by mjenkins
January 31, 2009 in miscellaneous
Google may contain badware!
Earlir today Google flagged every site with the statement “This site may harm your computer” in its search results on both Google.com and Google.co.uk. I saw this issue live, and immediately started using Yahoo for search.
by Matt Jenkins
February 2, 2008 in miscellaneous
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.
by Matt Jenkins
November 7, 2007 in miscellaneous
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.
by Matt Jenkins
October 23, 2007 in miscellaneous
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 →
by Matt Jenkins
July 13, 2007 in miscellaneous
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 →