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      • 70 Million Honeypots
        07/12/06
        Microsoft anounced that it will stop supporting it's Windows 98 product from the 11th of July 2006. This is a problem for over 70 million users whose operating system will not be maintained by the vendor.

        In a statement Microsoft said it was "ending support for these products

      • Tilting At Windmills
        07/11/06
        Don Quixote famously mistook windmills on the plain of La Mancha for giants. Perhaps its human nature that we see giants that need to be vanquished where there are none. The Giants in Don Quixote are like modern day brands, they exist in our imagination and are more powerful for that.

      • Data Longevity- the appalling vista.
        07/07/06
        I find it amazing that ASCII files from the dawn of the computer age are still in use. The American Standards Association (ASA, later to become ANSI) first published ASCII as a standard in 1963. 1963 - imagine that. 43 years old and still in rude health. The media for storing files may have changed

      • Government E-voting Strategy In Turmoil
        07/07/06
        The Irish government has just published details of it's findings from a review of the E-voting debacle, which saw them spend €52million on a system that has never been used.
        In a statement that was hailed as vindication for the government, the hardware was deemed suitable but the software

      • Is Piracy Good For Microsoft
        07/04/06
        There is a paradox at the centre of the internet age. You must have heard of the "technology paradox". The technology paradox works something like this:
        'If you can cheaply replicate a technology product (software is a good example) the rate of adoption of your technology become