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If you live under a rock, and you havent heard yet, yesterday Microsoft sent Yahoo an offer of $44.2bn. The ‘offer’ values the shares at more that twice the previous days share value, is set to become the largest hostile takeover in technology history.

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I have found that my laptop will run without any power!

See Screenshot below, batteries = not installed  AC Adapter =None

This is proper “Green IT”, surely it wont be long before manufacturers are offering huge sums of cash for the secrets of perpetual motion.

This week, the site www.tv-links.co.uk was shutdown and a 26 year old man from Cheltenham was arrested for offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement. The site, which provided links to stream television and film files but did not host any of the copyright material, has been shutdown due to “providing links to illegal film content that has been camcorded from within a cinema and then uploaded to the Internet” according to FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft). Read the rest of this entry →

What is a virus?

The term ‘virus’ and its definition may have outlived its prime. In today’s hostile computing environment, one would do better to ask, “what is malware?” Read the rest of this entry →