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Freedom Zero

29/01/2008 – 13:20

Jeff Atwood posted an interesting blog entry over at Coding Horror about Freedom Zero. Freedom Zero is the right to run software whenever and wherever you like, for free, forever. It’s the basis of Open Source. It’s also pretty much exactly the opposite of MacOS, which as Jeff points out uses Mac computers has a [...]

By mojo | Posted in software | Comments (0)

On-demand only anti-virus and anti-spyware

28/01/2008 – 20:20

The problem with “malware” (viruses, trojans, spyware, adware etc) scanners is that not single program detects everything. Check my previous post about online multi-av scanners. Online scanning only works on one file at a time though, so some software to scan an entire PC is needed. What is needed are “on-demand only” AV programs. Most [...]

By mojo | Posted in security, windows | Comments (0)

MacBook Air batteries: Apple hates you

25/01/2008 – 23:47

Noticed an interesting article on on Ars: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/01/25/macbook-air-battery-fairly-simple-for-mortals-to-replace Apparently the MacBook Air battery is much easier to replace than the iPod or iPhone batteries. Surely a good thing, right? Well, it might be if they officially supported it by, I don’t know, off the top of my head, installing an eject button like every other [...]

By mojo | Posted in hardware | Comments (0)

My MP just spammed me!

25/01/2008 – 13:49

Checking my inbox this morning I noticed a red, high priority email from Sarah McCarthy-Fry, my MP, with the subject “JANUARY E-NEWSLETTER FROM SARAH MCCARTHY-FRY MP”. Opening the email, I find it doesn’t even have any text, just one massive image… And I didn’t even ask for it! Pretty much all the trappings of SPAM, [...]

By mojo | Posted in politics | Comments (0)

The Apple (no) upgrade trap

12/01/2008 – 13:29

My brother wants to buy an Apple Mac. They are damn expensive. The spec is laughable. Worst of all, you can’t upgrade the damn things. The main consumer machine seems to be the iMac. Like most consumer oriented PCs, it comes “complete” with monitor, keyboard, mouse and everything you need to plug it in and [...]

By mojo | Posted in hardware | Comments (0)

New VFD display

10/01/2008 – 17:49

Got a couple of these ISE Electronics Japan 256×64 VFD displays on eBay cheap: They were a lot bigger than I was expecting, and look really nice. There is some slight unevenness in the brightness which might be down to the psu I was using, and the fact that they are usually designed to be [...]

By mojo | Posted in hardware | Comments (0)

VirusTotal multi-online AntiVirus scanner

05/01/2008 – 23:01

It’s probably been blogged a lot by now but I just wanted to mention VirusTotal and jotti.org. They both offer online virus scanning of single files (or archives) of up to 10 megs. The difference between them and other online scans is that they run just about every virus scanner and malware scanner going on [...]

By mojo | Posted in security | Comments (1)

Online backup: ruined by crap proprietary software

03/01/2008 – 20:52

Why is it all online backup services demand you use crap proprietary software or a naff web interface? I have recently been looking around for a free online backup system to safeguard a few hundred megs of data. Just in case my house burns down and takes all my other backups with it. Unfortunately, they [...]

By mojo | Posted in networking, windows | Comments (5)

Welcome to 1984: Britain an "endemic" surveillance society

01/01/2008 – 20:58

Just been reading this report from Privacy International… It pretty much confirms what we already know: that Britain is the surveillance capital of the world. Well, to be fair, Scotland seems to be doing a bit better than England & Wales (no wonder they want independence). The shear number of CCTV cameras in the UK [...]

By mojo | Posted in privacy | Comments (0)

Optimising Windows for gigabit file sharing

01/01/2008 – 20:46

The default TCP/IP settings in Windows are not very good for gigabit networking, and seem to limit you to around 20MB/sec when transferring files. Even with pure TCP tests I couldn’t get over about 30MB/sec with the default. The solution is to increase the TCP Receive Window and enable Window Scaling. You can edit the [...]

By mojo | Posted in networking, windows | Comments (0)
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