The BBC reports that seven million of us are illegal file sharers according to a report from Government advisers. Going by the the number of people using one network on one day, the estimate is they have access to £12 billion worth ofillegal material.
While fixed broadband has become as normal in people’s homes as toasted cheese sandwiches, another means of connecting online is starting to take the market by storm: mobile broadband. Mobile
A key deal between New Zealand’s State Services Commission, and Microsoft has fallen through, perhaps opening the door for open source software. Talks concerning a three year purchasing agreement ended with Microsoft coming away empty handed.
In an article I wrote about XP Mode, I said at the bottom that as soon as I could get my hands on the various bits of software, I would post. Slightly later than anticipated here we go. For the people out there who have yet to hear of the miracle that is XP Mode, you can think of it as an extension of Microsofts Virtual PC. As well as being an update to Virtual PC, it also has the added benefit of publishing apps installed on the virtual machine to the host. This means that if you have an application that is incompatible with Windows 7, you can still run it as if it were native. Still confused? Lets go through it.
Do you know a Mac fan? I’m sure you do, and if you don’t they are easy to spot. They tend to be the ones who extol the virtues of their OS rather thanempathize with you when you think your PC is a conduit for nob pill emails, and DDoS attacks.
ASUS’ newest Eee range offering, the 1080HA Seashell will be arriving in just 9 days time, 15th May, for us lucky Brits
A recent announcement by Microsoft is, for a change, very exciting. It seems that if you buy Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate, you will be able to download XPM, it is not included by default for anti-trust reasons. So what then, is this here XP mode? Quite simply, it is a virtual machine, based on the Virtual PC that you can already download from the Microsoft website.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu released the latest version of their OS, 9.04. Improvements that we see in this release, according to Canonical are improved boot times, enhanced suspend and resume functionality, and better support for 3G and Wi-Fi switching, plus better 3G support.
