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Yay. Another couple of lawyers getting rich. But I wonder, why sue Sony while the chip is mainly an IBM product (with Toshiba in tghe same bed).
www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/07/31/sony_cell_patent
 
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New toy.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/04/virtual_iron_4/
 
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The solution. Though it probably looks weird when you pee on your notebook to charge it up.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/04/nopopo/
 
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New iPods. Probably not using the above batteries. PeePods ...
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/04/apple_announcement_preamble/
There is some semblence of competition though : Archos and Creative are ready to sweep up the crombs that fall off the iPod table.
 
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Definitly not pee-powered. but with some luck it starts a kind of technology race again.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/03/china_working_on_scramjets_rattle_rattle/
 
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Support is going crazy. The curious thing is that I am not actually getting more support calls in total. They used to be spread around the day more or less evenly. with a slight spike in the early morning and early afternoon (typically about an hour after shift-changeover). Now it is comming in bursts, typicaly comming in sith two or three phonecalls overlapping and then a long period with nothing. And a new spike of calls at a quarter past five.
 
 
 
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About time they came out. I wonder why People kick AMD about for being a couple of months late with it's Barcelona chips but nobody minds Intel being late with it's Core-Xeons.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/05/intel_launches_core_based_mp_xeon/
 
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At least there is some resistance before being swallowed and caged into the Borg.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/05/nasa_boffin_security_probe_lawsuit/
 
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New systems always have their counterarguments highlighted. But I think it's a good step in the right direction. Now we just need to get this type of stuff installed in cars. OK, the price should be comming down first but with a huge car market that is likely to happen. Just the prospect of streamlining trafic in typically congested places and guiding it around accidents would be great. It also would make a look-around-the-corner system possible. There are great safety gains possible. Yes, it has privacy inplications, and when using forced feedback -romote braking or gas-cutting- it may greatly reduce the fun in driving. So maybe it's best to not let the governement push it trough. I think though that insurance companies are the best organisations to implement it, with the governement just being involved to synchronise.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/04/gps_satnav_air_traffic_for_america/
 
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When MS produces -with help- something to run on Linux you can bet it's just intended to gain a new monopoly.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42159 (http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9769714-7.html?tag=head )
 
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Well, where it has enough control it shoots at Linux. Inappropriate language indeed.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42132
 
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2007-09-07  ^:
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Is a virtual Miocrosoft better than a real one.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/06/microsoft_system_center_virtual_manager_2007_rtm/
 
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pot.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/06/slave_children/
 
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Curious. Around here Muslim refugees hide out in churches without a problem. Apparently babies doing Yoga are much more dangerous than illegal muslim infiltrants.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/06/nippers_yoga_ban/
 
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The little-big disk. I still remeber the old "full size" 5Mb harddisks in the first PCs we had at the university, and I did work with even older 12" harddisks in washin-machine sized housing.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/06/tosh_previews_next_gen_hdd/
 
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And another interesting development in the harddisk market. Well with always smaller, more capacious external drives it's not realy a bad idea. They are easyly lost or stolen so encription has it's place a,d with enbedeed processors the speedloss is minimal.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/06/seagate_encrypts_hdds/
 
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dino killer.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/06/dino_killer/
 
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IBM + Suse.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/06/ibm_novell_sled/
 
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Yep. The greens are "perfectly happy to debate the issue of nuclear power, " as long as only arguments against are allowed. How surprising.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/07/greens_nuke_nuke_debate/
 
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Yep Linux is more expensive then Windows. If you buy a box from Dell anyway. (Apart from the price it also costs moreb efforet to get it.)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/07/dell_linux_ubuntu_red_hat_but_where/
 
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Linux is great and wonderfull. But there is a lack of simple explanations about simple things. Lots of Lnuxers go from the assumption that today you either know everything about Linux because you have been using and studying it for years, or you know nothing because you are to stooped or bluntly unwilling to learn. So you get detailed explanations that only an expert undersatnds. Or you get the just do this, you don't want to know what it all means type of explanation.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42229
 
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Passive airco. I like silent boxes so this cooler sounds great. (Akasa Revo )
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42223
 
 
 
