Jul 23 2005
Just been reading about this on a couple of tech blogs – notably John Howard’s – Windows Longhorn has now been renamed to what will be it’s official release name, Windows Vista. The name is supposed to give thoughts of clarity and connectivity…
Jul 10 2005
My new notebook arrived on Monday and I couldn’t be happier with it. I spent a lot of time leading up to this purchase researching prices and features of various notebooks and brands and I’m fairly sure that I got it right. This notebook is my first, proper, new computer – all of the others […]
Jul 02 2005
I’ve just purchased a new wireless/router/4-port switch for home. It’s a Linksys WRT54G and it has: wireless capabilities for both B and G access; a 4-port 100MB switch; and router/firewall functions. The reason for buying it was two-fold: firstly, I wanted to buy a 100Mbps switch as I’m currently using a crappy, old 10Mbps hub; […]
Jun 25 2005
I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu recently and have just discovered that if you insert an Ubuntu Live CD in a Windows machine (with Autoplay enabled), a browser window opens with a selection of Windows open source software. This functionality is taken from The Open CD, and you can read more about it on the […]
May 18 2005
Playstation-3/ Sony has finally released details and photos of the new Playstation 3 at the E3 Expo 2005. By all accounts the machine is going to be super-powerful with a new 3.2GHz Cell processor from IBM based on a PowerPC chip core. The controllers are connected through Bluetooth and can last on a single charge […]
May 11 2005
Hot off the press… WordPress 1.5.1 has been relased with some bug/security fixes as well as many other improvements. I’ve already upgraded and the only problem was that I experienced this bug: http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=1323. That apart it all looks good – you can read more in the following links: WordPress 1.5.1 Upgrade from 1.5 to 1.5.1
Apr 20 2005
Found an interesting new Google feature that’s being tested at the moment. It’s called Google Suggest and it ‘auto-completes’ search phrases as you type them. If that doesn’t make sense, visit the website – http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&complete=1 – and test it yourself. Here’s a screenshot of how it works:
Apr 19 2005
More exciting news from the Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 camp – Microsoft have released a gui that taps into the new Access Based Enumeration (ABE) features in Service Pack 1. Novell admins will scoff at this as they have had this feature since the early days of Netware, but Windows admins will definitely […]
Apr 18 2005
Microsoft have now posted an interesting knowledge base article detailing common server applications that work/don’t work with Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2003. The Windows Application Experience test teams tested 127 server applications on computers that were running Windows Server 2003 with SP1. Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 application compatibility
Mar 31 2005
I’ve added a new link for the Wikipedia in the sidebar. From the Wikipedia site: Wikipedia is a free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by people from all around the world. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone can edit articles, simply by clicking on the edit this page link. It runs on MediaWiki software.