Thoughts
Are Programmers getting lazy?
Jan 12th
My Nephew (Andrew) sent me a link to an Article published on ZDNET and I will save repeating the post here and instead go into some thoughts on that very article. The bottom line of that story was if a programmers is using a screaming fast system with lots of ram, will they just assume what they have wrote is fine yet the end program will struggle on more “real life” system?
As another year draws to a close.
Dec 26th
As the year 2009 is slowly drawing to a close – I want to thank all my supporter, haters, people passing by and the companies that have sponsored what is to come forth in 2010 a warm “Happy New Year”. It’s been a rough ride for everybody and let us wish that 2010 provides the answers we all need.
Internet cut off date set for illegal downloaders
Nov 2nd
In the UK – Lord Peter Mandelson has outlined the details of anti file-sharing legislation set to come into play – naming the date when illegal downloaders’ internet connections could be cut off.
The Business Secretary, speaking at the digital creative industries conference cabinet, said that if the amount of illegal file-sharing taking place in the UK hadn’t dropped by 70 per cent a year on from April 2010 measures to cut off file-sharers’ connections would come into place from July 2011.
Time for Change
Sep 28th
I am afraid it has come to that time of my life again when I need to re-think various aspects and change things around a bit. This serves as weeding out the crap by the sheer fact not everyone follow me everywhere (such as reading this blog). So you asking what has changed? keep reading for the full shimmy.
Linux – ongoing thoughts
Jul 18th
On my trial to run Ubuntu 9.04 64bit for main use on my Laptop and reporting back on really how close it can come to a complete experience as a desktop machine and that I worked with Steve from The Tech Buzz to get Ubuntu netbook remix working a treat – read on to find out how it all went…
Ordering Online – Amazon
Jun 22nd
While I do order things online now and then, sometimes I am happier to walk / drive to the computer stores as it works out either quicker, cheaper or both and of course much easier to return. By random chance, after looking at Dell Refurb – I spotted that they featured a ATI Radeon 4670 Graphics card and this set me off to look at what this offered.
To Buy New or upgrade what I have
Jun 15th
My current desktop computer is a Acer which has been upgraded by way of the CPU and harddrives and seen as it#s an off the shelf thing, it has a standard 350 Watt power Supply and a rather limited case I would say. I pondered on upgrading what I have (cheaper) or buying a new one outright for the new technology. The current spec of the machine is Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz), 4 GIG DDR-2 Ram, 1TB + 250Gig HD, Geforce 7600GS.
Life after Apple
Jun 13th
In the previous Story we seen how the iMac had left the building and this meant for me that my existing desktop / Laptop machines would come back as the main machines and be used as they say – “In Anger”. I shall go into how I found it working full time Windows (Vista / Windows 7) as my only operating system.
Twitter is the new Spam
May 31st
I have to hold my hand up and say that I never really fully understand the lure of Twitter, it allows you to write upto 140 Characters and let everyone know what you are doing. The problem lies in that just like email, you can get spammed with useless infomation if you are not careful.
Twitter And ReTweet (RT)
May 10th
I always Struggled with the Concept of Twitter but it has some uses such as been able to know when people are going Live with there stream and to pass on communications. I used to have a client or a Firefox Plug-in which gave me real time “Twitter” Messages but these days I am happy to just pull up the web page and see what is happening – save’s me getting annoyed.
Now there is a new thing it seems that has come around, it is called ReTweeting or simply RT – this allows you to take somebody else Tweet and send it back out to all your followers, a sort of “Pass it on” messaging system. Now what happens though if you not only have the original posters on your tweet but a whole bunch of people who also “RT” the message?? The Answer is you end of with a page full of the very same tweet and if that does not drive you mad – then fair play to you.