Internet Exporer 7 Beta 2 Preview

February 1st, 2006

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview is available to download now. If you’re a developer, you might want to consider installing it, but otherwise steer clear as things need more polish, not to mention you can’t run IE 6 at the same time. Even then, you’d be a fool to start testing your site with […]

Verify Downloads on Windows

January 5th, 2006

A lot of open source programs can only be downloaded on the Internet, so there is need for a method of checking that the file you downloaded hasn’t been corrupted in transit, or indeed whether it is the original file you wanted. Checksums answer this call, yes, those funny seemingly random strings that accompany files […]

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.

December 13th, 2005

Reading a computing magazine in the library and came across a Microsoft advert, not unusual in itself, but the content was a perfect example of some FUD.

When evaluating the TCO of Linux and Windows, Who Gets Newham’s vote?

No prizes for answering that question.

…Migration costs were estimated to be 68%* lower.

However read the small […]