Quite frankly, I'm insulted by that comment, and particularly from a moderator too. And since nobody has been gracious enough to remove me from the competition, I've nobbled my own blog entries. It...

Oh, for crying out loud.

I have more important things to be concerned with for a start (namely a house move and an adoption) and secondly I blog because I want to blog and not because I'm aiming...

Mmm. I've changed my mind - I wish to pull out of being nominated if that's okay - I have my reasons for doing so, so if TPTB could remove me from the running I would be most grateful.

M.

The term flipping 'eck springs to mind. Just to be nominated in the top three is an honour upon itself. My thanks to all, and to my fellow combatants^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bloggers, good luck :)

M.

One thought might be for Google to release the product as a server appliance for Enterprise companies. However, the terms and conditions and policies are clearly on display and nobody is forcing...

Transgaming Inc. (http://www.transgaming.com) have announced their forthcoming product, called Cider (http://www.transgaming.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=24). This...

I should just follow-up to say that one disadvantage Gmail has is the lack of IMAP support - BUT when I've been using POP3 it's been quick and reliable. Gmail DOES have another added advantage of...

I've recently been privileged to take part in "Gmail for your domain", the ability to give your own domain name Gmail facilities. But it's much more than that. It also gives you Google Calendar...

Well, if there were a prize for completely strange posts, I'd certainly give it to ninnay ;)

M.

If I did that, I'd *never* be able to buy a computer. There's bound to be something bigger and better in x number of months. You've also got to consider that when these new machines come out,...

VMware are just bitter because it's Microsoft. I wonder what they would have said if, say, Google had bought Xen?

M.

Even if you invest it a Core 2 Duo now, it certainly won't be obsolete when the quad-core stuff comes out. My theory is that they're going to be aiming at power users initially and then _slowly_...

Yes, absolutely, you could easily say the same things apply to software, and perhaps especially so in specialist industries (such as film, but that's just ONE example) where software licenses are...

"And seeing as most complaints about things like copy protection come from people who are wannabe pirates (I wouldn't know if a disc had copy protection, as I never even try to find out...) it seems...

Following on from my blog about Universal's new download service, I want to now talk about how film studios treat their DVD buying customers.

When I pay £15 or so for a new DVD, I expect to play...

With the announcement that:

- Microsoft's Virtual PC is to be free (as in beer) (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx)

- VMware's Server 1.0 released...

I can perhaps see WHY they're doing this - to stop people running up massive gambling debts - but it's a step in the wrong direction and implies that the US is becoming a Nanny state (okay, 50 of...

I'm beginning to get fed up with web designers that put United Kingdom right towards the bottom of a pull-down menu selector when filling in feedback forms (usually to download software, or during an...

I've playing around with Office 2007 beta courtesy of Parallels Desktop for OS X and Windows XP. And I'm shocked.

I like the new interface for the most part, BUT having checked out Outlook 2007,...

Unfortunately I don't know what the general availability of visual effects and post-production houses are like in India, but certainly over here in the UK we have university courses that specialise...

Thanks Dani (and Davey) for the fixes - much appreciated.

M.

Several thoughts:

1) What version of OS X are you running? Regardless of whether it's Panther, Tiger, etc. have you kept up to date with all the online updates?

2) Could it be a possible...

I'm not quite sure how the Featured Blog thingy works, but I created a blog this morning about Universal's movie download service and noticed that PHP/vBulletin/something munged the apostrophes in...

I'm not sure whether it's just me, but the current flux of companies taking over smaller hosting firms are having a drastic effect on the levels of customer service and support.

Take 123-reg.co.uk...

Or.. you can get a Nigerian 419 scammer to carve you one:

http://forum.419eater.com/john_boko.htm

Sadly you can't play any games on it, but it'll make a lovely addition to any home..

M.

A shame this couldn't have happened at the beginning of December last year - I was in New York attending the KongIsKing meet-up and the world premiere of King Kong itself... sadly all my spondoolicks...

Well, I for one would be interested. I work in Soho (NO, NO, NO - not THAT kind of work - I'm in the post-production business) so anywhere near there or Central London would be ideal for me.

M.

Can't say I've had many problems with iLife 06 myself, but perhaps I'm just not using them enough to see them. Oh well - thanks for putting me on the straight and narrow about DL support in Panther....

No, not Martin Parsons - but there is a Martin Parsons where I work.

M.

I do believe Dell have very decent South African support. In fact, I think their overall African presence is pretty good. I remember writing a proposal for a Ghanian re-insurance company based...

As far as I'm aware (and I may be wrong about this - so anybody please feel to step in and give me a slap), dual-layer writing is NOT supported by Panther. You would need to upgrade to Tiger for...

Definately worth doing. I'd also go as far as recommending buying the MPEG-2 component to play MPEG-2 files from within Quicktime. Yes, you could very well use DVD Player for that, but for the...

Several things to check:

1) Some monitors have multiple inputs (usually VGA and DVI connectors) and have a switch to change between them. This can either by a physical switch or alternatively...

See here (about two thirds of the way down the page - resetting the administrator's password)

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106156

Regards,

Martyn

How recent is the recent? I remember when using my work MacBook Pro that I had to apply a firmware upgrade before using BootCamp - but more recent models may have already had the firmware applied.
...

What I've done with my site (The Friends of English Magic - about Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, the novel by Susanna Clarke - just in case anybody gets the wrong ideas about it being about English...

I thought the keynote presentation was very interesting. The fact that as Steve Jobs was demonstrating various components of the Dashboard and the new iTunes it turns out that he was using a Pentium...

Well, Dells are very nice, but I much prefer the power of the Opteron. The problem is that there are still too few dedicated server providers that supply them. The next desktop machine will be a...

Certainly a DSL/cable router is going to be a big benefit - but you'd still have to port forward to the appropriate machine if you use NAT. Alternatively you could buy a block of public IPs from...

For people to access your Teamspeak server from the Internet, you'll need to open up the appropriate ports and do port forwarding. Do you have a firewall on the PC that's attached to the ADSL modem?...