Archive for Computers
by: WanderingTechy
March 3, 2010
Well that how the Daily Mail would report it if they did stories on tech. Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney spoke at the RSA security conference. He compares connecting to the internet with the health care system where general taxation covers things like education programs and quarantine. Marco at http://stop.zona-m.net/node/109 takes [...]
by: WanderingTechy
February 25, 2010
Sorry for not posting in a while, I have been very busy converting a Bus into a Motorhome (RV for our US cousins) You can see details over at http://www.fulltiming.info In the mean time I know this is old but it bears looking at again. Upside down ternet The email at the end is quite [...]
by: WanderingTechy
October 27, 2009
I have just installed Windows 7, and being an MS hater I was expecting the usual install problems. You know the ones, Install Windows, Reboot, 2nd Stage install, find driver disks, install one driver reboot, install another driver reboot… Oops driver doesn’t work, reboot search the internet. Can’t search the internet as network driver didn’t [...]
by: WanderingTechy
October 25, 2009
I am finally ready to make the big break. I quite like the idea of running KDE as I love linux on the servers I manage. Unfortunately it doesn’t run iTunes even under Wine. So Dual boot is an option.
by: WanderingTechy
October 13, 2009
I decided I wanted to get back into “proper” programming again. I started programming in 6502 asm on the commodore 64 and then onto 68K asm on the Amiga. I have not done any real programming since the early 90′s. However for the last 12 years I have been developing in PHP so have kept [...]
by: WanderingTechy
September 11, 2009
It was fixed this afternoon with no changes to my system so it was a problem at the Beeb. Thanks for fixing it guys.
by: WanderingTechy
September 11, 2009
Very nice system… From BackBlaze I am not going to repeat what is on that page go have a look it’s impressive.
by: WanderingTechy
September 11, 2009
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 [...]
by: WanderingTechy
September 10, 2009
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 [...]
by: WanderingTechy
September 10, 2009
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 a techy and have [...]