Strangely Perfect

Not an advert for a male enhancement cream …but more a statement of fact….  yes indeedy, Sony, inventors of the 3.5″ floppy disc, have announced that it’s the end of the production line for them. Sony Ends Floppy Production I for one, have spent many a wasted hour listening to the click-click-click as they struggle [...]

Finally BT has seen the light and dropped the Phorm privacy inquisition software from it’s future plans.  This follows on from it’s unwarranted secretive tests on it’s own consumers last year and the resulting furore that has seen Phorm fuck around with a huge damage limitation exercise designed to shift the focus from it’s activities [...]

Gary McKinnon, the UFO spotter cum computer hacker is still not tried for his ‘offence’.  But the ice he’s treading is getting thinner and thinner. Recently our nice CPS deemed that there wasn’t enough UK evidence to try him – but that the USA had plenty so we’ll send him there! His charge, which I [...]

Despite the best made plans and intentions, no security system is perfect. A massive recent security lapse means that (again!), the government’s continuing plans to implement ID Cards should be seriously examined. Not only have their own credentials at data security been demonstrated by themselves to be wholly inadequate (I’m thinking of the DVLA, MOD, [...]

In a follow-up to my earlier post, this problem is now going mainstream news.  See; Internet Explorer security alert Another wave of attacks target Internet Explorer Apparently, 10,000 websites have now been hacked and are ready and waiting (like conger eels in a hole or praying mantises on a twig), to nick all the personal [...]

In another twist in the constantly churning world of the “Credit Crunch”, it was revealed on Sunday that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has NO FAITH in the banking system!  Yes.  It’s true. Apparently, as revealed in Sunday’s Le Journal du Dimanche, his bank account was hacked by cyber-criminals and “only a small amount of money” [...]

Wow.  Totally Agree with this post. Gold’en Rant : Why Did The UK Government Fail To Back Gary McKinnon? They should be employing not booting the bloke.  In the USA they can and do intend to throw the key away on him. And as for Milliband and all the posturing – I’m documenting the chronology [...]

According to UK Gov., in a project instigated by Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister,  the greatest threat to our national security is not terrorists, rampant armed youths or family breakdowns; no, it’s the flu! Flu pandemic tops risk register was the news first thing this morning while lying in bed.  That really cheered me up! [...]

Following on from my recent Visual Studio training which will lead onto asp in my day job working for a company under the .nhs.uk domain name, it’s interesting to see some of the things that have been going on to make the system dead slow recently. NHS website affected by mass SQL ‘Asprox’ attack said [...]

Continuing along with the theme of Cutting off your nose to spite your face the UK government wishes to extend the reach of the US “intelligence” services by making a nice big database of everyone’s phone calls, text messsages, emails and web page browsing history.  The WebUser website picked up on this story. Fortunately, Seagate [...]

Introduction The dorty hakkaz have spotted something so Microsoft et al have had to roll out a fix.  Specifically, it’s a DNS hack that allows the bad guys to spoof code, pages and even complete websites!  Here are some bits of info today: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-037.mspx http://www.itpro.co.uk/604416/light-patch-tuesday-but-server-flaws-serious http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7496735.stm Problem The trouble is either the DNS fix or [...]

Why buy Vista?  Now there’s a question. Microsoft continue to say that Vista sales are much higher than XP ever was.  But this is being disingenuous with the figures.  The fact is that most of the “sales” are as pre-installs on OEM machines.  Fair play to Microsoft, they have driven the business for years and [...]

The latest news is that SP3 has been delayed due to a bug in some shopping/WMS software that Microsoft makes called DRM. This isn’t the Digital Rights Management so beloved of the Hollywood film studios and Record Company Executives, but a WMS for shops etc. Here’s an news example on Computer Buyer Magazine. The trouble [...]

Paul Check out this 3 page article about ubuntu. While not being specific about music software, it gives quite a good history, and insight into the future, of plans for Ubuntu with regard to the founder’s and other developer’s motives. And stuff. http://www.itpro.co.uk/features/118738/is-ubuntu-the-way-forward-for-linux.html