BBC Website Working again.
It was fixed this afternoon with no changes to my system so it was a problem at the Beeb. Thanks for fixing it guys.
Archive for September, 2009
1 PetaByte of storage for $117,000
Very nice system… From BackBlaze I am not going to repeat what is on that page go have a look it’s impressive.
eBooks sales explode
Just looking around for more ebooks to download and found this (Another Quarter of Triple-Digit Growth for E-Books)
But on the downside I found Random Books the UK’s biggest Publisher has its own ebook site at http://rbooks.co.uk. Thats not bad news until you see that they are charging £17.08 for the new Dan Brown book The [...]
Sony go with ePUB. Close to a standard now?
I know this is old news but it is starting to get interesting now. With google taking on the ePUB format, Barnes and Noble already using it and now Sony moving to it there are Rumours that Apple will go with it also.
What this means is that everyone that matters except Amazon will be using [...]
BBC website broken. Apologies to firefox
I apologise wholeheartedly for jumping to conclusion. The broken BBC website is not the fault of FireFox.
I have just installed Internet Explorer (yuk) and that has the same problems. I also note that MS installed a bunch of updates on my computer last night and that the BBC website has changed somewhat.
So is it the [...]
Firefox 3.5.3 Update Breaks BBC website
Since the update which didn’t give me an option as far as I can see. The BBC website can no longer be customised. I have clicked the close icon on the sport box and it keeps coming back. I enter my postcode and it keeps resetting it to London. I am [...]
What is holding back ebooks?
I have had my Sony eBook for some time now and am getting more and more frustrated. Pretty much all the books I want to download are either not available or they are charging rediculous sums for.
For instance how can publishers justify £16.38 for Gone tomorrow by Lee Childs This is as much as a [...]
Is WordPress Safe Part 2.
The most common excuse I can find for not upgrading is that it breaks plugins. Sorry but security is more important than playing a YouTube video. This blog has gone from V6 of Wordpress all the way up to 2.8.4 when a plugin broke (once) I fixed it.
Now the wordpress team cannot test every single [...]
Is WordPress Safe?
Recent posts on news sites and famous blogs are starting to question the safety of WordPress.
For example The Register, The Guardian and Some guys called Robert Scoble who is apparently a famous tech blogger.
The first thing that struck me about these posts. Here is a quote from Robert Scoble.
“A few weeks ago some hackers broke [...]
Handy Little Development Server
As I am forced to use a Windows machine for my desktop for support purposes and I develop purely for Linux I have been in a non optimal situation.
I have tried using a remote server, an emulated server running VirtualBox , Dual Booting and using a windows based WAMP stack. Each of these have certain [...]