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Vistification - A Temporoary Drive To Linux?
Blog Comment Yes - and the scary thing is that those consumers without techie support (and an available licensed copy of XP) may not feel comfortable with doing what I did, which was try Vista then revert back to its predecessor when fed up.
[October 25, 2007, 14:14]
Quick Take: The CIO And The CEO
White Papers No CEO — not even a techie — could afford to devote a quarter of their time to systems. In informal surveys of 25 large-company CEOs, when asked how much time they spent on technology issues, their response was "25%.
[March 6, 2007, 0:00]
Mandriva Linux - Wonderful And Maddening
Blog Comment As a relatively non-techie I was probably going to play safe and go XP. I'm currently waiting to purchase one of the new eee's when the 901 is launched and was wondering whether to go Linux or stick with good old XP.
[July 2, 2008, 13:40]
IT Industry's 'macho Culture' Drives Women Away
Talkback I am pretty much a female techie. The company was a women's high street fashion group - from what I could gather waiting in reception, most employees are female and the manager who interviewed me confirmed this.
[September 12, 2005, 17:46]
Are IT Managers Sidelined During M&A?
Blog Ask a techie what the most likely result of this is in practice - and hopefully the answer you’ll get will be, “shoddy integration. Personally, if I was one of the “37.5 per cent said that a detailed plan for system integration wasn't put in place...
[December 4, 2007, 23:28]
After Hotmail "glitch" UK Excite Accounts Cracked
News Following the Hotmail debacle at the start of the week, one non-techie hack has gained access to the accounts of around fifteen Excite.co.uk and Ireland.com subscribers -- including the unlucky John from London -- in less than an hour.
[September 2, 1999, 16:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There was also nothing much by way of Internet connectivity -- especially at Intel's stand, where the techie had forgotten to bring the right drivers for the wireless network card. I was assured that this time, it will be different.
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
Jane Wakefield: Have You Caught The Love Bug?
News Which is slightly worrying considering the department is the government's flagship for all things techie. It has long been said that the three most dangerous words in the English language are "I love you" and for computer users across Europe and...
[May 5, 2000, 10:13]
The BPI's Grand Waste Of Paper
Blog Or let's say you have a Wi-Fi router using WEP encryption (I know that if you're reading this you're unlikely to be daft enough to rely on WEP, but let's think about the non-techie majority). It's toothless without new legislation, and even that is...
[July 24, 2008, 16:43]
Bank Group Stumped By Rising IT Power Consumption
News I am not a techie," he said. Although we are seeing energy consumption staying static or reducing from an engineering perspective, there was a 12.5 increase [in electricity consumption] in our datacentres last year.
[April 11, 2008, 15:07]
Thursday
Blog Then you have to find a techie with some spare time to actually do and verify this stuff (stop laughing at the back there). We know how much blood was spilled -- we had to change the sawdust in the server room more than once a week at one stage...
[January 31, 2003, 16:40]
Comdex: Linux Not Just For Nerds Anymore
News Such office applications are a key to getting the consumer introduced to the wacky world of Linux, by putting a friendly face on the techie-geared OS. The large pavilion features only about a dozen booths, but on Tuesday morning each was chock-a...
[November 18, 1998, 6:24]
Why Grokster Isn't The End Of The World
News That may sound a bit iconoclastic given everything we've heard from some of our techie leaders. I vividly remember sitting in a cinema half a decade ago and seeing the Universal Studios globe turning in full Technicolor just before the start of the...
[August 10, 2005, 19:00]
Jane Wakefield: On Sexism And Bugs
News While women in techie jobs are still in the minority, on the Internet the girls are catching up. I personally was on the side of the doom-mongers and was getting quite excited about the idea of empty shelves in supermarkets, empty cash machines and...
[December 20, 1999, 9:14]
Sobig.F Prevention And Cure
Talkback KEV - TECHIE ,I HAVE JUST GOT NEW COMPUTER WITH WINDOWS OFFICE XP 2000. CANT REALLY AFFORD TO SPEND ANY MORE MONEY AND WAS INTERESTED TO READ THAT YOU DONT NEED ANY VIRUS SOFTWARE PROTECTION JUST 'A PROPER OPERATING SYSTEM.
[October 5, 2003, 12:49]
Building With Bugs
Blog I heard an argument at a techie press conference recently that put forward what I considered to be a good argument for releasing a software build with known bugs on board. The code guru in question reasoned that there was a point at which, even...
[July 27, 2007, 9:05]
Same Old Thing
Talkback Everything you state should be intuitive even for the non-techie. I really don't see the point of this article. I would also like to read more about the mindset of how cybercriminals think about what they are doing even if it is only hypothetical.
[July 30, 2008, 19:47]
Traffic Jam Accompanies Flash Arrival
News As a techie, Macromedia's nine-day countdown really got me," Millican said. Zack Millican, a graphics artist, said he was anxious to get Flash MX as soon as possible, partly because Macromedia had done such a good job of promoting the product...
[March 18, 2002, 10:48]
Sun's Patent Settlement Sparks Controversy
News One anonymous UK techie wrote: The patent system tends to turn honorable non-trivial work into disgracefully broad patent claims, and the only practical solution to this that I know of is to change the caselaw that imposed these patents on the...
[October 13, 2004, 16:40]
Jesse Berst: Internet Health Check -- Good And Bad News
News Prognosis: Consumer-oriented sites will overtake techie sites in the next year as the Web goes mainstream. Likewise, as the Internet grows up, it needs regular checkups to make sure its development is on track.So I got out my cyber-stethoscope.
[June 25, 1999, 10:09]
