On 11 November servers were shut down on one of the world’s biggest spammers. Anti-spam firm Ironport has seen junk mail levels drop by 70% since McColo was taken offline. But this will only be temporary as they will move their operations to jurisdictions which are under less scrutiny. A recent study by computer scientists …
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Category:6 Information and Communication Technology
New Openoffice looks and feels great.
I did an online update of my software yesterday which resulted in the new openoffice.org version 3.0 being loaded in the background. So, when I started using it today it looked a bit different … a bit better actually. The interface is smarter and has more flexibility at your fingertips, its quicker and it has …
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Internet use makes you smarter …
Well, at least it stops you going senile quite so soon. 🙂 Scientific research has demonstrated that browsing the web stimulates the parts of the brain involved in decision making and complex reasoning. In particular this helps older people stay mentally active. Of course there are other ways (like bridge) but the internet can be …
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Just because it’s free, doesn’t mean you can steal it.
A new ruling in the US Court of Appeals has confirmed that Artistic License copyright, used in open source software and creative commons licensing, is enforceable under federal law. While the use of the software may be free, if it is resold or repackaged, appropriate acknowledgement is required. Read BBC report here. Read Creative Commons …
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Opensuse 11.0 x64 – flying made easy
Loaded oss 11.0 a week or so ago on this dual x64 machine and everything is flying! OK, you probably want to do an online update and then do it again with appropriate community repositories installed. Install extra bits if your machine is more than standard, as mine is, but with little tweaking everything is …
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Google’s greed may punish its users – legal ruling
Ever since we heard through google-watch.org of Google’s possessive retention of user data and its web of ownership connecting it to some unsavoury individuals, we have been using Yahoo! instead. Now it seems that our concerns are being justified as a US court has ruled that Google must hand over all its logs of YouTube …
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Linux being promoted by Acer for “speed and cost”
Acer has decided to promote linux instead of Windoze on its computers because of better performance. In particular it will be loaded on its micro notebook EEE machines. See Acer bets big on Linux – Vendor shifts towards open source ‘because of Microsoft’
China now has more internet users than the US
China has jumped past the U.S. in terms of total Internet users. In March 2008, China had more than 230 million people online according to the Beijing based research firm BDA China; that’s only 17% of the population and its growing at about 50% a year. The U.S. by comparison had 216 million users at …
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1st ever recorded sound
The first recorded sound, made only 148 years ago in 1860, has been digitally remastered. It was made with soot on paper! Hear it here …
RT61 x64 ralink wlan PCI NIC
A Linksys WMP54g PCI wireless card was bought for a Dell E521 x64 (4400 dual core) dual boot with OSS 10.3 primary. Getting the card installed was a pain – only because of the need for the right driver. If you’re playing the same game, here are all the files I played with – including …
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