items tagged with Blog
“We heard you” says MS: Vista SP1 available to MSDN and TechNet users at last
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-02-15 09:29:35
Following an almighty uproar from the tech savvy MSDN and TechNet subscriber base over the fact they were going to have to wait just as long as the general public before being able to get their hands on Vista SP1, MSDN and TechNet users can finally download the long awaited update code.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-02-15 09:29:35
Following an almighty uproar from the tech savvy MSDN and TechNet subscriber base over the fact they were going to have to wait just as long as the general public before being able to get their hands on Vista SP1, MSDN and TechNet users can finally download the long awaited update code.
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The dark side of open source: Hacking MySQL
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-02-09 23:14:05
Open source software advocates – like myself – will point out that a user can have confidence in the application’s integrity because the program code is readily viewable. However, not everyone who reads source code has pure intentions. Here’s how MySQL has been cracked in the past, and how you can keep safe.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-02-09 23:14:05
Open source software advocates – like myself – will point out that a user can have confidence in the application’s integrity because the program code is readily viewable. However, not everyone who reads source code has pure intentions. Here’s how MySQL has been cracked in the past, and how you can keep safe.
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Yahoo! with Microsoft: way ahead of Google & Android
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-02-06 21:30:55
Google hopes its Android cellphone operating system will strengthen its position in the mobile Internet world, but Yahoo! combined with Windows mobile would present a formidable challenge.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-02-06 21:30:55
Google hopes its Android cellphone operating system will strengthen its position in the mobile Internet world, but Yahoo! combined with Windows mobile would present a formidable challenge.
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BT freezes Fusion: next generation replacement rumoured
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-02-06 17:23:19
BT has stopped marketing its fixed-mobile convergence service, Fusion to the consumer market, and it has hinted at a replacement which sounds remarkably like DataWind's PocketSurfer2 hand-held GPRS connected Internet-browsing and email device. It's a very significant development.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-02-06 17:23:19
BT has stopped marketing its fixed-mobile convergence service, Fusion to the consumer market, and it has hinted at a replacement which sounds remarkably like DataWind's PocketSurfer2 hand-held GPRS connected Internet-browsing and email device. It's a very significant development.
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Open source, the Access slayer
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-02-06 07:24:59
Forget vampires, there’s a world of evil in corporations across the globe infesting desktops everywhere. It’s the database product known as Microsoft Access but fear not: there is a chosen one, the [Silicon] Valley open source software revolution born with special strength and a destiny to fight Access.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-02-06 07:24:59
Forget vampires, there’s a world of evil in corporations across the globe infesting desktops everywhere. It’s the database product known as Microsoft Access but fear not: there is a chosen one, the [Silicon] Valley open source software revolution born with special strength and a destiny to fight Access.
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Conroy seeks input on CDMA closure
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-02-04 22:55:38
Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to a number of industry organisations inviting them to a meeting to discuss the impending closure of Telstra's CDMA network.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-02-04 22:55:38
Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to a number of industry organisations inviting them to a meeting to discuss the impending closure of Telstra's CDMA network.
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Replacing styles in Word 2008
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-02-03 23:12:20
AppleScript can be a very useful tool for automating applications or coupling two or more programs so they work together. But sometimes it is more trouble than is necessary to achieve a particular result.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-02-03 23:12:20
AppleScript can be a very useful tool for automating applications or coupling two or more programs so they work together. But sometimes it is more trouble than is necessary to achieve a particular result.
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Time for a real national broadband policy
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-28 02:34:25
Over in the USA the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a think tank formed in 2006 in recognition of the increasingly central role of technology in ensuring American prosperity, has just released a study: "Framing a National Broadband Policy." The ALP's FTTN plans notwithstanding, Australia should heed its recommendations.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-28 02:34:25
Over in the USA the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a think tank formed in 2006 in recognition of the increasingly central role of technology in ensuring American prosperity, has just released a study: "Framing a National Broadband Policy." The ALP's FTTN plans notwithstanding, Australia should heed its recommendations.
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Surprise surprise: cellphone users don't read manuals
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-27 21:55:12
A survey of cellphone users in the UK has come up with some, hardly surprising results: most people just use their phones for voice and text, don't read manuals and use only a fraction of the features and functions available on their handsets. Who did the survey, and why, is much more interesting.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-27 21:55:12
A survey of cellphone users in the UK has come up with some, hardly surprising results: most people just use their phones for voice and text, don't read manuals and use only a fraction of the features and functions available on their handsets. Who did the survey, and why, is much more interesting.
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Cisco set to stir up the femtocell market
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-23 20:15:27
Cisco has secured a stake in the nascent market for 3G femtocells, with a strategic investment in UK startup ip.access, which is a market leader in the technology. It could make a big impact down the track.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-23 20:15:27
Cisco has secured a stake in the nascent market for 3G femtocells, with a strategic investment in UK startup ip.access, which is a market leader in the technology. It could make a big impact down the track.
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Enterprise-grade Linux: Five network security FOSS apps
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-23 07:42:14
The old adage, you get what you pay for, doesn’t have to apply. In fact, for a small business the high price tag of “threat management” software can often mean a company will just go without to its detriment. Here’s some high quality free and open source software to help, at a price any CFO will love.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-23 07:42:14
The old adage, you get what you pay for, doesn’t have to apply. In fact, for a small business the high price tag of “threat management” software can often mean a company will just go without to its detriment. Here’s some high quality free and open source software to help, at a price any CFO will love.
