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Chris Long's Column: Supermarket High-tech
News There is a third reaction of "we must do something about this because Chris is very important to us and this state of affairs is just not good enough" but frankly, as nice as it sounds, I think that there is more chance of getting a mug of hot...
[August 27, 1999, 10:23]
The Chris Long Column: Of Christmas And Email ...
News And then three months later, doing a bit of tidying up, deleting old messages I come across theses unread messages that start off "Hi Chris long time no hear". And the totally real reaction of 'ohmygodohmygod, sorrysorrysorrysorry, eeekkk' I didn't...
[January 11, 1999, 14:43]
Chris Long's Column: Cut The Virtual Insanity
News Yours truly, Chris Long Sorry to disturb you, but this is very important and I think you can help me -- and yourself. I have become very concerned at how Hollywood is representing the Internet and something needs doing about it.
[February 9, 1999, 9:29]
Chris Long's Column: Ban The Internet...
News I don't know about you but I often have brilliant ideas when I'm on the way somewhere. Occasionally I have the foresight to carry a piece of paper or a notebook to jot it down on. Alas as I am invariably late for wherever it is I'm going, I have to...
[March 12, 1999, 12:19]
Chris Long's Column: Bill Gates Knows I'm A Dork!
Talkback hello mr gates i am a student who wants to keep on education in abroad to be a good doctor to help sich people.but i have no enough money even for airfair.if you would like to help me,please contact me :stu200520062003@yahoo.com and i do...
[June 23, 2004, 19:00]
Chris Long's Column - 'MP3, Yeah Right...'
News Has Chris Long lost the plot? I noticed something was wrong when I realised I had two MiniDisk players. I justified the purchase of the second -- a portable -- because I needed something to make broadcast quality interviews on, but as I haven't...
[June 4, 1999, 8:32]
Chris Long's Column - 'I Hate Digital Everything'
News If you see anything interesting or just plain silly on the Net or anywhere else forward it to Chris Long at chrisl@cix.co.uk -- he needs the laughs They were pitched as an audio nirvana (no not the band, the feeling) but it didn't take us too long...
[June 18, 1999, 13:55]
Chris Long's Column: Viruses I've Known And Loved
News I'm feeling a bit left out here, I'm the only person -- it seems -- that hasn't written a virus and named it after a female they know. I don't know what it is that drives these people to write a virus but I'm fully expecting to see a whole raft of...
[April 8, 1999, 14:49]
Chris Long's Column: Of Buttons And Fuses...
News If you see anything interesting or just plain silly on the Net or anywhere else forward it to Chris Long at chrisl@cix.co.uk -- he needs the laughs Yup the TR7 is likely to be pensioned off (as long as I can find some fool to adopt it) and I'm...
[June 30, 1999, 7:36]
Chris Long's Column: Bill Gates Knows I'm A Dork!
News It was a long flight made no shorter by the fact that I had apparently been given a child's seat. I mean, are there any really useful bits of technology out there? For example, I have this new Pentium III PC with all mod cons, and all it does is...
[May 10, 1999, 9:32]
The Chris Long Column: Turn That Bloody Noise Down!
News Chris Long's unique brand of humour has landed him in trouble more often than he'd care to reveal in writing. Nevertheless, the man who makes computer programmes on the telly has promised to set aside a few moments a month to share his views on our...
[December 16, 1998, 6:01]
Toshiba Case Study: Chris Carroll
White Papers Chris Carroll is a mobile warrior for whom face-to-face contact with customers is critical to success. Chris spends most of his time on the road, and knows that the greater the impact he can make to a customer whilst he is in front of them, the...
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
Security Clearinghouse Under The Gun
News Chris Rouland, director of vulnerability research for software company Internet Security Systems, said the company will release details to CERT only two days before they go public. The care with which security researchers release information to the...
[January 30, 2003, 8:05]
Continuing The Legacy Of 'The Long Tail'
News In the October 2004 article, Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson laid out the framework of a simple idea — one that was staring us right in the face. When Wired Magazine published an article called The Long Tail, it immediately became a phenomenon...
[July 24, 2006, 16:45]
A While To Wait For A Truly Open Format
Talkback I have to say I agree with your comments Chris and pround, but I fear it will be a long long time before true open documents standards take off. There is some excellent work going on around ODF, but adoption is still low.
[January 4, 2008, 10:49]
New Patches Close 20 Holes In Windows
Talkback I agree with Chris Leigh. Better that vulnerabilities are patched timeously rather than advertised over long periods of time to be exploited. I have spent all morning trying to patch. Monthly releases of patches are a bad idea from the security and...
[April 14, 2004, 14:07]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback Chris Rankin :" suppose the EU's legal requirement that MS provide a version of XP without Windows Media Player means that MS is blocked from welding Media Player into the OS. That might be considered a Good Thing in the long run, even if no-one...
[June 27, 2005, 23:17]
Microsoft To Deliver Unix Conference Keynote
News Don't be put off by Chris' Microsoft badge - he is actually a long time Unix hacker," the user group said today in a statement updating users on presentations at the conference. While that conference saw Microsoft executive Greg Stone come under...
[October 13, 2005, 13:25]
Egg Isn't The Only Bank Cracked
News Using the same analogy Chris Long thinks you can say pretty much the same about Banks that roll out new technology services, you can tell how much they think about the customers by how much they provide.
[August 24, 2000, 12:52]
Quotes Of The Week - 5-9 August
News Sun's Chris Sarfas on Compaq's downside. Relying on another company for your operating system (OS) could lead to long lead times. It depends on how long Compaq's nerve holds. Unless they're in it for the long term, they'll fail.
[August 12, 1996, 10:44]
