Category Archives: Software

I deserve to have this happen, I have received unto myself the fruits of my beardliness. But still, it seems hard. When I built my lovely new silent-except-for-vast-speakers computer, I was left with the problem of what to do with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It turns out that the idea of the greedy web is slowly and disorganisedly getting under way. Mark Shuttleworth, who made a lot of money by founding Thawte, spent a large chunk going into space, with a Soyuz mission. Now … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We’re used to the idea that pornographers register all the popular typoed domain names, and that whitehouse._com_ leads you somewhere unexpected. I hadn’t realised that fundies do it too until I hit a mistyped link from a comment on frizzylogic … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I am in bed with a stinking cold, unable to think. So I play with computers instead. I finally put VNC on the big machine, so that I can now — well, I’m not sure what I can now do … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I can’t say that Microsoft’s decision to close down all their chatrooms all around the world for fear of paedophiles strikes me as particularly public-spirited. It looks more like an ethical excuse to get out of a loss-making business that’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you can understand this, it’s too late to save you. Continue reading →

Someone just rang me up from a newspaper that shall be nameless, asking for a piece on the sobig worm. I said, which is true, that I am too busy today. It is also true that I have no ideas … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Google now has a built-in calculator. It almost speaks english: see the example that converts teaspoons to decilitres. I might even discover what Americans mean by ‘cups’. Continue reading →

That password of yours: you know, the clever, eleven-letter one consisting of a word that is in no dictionary of any known language, plus some numbers, and which is also profoundly memorable to you — that Windows password, yes, that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This one’s for Felix, currently working in tech support. It’s a conversation with a user that shows something about the way that Americans are inclined to treat the help (what could be more humiliating than the moment when Cordelia says … Continue reading → Continue reading →