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No FOSS please, we’re Microsoft: checking out the .NET source code license
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-21 03:53:16
Since early this decade, Microsoft has been promoting their software framework, the .NET platform and its associated libraries. Now up to incarnation v3.5, Windows developers worldwide have rejoiced at the framework source code finally being made available. Yet, does this reflect any trend towards open source by the Redmond giant? How generous is the license and what does it mean?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-21 03:53:16
Since early this decade, Microsoft has been promoting their software framework, the .NET platform and its associated libraries. Now up to incarnation v3.5, Windows developers worldwide have rejoiced at the framework source code finally being made available. Yet, does this reflect any trend towards open source by the Redmond giant? How generous is the license and what does it mean?
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MacBook Air a balanced package
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-01-17 19:21:00
A (non-iTWire) colleague has questioned Apple's wisdom in fitting the MacBook Air with 2G of soldered-in RAM with no upgrade capability.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-01-17 19:21:00
A (non-iTWire) colleague has questioned Apple's wisdom in fitting the MacBook Air with 2G of soldered-in RAM with no upgrade capability.
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A spotter’s guide to open-source Linux package formats
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-16 07:14:15
Want to find open source tools? Linux distros have long had the tradition that software is bundled into easily-installed packages. Yet, finding packages can be less than intuitively obvious and even then they may not appear to be available for your flavour of choice. Here’s how to get the most out of Linux packages.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-16 07:14:15
Want to find open source tools? Linux distros have long had the tradition that software is bundled into easily-installed packages. Yet, finding packages can be less than intuitively obvious and even then they may not appear to be available for your flavour of choice. Here’s how to get the most out of Linux packages.
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Stem cell research: Where does your U.S. state stand?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-01-15 10:06:24
Do you favor or reject embryonic stem cell research? And, just as important: does your state favor or reject the researching and funding of stem cells in the United States?
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2008-01-15 10:06:24
Do you favor or reject embryonic stem cell research? And, just as important: does your state favor or reject the researching and funding of stem cells in the United States?
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The Mac: coming to an enterprise near you
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2008-01-14 17:11:16
The pundits are falling over themselves trying to upstage Steve Jobs and predict what the big news from Apple will be in his keynote speech, but while its unlikely to be a headline news item at Macworld, the re-entry of the Mac into the mainstream of enterprise IT could be one of the most important Mac developments of 2008.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2008-01-14 17:11:16
The pundits are falling over themselves trying to upstage Steve Jobs and predict what the big news from Apple will be in his keynote speech, but while its unlikely to be a headline news item at Macworld, the re-entry of the Mac into the mainstream of enterprise IT could be one of the most important Mac developments of 2008.
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Open source brings a spam-free lunch
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-13 20:22:14
Spam is a plague on the Internet. It’s constant and unending. Some ISPs and free web mail providers offer anti-spam services but if you’re running your own mail server, accepting mail to your own domain, you have to work out your own solution. Can open source compete with the big boys? When it comes to spam, is there a free lunch?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-13 20:22:14
Spam is a plague on the Internet. It’s constant and unending. Some ISPs and free web mail providers offer anti-spam services but if you’re running your own mail server, accepting mail to your own domain, you have to work out your own solution. Can open source compete with the big boys? When it comes to spam, is there a free lunch?
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Lovable LUGgable: support your Linux user group
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-10 06:42:46
There’s no denying that the widespread growth of Linux was due in part to the raw enthusiasm of advocates meeting together under the broad banner of a “LUG” – a Linux User Group. LUG members were pioneers and cowboys, early adopters and passionate hobbyists. Today, the LUG is different. With the rise of commercial backing, the ease of distro installation, and the omniscience of Google do LUGs still have any role to play in the Linux world?
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-01-10 06:42:46
There’s no denying that the widespread growth of Linux was due in part to the raw enthusiasm of advocates meeting together under the broad banner of a “LUG” – a Linux User Group. LUG members were pioneers and cowboys, early adopters and passionate hobbyists. Today, the LUG is different. With the rise of commercial backing, the ease of distro installation, and the omniscience of Google do LUGs still have any role to play in the Linux world?
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Cisco poised to enter social networking market - UPDATE
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-10 03:28:30
Cisco has for weeks now been letting information trickle out about its Entertainment Operating System (EOS), but it's rather more than an operating system: it's a software-as-a-service platform that enables content owners to easily distribute and monetise their content, and it's prompting leading commentators to ask if Cisco could be the next Facebook. (updated added at the end)
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-10 03:28:30
Cisco has for weeks now been letting information trickle out about its Entertainment Operating System (EOS), but it's rather more than an operating system: it's a software-as-a-service platform that enables content owners to easily distribute and monetise their content, and it's prompting leading commentators to ask if Cisco could be the next Facebook. (updated added at the end)
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Needed now: a national scheme to recycle old IT gear
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-09 04:45:23
While the lifetime of computer equipment is rapidly getting shorter Australia is moving only slowly towards a national recycling scheme. Meanwhile in the US, private enterprise has come up with a scheme that gives owners of obsolete equipment some incentive to recycle.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-01-09 04:45:23
While the lifetime of computer equipment is rapidly getting shorter Australia is moving only slowly towards a national recycling scheme. Meanwhile in the US, private enterprise has come up with a scheme that gives owners of obsolete equipment some incentive to recycle.
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