Archive for February, 2005

Looks Like IE is taking a spanking

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Looking at this months webserver logs for VDot it looks like IE is taking a pounding ‘market share’ wise. For January IE was used by 57.9% of visitors with Firefox just 25.3% of visitors. Now the tide turned for February for IE we have just 46.1% and Firefox has ...

Virus.Org Hardware Update

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

So in the next few weeks I’ll be looking to update the hardware for Virus.Org, problem is what to move the site to. Need some suggestions really for places to get good, cheap and reliable rackmounted servers. I’ve been looking at Dell kit but to get it to the level ...

New ipods

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Well here I am in the land of the free (not!) and I was tempted twice, really had to fight of the urges to buy a ipod mini here. Even in the apple store in delaware where there would be no sales tax. When today I see on the apple ...

Busy week…

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

Very busy week last week, not much done outside of what was required for work… So nothing new really posted on VDot.. Hopefully will get more doing this next week.

Greetings From Wilmington

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Well in Wilmington Delaware, second day onsite at a client and another 4 to go.. Have the long weekend which will be in NYC..Wilmington is dead, literally there is very little in the way of stuff to do on an evening.. Roll on NYC and some serious partying.. Got a ...

Hmmm..

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

Well fly to the US on Sunday for 10 days to see a client.. Should be interesting, plus it seems that I’m to get a ‘long weekend’ as Presidents day is on the 21st and no one is working.. So flying to Philly and then on to Wilmington, Delaware. So that ...

Stopping European Software Patents

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

These are bad, anyone who works in the software industry knows this. Corporates love them cos it means more money for them. Things are afoot in the European Parliament. if you haven't paid a visit to the foundation for Free Information Infrastructure a group who is spearheading the campaign against software ...

Windows Incoming

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Righto it is Microsoft patch day, there are 8 Critical Patches from Windows, IE and Office. Also some of them affect Windows XP SP2 so even if you have it YOU ARE NOT SAFE. Get your patches now, before the bad guys start making exploits. Angels With Dirty Faces from the album ...

P900

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

I decided to update the flash on my P900 today to see if the latest firmware would fix some of the little issues I've had with it recently. So I get all the Sony Ericsson stuff installed and run through their proceedure for updating step by step. yet for some ...

It was monday

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

Well found my putty knife today do I did the 'modification' to it and opened up the mac mini. It was easy enough to open up, the trick was closing it, there is some EM shielding tabs on the back they you need to careful of when closing the case ...