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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Orange UK suspending BlackBerry Bold shipments?

Orange UK is suspending shipments of the BlackBerry Bold due to software issues. Is this the start of a trend? Read More

Would Microsoft buyout Research in Motion?

What would you think of a takeover of RIM by Microsoft? Read More

Real iBerry Blocks Custom L - 2.0 - 8800s/Curves OS 4.2.2 - 4.5

Closed Vlingo Beta running for the BlackBerry Nation!

Closed Vlingo Beta running for the BlackBerry Nation!
Sign up for the Vlingo closed beta and help make their free application even better!

OpenSolaris Coming To SPARC In Q1'09

For those of you interested in running OpenSolaris on Sun's old hardware or new SPARC hardware such as the UltraSPARC T2 (Niagara 2), it will be possible starting early next year. Sun's Tim Cramer has announced they've begun work on bringing this open-source Solaris-derived desktop distribution to their SPARC architecture, which is coming almost a year after the first Project Indiana preview release. Sun is targeting the SPARC port for a Q1'09 release and at this time they're still determining which generation of the SPARC architecture to focus on for their initial release...

Beware iPhone Users

Apple fanatics have maintained that Apple's operating systems and applications are simply more secure than Microsoft's. Others (myself included) have held the theory that the software is not necessarily more... Read More

Re: WRT54GX4 - Blackberry

I was SO hopeful.

Sadly - same error. Network recognized immediately.

Is there a way to manually assign an IP to a specif MAC address (ie my BB)?

thanks so far. Read More

Beware iPhone Users

Beware iPhone Users
Apple fanatics have maintained that Apple's operating systems and applications are simply more secure than Microsoft's. Others (myself included) have held the theory that the software is not necessarily more...

Do You Know How (In)Secure Your Are?

Do You Know How (In)Secure Your Are?
Do you have antivirus software installed? Is it updated? How about antispyware protection? Do you have a personal firewall protecting your PC? Do you have some sort of antiphishing program...

Attending the IBM Forum 2008 in Wellington

Cool, it's that time of the year again when the IBM Forum is on. I've attended previous events and it's always an interesting day.

Here's a bit about this event:

IBM Forum 2008 focuses on Sustainable Innovation, starting with the keynote, Ray Avery, a kiwi scientist and entrepreneur; founder CEO of Medicine Mondiale. Ray is developing sustainable products and technologies for world markets, such as his latest invention “Proteinforte”. Ray will be talking about global opportunities for high tech innovation in healthcare, education and infrastructure.

Also on the agenda, Edward Orange, Director of Lotus Software of IBM Asia Pacific, will be talking about Web 2.0 and how it can be leveraged by enterprises of all sizes to help revolutionise the way they conduct business, help employees collaborate more effectively and enhance their client outreach.

The agenda also features a session on 'Co-Web: re-mixing audio and video collaboration in the next generation of the Internet’ and ‘Demystifying SOA - driving business agility with service orientated business applications’, as well as insights into the latest advances in strategy and technology; customer stories and interactive demonstrations.

The full day event is happening in Wellington (11th August, Michael Fowler Centre), Auckland (14th August, Hyatt Hotel) and Christchurch (19th August, Convention Centre).

Registrations are open now.

Microsoft sues DHL after train dumps 21,600 Xboxes

Microsoft seeking more than US$2 million in damages from DHL Read More

Wall Street: Tech shares slump to 2003 levels

Wall Street: Tech shares slump to 2003 levels
Revenue forecasts cut for tech bellweathers

The Truth in Advertising

The Truth in Advertising
Some bits sound like meetings I attended... Other bits sound like exactly what I expect "Big Telco" would be talking when creating a campaign for their new JesusPhone offering...

Warning: some heavy NSFW language. But worth watching the whole thing.

BlackBerry certification is now a must

BlackBerry certification is now a must
Is your BES admin BlackBerry Certified? He better be!

Are Microsoft's open-source actions enough?

Are Microsoft's open-source actions enough?
Microsoft could struggle pulling off an image change. Kathleen Lau reports

Symantec Goes on Shopping Spree

The economy is in a tailspin...plummet...freefall. Apparently Symantec has not gotten the memo and the credit crunch seems to be having little impact on their shopping plans. The security software... Read More

Do You Know How (In)Secure Your Are?

Improving Mandriva's Boot Performance

Last week we published an article looking at the ASUS Eee PC 901 Linux boot performance. In that article we had compared how long it took to boot Linux (using the excellent Bootchart program) for Fedora 9, Fedora 10 Alpha, Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6, and Mandriva 2009 Beta 2...

Trolltech Is No More, Hello Qt Software

Trolltech Is No More, Hello Qt Software
Trolltech, the Norwegian company behind the Qt GUI framework, is no more. Earlier this year it was announced that Nokia is acquiring Trolltech and they have now decided they don't like the names Trolltech or Qtopia...

Vodafone Broadband Bandwidth meter: Total crap

I noticed that there was an issue currently occuring with the Bandwith meter for the 24th and the 25th:

Bandwidth issue 2008-07-25 11:32:57

Some customers may notice that their bandwidth for the 24th and 25th of July is higher than usual.

We are currently investigating this issue with our Engineers and we hope to resolve this as soon as possible

Thank you for your patience

So I went along to My Vodafone to check.

While the meter in the picture below only accounts for my PC only (out of two), I am the biggest user of this household, so you could multiply the figures in my meter report by around 1.5.

Do note that my meter report may have slightly higher usage than the actual one as some packets may not be going to the Internet.

It sometimes fluctuates below my own PC's usage... and the 24th has a sudden peak spike (but the days before it were pretty unaccounted for)

Also, the 22nd of July is missing! Where did that go?

Some dates also seem to have huge delay in processing the usage (so sometimes the usage on one day goes on the next day).

I've seen problems with ihug's/Vodafone's usage checker a few times before. I haven't seen many occurrences of other ISPs having similar problems...

This also reduces the trust laid upon Vodafone's systems. I definitely know that I'll need to use my meter to check for usage rather than My Vodafone. Could this mean that we could be paying more for our data? (as if there is substantially more data usage than the actual one, then Vodafone have actually been taking away the value of the plan)

Vodafone's engineers better rectify this problem soon!