Do the maths: HAL 9000 by 2018?
There's a new science in town: connectomics. A specialised form of neuroanatomy, connectomics is in the business of mapping out the brain's networks in particular, how the various...
[4 Jul 2008]
Friday 4 July 2008, 3:23 PM
Quad Boot - Friday Update - It's Good!
From Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM | Reviews Blog | Add a comment
J.A. Watson After nearly a full week of working with this quad-boot setup in various stages of completion, I can say that I am very pleased. It is working well and it is allowing me to easily compare the three different versions of Linux, which is just... more
Thursday 3 July 2008, 10:10 PM
Mobile Speed Demon: Wireless Surpasses Landline - AT&T Mobility
From MyMobiSafe.com Official Mobile Security Antivirus Solutions Blog | On The Road | Sentry Posts | Add a comment
MobileTech Mobile Speed Demon: Wireless Surpasses Landline Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com As I look around my house and throughout my network of friends, I instantly realize that there is one thing that we all share we have all scrapped... more
Thursday 3 July 2008, 2:52 PM
The GoDaddy saga continues...
From Security Bullet In | News Blog | Sentry Posts | 1 comment
Tom Espiner I've been trying to sort out an incident with registrar GoDaddy since last week. I blogged on Tuesday and Thursday about the situation, but in a nutshell I found out that I was registered as the owner of the travel-getaways.com site. This was... more
Thursday 3 July 2008, 11:34 AM
Coming Soon: Dialogue Box Series 4
From Product Central | News Blog | Reviews Blog | Not Safe For Work | 1 comment
Charles McLellan Believe it or not (and we have trouble believing it ourselves) Dialogue Box has been recommissioned for a fourth series and we didn't have to resort to Alan Partridge-style babbling about 'Monkey tennis' to get the nod! We filmed the... more
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 9:19 PM
Beware Of Sneaky Services
From Thoughts and Theories From Roger Andre | Sentry Posts | 5 comments
roger andre Just a note about a program called addaware...(free version) This is an anti addware application that is designed to scan you re system for any unwanted addware, mallware, even spyware. This was reccommended by a popular computer magazine.... more
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 12:28 PM
Problem with Notepad++
From Web design & FOSS | 4 comments
Jake Rayson Well, to be more precise, this is probably my problem with Notepad++, the venerable open source Windows text editor. I can’t open HTML files. As a web designer & builder, this is a bit troublesome. Luckily, Notepad++ will open SHTML... more
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 12:26 PM
Quad-Boot Fun, and A Correction
From Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM | 3 comments
J.A. Watson First, the good news. I now have my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 set up to quad-boot XP/Ubuntu/openSuSE/Mandriva! That's certainly worth a few giggles. More importantly, it will make it a lot easier for me to track and compare the various Linux... more
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 3:58 AM
DebbieToo, a new Serverbaby, is running.
From Home Server Projects | Homebrew Blog | Uptime | Add a comment
Xwindowsjunkie Installed Debian 4 (etch) on Debbie's hard drive and this time I did it the easy way. My DSL line is twice the speed it was at the time I started this whole thing. So it loaded and installed almost faster than installing the CDROM ISO version... more
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 2:46 AM
When blogs collide...
From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | Add a comment
Rupert Goodwins Out in the blogosphere, a most intriguing story is well, not unfolding, exactly. That's precisely what it's not doing. It's more like a well-written psychological thriller, where event piles on event but the truth becomes ever more difficult... more
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 8:39 PM
Skype Hires New COO - from Motorola
From Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM | Add a comment
J.A. Watson Skype announced today that they have created a new position, Chief Operating Officer, and hired someone from Motorola for that position. Considering the performance of Motorola in the cell phone market recently, it seems to me like it should... more
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 5:20 PM
Are business focused social networks delivering what we want?
From The Business Web 2.0 | Add a comment
wecando.biz The results of a survey conducted by BNI amongst its members shows three quarters network to get new business. But are business focused social networks delivering what people want? It's no surprise that the members of BNI, Business Networking... more
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 4:23 PM
Microsoft's new licensing may not fly
From Mixed Signals | News Blog | Rupert's Diary | Add a comment
Rupert Goodwins Microsoft's new Select Plus licensing scheme is an intriguing modification to an increasingly problematic arrangement: the exchange of large amounts of enterprise money for the right to use software you've been paying for for years. Setting... more
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 3:49 PM
IT guy busted over insider trading
From Security Bullet In | News Blog | Sentry Posts | 1 comment
Tom Espiner An IT professional has been fined £85,000 for insider trading, Management Today reports. The fine was imposed by the Financial Services Authority on John Shevlin, who used to work at the Body Shop. He was found to have used his position to... more
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 3:42 PM
Netgear launches open-source Wi-Fi router
From Open Sauce Software | News Blog | Add a comment
PeterJudge There's been a long history of unauthorised open source Wi-Fi on Linksys' WRT54G router. Now Netgear's jumping in with an official open source router. There's nothing too unusual about Netgear's KWGR614 and WGR614L routers. They're 802.11g... more
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 3:22 PM
Nokia E71 vs HTC Touch Diamond
From Communication Breakdown | Reviews Blog | Add a comment
David Meyer I have been an apologist for Windows Mobile for a long time, having used MS-powered handsets for the last three or four years. I liked the comprehensive synchronisation, and quite enjoyed having a geek's phone. My most recent WinMob handset... more
Tuesday 1 July 2008, 2:59 PM
A new twist - NBC online Olympic coverage for Vista only
From Moley's Musings | 2 comments
Moley I just picked up this bit of news. NBC are partnering with M$ to provide full online coverage of the Olymic Games in Beijing this summer but, wait for it, only for Windows Vista users. Windows XP and earlier are excluded, as are Mac and Linux... more