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I love thin clients. Thee eliminate the wories of synchronising stuff over a network, no more wories about data and documents being out of date. And they are silent.
I an a bit doubtfull though about the thin-client notebooks. These hev the perfect sice and screen and weight to be highly portable notebooks, if you ever tried to use your 17 inch widescreen notebook on a train or lugh it around on a mountain walk you know what I mean. The idea of a notebook is to be able to work anywhere. With these you can work anywhere but only when there is a network available, which practialy means you need to be in or close by a home or office. Unless you get hot-spots at the beach or in the mountains this type of device is useless. So the ultra portability is not needed and even counter productive. They should have produced a 19 inch screened notebook with a 5 pound (8 hour) batery. Sure that's to big and large to be portable but it's ideal for a movable office.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/10/wyse_vmworld_2007_lineup/
 
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Virtual news. Running VMware from a virtual disk. Of course it's silly but it sounds like you could then run VMware on one of those thin clients ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/10/vmware_esx_3i/
 
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Combine everything here. You get a quad-core (maybe multiple-cocket as well) server with a ton of disks and heaps of memmory, shove that thing in the basement, install VMware on it for and hook up a bunch of thin clients to get a terminal in every room. Lets you enjoy the awsome power anwhere in silence and comfort.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/10/barcelona_launch_amd/
http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_15251,00.html
 
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Not really surprising. But you bet governements will still want to tag people around. Just like fingeprinting, first starting with prison inmates, than with tourists and visitors. And then with cancer-hospital inmates (aka the rest of the poulation)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/10/rfid_chip_cancer_link/
 
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Looking up at night is always interesting.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/10/pinwheel_edgy_stars/
 
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Call from the hall We have got an MP3 that is hanging
but they aren't talking about music. They mean user MP03 -users on the system have a 4character ID- has a movement record locked and they can't access it. But it always sounds funne when they ask to throw MP3 out.
(MP01,MP02, ... are interchangeable profiles for interim users, like job-students or trainees. They often cause problems. )
 
"in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance", whereas in Switzerland they had "brotherly love ... 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock".
 
 
2007-09-12  ^:
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Lowering the damage-payments are OK. But awarding a paten to the first one who applies is not a good thing really. It opens the door for a patent on the weel. Sure I am not the inventor but I might well be the first one to apply for a patent on it.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/11/us_reps_pass_patent_violation_damage_control/
 
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A virtual machine thing is very interesting to check and test freshly released bugfixes and upgrades. A good reason I thionk for not running them on top of the OS itself. (Also an insight why MS fixes are such rotten things that need fixes of their own, they test it in their own VM environment.)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/11/citrix_tight_ms/
 
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It is a bit on the expensive side and no match for the iPhone for looks. But then again it's a realy take-anywhere product. It even stands a chance to survive an office environment.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/11/general_dynamics_mr1_rugged_umpc/
 
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I though they were already in for years. Duh.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/11/openoffice_ibm/
 
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Changing the format in the middle of a 'format war' usualy gives the messages that the standard was not good enough to start with. Making it incompatible with it's own original devices is even worse. It sounds like a hidden admision of defeat.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/11/hd_dvd_51gb_approved/
 
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It has been weeks that I have been able to eat my lunch without being interupped by the phone. It typically ring just after taking a bite and I hate answering the phone with my mouth full. But today my lunch was good.
Cause the central telephone switch was down ^_^
 
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2007-09-13  ^:
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AMD seems to stop it's slide.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/12/q2_world_cpu_sales/
 
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Being Google ain't simple.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/12/firefox_google_marriage_threatened_by_adblock_plus/
 
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2007-09-17  ^:
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Rather nice weather with lots of sun and a bit of wind to keep things cool and fresh. Yep, we are done with the hot and humid stuff. (00°C -- 99°C)
 
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How surprising. Maybe it's about time I throw away the old Caldera Linux box I have stacked, gathering dust on the top shelf.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/14/sco_bankruptcy_protection/
 
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Just kicking around not knowing what to aim for they wil hit. They won't know what but then they don't care. They are law enforcement.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/16/bomb_threat_leads_police_to_raid_tor_operator/
 
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2007-09-18  ^:
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All grey and rainy. And a lot cooler as well. Acording to some coleagues it is freezing. (00°C -- 99°C)
 
