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Thursday, 25 December 2008 |
It’s already started happening – fake ISO torrent files are appearing
at TorrentReactor.net in an attempt to fool those eager to get their
hands on the official beta 1 “7000” build of Microsoft’s new Windows 7
operating system.
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Thursday, 25 December 2008 |
With a select group of beta testers around the world supposedly already
using the Windows 7 7000.0.081212-1400 official beta 1 build, global
impatience over the non-appearance of a torrent is reaching boiling
point – at least for some - but no download is yet available, and people are getting impatient!
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Wednesday, 24 December 2008 |
Although due to begin on or before the 24th of December 2008,
Australia’s draconian Internet content filter trials have now been
postponed until mid-January 2009, with peer-to-peer and BitTorrent
traffic filtering also set to be performed. Here’s an idea – delay to
trial all right – but to mid-Jan, 2099!
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
Faulty third-party battery testing software is at the root of claims
that Dell is shipping a 3-cell, 24Wh battery in its Dell Mini 9
netbooks, says Dell, which claims it has always shipped a 4-cell 32Wh
battery – as advertised.
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
No doubt set to issue a similar statement for New Year’s Eve SMS text
messages, Telstra says that Christmas Day SMS text messaging and video
calling will break all previous records. Telstra is also taking the
opportunity to plug its Next G network, BigPond digital media products
and showcase how many staff it will have on hand to help on Christmas
day, all of whom are presumably getting paid a lot to postpone their
Christmas to December 26.
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Monday, 22 December 2008 |
Reports have put the Windows 7 beta release date at January 5th, 7th
and the 13th, while a so-called “publishing error” saw a “Windows 7
beta” download link appear at Microsoft’s Windows 7 site. C’mon
Microsoft, when will you release the Windows 7 beta?
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Sunday, 21 December 2008 |
Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan
infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product
removed the Trojan, but it kept coming back, so here’s how the Trojan
was removed, and how TrustDefender would have kept that user protected
– despite being infected.
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Saturday, 20 December 2008 |
With lithium ion battery technologies being advanced, designed and
manufactured in Asia, a new US “alliance” of “leading US battery and
advanced materials companies” and “one of the country’s largest
national laboratories” is being formed to ensure advanced batteries are
designed and manufactured in the US, so US companies aren’t dependent
on foreigners.
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Saturday, 20 December 2008 |
The latest version of Novell’s Linux distro, openSUSE 11.1, has been
released, with 230 new features, improvements to YaST, major updates to
GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice.org, a new license and plenty more.
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Friday, 19 December 2008 |
Solid state drives (SSDs) keep on challenging regular mechanical hard
drives in storage capacity, with the industry’s first 512GB SSD set to
be showcased at January 2009’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Friday, 19 December 2008 |
Adobe’s AIR 1.5, which lets web developers use HTML, Javascript,
Actionscript and the Flex framework to deliver web applications outside
the browser, is finally available on the Linux platform, after
previously being released for Windows and Macs.
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
An article has come out claiming (yet again) that 2009 will be the year
of Linux, and bases this prediction on the fact that low power ARM
processors will be in netbooks which won’t have enough power to run
Windows, but then says these new netbooks will be geared to “web only”
applications which suits Linux perfectly. And, oh yeah, Palm might save
Linux, too.
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
Tomorrow, the 18th of December at 5am (Australian Eastern Standard
Time), the 0-day security vulnerability that has embarrassed Microsoft
into action will receive the urgently needed patch that will restore
balance to the force and (temporarily) shut Linux zealots up.
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
Shrugging off the exclusion from the NBN process, Telstra has leveraged
technology from a company called “CoolIRIS” to deliver a pretty “3D”
news wall that also shows images and videos from a range of other
sites, including YouTube, Deviant Art, Google and others – but is it
real 3D?
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
Shrugging off the exclusion from the NBN process, Telstra has leveraged
technology from a company called “CoolIRIS” to deliver a pretty “3D”
news wall that also shows images and videos from a range of other
sites, including YouTube, Deviant Art, Google and others – but is it
real 3D?
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
Shrugging off the exclusion from the NBN process, Telstra has leveraged
technology from a company called “CoolIRIS” to deliver a pretty “3D”
news wall that also shows images and videos from a range of other
sites, including YouTube, Deviant Art, Google and others – but is it
real 3D?
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
Shrugging off the exclusion from the NBN process, Telstra has leveraged
technology from a company called “CoolIRIS” to deliver a pretty “3D”
news wall that also shows images and videos from a range of other
sites, including YouTube, Deviant Art, Google and others – but is it
real 3D?
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Saturday, 13 December 2008 |
The latest Windows 7 6965 build has been tested by ZDNet’s Adrian
Kingsley-Hughes, and his results show that Microsoft’s promise of a
vastly improved Windows experience in Windows 7 is coming true –
despite 6956 not even yet at official “beta” status.
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