My Ideal Mobile PhoneMy Ideal Mobile Phone
Based on my experience testing the IBM Seer software on an Android phone [1] I have been considering what type of mobile phone to get when my current contract expires.[...]
Month: January 2010
The Australian Open and Android Phones (Seer)The Australian Open and Android Phones (Seer)
On Monday the 25th of January 2010 I visited the Australian Open [1] – it’s one of the world’s greatest tennis championships and it’s on in Melbourne right now. IBM[...]
Costs and Benefits of Search EnginesCosts and Benefits of Search Engines
Chris Smart writes about the latest money making schemes for OS distributors, Canonical is getting paid by Yahoo to make them stop using Google as the default Firefox search engine[...]
Discovering OS Bugs and Using SnapshotsDiscovering OS Bugs and Using Snapshots
I’m running Debian/Unstable on an EeePC 701, I’ve got an SD card for /home etc but the root filesystem is on the internal 4G flash storage which doesn’t have much[...]
Old Mobile Phones as ToysOld Mobile Phones as Toys
In the past I have had parents ask for advice on buying a digital camera for a young child. For some years there have been digital cameras on sale for[...]
Preventing Children from Accessing PornPreventing Children from Accessing Porn
The following was written by Stefano Cosentino in regard to the ongoing efforts of the Australian government to censor the Internet with “protecting the children” as an excuse. All these[...]
How to Lose CustomersHow to Lose Customers
Bruce Everiss who is famous for being threatened with legal action by Evony has been writing about the supposed losses from game piracy, in his latest missive he copies the[...]
Three MonopolistsThree Monopolists
Three This afternoon I tried to unlock my old Three mobile phones for the purpose of getting cheap net access as described in my previous post [1]. I wanted to[...]
Taking my Thinkpad Apart and Cooling ProblemsTaking my Thinkpad Apart and Cooling Problems
I’ve been having some cooling problems with my Thinkpad recently. It’s an old model T41p which is outside the service period so IBM/Lenovo won’t help me (at least not unless[...]
Why Internet Access in Australia SucksWhy Internet Access in Australia Sucks
In a comment on my post about (relatively) Cheap Net Access in Australia [1] sin from Romania said “Somebody needs to whack the aussie ISP in the head with a[...]