Category: Tech

The Register reports that a company called Truvia in San Francisco (which specialises in luxury furniture) is offering “designer” PCs starting at “only” $50,000: Truvia will design the furniture you want around a high...

Charles Arthur has just published a new article outlining his predictions for the tech scene in 2005. One thing I noticed was the prediction that “Comment spam” on blogs will threaten to strangle discussion...

It’s only Tuesday, and I’ve already seen four things which make me think “that’s dumb”.

I just ordered a book on computer programming, Practical Qt, from Amazon. The thing is, I had to order it from Amazon in Germany (amazon.de), making as best use I could of my very...

No, I’m not talking about the newspaper mentioned below … I’m talking about the computer I blogged about finally getting running the other day. (There isn’t much use for the newspaper.)

Last month I bought (through eBay) a Sun workstation – an Ultra 5, which is a late 1990s machine. I really bought it for the nostalgia of using a “real” Unix machine like those...

A new Apple Store has opened up in London’s Regent Street, which is the first to open in Europe. It’s been very eagerly awaited, and it’s said that some people decided to sleep outside...

There’s a report at the BBC’s site about a new virus which “comes back from the dead” if you don’t delete all of it. One thing struck me when reading this report: The infectious...

I started writing this entry at the Sun Microsystems stand at the [London Linux World Expo](http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/), on a pretty much state-of-the-art Sun workstation powered by two fast AMD Opteron processors. I hadn’t got far...

I don’t think I’ve ever been as disappointed by a Linux distribution as I was by the download version of Mandrake’s latest version of its Linux package (10.1, Community version). The impression I’ve got...

Mozilla has just released the latest version of its Firefox web browser. Firefox is a bit like Mozilla, but without the mail and news bit which has been hived off to the Thunderbird project....

Just discovered that OmniWeb, a Mac-only browser with roots which go back to the NeXT days (Steve Jobs’ 1980s futuristic computer project, the operating system for which became Mac OS X) doesn’t display my...

An article on the eWeek website opines that Linux isn’t viable for the desktop – anyone who wants to get away from Windows to a decent desktop should get a Mac, says David Coursey....

The last year or so, my web surfing habits have changed somewhat. Before, the first place I went, usually, on starting up my computer was to head over to the Yahoo groups I subscribe...

Microsoft, an American company which makes an office package for the Mac and also a useless “operating” system for the PC, has been reprimanded for the British Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for a misleading...

There’s a report on the BBC news site that an “online school” is being set up in a small village in Wales, which will be a full school, with real lessons from real teachers...

In this country us Mac users have access to three major magazines: Mac Format, run by the same people as Linux Format, and their homepage is a month behind the actual magazine, as is...

Today I took my usual weekend stroll through London, or rather, through the diminishing bookshop quarter of it around Charing Cross Road area since the local landlords (allegedly) priced the other companies out of...