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Yesterday three of us were lucky enough to be invited to attend the Space: 08 event at the Barbican Centre.
The highlight of the event for me was the Masterclass conducted by Roger Shawyer the Director of SPR Ltd. After introducing himself and explaining his background in various satellite launch products, Roger went on the explain [...]
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Filed under: Astronomy, Hardware, Hobbies, Scams, Techie
A friend recently dropped off a PC infected with some particularly nasty spyware infections. The usual SmitFraud, WinAntiVirus and Vundo stuff but this time, I couldn’t find anything that would shift it.
Unfortunately, the cause was a couple of pieces of so called AntiVirus and AntiSpyware software which were in themselves carriers and propagators of this [...]
Following a couple of earlier mentions of Phorm, it’s good to see an organised fightback against it. The following is taken directly from their website:
“AntiPhormLite is a unique application that intelligently self surfs the internet and generates natural surfing information to confuse anyone who is spying or tracking your internet activity. It is a stand [...]
Some years ago, free with one of the magazines I used to receive, I was sent a free 5.25in floppy disc. It was quite a novelty at the time as floppies weren’t cheap and it was rare to have one given away. Anyhow, this particular disc was a bit special, it was titled “AIDS [...]
Garan has beaten me to it with a recent posting on his blog. He writes about some very important news for the majority of UK internet users.
If you want the internet to remain the relatively open and free place it is today and you want your browsing habits to remain personal, I suggest you read [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Hosting, Scams, Search Engines, Software, Spam, Techie
I had a call this morning from one of my web customers; they have been contacted by a company called something like “First Found” offering to make sure their website appears at the number one position in various search engines.
This is an old ploy which, I suppose, may work in some cases. Unfortunately the results [...]
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Filed under: Scams, Search Engines
For anyone interested in Amateur Radio, BAMA is an incredibly useful website as it carries hundreds of scanned instruction manuals, service guides and schematics.
As well as the simple menu on the left, there are also links to many other online manual and handbook sites on the front page.
In case you didn’t know, “BoatAnchor” is often [...]
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Filed under: Amateur Radio, Hardware, Hobbies, Scams, Techie
Just spotted this quote on the BBC site:
“Public money is limited and it is the government’s responsibility to ensure it is not unduly diverted from supporting the delivery of frontline services”
Baroness Ashton
Information Rights Minister.
This is to do with suggested changes to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act which is our only way to real find [...]
Today the BBC is reporting that MPs will be eligible for £10,000 each which they can spend to develop websites to boost “public understanding” of parliament - Full report.
Well listen up guys; we already do understand it and we’re not that impressed!
Search UK Google for “How parliament works” and you get about 16,200 hits. First [...]
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