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£1 off at SatCure
Hey, it doesn’t sound much but, as my gran would say, it’s better than a smack in the mouth. SatCure are an online shop providing Satellite TV, Freeview and A/V accessories and associated items. But they’re cheap in the first place – you save money because they cut out the middle man. You get the…
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What is a Release Candidate?
The latest version of IE8 is “release candidate 1”. But what exactly is a “release candidate”? I’ve been working as a professional IT developer for nearly 20 years and have only recently become aware of it. A quick Google shows Microsoft using it for Windows XP Service Pack 2, but I’m struggling to find anything…
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Speed up Windows XP
Pick up any PC magazine these days and you’ll find it includes an article about speeding up Windows. And because of the popularity of netbooks, they are more often referring to XP in preference to Vista. The only problem is that most of these articles get it wrong. The solution to a slow Windows is…
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More personal details go missing
A computer disk containing the details of 2,000 members of the British Council has been lost. But wait… it’s alright this time. A spokesman said… The data on the disk was compressed using a proprietary algorithm Compressed? Not encryped? Who uses a proprietary compression routine? Furthermore, it is not an ordinary CD-ROM or DVD, but…
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10 things that annoy me about other drivers
Again, not exhaustive, but my current pet peevs. Naturally, I don’t do any of these.