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New Life For Old Microsoft Access Data
White Papers One of the sad facts about people's relentless journey forward in the world of computers and software is that they sometimes find themselves abandoning old data. People move from one word processing office package to another, only to discover that...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft Cracks Down On Used Windows Sales
News People looking to off-load their old Microsoft software to make way for Windows XP have to be careful about selling it online. Charmaine Gravning, a product manager for Microsoft's Windows XP, said the policy is clear that people cannot sell or...
[October 9, 2001, 9:20]
Nokia Urges Users To Recycle Mobile Phones
News Many people are simply unaware that these old and unused mobiles lying around in drawers can be recycled, or [don't know] how to do this. A majority of mobile-phone users leave their old devices unused at home, unaware that they can be recycled...
[July 9, 2008, 9:35]
Software Giant Threatens Mikerowesoft
Talkback i tried accesing the site and i cant at all, so its probably microsoft messing it up, otherwise i think its totally unfair that they can do something like that to a 17 yr old.i hope the people from microsoft realize the horrible mistake that they...
[January 19, 2004, 22:41]
Fighting Microsoft's Licence Check
Talkback This happens all the time, the only difference being that many people would use an old copy of Windows instead of Linux. I recently put together an old machine for my parents-in-law and naturally I installed Ubuntu as a user-friendly desktop Linux.
[June 22, 2006, 13:31]
The Old Man And The C
Leader On the one hand, it is distrustful of its oldest friends - the people who grew up with it, worked with it for decades but are now seen as too old to be much good any more. For a fifty-year-old, the IT industry is showing worrying signs of confusion.
[October 24, 2005, 15:35]
Creative Uses For Dead PCs
News We look at some of the more creative ways people have found of reusing their old hardware, and would like to hear from you if you have done anything similar. We look at some of the more creative ways people have found of reusing their old hardware...
[September 2, 2005, 14:25]
Dell Wants More PCs Recycled
News Dell hopes to instruct these organisations on how to hold events that let people can turn in old equipment. When PCs die or become aged, most people don't know what to with them. Getting rid of old computers has become a major problem in the past...
[October 10, 2003, 9:45]
Six Thousand Pages, One Month, No Chance...
Blog Comment But I doubt you can, because unlike people who THINK for themselves, you're just repeating what you read on the net written by some spotty 16 year old who doesn't like OpenOffice. But I don't expect you'd appreciate what I just said anymore than...
[January 23, 2007, 8:36]
Thunderbird: A Handy Data Transfer Tool
Talkback As a hardware technician I would often be doing data transfers from an old machine to a new one. I can guarantee 2/5 people would say can you transfer my Outlook files (I’m thinking great fun! and 1/10 of those people say “By the way I’m using...
[March 31, 2008, 11:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Rumours from people who claim to know people on the inside are rife, but it's fair to say that BT is not having a good time of things. It's been a ropy old weekend on the DSL trial. Good old Cix! Which is only good news: the survival of such places...
[April 23, 1999, 19:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Rumours from people who claim to know people on the inside are rife, but it's fair to say that BT is not having a good time of things. It's been a ropy old weekend on the DSL trial. Good old Cix! Which is only good news: the survival of such places...
[April 23, 1999, 20:03]
Australian Woman Charged In Net Baby Selling Case
News The business of selling babies over the Internet is in the spotlight again, this time with a 39-year-old Victoria, Australia woman appearing before a magistrate's court after she used the Internet to contact people overseas in an attempt to sell...
[June 14, 2002, 9:17]
Credit Card Fraud Ring Implicated In Zotob Affair
News Atilla Ekici, a 21-year-old Turk who used the nickname "Coder", may be affiliated with people thought to be part of a credit card fraud ring in Turkey, an FBI representative said on Tuesday. The investigation is still ongoing, but there is no...
[August 31, 2005, 10:15]
Hit List Dwindles In New Napster Software
News Napster plans to shut off old versions of its file-swapping software late Wednesday night to push a version that includes a new filter for blocking copyrighted music. Napster is funneling people to a new version of the software that includes...
[June 28, 2001, 14:26]
Linux Company Chalks Up Success With Teachers
News I think this is because [the OS] gives people the opportunity to reuse old PCs. The operating system, which runs from a CD-ROM and uses just 50MB of RAM, has interested teachers whose old PCs can't cope with the demands of Windows XP.
[January 14, 2005, 11:10]
Apple Mac OS X On X86: A First Test
Talkback Of course native apps will be faster, but at least the old ones will work at an acceptable speed, probably comparable to whatever older machine most people had before upgrading. Several other people have already said this was an inaccurate...
[November 14, 2005, 10:07]
Life After Microsoft - One Firm's Complete Conversion To Open Source
Talkback Why can't people just continue to run the same old same old that worked fine - because Microsoft decides to deliberately disown and obsolete its own products while enforcing trick laws for more upgrade money.
[August 28, 2003, 16:53]
High-tech Paedophiles: No Surprise To FBI
News As it turns out, a corner office at a high-profile high-tech company isn't such an unlikely place to find an online paedophile -- not according to records being yielded from a three-year-old Federal Bureau of Investigation crackdown on Internet...
[September 21, 1999, 10:05]
The Internet In Russia
White Papers Everyday, more and more people and businesses throughout the world accept the Internet environment and the changes it brings as a vital part of their lives. The birth of the Internet in Russia coincided with the collapse of the old Soviet System...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
