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From Software application development | 29 comments

Adrian Bridgwater If you’re in the business of reviewing software application development news, which coincidentally I am, then tenfold programming productivity claims tend to either raise my eyebrows or raise my hackles in equal measure. Software development... more

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

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

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

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

From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 12 comments

Rupert Goodwins Rupert Murdoch has said that he'll probably take his content out of Google, and hinted very strongly he and other newspaper groups are in discussion over paywalls. Leaving aside the question of anti-trust - and whether, given Murdoch's extremely... more

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

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

From 500 words into the future | 8 comments

Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe Ten years ago I went into a Microsoft Store. It was a wide open modern space, with wooden floors and low tables showcasing Microsoft products. Last week we visited the two new Microsoft Stores. They were wide open modern spaces, with... more

From 500 words into the future | 8 comments

Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe What's an OS for? Thanks to Rupert Murdoch, Google has spent most of the time it probably wanted to be talking about Chrome discussing the value of paid content on the Web; but that's actually an awful lot of what Chrome is really for. It's... more

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

From Apples are not the only Fruit, Windows are for gazing out of, not at. | Vista Upgrade Blog | Small Business Blog | 7 comments

adamjarvis I really think Microsoft have made a mess of Windows 7 pricing. They got the product right, yet there initial pricing of at around £44.95 for the full version of Windows 7 Home Premium (which I feel is about right) has back fired on them. It... more

From Mixed Signals | News Blog | 7 comments

Rupert Goodwins Google has launched Google Public DNS as an alternative domain name service for any Internet user. Designed to replace the DNS services provided by ISPs or companies, Google says that its DNS will be faster and more secure than many other DNSs,... more

From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | 7 comments

J.A. Watson I know, I know... I'm late, Mandriva 2010 has been out for a week now, and openSuSE is due out already today. This is a crazy time of year, with all of these releases coming so close together, but I do the best that I can to keep up, even... more

From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 7 comments

Rupert Goodwins Without debate, without public consulation, without any form of mandate, Lord Mandelson - an unelected politician - is preparing to place the rights of powerful industrial concerns above those of Parliament and above ours. The powers that... more

From Jamie's Random Musings | 6 comments

J.A. Watson A long time ago at a Usenix conference (I think it was the one in Salt Lake City), there was a "quiz" passed around. I'm going to update one of the questions I remember from that, because it is absolutely perfect for what I just went through. Fill... more

From 500 words into the future | Uptime | 5 comments

Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe When VMware’s main competition was a little company called Connectix (100 people to VMware’s 200), the two virtualisation teams were best enemies; staring each other down, going head to head and planning to crush the opposition and own the market. When... more

From Mixed Signals | News Blog | 5 comments

Rupert Goodwins The Canadian record industry has been particularly active at pushing its agenda for more - and more implacable - laws against IP infringement. Perhaps they should be pushing for business model patents too. For they are now looking at a $6... more

From In The Real World | 5 comments

Fat Pop Do Wop So chancellor Alistair Darling may cut back or even scrap the National Program for IT, NPfIT, saying that the expensive system isn't needed right now. A spokesperson for the BMA said that this system is already being used in frontline care,... more

From Back office | 5 comments

manek Had an interesting discussion the other day with PineApp, a company that builds email archiving systems for SMEs. It was a follow-up from a discussion started by my blog here about whether email archiving wasn't overkill for an SME. When... more