http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000331855b,00.htm David Long's Blog - From The Front End - ZDNet Edition - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:05:45 +0100 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:05:45 +0100 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) zdnetuk/10008549 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10008549o-2000331855b,00.htm Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:08:40 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) With the new Ubuntu coming out tomorrow and looking like it will be the best and most user-friendly free Linux release to date is it tim...]]> zdnetuk/10007911 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007911o-2000331855b,00.htm Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:23:17 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) With new budget/low power laptops targeting education sector and a younger and younger audience will tech gadgets soon replace the rattle and skipping rope for our next generation of children? Seems that last generation it wasn't uncommon for parents t... zdnetuk/10007774 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007774o-2000331855b,00.htm Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:14:06 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) I'm seeing a lot of posts on various forums and blogs with people complaining that SP1 although released has not shown up on their windows update. Many are pointing to driver compatibility issues preventing perhaps being the cause. According to an ... zdnetuk/10007590 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007590o-2000331855b,00.htm Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:50:32 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) There has been a lot of mixed feedback on Vista's ReadyBoost feature. Some say they have noticed significant performance boosts, some no seeing any real difference and others finding a drop in performance. The problem appeared to be with (1) Their sys... zdnetuk/10007318 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007318o-2000331855b,00.htm Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:30:53 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) With many holding out on buying Vista until the first Service Pack it's really important to Microsoft to get it right with this release. I can't wait for the final buid so I've taken the gamble of installing the Service Pack 1 RC1 update although it is ab... zdnetuk/10007061 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007061o-2000331855b,00.htm Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:42:29 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) dconstruct conference Peter Merholz explained how just packing more features is not a good way of evolving a design and how the iPod and Wii are examples of that. Not the most techni...]]> zdnetuk/10006455 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006455o-2000331855b,00.htm Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:26:57 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) Long ago scammers discovered that they could trick domain name owners into paying grossly inflated fees for domains they already owned. They would send official looking letters to domain name owners telling them their domain name was about to expire and t... zdnetuk/10006287 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006287o-2000331855b,00.htm Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:18:44 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) When O2 announced it's tariffs for the Apple iPhone they conveniently skipped over what they meant by unlimited data by saying that "it was subject to their fair use policy" that allowed upto 1400 internet pages per day to be viewed. What they don't tell ... zdnetuk/10006192 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006192o-2000331855b,00.htm Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:31:38 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (D) Despite my last post regarding Dell component shortages I feel it only fair to say I am still ordering from them. Why? 1) There laptops are well spec'd covering almost all types of user needs 2) Their laptops out-perform similarly priced models from t... zdnetuk/10006135 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006135o-2000331855b,00.htm Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:30:34 +0100