing some searching I came across a neat-looking little black box made by Intel, their SS4000-E. About six weeks ago we realized that we needed more production storage...
[April 15, 2008, 10:03]
Apple loses Front Row dinner-party marketeers with remote move
Blog After a bit of searching through the box, and a bit more searching online, we realised it wasn't a packaging error at Cupertino, but they buggers have actually stopped including them. My girlfriend has just bought a new MacBook, rather than a...
[January 23, 2009, 8:29]
Bing! goes live.
Blog But both have a text entry box and some links at the top to select the type of thing you are searching for. There is an issue when searching news sites with Bing! Today, Microsoft have got around to soft launching their new search engine, Bing!
[June 1, 2009, 17:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We're not sure what search engine you turn to by instinct when you need to do some online research, but we noticed you recently mentioned searching online in an article…" and off it goes. And the article quoted was about Google's IPO, not about...
[January 16, 2004, 16:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Once the story broke that this ostensibly scientific establishment was busy promoting the idea that the Earth and everything in it was created in seven days some 6000 years ago, the curious went searching online for evidence (or as creationists...
[March 26, 2002, 10:11]
Are search engines facing extinction?
Blog Like a social network profile if searching for a person; a business directory or network for a company; or a fact-based wiki for pretty much anything else. And that's the thing, many people now know other web services they'd go to first when...
[June 5, 2008, 15:21]
The problem with PageRank (and one alternative)
Blog PageRank is also not the right solution for HTML-based internal corporate content either, such as Intranets, simply because when searching your Intranet for information, all your data should have a high reputation.
[February 1, 2007, 14:34]
IE8 beta 2, feature complete. Launch event, best deleted.
Blog There was a guy from eBay who showed how wonderful it was to be only one click away from searching eBay - and he did, really and truly, search for Zunes. That stayed there for some time, during which we learned that Microsoft had done extensive...
[August 27, 2008, 22:44]
Chrome is simple, but I want features!
Blog Searching News, or searching within a site, and other types of search, take more clicks. Searching News, Images, or searching within a site are drop down options in the Firefox Google Toolbar. Searching within the current site is harder.
[September 5, 2008, 12:03]
The Gizmo Project
Blog I spent quite a lot of time searching for a solution to this problem. After a lot of searching, in both the Gizmo User Forum and Linksys User Forum, I found a very short note that said there was a "uPnP" setting in the router, and having it...
[December 16, 2007, 20:36]
new term, all change
Blog a new term has started in schools, and i find myself sitting at home, wasting inordinate amounts of time on job-searching & drinking copious amounts of tea & coffee! so why am I not back in school, I hear someone murmour at the back.put simply...
[September 8, 2009, 12:06]
My Chrome honeymoon is over...
Blog Searching for Images and News, and searching within a given site, are much more fiddly in the Chrome Omnibox than in a Google Toolbar like the one on Firefox. Chrome looked good, but after a few days, the missing features, and poor performance...
[September 8, 2008, 16:03]
Google image search gets specific
Blog A Friday blog post from Google's image search team revealed an enhancement to that particular functionality - if you're searching for an image through Google, you can now specifically request to see photography, faces, news pictures, clip art or...
[December 22, 2008, 10:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I leave my computer on all the time, serving files and searching for aliens, and I have auto-update enabled on the operating system. Monday 03/09/2001 Oh, I woke up this morning.found my computer had changed its mind.
[September 18, 2001, 1:38]
Midnight on La Rambla
Blog After much searching, I found the solitary power point in the room - half way up the wall, hidden by the curtain). We made it. Team ZDNet has successfully decanted itself onto the Gatwick Express, into the EasyJet Airbus of Dreams, shuffled...
[February 10, 2008, 23:50]
Finally - Video Calling from Logitech
Blog I haven't had time to look at anything more than the announcement yet (job searching is extremely time consuming, even when it is unsuccessful). It has taken a lot longer than I thought it would, but finally, here is the announcement of a Video...
[June 17, 2009, 15:43]
SFF PCs
Blog Once again eBay has come to the rescue, and by searching for ‘geode’ - a low-power processor for Thin Clients & Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs - I found the 2 machines that I needed. The audio system that I’m building requires 2 low-power computers: 1...
[July 11, 2008, 9:17]
More Pleasant Surprises with Ubuntu
Blog No muss, no fuss, so searching for drivers, it just worked. As I continue to test and work with Ubuntu, I have come across a few more very pleasant surprises: I plugged in my Logitech V20 Notebook Speakers (USB).
[June 3, 2008, 11:01]
Opera Web Browser 9.6 Released
Blog It also has some improvements in web searching and synchronization. Opera has released version 9.6 of their excellent web browser, for Windows, Linux and MacOS. As always, this very nice browser just keeps getting better.
[October 9, 2008, 8:54]
McKinnon fight goes to Brighton
Blog The hacker, who admits accessing US systems in 2001/02, claims to have been searching for evidence of UFOs. Campaigners against the extradition of Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon have garnered more support at the Labour Party conference in Brighton.
[September 30, 2009, 17:30]
