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Labour’s Digital Economy bill is strangling creativity and criminalizing internet users. They don’t understand the new digital ecosystem and they don’t understand that the game is changing; has already changed. Quoting Tom Beardshaw : In the most ludicrous pantomime of democracy last night, two hours...
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A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went wrong. All to serve this...
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I’m starting to see pingback spam on both of my blogs. A ‘Ping-Bot’ is dropping pingbacks onto my blog posts that link to unrelated commercial content. Technically, the attack is indistinguishable from a genuine pingback, they aren’t really doing anything against the rules, since they are actually linking...
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Filed under: Dear Diary, IT, Hacks, Security, IT Industry, Technology, Internet, Blog, Rants, Online safety
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MSDN Channel 9 is running a series titled The History of Microsoft , beginning in 1975 when Bill Gates and Paul Allen produced their first ever product, a BASIC interpreter running on the Altair 8800. At the time, the name Microsoft hadn’t even been decided upon. In this frame from the video about 1975...
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Inspired by Richard Tubb ’s remarks , I’m Twittering . You can follow me at http://twitter.com/Tim_Long . If you know me and you’re twittering then I want to follow you. Please drop me a PM or comment here and I’ll add you. I’m not sure about twitter, its one of those things that I can’t really see the...
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Remember a month or so back I was waxing lyrical about my new broadband provider . I just thought I would run a few quick tests today to see how they were doing. Here’s my speed test result: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/122080020459968828836.html Demon Internet (aka Thus Plc) on...
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TiGra Networks is having a broadband upgrade this week so we'll be offline for perhaps a day while that happens. We'll be completely off the air for a while and there will be a bit of disruption while we install the new equipment and update our DNS records and stuff like that, so if you visit...
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I'm proud to announce that Microsoft has renewed my Most Valuable Professional award for 2008/9. Once again my competency is Windows Server System - Small Business Server. There are currently (as of today, according to the MVP web site) about 55 such awardees worldwide, 2 in the UK and I'm the...
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Move over Minesweeper! I received a link to this from my MVP lead and I'm hooked, despite the blatant advertising. The cleverly done retro-chic "plinky plonky" music, chunky graphics and office politics takes me straight back to the early 1980s, Sinclair Spectrum and BBC Micro (model "B"...
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I attended a seminar a few days ago that explored current and emerging uses of technology and communications in business. The event was hosted by Rhondda Cynon Taff Business Club . There was a presentation by Light Age Communications on what's currently available for businesses in technology land...
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I've spent most of today at the London Hilton attending Microsoft's partner pre-launch for servers & tools. Grace and I were lucky enough to get a front row seat just 6ft away from Bill Gates as he gave the keynote speech and held a Q&A session with Scott Dodds. I don't usually go...
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Answer: when it is free software . A few days ago I wrote about "free software" and said that I disliked the terminology. An article on the IMPACT blog looks at the rise of open source software and I'm pleased to note that they also consider the name "contentious". Share this post: | | |
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I stole the title of this post from Jeffrey Snover, architect of Windows Powershell. Jeffrey has a post on his blog about the philosophy of automation and he makes the point that when you solve a problem, you should blog it and share it with the world. I agree wholeheartedly and if you're reading this...