The Next Big Thing in SaaS and The Cloud: Costs linked to business outcome?
Should Software-as-a-Service vendors make the switch to charging for their offering based on business outcome? Laurent Lachal of Ovum believes so. I was a delegate at the Cloud...
[6 Nov 2009]
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Thursday 1 October 2009, 11:53 AM
Google Wave — we're on it. And you can be, too...
From Mixed Signals | News Blog | Post Room | 30 comments
Rupert Goodwins Our first Google Wave invites have arrived, and we've spent the first hours of the day getting our feet wet in the surf (and you could join us: read on). "IM on speed" was the reaction from the newsdesk, as we watched mulitple people around... more
Friday 23 October 2009, 3:24 PM
Debunking Some Linux Myths
From Jamie's Random Musings | 19 comments
J.A. Watson With new releases of several major Linux distributions coming up in the next few weeks, I would like to take a few minutes to debunk some of the more blatant inaccuracies which are circulated about Linux. Many of these will sound absurd to... more
Tuesday 27 October 2009, 12:20 PM
Carry On Crashing: Windows 7 starts messing about
From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 14 comments
Rupert Goodwins Last night, just 48 hours after I'd installed it, I had my very first Windows 7 Blue Screen Of Death. It may not have been the complete BSOD package, but the machine was thoroughly dead and the screen was blue: there was what may have been... more
Thursday 17 September 2009, 12:24 PM
Microsoft: Vista Stunk, but we PROMISE not to do it again with Win7
From Jamie's Random Musings | 14 comments
J.A. Watson That is my "executive summary" of this article from Tech World. I find it ever so reassuring that they promise Windows 7 will be better than Vista. Duh. Could it be worse? Could it be just as bad? Would anyone from Microsoft ever come out... more
Sunday 25 October 2009, 2:07 PM
No Email Program in Windows 7???????
From Jamie's Random Musings | Vista Upgrade Blog | 14 comments
J.A. Watson This has got to be a joke (albeit a very bad one). Or an oversight. A mistake, maybe? Is there really NO EMAIL PROGRAM IN WINDOWS 7????? Not even Microsoft is that stupid, are they? Really? If this is true, then I would guess it is a... more
Thursday 29 October 2009, 7:53 PM
At what point should Microsoft get scared?
From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 13 comments
Rupert Goodwins A programmer was talking in a tech support forum about some GMail problem he had that was linked to YouTube. "I haven't tried it in Chrome", he said. "That's a little too much Google for me." That comment has a certain force. I was reminded... more
Monday 14 September 2009, 10:55 AM
Windows 7 upgrades can take almost a day
From Communication Breakdown | News Blog | 13 comments
David Meyer Upgrading a PC from Windows Vista to Windows 7 can take between half an hour and close to a day, tests conducted by Microsoft have shown. The time benchmarks for the installation of Microsoft's upcoming operating system — due for release... more
Tuesday 15 September 2009, 7:37 AM
Is Windows 7 greener? Yes, but only by about €50 a year.
From Software application development | 11 comments
Adrian Bridgwater Over the last five years I've worked on and off with one of Microsoft UK's most genuine Windows commentators. Paul Foster doesn't have a hint of the 'evangelist' about him and our conversations usually stray between emerging Windows functionalities,... more
Sunday 18 October 2009, 8:35 AM
Getting A Refund for Unwanted Microsoft Windows
From Jamie's Random Musings | 11 comments
J.A. Watson Here is another excellent article describing the steps to take in order to get a refund (from Dell in this case) when you are forced to buy Windows in order to get the computer you want. I strongly encourage people to do this. Sometimes... more
Tuesday 13 October 2009, 2:47 PM
Is This A Windows 7 Show Stopper Or Just A Minor Bug?
From Thoughts and Theories From Roger Andre | 10 comments
roger andre After receiving a zipped file containing a .avi file, I thought I'd give media player classic a go at unpacking and opening the file all on it's own. Now, every single zip file has an association with media player classic with no option to re-associate... more
Wednesday 16 September 2009, 6:04 PM
BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
From Mixed Signals | News Blog | 10 comments
Rupert Goodwins The BBC has said that it wants to be able to protect its TV listings and other service information for the HD channels it is due to start broadcasting on terrestrial Freeview later this year. Under the terms of its licence as a public service... more
Sunday 13 September 2009, 4:11 PM
Grubbing XP Pro to 2nd Boot
From Home Server Projects | Homebrew Blog | Small Business Blog | 9 comments
Xwindowsjunkie I had a hard drive failure on my home Windows XP Pro DELL system last week. I decided this morning at about 4AM to rebuild the system as a dual boot with Ubuntu 9.04 on the second partition. The goal is to minimize my "Windows dependency" status... more
Tuesday 27 October 2009, 1:08 PM
Linux on Netbooks - Hope for the Future
From Jamie's Random Musings | On The Road | 8 comments
J.A. Watson Warning. The following is pure conjecture on my part. The massive Hoopla surrounding the release of Windows 7 (aka Vista with Lipstick) got me wondering about the netbook market. As I see it, the first netbooks came along shortly after... more
Monday 2 November 2009, 3:09 PM
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) - Mixed Impressions
From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | 8 comments
J.A. Watson Ok, Ubuntu Karmic has been out for a few days now, and I have to say that both for me personally, and I get the impression for a good part of the Ubuntu user community, the feelings are slightly mixed. i find this mildly amusing, because when... more
Tuesday 13 October 2009, 5:52 AM
Mandriva One 2010 RC2 Available
From Jamie's Random Musings | 6 comments
J.A. Watson For the Mandriva users who have been waiting anxiously (hi, Ator!), the iso images for Mandriva One 2010 RC2 are now available. The Mandriva Free version has been available since the end of last week, but the One version always lags a few days... more
Sunday 27 September 2009, 6:46 PM
Extortion on the waves
From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 6 comments
Rupert Goodwins So, there I was in San Francisco, listening to Intel tell me all about the bright, spangley future of mobile. The keynotes were full of standard issue happy videos of happy young people doing happy young things with mobile devices, socially... more
Monday 28 September 2009, 5:46 PM
Disappearing comments and blog posts
From Care in the Community | Post Room | 5 comments
Karen Friar I've seen a few remarks recently wondering what has happened to comments posted to the site, so here's a bit of explanation of where your posts might be held up. One possibility is that the post has been sent to moderation by our spam filter.... more
Monday 28 September 2009, 12:13 PM
Coders to hold Bletchley fundraiser
From Security Bullet In | News Blog | Sentry Posts | 5 comments
Tom Espiner A developer body is to hold a conference at Bletchley Park to raise money for the home of British WWII code-breaking. ACCU, which up until 2006 was known as the Association of C and C++ Users, will hold the conference on 7 November 2009.... more
Thursday 22 October 2009, 10:03 PM
VMware to launch own Linux distro?
From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 5 comments
Rupert Goodwins This is a pure rumour, sourced from random tweets. But it comes from Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome and Mono, so it has a certain investment of radiance. His first tweet: "VMware is creating a new Linux distro, according to the recruiting... more
Monday 12 October 2009, 5:31 PM
Steorn renews perpetual promise to show free energy machine
From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 5 comments
Rupert Goodwins Welcome back my friends to the magnetic machine story that never ends, courtesy of Dublin-based perpetual motion mongers Steorn. One of my two favourite miraculous organisations — in the company, however unfairly, of xG and its magic morphing... more