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Virus found infecting Windows. Nope, thqt ain't new, it same-old same-old. In this case same-14years-old.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/vista_hit_by_stoned_angelina/
 
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The US empire is slowly converting it's army into a mercenary army. Just keeping the heavy guns and some elite legions to do th initial shock and then leaving the mercenary troops to do the dirty-work and wiping up.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/blackwater_iraq_shooting/
 
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Virtualisation righht left and center. Aparently Sun has more virtualisation products than real products.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/virtualization_project_virginia_sun/
 
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Virtualisation righht left and center. But virtual backup sounds fishy even though it is important.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/acronis_echo_true_image/
 
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I am curious how this will influence the Cell design. It at all. I also wonder why Toshiba might pick up the fabs and leave IBM out of the picture.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/sony_toshiba_cell_chip/
 
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How installing a program violates the waranty on hardware remains a mystery to me. And I wonder whether upgrading to another MS OS would do the same.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/17/pc_world_linux_frustration/
 
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2007-09-19  ^:
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The laundry always comes out one way or another. And everybody knows in advance that it's dirty. It also shows it's rather inconvenient to strugle against freedom.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/media_defender_emails_leaked_to_bittorrent/
 
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I wonder how a meteorite can stink up a place.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/peruvian_gas_attack/
 
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Not all games have a save and restart function. Life is one of them.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/chinese_gaming_death/
 
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Neutrons aren't neutral. This also indicates that the positive and negative chares are not just singular properties of particles but a slightly more complex phenomenon.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/18/neutron_neutral/
 
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It is just a yeald game and I wonder whether the non-functioning core will have an inpact on powerconsumption, ai eating the same power as a quad. But still, if priced right it can be used as a marketing step-up.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/18/amd_three_cores/
 
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Looks like an interesting battle comming up.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/20/steve_gordon_riaa_radio/
 
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Building in the bracelets and hooks. Should make it easier for governement or RIAA like organisations to attach the manacles
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/intel_vpro_danbury/
 
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Stemcell research in the US is an alltogether different ballgame with their religeous fanatics about
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/20/stem_cell_testicle_bonanza/
 
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The quiteness is very welcome. but I guess the low powerconsumption and heatproduction are at least as welcome. That means you may save on airco and the whole box will run a bit longer off your UPS system.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/supermicro_debuts_officeblade/
 
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Floppies are no longer the importand virus caries, but they apear on disks again. Just never asume something is clean because it's new.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/maxtor_harddrives_include_virus/
 
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Keep it cool boys. Stargazing.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/20/herschel_building/
 
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Again an insurance doctor visist. The last one for this insurance company.
 
 
 
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Rece-fire. Just like most licencis GPL is often accepted without actually reading it. And that is mostly OK for normal consumers. But not for businesses. I don't think this case will make much of a difference either way.
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/09/22/sflc_gpl_microsoft/
 
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Sometimes I wonder where those figures come from, but I cannot believe them. Fixing code that one man inserted in a software system may cost a bit more than the inserting itself but $70.000 is a rediculous high price.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/22/sysadmin_logic_bomb_followup/
 
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Hybrid drives sound stupid to me. It all sounds like adding a bigger cache adn that works but you don't need a new name for that. And while using Flash memory is a good idea I doubt it's good for building a cache, not better than normal memory. Adding some flash to a computer could provide an enormous startup-speed-boost but then it shouldn't be used a drive-cache but rather as a replacement / second-level BIOS. Puting your OS of choice on a flash drive and booting from that sounds just perfect. With it being on a flash drive it's just as flexible for upgrading and patcing as having it on disk. And you don't have to load the whole OS and all it's related tools in there, just half or one Gig should be enough to hold the kernel and a bunch of drivers and tools and scrips needed at startup.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/hitachi_admits_hybrid_drives_do_not_deliver/
 
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We just have to determin now whether they were Gollums or Frodos.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/human_or_hobbit/
 
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We love standard so we want more of them. OK, I agree with that a single connection standard on mobile phones will not come about but still. Having a single standard makes it easy for manufacturers (attribute manufacturers) to build adaptors to connect the standard device to the proprietary phone plugins.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/omtp_data_standard/
 
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Migrating to Mac .
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/09/21/making_move_mac_2/
 
