Thanks Steve, even though I have seen this just now... We need to sort out what people are using.

DE,
  Looking at your Instant Messenger, I use Trillian which does the same so I have AOL,Yahoo and MSN all in one screen. Its been around for a long time is very safe and stable. Alot of people here in the US office use it.

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/


Steve

Edited by author 02-12-2004 04:43 AM
Somewhat sloppy journalism, unfortunately, in CFO Europe:

"“Microsoft will terminate support for [Windows] XP,” forecasts Chad Robinson, a senior research analyst for Connecticut-based consulting and research firm Robert Frances Group. “And this is likely to come sooner than many customers would prefer.”

In the meantime, Microsoft customers can get a sneak preview of Longhorn with Microsoft’s release of XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)."


Talk about stating the obvious, or is it really the case that senior financial executives think that software is supported by the manufacturere for ever?

And when has a service pack ever contained "a sneak preview" of an upcoming operating system? Answers in this forum, please.

The Register have done a short review of their experiences of Wireless Broadband week - it's quite interesting - especially the coffee shop which uses the same wireless network that customers connect to, to connect it's tills to their back end system !!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/35461.html

Really... This is interesting... and welcome. There is a lot of chaff out there and I think, that after all, Microsoft are making an effort to put things right... I will give it a run (from home), and then will let you know.

Charging a high rate (£5-10) per hour in coffee shops etc is a good strategy in my opinion. People go in have a coffee at £3 and add-on the net access in preperation for their meeting/interview/whatever. It's bad business for the place to be full of people surfing and not drinkig very much. Their profit is surely in their primary market segment - coffee or whatever. Everything else is simply a nice ploy to get that little extra...

In the name of research, myself and Dan are sitting in the basement of McDonalds on the Strand right now, taking advantage of Wireless Broadband Week. It's a useful service, but I'm not sure I would be so comfortable if I knew I was paying £6 per hour right now. I don't think there is a feasible business model in charging those prices.

For all Instant messaging lovers...

http://www.easymessage.net/

This will allow you to connect to all your IM accounts (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN) without having to run four different windows. How safe is it? Let me know...

Edited by author 12-04-2003 12:11 PM
Google have to do something about people who abuse the ranking. I am sure that the problem which just appeared will be ironed out soon. Meanwhile, there is a google desktop tool for windows machines, and it is available from google themselves, although you have to look for it in Google search!... or you can click here.

For those people who like to follow news on search engines there is an article here on the the BBC web site about a google mod.

Let's do the oldies then... my first machine was an oric-1, and I remember that (in basic), if you made any corrections to a line of code, you had to press ctrl-A and go through the whole line again in order to comit the changes. Anyone remember gosub 35000 or even fortran's doloop /continue?

Edited by author 12-04-2003 05:03 AM
Oh dear, I've spent too much time already looking at Old-Computers.com. My second computer for out of hours support (after a Sinclair ZX81) was the Amstrad PPC 512! Showing my age here...

Before you vote, go to www.old-computers.com It is the best way to refresh one's memory of what things looked like... including the Dragon 32!!!

All models are listed alphabetically on the "keyboard" on the left hand side of the page.

One point to note on SPAM is discussed in this article: Sexual spam could spark lawsuits
it seems rather strange for an employee to claim against an employer for something such as this. However at my last company a PA in the US was threatening to sue over a joke she recieved by accident which was sexist (several people lost their jobs over that one).

Regarding the display issue in XP, well, unless I am doing something completely wrong, if you setup the display properties in any given window displaying the contents of a folder and then apply the view options to all folders, it does remember them... that is in view/options...

OS X has a few problems printing but once you have the IP address of the printer you can print on it. Getting the version of the drivers can be a bit adventurous though. I have found that the version of the OS is very important. Panther is the most stable of them all and I strongly recommend an update. Ironically, it is appletalk printers that sometimes cause problems with system X.

You can change the order of files in the file - open under XP, I've done it. Unfortunetly I don't know how I've done it and it anoyes the hell out of me. It seems to be by application, either that or my PC is just acting weird. Word was doing as was CF Studio, but now it's only CF Studio

Does the feature on OS X work for any printer or just Mac aware printers? I think the issue is probably Microsoft's in not making is easy for one to access a networked printer from the OS without setting a port up for it, but it is good that HP have (eventually) taken up the gauntlet.

Well... regarding the ip address for mobile printing, it was first introduced in Mac OS X, from version 10.0... it is good to see that HP are not snobbish and that they incorporate ideas rivals have put to work, since they work so well.

Edited by author 11-04-2003 12:04 PM
Is millinery a hint that we are all mad as a hatter? I can but wonder.

As far as the treo is concerned, I would really wait until the bugs are weeded out [sic] until I looked into upgrading my palm. Perhaps it is a sign of old age, but I stick to the things I have come to trust over the years -- especially the palm, which, small and old and clumsy(ish) as it is -- it has never let me down....

Edited by author 06-11-2003 12:30 PM
Actually, yes, why not, let's email him... sometimes I am really intrigued by trivia of the kind.

Having said that, I jsut looked and it seems that your version is probably correct... I wish I remembered where I read mine...
for more info look at: http://www.apple-history.com/frames/?

Mmm. The version I read was that he named Apple after the aforementioned recod label. Maybe we should e-mail him and ask.

Edited by author 06-11-2003 08:51 AM
Steve Jobbs and the Beatles

Steve Jobbs (unless this is an urban legend, which I very much doubt), called the company Apple (and the logo, note is a bitten apple), in honour of Alan Turing, the British inventor of the "computer", the Cambridge mathematician, who cracked the enigma code that decided the battle of the Atlantic in favour of the Allies in WWII.

Alan Turing committed suicide by biting a poisoned apple, as a symbolic gesture towards the social abuse he received (indirectly), and his marginalisation after WWII. Ergo the bitten apple logo.

Edited by author 06-03-2003 07:10 AM
... although Sky TV does have the edge over digital radio sets by virtue of its live tractor-pulling coverage from Eindhoven on Eurosport.

...or if you want to listen to the radio in the kitchen and your tv's upstairs.

Of course if you have Sky satellite you can get most of the radio stations that broadcast on DAB in the same quality through there at no extra expense. Not much use if you haven't got Sky

We have pretty senior contacts within DoubleClick (which is where some of the info came from). They have a very strong interest in stopping spam and have high level meetings with the ISPs. Challenge-Response responses will be sent to the client (i.e. us, the publisher) via DARTmail).

However, I suspect that we may have to say that the subscriber (to the e-mail) needs to verify their address will accept e-mail from us (or our agents) as part of our ts & cs.

The Info Mike posted about anti-spam tactics impacts us on two fronts.

1. As legitimate email marketers we need to update our systems to remain compliant. This might mean adding a review process to replies from our newsletters… and also changing our subscription process so that we get added to the subscribers “white list”
2. As email users we should identify the anti-spam mechanism that we are going to use and deploy it to the Economist Group. And also participate in public discussions to encourage other businesses and influential users to quickly converge on a standard.

Do we have any self-anointed experts in the area of “anti-spam mechanisms”? I’d like to learn more about what our options are and the direction that influential industry leaders are advocating.

The Goodmans is a DAB radio plus an FM/AM radio (so you can still get crackle and hiss if you like that sort of thing)

Is the Goodman a digital radio? The description describes a digital tuner with an analogue radio. Or is that what all digital radios really are?
eb

Edited by author 05-27-2003 06:58 AM
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