Why does everybody hate me?
Blog Some of us have to work for a living. And when I say "living" I don't mean some standard of...
RE:Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition
Blog Comment Update: Mint 8 KDE installed on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 without a hitch, and it works very...
Google's People Hopper 'morphs' Orkut users' faces
Blog Just came across a rather strange little project in Google Labs called People Hopper. Launched in late January, it's a gadget that runs in Orkut, Google's massively successful (if you live in...
Intel wishes virtualisation didn't exist
Blog Here's an interesting tidbit about vPro vendors Intel: they wish the technology they now enthusiastically tout had never been invented. At a cloud conference I attended today, Intel's EMEA...
Malicious Mobile Apps a Growing Concern
Blog Malicious Mobile Apps a Growing Concern Author: Eric Everson, MBA, MSIT-SE The phrase “mobile security” does not usually mean much to anyone, until of course they encounter their first mobile...
Good news?
Talkback Of course, one immediately wonders if BT jumped into this decision, or instead they were pushed? Anyway - life's too short, and people will hope that the increased competition will drive prices...
Silicon good to 2024, graphene to succeed
Blog The ISSCC (International Solid State Circuit Conference) has started in San Francisco with keynote speaker James Meindl, professor of microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, making...
Palm’s webOS: if you can build a website, you’ve got an app
Blog Palm is making some big claims surrounding a new developer programme designed to champion the use of it its webOS operating system. The company says that apps on webOS are built with HTML, CSS,...
Probablities
Talkback The biggest issue I have is that the "database" is dependent on a scan of markers based on dna strands migrating through a gel. IF anything is messed up in the gel, the reading that comes out is...
Did Microsoft stifle tablets and leave the iPad the market?
Blog Dick Brass says so and he thinks he should know; he was the vice president of emerging technologies and launched the Tablet PC in 2002. What does he think went wrong? He blames infighting, he...
Google considering speech-to-speech translation
Blog Automated speech-to-speech language translation should be possible in a few years' time, according to Google translation chief Franz Och. In an interview with The Sunday Times, Och said the...
RE:The economics of computing
Blog Comment "Strategic inflection [sic] point". It has a certain ring to it ;) And I think it hits the nail on the head: MP3 + the internet + file-sharing GNU + Linux + the internet Twitter + the Blackberry +...
The economics of computing
Blog While I probably should have spent more of this weekend reading the Radio Times, I actually amused myself with an IDC white paper about the use of in-memory database technology. Here’s the reason...
RE:iPad on Lockdown: Apple Faces a Twist of Intellectual Proper...
Blog Comment That cracks me up! Jobs caught with his hand in the cookie jar! By now they've probably sold thousands if not millions of of the "digital hygienic products". Fujitsu has a much broader industrial...
Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition
Blog The final release of Linux Mint 8 (Helena) KDE Community Edition is available for download. I wrote about the Release Candidate of this a couple of weeks ago, so I won't add too much more now....
RE:More Reliability Problems at Skype
Blog Comment How useful Skype is depends on your relative rating of performance, reliability, consistency, support, openness and honesty. I'll run down just a few of the considerations here. Performance - it...
If you're nodding your head,
Talkback just stick with linux. 1. Shiny desktop-switching effects aside, this argument is simply for adding multiple desktops to windows; tired and old, even if it is valid. Compiz has nothing to do with...
[February 6, 2010, 16:36 by Spookerton]
RE:Toshiba's new business notebooks, with Reel Time documents
Blog Comment i once had a Toshiba laptop - not a notebook. One of the best computers I ever had, in fact. I thought it was great value for money, and the quality was very good. I am sorry to be a party-pooper...
Interesting - but not from an equality or diversity perspect...
Talkback This looks really good - however I strongly disagree with the entry requirements to the course. I am sure that OFQUAL would have some concerns about the equality and diversity issues of their...
RE:More Reliability Problems at Skype
Blog Comment Not only does ooVoo not have a linux client it has no SIP support that I can find. The free service has ads, and if only one person is a paying customer it shows ads to that person, so you don't...
[February 5, 2010, 20:22 by micheas]
RE:My multiscreen mantra
Blog Comment XWindowsJunkie - not an urban myth at all; it's how the da Vinci codex Arundel and codex Leicester notebooks came to be available to page through on the British Library site: go to...
Bletchley Park calls for operators for Bombe rebuild
Blog The home of World War II codebreaking has called for engineers to operate an electro-mechanical machine developed by mathematician Alan Turing. The Turing Bombe was a brute-force code-breaker...
