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Hubris at SUN (and other hair raising tales)
Blog The ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory is an all too common occurrence, the ability to take advantage of the jaws of victory and to defend against the jaws of defeat are far more difficult.
[April 15, 2009, 8:03]
Just how successful is the MS/Novell pact?
Blog I'm getting cold feet about Microsoft's latest so-called Linux victory. The software giant said on Monday that Walmart, the supermarket giant, was migrating from RedHat Linux across to a combination of MS/Novell software.
[January 25, 2007, 17:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Possibly the best headline of the RIAA fiasco comes today: Music industry delighted with $2000 victory over 12-year-old. Thursday 11/9/2003 This comes at the same time as the RIAA offers an "amnesty", where you sign a legal document saying you've...
[September 12, 2003, 17:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's taken nearly three years, but one small victory for sanity can be celebrated. Wednesday 19/09/01 BT has finally admitted that nobody uses its ADSL services to get at the portals the company has created.
[September 24, 2001, 12:49]
All our computers are belong to Microsoft
Blog Microsoft has apparently scored a small victory in the Philippines. Manila Bulletin Online is reporting that St. Paul College, Pasig, has ditched its Linux-based operating system in favour of Microsoft Vista and Office 2007, due to "incompatibility".
[August 5, 2008, 18:18]
Your family site nominated for AOP award
Blog We're up against some prestigious competition in The Guardian, IPC, Channel 4 and Hearst digital but who knows after last years victory for ZDNet? Hot on the heels of our gong for "Best Landing Page" at the APA Creative Awards, the Your family site...
[September 10, 2008, 15:18]
Why we're sorry to see Linspire go
Blog After its court victory, things went sour for Linspire. Open source company Xandros has bought Linspire, the company that once got under Microsoft's skin using the name Lindows. We'll miss Linspire for all sorts of reasons.
[July 6, 2008, 8:39]
A musical trip to Bletchley Park - 1
Blog Two years ago, it was a major victory to get Radio 4 to consider technology as worth covering in its own right - now, one of the big problems is getting to stories before the terriers at You and Yours get their teeth fastened.
[March 8, 2009, 18:20]
Red Hat 'disappointed but not surprised' by OOXML result
Blog So, if you define interoperability as single vendor’s format to promote operation with that same vendor’s dominant product, you can declare victory," the post continued. Open source vendor Red Hat has expressed its disapproval of the process by...
[April 2, 2008, 17:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Thus, they can carry on texting each other in peace and quiet at the back of the classroom without pedagogical interference, safe in the knowledge that even if they are discovered, the implicit insult to the aged gives them virtual victory anyway.
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Yet it was at this very point, when total victory seemed ordained by God, that his carefully constructed plans began to unravel…" Friday 14/5/2004 As I write this, it's lunchtime. I have already had an entire month's worth of angst in a mere four...
[May 14, 2004, 19:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now it's back, together with a ringing proclamation of its victory. Monday 30/9/2002 Thinkofthechildren.co.uk is back up. If you missed the fuss the first time around: the site went up ostensibly as an online focus for people who wanted to organise...
[October 4, 2002, 18:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As this would seem to make the entire software industry illegal, this might be a bit of a Pyrrhic victory if they win. Friday 29/08/2003 I try and stay away from the SCO Versus The World story, because what can I add to the universal tsunami of...
[August 29, 2003, 19:05]
Thursday
Blog A combination of legal changes and the introduction of Radio 1 and independent local radio, much of which absorbed the talent thrown up by the pirates, meant that in the end the pirate ships had a moral victory even as they puttered back to port...
[September 5, 2002, 16:58]
Photos: Your starter for ten...
Blog Tech ed Rupert Goodwins (second-in blue shirt) takes team ZD to victory If you find the normal questions on University Challenge…erm challenging then imagine the fiendishly mind-melting conundrums that result from basing the show's format around...
[May 4, 2007, 11:45]
Vista downgraded to XP on third of machines...?
Blog While Microsoft has claimed victory in this respect, with over 180 million Vista licences sold, the metrics show that at least a proportion of users or OEMs are purchasing the licence, then downgrading to XP.
[August 20, 2008, 12:39]
WiMax and the Spiggot Problem
Blog It would then be able to use all of the global GSM machinery, which would be a huge victory for common sense. Let me say before anything that technically, I like WiMax. It is a fine standard. Nothing pleases me more than the idea of huge amounts of...
[October 19, 2007, 13:01]
HD-DVD explodes on the launchpad
Blog One final thought: Apollo was a huge victory at the time. Its all very well being in a race to the moon, but once the other guy's got there.and that's what's happened to HD-DVD. The sales figures show that while HD-DVD was talking a good fight, Blu...
[February 19, 2008, 10:45]
Behind the scenes at Cisco Networkers
Blog Looks an odds-on victory I'd say. From today through Thursday is the European showcase, which has returned to Barcelona after 14 years away. And although the event hasn't properly kicked off yet, it's looking like an eventful one, with an estimated...
[January 21, 2008, 14:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Cooler still, he sends some pictures of himself posing in full fig and sporting his milspec iPod beside various world-famous Iraqi sights - the Hands of Victory monument, and most gobsmackingly impressive of all, The Famous Foxhole Itself.
[January 9, 2004, 15:40]