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I get lots of problems like that. But I had not expected this type of support-call from this user. He's the suprevisor of the whole hall, for nerd's sake!
B calls : I have this query LABELSIN that I run often but now it doesn't run.
Me, ok, lets look. -go in check all the parameters en query selections- hmm, everything looks OK.
B : yes, I only changed the selection-date but now it doesn't run.
Me, ok, no panic, -quick copy- well when I test it works, a bit slow but I do get about 800 records in the result.
B : yes, about 800 is what I expect but for me it doesn't run ...
Me, -notces the leave option- ... have you tried running it with option-9?
B : No ... -taptaptap- Hey, noz it works .... Thanks!
Me, OK. *sigh*

The actual problem? Well when you change a query-definition (like changing a selection date) and you leave the query you get the option to save/save-as with fields to rename or update a description, on that screen there is also the RunOption. Posible choices are : 1=run, 2=run-in-backgroun, 3=don't-run, whatever was last used is proposed as default.
Yep, you get three guesses which option he used last.

My fault is that I still assume users call when the programs produce errors. While I know that 99.9% of the calls are to rectify users errors. I don't know where I picked up that silly notion that users are inteligent.
 
 
 
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It's not likely to have any noticeable results. But the big RIAA buddies will, yet again face a load of bad press.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/24/pirate_bay_counterstrike/
 
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There is nothing wrong with Creative Commons. But it is clear that it's not a good licence for everything. Maybe a couple more of these stories will bubble up so people start to get at least some notion that selecting a good licence isn't trivial.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/24/creative_commons_deception/page2.html
 
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Finaly they are getting the sponsor-ship thing right with those One Laptop Per Child. Yes $400 is over-priced for a laptop of that capacity but it's not a useless tool and for people who want to give money for such projects it's an ideal situation.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/24/olpc_400dollar_laptop_deal/
 
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Cells do graphics. Well, in the PS3 they do it prety well, so why wouldn't they be usable in other than game situations. I don't see nVidia or ATI going down any time soon. but it opens some intersting options.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/24/toshiba_readies_spursengine_gpu/
 
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Stoopid Cedar. Yep, I got a yellow car again. The Cedar cones open up on warm days in the early autumn and with a bit of wind you can see clouds of yellow pollen fly out. swirling like mist. Of course that pollens settles down recolouring my car yellow. And it gives a beautifull yellow velvetty appearance to my car. Untill of course drizzle or dew-runoff disturbes the even powdering.
I also have to keep doors and windows closed during the day and even then it invades trough even the tiniest crack and hole. Luckily this only lasts for about two weeks depending on the weather.
 
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The CPP mail-problem is back. Weeks ago there was a problem with sending mail to a UK subsidiary. We tried various solutions before we realised the filtering was a problem (part of the problem was internal communication. The infrastructure people are responsible for the mail server and they set up the tool; But they set it up and tested it from a normal user perspective withouth thinking that the AS/400 did some mail-sending, they manage the PC servers, network stuff and printers, etc; they think the AS/400 is a dinosour). They assumed the opperation was transparent so they didn't inform us. By the time we found the real problem whe had already messed up all our settings.)
 
We tried various solutions before we realised the filtering was a problem (part of the problem was internal communication, the infrastructure people are responsible for the mail server and they set up the tool; But they wet it up and tested it from a normal user perspective withouth thinking tha AS/400 did some mail-sending. They assume the oppeartion was transparent so they didn't inform us. By the time we found the real problem whe had already messed up all our settings.)
 
 
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The Google-sief.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/26/gmail_backdoor_vulnerability/
 
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A nice we are not ready so you shouldn't push reaction by Oracle.
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/09/25/oracle_ajax_jsf/
 
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Tagging perpetrators with GPS/GSM transmitters. It sounds good but it will probably never work as explained. But hey, this is governement stuff so if it doesn't work against criminals it will probably work with normal unsuspecting citizens. The investment won't be wasted.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/lapd_sticky_tracker_bug_guns/
 
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While AMD shows off Sun as one of the crown jewels, Sun still comes out with a quadcore from Intel before the AMD quads.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/four_u_sun_xeon/
 
