Tag Archives: IT

From this article: "Content providers have opposed the (creation of a) not-to-text registry, saying that it was invasion of privacy. They said that our [pending guidelines] are sufficient. But the NTC thinks there is a need to do this. The … Continue reading →

Viruses can do some strange and wonderful things. Of these the windows metafile situation is by far the most amazing. Consider for instance, that you are viewing a webpage with your favorite internet browser on your favorite operating system. You reach a website with an embedded .wmf file, and voila!
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Onstance January 7 installation, various anti-virus tweakeths taken upon myself to enhanced postfix main.cf file on client mailserver has accrueth positive consequences. Whereas previously bedeviled by spam, has heretofore since reports indicative of spam rejected! Viruses are thus flung onto fields of the dreaded dev/null and the internet beyond!

Wittnesseth thee maillog! Continue reading →

How about open-source sofware you say? The fact that it's not been widely accepted by the cafes just means, to me, that it's failed to provide a suitable alternative. I think the last paragraph in the article (it's since been edited) where, a cafe owner threatened, more or less, that he was the BSA's clampdown on them was "forcing them to think about open source software", only makes me wonder one thing: Why don't you? Continue reading →

Couldn't help it, because (1.) today Microsoft today announced a new version of MS SQL, said to be targetting rivals Oracle and IBM. Continue reading →

It just makes sense. See, MS Office has been Microsoft's big money making monster for years, a collection of bloated elephantine over-featured over-done software which everybody used or had to use. Microsoft therefore has to support the concept of individual installations (and licenses) of software on individual machines - the foundation of their business.

But here came the concept of 'software as a service', delivering software on the web, and Microsoft had a choice, either go with that, or defend it's chosen foundation to the hilt, and now we know it did that - to it's detriment. Continue reading →