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From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | 17 comments

J.A. Watson I have now loaded the new release of Linux Mint on all four of my laptop and netbook computers. It loaded absolutely smoothly on all four of them, including both HP 2133 netbooks, with no problems and no special "tricks" required. As I mentioned... more

From Web design & FOSS | 16 comments

Jake Rayson aka The Four Eyes A way back I blogged in a self-important and knowing way about Why People Don’t Use GNU/Linux. I'd like to update that now, and thus the appearance of The Four Eyes: 1. Inertia: it’s a lot of effort... more

From Khaotic Musings | 14 comments

conz You've probably caught up with the news that Microsoft is going to offer a version of Windows to the European market, without Internet Explorer pre-installed. This seems to be a ploy that isn't making anyone happy. My interest here isn't... more

From Khaotic Musings | 14 comments

conz Many years back, when I had the time to make the rounds at various government education departments, I asked the brass why on earth they didn't charge software vendors (like Microsoft, Adobe et al) for software the government's schools put in... more

From Web design & FOSS | 11 comments

Jake Rayson I believe in Free Software. This is a strange thing to say, rather like believing in air or water. As Rupert Goodwin pointed out in a recent blog entry “open source isn't about benevolence”; there is an advantage to be gained from... more

From Communication Breakdown | Reviews Blog | On The Road | 8 comments

David Meyer I'm currently having a play with the Nokia N97, the Finnish handset maker's big play against the new iPhone and the Palm Pre – both of which are expected to land around the same time as the N97, in the next few weeks. I haven't spent too... more

From Khaotic Musings | 7 comments

conz With much talk in recent days about the worthwhile-ness and importance of WINE to the success of desktop Linux, I though it worth re-posting a piece I'd penned a little while ago... One of my favourite areas of amateur endeavour is researching... more

From Official Mobile Security & Innovative Technologies Blog | Small Business Blog | 7 comments

MobileTech Windows 7: Paint a Lemon and Call it Innovation? Author: Eric Everson In the automotive industry junk cars are dubbed lemons; these are the junkers that shady auto dealers repaint and polish just to make the cars more attractive to unsuspecting... more

From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 7 comments

Rupert Goodwins With the release of Apple iPhone OS 3.0, a widespread affliction has become a true, World Health Organisation recognised pandemic. I speak, of course, of the almost eroticised fetishisation that many iPhone owners have for their hardware: it... more

From Software application development | 6 comments

Adrian Bridgwater I've spent a couple of days in Oslo, Norway this week meeting with a few local IT companies and have been profoundly impressed by the country's attitude to technology and the way it works to develop it. IT is now the second largest land-based... more

From Software application development | 5 comments

Adrian Bridgwater I would have thought that given the number of IT surveys we see floating past us these days that more tech bloggers would have referenced the phrase attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and also associated with Mark Twain when we look at these things,... more

From Khaotic Musings | 5 comments

conz I had a lengthy discussion with a new acquaintance the other day, and as it so often does in conversations I'm involved in, topics eventually shifted to the philosophy of knowledge and ideas, and their impact on the improvements within human... more

From Mixed Signals | Rupert's Diary | 5 comments

Rupert Goodwins You may have noticed that we've started to get much more involved with Twitter. That's partially my fault - I'm a certified addict - and partially recognition by everyone involved that Twitter has become a very important part of the online environment. Twitter... more

From Mixed Signals | 5 comments

Rupert Goodwins Over on CNet, Nate Lanxon has delivered a stonking piece on the technical background to the BBC's iPlayer servers. Which does raise the question, though: is it value for money? I'm trying to work out how much more - or less - it costs... more

From Software application development | 4 comments

Adrian Bridgwater IBM put out a study datelined one minute past midnight this Thursday morning commenting on the fact that outside of netbooks, the recession has largely put the kibosh on PC growth. There is according to IBM, however, an area of PC investment... more

From Jamie's Random Musings | Vista Upgrade Blog | 4 comments

J.A. Watson Over at the ZDNet U.S. site, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has posted about what will apparently be a new low in bizarre downgrade/upgrade policies involving Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. It sounds like Microsoft has outdone themselves... more

From Jamie's Random Musings | Reviews Blog | On The Road | 4 comments

J.A. Watson The Moblin steering committee has announced the "release" of the Moblin 2.0 Beta for netbooks and nettops. I have a couple of questions and comments about that, before I get into the last few observations about the software. First, what... more

From Web design & FOSS | 4 comments

Jake Rayson I have spent a happy morning installing Windows XP on the computers at the Youth Centre. Windows XP is really showing its age, in terms of speed of installation and hardware support. The most frustrating element was the need to authenticate... more

From Communication Breakdown | 4 comments

David Meyer The UK Film Council and other luminaries of the creative industries have gone on the warpath about filesharing, calling for persistent sharers to be kicked off the internet. According to the BBC, the coalition "wants the government to force... more

From Web design & FOSS | 3 comments

Jake Rayson An old friend of mine, Download Dave, used to shout out “Reboot bandicoot!” every time his mac used to crash. This was a cultural reference to Crash Bandicoot, a computer game from way back when. Recently I've been working... more