Posted February 19, 2010 in | Geek Speak |
I feel like a little kid in a lolly shop! After slow and costly internet in PNG, I can’t help but get carried away with the speed, low cost and pervasiveness of Internet access in Oz.…
Posted January 31, 2010 in | Geek Speak |
Apologies in advance to all the lay readers but tonight I’m going to technobabble a little about Web Analytics, Open Source and Piwik.…
Posted January 5, 2010 in | Geek Speak |
Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited messages indiscriminately. In layman’s terms – basically a pain in the arse!…
Posted December 9, 2009 in | Geek Speak |
Remember the Periodic Table of Elements? The building blocks of the universe (as we know it) summarised in one table. A classic example of a cheat sheet.…
Posted November 26, 2009 in | Geek Speak |
It must be at least a week since I wrote a techo story. Apologies Mum, tonight I’m going to technobabble a little about Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Shortening Services…
Posted September 26, 2009 in | Geek Speak |
One of my all time favourite pastimes as I was growing up was a board game called Monopoly. A single game could easily keep us busy for hours and hours and truthfully…
Posted May 13, 2009 in | Geek Speak |
On Friday, March 26, 1999, W97M/Melissa became front-page news across the globe. Estimates have indicated that this Word macro script infected 15 to 20 percent of all business PCs. The virus spread so rapidly that Intel, Microsoft, and a number of other companies that used Outlook were forced to shut down their entire e-mail systems in order to contain the damage. The estimated damage caused by the Melissa virus approximately US$1 Billion. Read on for some simple tips on how you can protect your PC…
Posted May 6, 2009 in | Geek Speak |
With close to 100 million domain names registered world wide and this figure rapidly rising its a wander how there are any useful names left for grabs. An Internet Domain is basically what identifies a website to the internet and if you are registering a name for the 1st time it is relatively cheap but did you know that a while back Tuvalu negotiated a contract leasing its Internet domain name “.tv” for $50 million in royalties over a 12-year period. (yep 50 big ones!!). Likewise with the wp.com domain recently…
Posted April 30, 2009 in | Geek Speak |
After participating in some light banter with Emmanuel on Masalai Blog about the pros and cons of Linux versus Windows I came across this story about major Netbook player System76 launching a new system pre-installed with Ubuntu’s latest OS V9.04 (also known as Intrepid) for under AU$400. If there’s any doubt in your mind whether or not Linux has hit mainstream then maybe you might like to have a re-think…
Posted April 18, 2009 in | Geek Speak |
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more…
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