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There is not mucg to gain by dropping a few bits of stuff from PS3. The onlt way to make considerable gains is by redesigning the stuff and replacing as much stuff as possible with integrated devices. But even halving the memory and core-count wouldn't drop the price as much as the rumour claims. And it's a bit early in the lifecycle to be ready for a full redesign. If they drop the price to hard they may get into problems with people who just bought the then seemingly very overpriced box. A bit like the Apple iPhone experiance.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/25/sony_poo-poos_cheap_ps3/
 
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Writing a message-service with Java sounds simple.
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/09/25/java_message_services/
 
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Green is in and trendy so it's not in the least surprising that DELL is sticking it to everything. As long as they get enough green bills raked in any trend will do.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/26/dell_goes_carbon_neutral/
 
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Transmissive has a very interestingn product. But I wonder. When Intel and AMD starts adding ops to thier hardware so that Transmissive can run Sun stuff better isn't that like adding parts of SPARC chips to the X86 toolbox? Maybe we finaly end up with just one instruction-set after all.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/transitive_three_products/
 
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Yes, that Sun box looks good. It also looks quite capable of pushing out some big Sun SPARC and IBM Power boxes. Yay for 32 memory slots, I would like to play with that.
Now if you excuse me whileI drain my keyboard.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/26/sun_x86_play/
 
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I like this, though I think Acer is hit a bit hard. Yet I think the idea should be pushed trough a bit further, as it is now Acer gets punished for a Microsoft practice, maybe when enough hardware vendors get hit that way they may reasses their MS deals.
I would love to see that bundling-deal market screwing mechanism broken up. I mean most people like to receive bundeled software but the idea is that you don't pay for it. But you do, with money and freedom.
What hardware vendors should (be allowed to) do is sell boxes like cars. That is bying the L version with nothing on, or buy the LSX version with airco and super-stereo and leather seats and 100 other nice things, or the LGT with airco, sport-tyres, spooilers and other stuff. One can buy the L version and get all the extra bits, or just the airco, or the leather seats separately. Fitting out an L with just the airco extr might still come in lower than the LSX but adding everything to get up to the LSX will cost a lot more than the LSX itself.
Say you can buy an Aspire L, just the hardware and a couple of essential drivers. Or the Aspire LW, with Windows and Works, and Norton, or the LWS version with Windows and MS Office and ... , or the Aspire LS with Linux, or the LSR with leather seats ... OK maybe not that. Few people would buy the L version, though corporates might, while most would go for the LW or LS version.
Maybe it might just make MS feel some competition. And yes, Apple would still be the all-in luxery car equivalent with very limited choice. The top Lexus like brand.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/09/26/acer_laptop_microsoft_windows_french_ruling/
 
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VOIP on the iPhone, just shows that people want more from the iPhone. And while I have no doubt that Apple has all the extra bits planned it is clearly going to slow for the market.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/truphone_iphone/
 
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Comodore has been practicaly dead for over 15 years now. But it just won't get burried.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/tulip_wants_commodore_back/
 
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I have never been a big Gateway fan but this all-in screen looks atractive. I have always wanted such all in one boxes, the first one that I started drooling about was a Mitac box (often seen on adds from MJN) from the late 90-ies. It wasn't super, just a 14" colour LCD with a CD+floppy underneat and the CPU (with a 486) on the back, kut it looked damned cool. (ps it looked a bit like the Profile-6 but with the box fixed to the screen and everything being smaller.)
I wonder though. having the connectors on the powerbrick looks better than it is. When I check (both at home and at work) I notice powerbricks are usual pused off desks finding their home amont the rat's-nest of cables and dustballs. One of the least reachable places. It also means there must be a special data cable connecting the powerbrick to the computer, combined with the powercable of course. Meaning you get a non-standard expensive to replace cable.
I wonder why nobody goes with the external power-brick and adds a batery to it. Having an external powerbrick maens you gan get the computer fanless and all but silent and packing a batery means you get a build-in UPS. It doesn't have to be a full scale notebooksized batery, most powerfailures either get solved in minutes or take days, so the brick doesn't have to be huge. OTOH you could put a bugger battery in cause, unlike with notebookls you are not as restricted to size and weight.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/27/gateway_one_launched/
 
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Chinese dam isn't working. Well everybody knew there would be problems but a governement isn't going to stop a prestige project when there are problems. Not as long as they can be hiden and pushed forward.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/26/three_gorges_confession/
 
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