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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This time, all three of the triple-redundant main computers went down and stayed there. So far, fixing the computers appears to have taken the form of uploading a small program that, ahem, turns them off and on to reboot them.
[April 27, 2001, 17:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It was also there to promote the launch of a swathe of VPro computers, carrying the flag of Intel's new business platform into battle for the first time. High marks to Intel in having some non-Intel computers on show — Commodore PET, BBC Micro...
[September 8, 2006, 18:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The idea is that ordinary people like you and me produce a little radio show on their computers, send it out over the blogosphere or whatever, and then other people download it onto their personal music devices and listen at their convenience.
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
To Err, Is Human
Blog Microsoft tried really hard to retain compatibility with previous OS features and at the same time introduce some enhanced security features to keep us all safe while we are using our computers. The only thing that leaves me with a little concern...
[December 30, 2008, 14:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Computers don't always thrive in the real world, as a story about peculiar data destruction shows. Now we have computers small enough to leave in trouser pockets, I expect a big increase in laundry-related data loss incidents and "The dog ate my PDA!
[October 17, 2003, 16:25]
The Technological Singularity
Blog This concern arises from the fact; that as machines/computers are used to design other machines/computers, at some point this process may begin to spiral out of control, aided by those humans who are capable of learning the complex ways of fusing...
[November 17, 2008, 23:32]
For Arthur C Clarke: out of the cradle, endlessly orbiting.
Blog In particular, it predicted "Data transmission will bring the skills of giant computers to anyone who needs them. The computers themselves will join forces in a vast network, and automation of industry will become an international reality.
[March 19, 2008, 0:39]
Official Organizations Losing Data
Blog How many more government, health service, or military officials are going to lose pen drives, DVDs, USB hard disks and even entire computers putting vulnerable people at risk? As it is now however, these disks and computers are going missing left...
[December 22, 2009, 14:49]
XP SP3 is Sick Puppy 3, Stupid Patchwork 3, Stupendous Pain-in-the-A__ 3
Blog Worker droid status in the Zombie armies of the Internet is the ultimate fate of all of the 500 to 600 desktop Windows XP computers we use in the oilfield rental fleet. The system I've designed and have been writing the software for will do the...
[June 21, 2008, 13:54]
PC Phone: Facilitated by VoIP
Blog VoIP has made its way from broadband services and personal computers to PC Phones. As a matter of fact, the possibility of accessing voice over IP on computers has lead to the growth of a $ 7 million VoIP business.
[May 2, 2008, 10:03]
The First iPhone Mobile Torrent
Blog Where computers are dominated by the Window’s OS, file sharing torrents developed more naturally to create an application that decompiles data on one end to be shared and recompiled at the other end. As demonstrated in computers, this works much...
[March 17, 2008, 16:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog No, we didn't have all this Windows stuff but we managed to design computers, cars, chips and code nonetheless. If you can remember the days of real computers - bare boards, 512 bytes of RAM, hex with everything - you'll remember Circuit Cellar.
[June 20, 1998, 7:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog When I were a lad, computers were fun. And you ended up knowing about computers, right down to the nuts and bolts. There are 10 zillion distractions, and the thrill of making something work for the first time has long since been replaced by the...
[October 22, 2004, 18:05]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 2 (Netbook Remix)
Blog In Part 1 I discussed some generalities about the new Ubuntu 9.10 distribution, and some issues related to using it on netbook computers. Now it is time to move on to the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a special version produced by Canonical themselves, as...
[November 5, 2009, 10:17]
SimplyMEPIS 8 Update Released
Blog I've been pleased and impressed with MEPIS for quite some time now, and despite a few small problems on my various computers, I continue to feel that way. SimplyMEPIS 8.0.10 has been released, and it is as usual very good.
[August 27, 2009, 8:17]
Should Instant Messaging Be A No-Go?
Blog The last time I looked people were collaborating and sharing information through a variety of online services using these wonderful new things called computers. Fear of data loss, time-wasting, and other misuse apparently outweighs potential...
[May 9, 2008, 11:41]
Linux Distributions Reducing Boot Time
Blog On my laptop computers, most of the current distributions take about one minute, plus or minus 5 seconds, to boot; a couple of them take somewhat longer than that. For purposes of this discussion, I consider "boot" time to be the elapsed time from...
[March 23, 2009, 13:10]
More Myths - this time from Education to the Workplace
Blog To support my large wife and small family I look after various customers' computers and networks. When a considerable amount of money has been spent already they decide to stick with it so that the "investment" doesn't seem to have been a waste of...
[January 6, 2010, 13:51]
Time to get a life, Windows eats all my free time
Blog So it does a complete “bare metal” hard drive installation for systems used in our rental fleet of computers. I've been spending a lot of what should be my free time lately writing applications and designing a system to automate Windows XP Pro...
[March 30, 2008, 11:40]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog The downloads became available yesterday afternoon, European time, and I have now installed it on all four of my laptop/netbook computers. As well described in an article by David Meyer here on ZDNet UK, Canonical released Ubuntu 9.04, known as...
[April 24, 2009, 9:18]
