We have finished moving to our new servers. This time, we will stay here for an entire year! That means, no changing until we are done…
This theme I have selected after searching High and Low for a new design. This one, reminiscent to the old tech.geek, is a transition from the dark and cold black areas.
Optus, the second largest ISP, has been given customers (mostly cable customers) slower speeds than usual. Many Customers have complained their case in Whirlpool. This started during in the last week of May. Whirlpool has also a news article saying that Telstra has been, recently, having problems with their connections; which all of the ISPs in Australia use.
LiveJournal, popular with many fanfiction and rape survivor groups, have suspended more than 500 accounts. Users were outraged with this as LiveJournal was hoping to ‘protect children’ as some sites, like Warriors for Innocence, were promoting paedophilia, the sexual abuse of minors, and other illegal activities.
Google has announced Google Gears, an open source platform that will allow GMail or any web application offline. ZDNet Australia is reporting that Adobe is working with Google to help it become a global standard. However, an analyst from IBRS says that this new plan, even if it allows other applications, will not dent the global stranglehold of Microsoft Office.
BBC has now reporting that CBS Corporation (that owns CBS, which in turn broadcasts NCIS and CSI in America) has bought last.fm for $280 million, making it the largest UK Web 2.0 acquisition ever. last.fm opened five years ago in the UK, using the Audioscrobbler technology to use what you play on your iTunes or Windows Media Player on the web. The company will still run independently from CBS.
tech.geek will be on hiatus until Thursday 31st of April because we all some school work to do. Anyway, the new tech.geek Live Site has been made, entirely out of scratch. It took me all night to make it, but be warned… some of the links don’t work due to I forgot to put them in, this will be fixed on the next update.
Boing Boing has written that Finland is now allowing you to break the CSS DRM on your DVD, as Finish law only protects “effective” DRM, and since it’s been broken many times; this means it’s no longer protected!
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We got it working again. We re-recorded the podcast and we got the first episode working. Now I need to get a new microphone.
You can find more information at http://techgeek.scorerightservices.com/live/. That’s where you get the show notes for when it’s my turn to host and all the information about the podcast. StormX [aka James] will host next week’s podcast, while Stewart will host the week after.
Due to problems with recording our podcast, we have to do it again… so yes, it will be recorded late at night (if Stewart goes online) or early tomorrow morning…
Show Notes will be provided and as well, a filler podcast will be created if the show is ever delayed again
tech.geek will be starting a podcast on Skype…
https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=882153
You can see us tomorrow at these times…
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The Vietnamese Government has signed a deal that would allow all their computers to have a legitimate copy of Windows. The Minister of Finance had signed a deal for Microsoft Office last year during his trip to Microsoft. According to CNN, 90% of software used is pirated and are for sale for just 50 cents. Steve Ballmer witnessed the event.
Symantec and Chinese networking vendor Huawei have announced a joint venture, which will be based in China. Huawei will have 51% of the company, while Symantec will have 49%. This joint venture will market security and storage applications for networking solutions. Huawei’s Australian customers include Vodafone and Optus.
No, don’t call the RSPCA… Google has launched it’s Google Hot Trends, using Google Zeitgeist but go as far of providing ‘hot’ stuff in each city, state or country. But most of them had couple of hiccups, like on May 21st’s hot trend was a legless chihuahua… WTF?
The guys from Blendtec did a video about bending stuff that you wouldn’t blend in your blender. This time, they used some various parts of the IT infrastructure. This included…