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Leader: AOL on the box? Erm... don't think so.
News You really don't want to use a keyboard and how many options can you get on a remote mouse. AOL has always seen itself as a content firm, a vogue-ish conceit that is emulated by almost every other well-known name in WWW circles.
[December 15, 1998, 14:01]
Nokia 7600: A first look
Talkback Don't you just love things that don't do what they say on the box ! Well it looked good when it came out of the box, however 'several' attemps on 2 different PC's to get the phone to connect via the supplied data cable and I'm not so sure (still...
[March 14, 2004, 13:56]
Microsoft steers away from object orientation
News Speaking at the Developing Software for the Future Microsoft Platform conference in London's Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on Monday, Microsoft software architect Don Box said the company will not invest much more in COM and DCOM...
[January 27, 2004, 15:30]
Debbie and Kraken, Like the Wolf and the Falcon
Blog Comment BTW, i don't think you should constrain the linux box to the limitations coming from WHS. You sure will have to fiddle a bit with Apache & Mysql if you plan to have a secure box. I haven't tested it yet on this box, so i can't say much more about...
[July 1, 2007, 6:44]
URL Box
Downloads URL Box is the glue between your URLs and your web browser. Just drag a URL(with HTTP:// or FTP://) into URL Box and little window allowing you to launch it that always stays on top is created. It's for those URLs that you want quick access to...
[February 6, 2002, 7:00]
Currys £16.99 USB cable rip-off.
Blog Comment So what HP is basically saying here is that if we don't put the cable in the box, then we don't have to charge you as much. The policy to not include a USB cable with its printers is in line with standard practice of the majority of major IT...
[December 12, 2007, 8:51]
Spam filter: A boon or a bomb?
News Items with low priority (from zero to about 20) fall to the bottom of the in-box so people don't see them when they first open their email application. Banter's software, by contrast, monitors people's email habits -- even without input from the...
[July 30, 2002, 8:43]
Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7050 review
Reviews Box Fon WLAN 7050 is easy both to set up and to use, and you don't even need to change your phones. Box bristles with ports, including an input for your DSL signal, two 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports for connection to the local network, two RJ-11 phone...
[September 14, 2006, 13:10]
Software Jihad part 2
Blog If you don't put the OS on the box you aren't going to buy anything else with the Microsoft name on it. If you can't afford the box to play it on, you won't buy the games from the company that is now selling XBOX 360's at a loss just to get...
[November 3, 2008, 17:29]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback having been on the internet for 6 years now and not being and adherent of anti-virus software, (i don't use the stuff) here are a few tips that might help home users.use a firewall.preferably one that utilizes stateful packet filtering techniques...
[August 25, 2003, 23:27]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback I am also glad that right out of the box when I get a mac, I don't have to do much else but plug it in and I imediatly on some kind of GUI smiling at me as to say "welcome, I will not give you trouble.
[November 11, 2005, 9:18]
Row over report praising Windows patching
News When I patch my Linux box I don't need to bring it up and down any number of times. If I am patching a Windows box I typically need to find a time where I can bring it offline and reboot it. Novell's Kangro conceded that "some technical issues in...
[May 20, 2005, 9:25]
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment If you use a digital box with a hi-fi system, or another device that can only be used to produce sounds and can't display TV programmes, and you don't install or use any other TV receiving equipment, you don't need a TV Licence.
[September 21, 2009, 10:09]
Firefox 1.0PR: a first look
Talkback If you are gonna nit-pick about customizability out of the box vs.extensions, then you have to look at the reason behind the extensions. So it would make zero sense to include them all in the out of the box version of firefox.
[September 16, 2004, 15:37]
New year resolutions for the IT world
News There is nothing more frustrating than getting a new piece of kit out of the box only to discover that you don't have the right cable. If it needs a cable, put it in the box New year's resolution number one is for hardware manufacturers - if it...
[January 1, 1999, 0:20]
The little things that make virtual computing such fun...
Blog People who write software that pops up long error messages with hexadecimal in should be hung, drawn and quartered -- if they don't let you cut and paste from the error box. Dialogue Box filming day, and I'm busy preparing some bits and pieces at...
[August 6, 2008, 9:48]
Cut Office XP down to size review
Reviews Get rid of menu commands you don’t need using the Customize dialogue box. Then clear the check mark beside ‘Always show full menus’ and check the ‘Show full menus after a short delay’ box if you want the complete menus to automatically expand...
[July 8, 2002, 10:09]
Intel's SS4000-E - so you're having issues with one too, eh ...
Blog After doing some searching I came across a neat-looking little black box made by Intel, their SS4000-E. I realized immediately that something was awry when I tried processing out to the box; the system came to a screeching crawl.
[April 15, 2008, 10:03]
Review of the Mac OSX Snow Leopard Review
Blog It is easy for Microsoft fanbois to try and claim that this is, in fact, a service pack because they don't actually know what is going on and by ignoring all the truly cool stuff they can box it into that corner pretty easily.
[August 28, 2009, 15:58]
Opera 6.0 for Windows review
Reviews For example, in the Edit > Find dialogue box, we clicked the Help button and nothing happened. When you fire up the browser, a dialogue box lets you choose between the two. What's worse, parts of the new UI simply don't work at all.
[April 2, 2002, 0:00]
