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Free Internet -- what you actually get, a ZDNet guide
News BT Internet announced last week it was to introduce free evening and weekend calls for a £9.99 subscription fee. X-stream was the first ISP to offer free weekend and evening Internet connection. Offers users free evening and weekend calls in return...
[March 8, 2000, 11:22]
Relaxed holiday attitudes help BadTrans worm
News While many home consumers got hit with the worm over the weekend, Thompson fears that corporations will start feeling the sting Monday. My main worry was that it was going so strongly over the weekend; what's going to happen when people come to work?
[November 27, 2001, 9:07]
DIY Dual Atom Nettop System
Blog I'll be checking it out more over the weekend. I'll continue working with it over the weekend, install a couple more distributions, and see how it all works. The first thing I found was the biggest surprise - a Dual Atom motherboard from Intel...
[June 5, 2009, 13:41]
Microsoft site hacked
Blog According to Techsploder blog, the Microsoft Internet Explorer administration site got hacked over the weekend. See the screen shot here.
[April 30, 2007, 13:33]
Overthrow the state with a ZX Spectrum
Blog Just a quicky to round off the weekend: I thoroughly enjoyed this post -- via the ever-entertaining MetaFilter group blog. It describes, in the words of participant Eugeniusz Pazderski, how a group of radio astronomers working in Poland during the...
[April 23, 2007, 0:17]
Second thoughts on the Blackberry 8800
Blog Driving over the Pennines at the weekend I used a free utility that threw mobile-phone/GPS combos such as RIM's Blackberry 8800 into sharp relief. I spent some time with a Blackberry 8800, and liked its sleek design and interface.
[March 7, 2007, 9:54]
A green PC from the Emerald Isle
Blog A weekend with friends in Dublin put me in range of the Irish papers and a piece in the Irish Times (subscription only I am afraid) profiling a company behind a range of sustainable PCs. First pass of the web-site indicates a heavy use of wood...
[March 5, 2007, 18:15]
Reading by the light of the fire: Google versus the historian
Blog Comment Also this weekend, the Guardian launched its digital archive (http://www.guardian.co.uk/digitalarchive), which seems like an admirable attempt to give searching and context for the whole history of the Guardian and the Observer.
[November 6, 2007, 12:13]
Radio Schedule
Downloads Schedule your treo's radio on/off at weekdays or weekend.
[August 25, 2008, 8:00]
Google to add PowerPoint presently?
Blog Evidence that was wiped from its site over the weekend seems to point to it. Is Google working on a hosted power point app? Digging around in the language files in Google Docs, US blogger lonut found the following snippet: var MSG_VIEW_PRESENTATION...
[February 5, 2007, 15:18]
Microsoft dismisses Apple threat
Talkback This weekend I was at CompUSA, the only store to carry Apple locally, and as opposed to the last time I was in there, EVERYONE in the store was in the Apple section. No Halo effect? Ppuulleeeeaasssee.
[April 5, 2005, 1:34]
IDC Study: Boom Time for Data Warehouse Vendors
Blog IDC provided one of the better tech reads this weekend to fill the gap between New Year and Monday morning. Analyst Stephen Swoyer was part of the team that reportedly takes up to half the year composing IDC’s Data Warehouse (DW) market study (not...
[January 4, 2009, 23:35]
illustrated guide
Talkback Not much of a comparison between the two, but i know i'll be installing Windows7 this weekend as the BETA worked a treat on my 'test box'. Have tried Ubuntu before and got bored with looking for drivers all the time, and I know thats not down to...
[October 23, 2009, 15:17]
Holiday Gadgets
Blog Comment It was only for the weekend and it was 30 C so no big jumpers taking up valuable gadget space. Clothes? That's an afterthought. I didn't even mention the cameras. I think I need help.
[June 4, 2007, 12:35]
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Released
Blog The long-awaited Debian 5.0 release, code named "lenny", was released over the weekend. One of the advantages of Debian Linux is the variety of systems and architectures it supports. So far this morning I have installed it, without problem, on the...
[February 16, 2009, 13:03]
HP2133 & Ubuntu - Sometimes You Just Have To Laugh
Blog I have spent a lot of time this weekend trying to get Ubuntu 8.10 installed on my HP 2133 Mini-Note. I couldn't even get the LiveCD to bring up the GUI properly, the X server just wouldn't work, and I tried everything I know, and some things I don...
[February 9, 2009, 9:26]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's been a ropy old weekend on the DSL trial. I think I'd better go and lie down in a darkened room for a weekend. Sometimes it worketh, sometimes it worketh not, and none may know the passing of the packets.
[April 23, 1999, 20:03]
Creative Focus: V98 festival embraces the Net
News According to the company's new technology manager James Cronin last year's V97 went pretty much as planned with over 100,000 satisfied netizens logging onto the site over the weekend. Virgin's efforts with the festival, now in its third year, have...
[August 12, 1998, 15:13]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I was scuba-diving over the weekend -- well, learning so to do in a swimming pool -- and my ears are still not back to normal. Thus, when I take Number One Son to the Notting Hill Carnival, I tend to feel the sound systems in my chest rather than...
[September 5, 1998, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Other have been whiling away a rather chilly yet interesting weekend. Fly back from Oslo, where I and A.N. Norway is an odd place - friendly, tidy, smug, rather like Switzerland in many ways - but it does a fabulous sunset.
[December 20, 1997, 7:00]
