Tim Almond

… is Going Back.
Replacing it will be a Windows/Ubuntu dual-boot.
Your mileage may vary with it.

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via The BBC:-
The creators of the BBC Micro are reuniting at the Science Museum in London to discuss the legacy of the computer known fondly as “the Beeb”.
Dr Tilly Blyth, who is writing a book about the machine said: “The Beeb helped shape today’s IT landscape.”
“The story of the BBC Micro is one of […]

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Some time ago, I wrote a post about version targetting in IE8, and how Microsoft were getting a beating from the standards people about the X-UA-Compatible tag, and how I personally thought they were wrong.
Well, turns out that Microsoft have listened to them and changed it so that it’s now “render this site in IE8″ […]

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11:28 Yesterday
The BBC has issued a fix to stop people downloading programmes from the iPlayer website that were intended for streaming on an iPhone or iPod only.
21:16 Yesterday
I am happy to announce that I’ve defeated them once again!
Reading his comments, it sounds like the BBC got their web server to detect some quirks of the […]

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Stephen Pollard in The Times
Last Thursday Microsoft, whose name is synonymous with the existing model of copyright protection, underwent a revolution. It suddenly released more than 30,000 pages of previously rigidly protected software protocols. Microsoft recognised that instead of always fighting to hold on to some of its intellectual property, it can do even […]

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From The Times
Serious offenders on the run from the Netherlands have been able to commit further crimes in Britain after the Crown Prosecution Service mislaid a computer disc containing their details.
Home Office ministers were told within the past two or three weeks that a disc containing details of 4,000 offenders whom the Dutch authorities […]

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From The FT
The government will on Friday tell internet service providers they will be hit with legal sanctions from April next year unless they take concrete steps to curb illegal downloads of music and films.
Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it.
A creative industries strategy paper published on Friday commits the government to consulting on anti-piracy legislation this spring […]

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Via the BBC
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
I’ll make my own prediction here: in 20 years time, people will still be predicting that human-level AI is only 20 years away. 2001: A Space Odyssey was made in 1968, predicting that as well as colonisation of space and […]

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Since the demise of my thinkpad, I’ve been looking for an alternative way to run Unix/Linux.  This isn’t my bread and butter (I mostly do asp.net) but I might want it to be sometime soon/in the future.
I thought about cheap alternatives to splashing out on a Macbook, and found an article that describes how to […]

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It’s funny how I seem to read lots of things by people about how “Vista Sucks” and “Get a Mac, it just works”, yet I am reading Twitter and two people I know who are very much committed, experienced Mac users (but not religious about it) are reporting problems - one with their graphics and […]

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