IDF transports of delight
Rather a lot of odd vehicles around at IDF this time around. There have been two motorbikes - one during Pat Gelsinger's keynote, one at the SSD briefing - and a BMW stuffed with gizmos,...
[20 Aug 2008]
Wednesday 20 August 2008, 12:39 PM
Vista downgraded to XP on third of machines...?
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Tom Espiner According to various reports, Vista has been downgraded to XP on a third of machines globally. Both TGDaily and TechNewsWorld are reporting claims that approximately 35 percent of Vista machines, both in the enterprise and home editions, have... more
Wednesday 20 August 2008, 11:17 AM
Acer Aspire One price drops
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David Meyer Of the currently available netbooks (although more are on their way soon), the Acer Aspire One is, IMHO, the coolest - it looks more idiosyncratic than its rather more mini-me brethren, plus it has that clever dual-SD-card thing going on. It's... more
Wednesday 20 August 2008, 9:38 AM
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!
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wecando.biz Cloud computing is big news -- for all the right and all the wrong reasons. But is a bad definition taking the blame away from the organisations responsible when things don't work? As someone keenly involved in the delivery of software over... more
Wednesday 20 August 2008, 12:32 AM
Lessons What I Have Learnt
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Jake Rayson I recently finished my first proper bit of remote web building work as an independent web designer/builder! And here are the lessons I gleaned, with the help of the effervescent Mr A.: 1. Negotiate a price for the work before you start. Don’t... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 11:55 PM
Is Virtual Studying Progress?
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Christian Harris A postgraduate degree which allows students to develop a professional IT qualification without getting off their butts has been launched by the University of Aberdeen. Whatever next, jobs you don’t have to wake up for? One of the only degree... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 7:43 PM
Intel SSD - details. 32-160GB, production in next 30 days, £400-ish
From Mixed Signals | News Blog | Rupert's Diary | 1 comment
Rupert Goodwins Briefing time! Intel is telling us about its solid-state drives. There are two types of SSD, the multi-level cell NAND flash and the single-level cell NAND flash. Multi-level cell stores more bits per memory location but at a performance hit;... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 6:57 PM
Mobile Networks Threatened - DEFCON Hackers Could Help
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MobileTech Mobile Networks Threatened - DEFCON Hackers Could Help Author: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com If you are worth your weight in code, you know that the “hot spot” this month was the annual DEFCON event held in Las Vegas. In my mind,... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 5:43 PM
Tigers to spring on 'anti-competitive' Microsoft?
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Tom Espiner Organisations in Taiwan and China seem to be tensing their muscles to spring onto Microsoft and go for the software giant's throat -- metaphorically of course. The China Post reported on Saturday that a consumer group in Taiwan had filed... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 5:34 PM
Dell and Lenovo netbooks ready to land
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David Meyer So, how's the netbook thing going for you? Personally I'm yet to be convinced I really want one – I've played around with a couple of Asus Eees and haven't quite figured out what I'd need a netbook for that couldn't be achieved with my smartphone... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 5:03 PM
Craig Barrett's love life hits IDF
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Rupert Goodwins As I type, we're half an hour into IDF proper. Pat Gelsinger, patron saint of IDF, has called chairman Craig Barrett a wally – well, Waldo, after the American version of the stripy-jumpered cartoon itinerant. That's because Barrett is a wanderin'... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 3:36 PM
Exam site pulls MS certification questions
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David Meyer A site that proudly and explicitly sells "real exam questions" for various IT certification exams has apparently been nailed by Microsoft for selling, er, real exam questions. Pass4Sure still offers questions for those trying to get certification... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 1:15 PM
Thoughts On Windows Driver Updates
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J.A. Watson I've been dealing recently with the rather messy situation involving device driver updates for Windows. The problem is this. You buy a nice shiny new computer, perhaps even a laptop like I did. How do you go about keeping the various device... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 10:29 AM
Get with the zooming program
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Jake Rayson Hands up who didn’t read the spec properly :*). Foolish, schoolbory error. I have been working on a job and the design spec says “Assume the text size is fixed [my emphasis] in pixels”. With my old accessibility hat on, and... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 2:11 AM
IDF Fall 2008 - Day Zero. Health, wealth and remote controls.
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Rupert Goodwins Day 0 of the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, and a saki-induced hangover swiftly dissipates as I stride into the cool morning air with two laptops, a wireless router and a sense of purpose. That purpose is to shoot one of the most insanely... more
Tuesday 19 August 2008, 12:57 AM
We Need Some Perspective
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roger andre OK...I want to sound off about this file sharing business. Firstly I would like to say, that it's not something that I have ever chosen or wanted to do. I'm happy buying CDs of the specialist types of music that I'm into, and want the artists... more
Monday 18 August 2008, 5:24 PM
PM's website fingered for IP infringement
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David Meyer Ha! And so the great defenders of intellectual property fall. First it was Microsoft, with its splendidly misconceived Iconic Britain competition, and now it's 10 Downing Street itself. According to The Open Sourcerer, the Number 10 website... more
