Virgin Media writes to down loaders
Subscribers with Virgin Media who like to download the odd bit of illegal music, film or software better be watching out for a letter to drop on their door mats, for their ISP have teamed up with the BPI to close down on the illegal file sharers.
This comes from the government’s plans to make [...]
June 2, 2008Mission to Mars website hacked
The recent Mars Lander programme has been hailed a success, as no doubt it was the landing craft is on the red planet and searching for signs of life, which is what the mission is all about. This is undoubtedly a great success for the people behind the Phoenix Mars Lander Mission.
But while everyone [...]
May 27, 2008Users prefer interactive sites
In research made by S. Shyam Sundar, professor of film, video and media studies at Penn State, and Jamie Guillory, formerly an undergraduate student at Penn State has found that people looking at corporate website’s, tend to prefer an interactive site, rather than one that is static.
This is particularly true when it come’s job [...]
May 19, 2008Domain names running out
What would happen if the internet ran out of domain names?
If you think that this is never going to happen, then you could be wrong. Current estimates figure that by the year 2011 there will be no new domain names for sale, which means for some people and indeed businesses something of a dilemma.
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Web Power usage under fire
It is amazing to find that by doing a simple search on Google uses enough power to keep an 11 watt light bulb alight for hour. This is a mere search, so you can imagine the power requirements that are needed to download a music track, TV programme or film!
So in total it has [...]
May 8, 2008Let Google know you’re in the UK
Having a .com site is fine, because it is a universal domain, but when are a specific UK site who only sells to the UK market, you are going to need the site to be right up there on the site rankings for the UK. But what happens when the site turns up on the [...]
May 1, 2008The internet is still a baby
It’s unbelievable but the internet is approaching its fifteenth birthday, which was when the first piece of code was placed onto a domain which was powered by CERN, the lab where the internet was first developed.
The man who was behind this was Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and the decision to make the internet free for [...]
April 17, 2008What makes a good Linux user?
For a lot of computer users the very thought of switching from Window to Linux is just too much for them to even comprehend as the whole thing is can be a bit complex to new users. But in fact there are some subtle differences and of course there are so many communities and forums [...]
April 16, 2008CAPTCHA cracked in sixty seconds
By now we have all got used to the sign up feature that is supposed determine between a human and a machine, the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) where there is a series of letters and numbers which are sometimes distorted.
Most of time this has proved a [...]
April 7, 2008The internet is under attack
Most of us feel that the internet will last for ever, but could there ever be a time when the internet actually breaks and suddenly we find ourselves with nothing to look at and no way of carry on the work, it sounds like a nightmare. But this could happen one and here are the [...]
March 13, 2008File sharing sites blocked
Israel’s biggest ISP has been ordered by a court to block access to certain file sharing and torrent sites, which has done very little to stop people from visiting these sites. In fact there is a lot to be said about keeping quiet about things as the publicity generated by this case has caused even [...]
March 10, 2008Data stolen from Pentagon
It will be a year in June when it was announced that there had been an attack on the Pentagon, which is effectively the US forces head office. At the time the Defence Secretary Robert Gates admitted that there had been an attack and that it had been successful causing chaos to the email service [...]
February 21, 2008The web under attack!
Its been a couple of weeks since the underwater cable problems that has effected the middle and far eastern regions of the world, the loss of these cables initially caused severe problems for the regions but since the traffic has been redirected the network is slow and in some cases on and off occasionally.
These cables [...]
World economies at the mercy of the sea
There seems to be news about the damaged undersea cables coming out almost every day, the unofficial count is now set at five cables that have been cut or damaged, but it would also that it is only affecting one particular region, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United [...]
February 1, 2008Internet fails in Asia and Middle East
There has been an internet blackout that covers two continents, parts of Asia, Middle East and even parts of North Africa have been crippled, making some business struggle with other means of communications.
Apparently there was damage made to some undersea cables but there is no other information as to how this happened, but it is [...]
Same server search
There is a handy little tool around which will allow you to check up on other websites to see if they are hosted on the same server, this can come in very handy sometimes.
You Get Signal have introduced the Reverse IP Domain Check, this will give you a quick and easy way of tracking domains [...]
Jan 30th a day to remember
This should a very interesting day, its possible that not many people respond to this although it must depend on the users experiences, however at the moment the 30th January 2008 is pencilled in as “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day.”
Many users have been disappointed with MySpace and here is an account of one user’s [...]
Great list of Linux services
As the season of goodwill gets into full swing its good get something for nothing, well obviously not entirely free but never the less Linux is booming in its many guises. But for newcomers there can be a problem with knowing exactly what they want or need, compared to what they are being offered.
However there [...]
The problem with Gmail is:
There is a problem with gmail, and that is you cannot have a gmail account or your account gets cancelled which is causing some people so many problems to the point where they cannot even access their own emails, which could relate to jobs etc.
However this is fortunately an error, I say fortunately because that [...]
Software can check on your ISP
A not for profit company the Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a smart piece of software which will show people exactly what is going on with the traffic problems if you are getting any that is.
The purpose is for website owners to be able to see where the traffic, or more to the point if [...]