When is the phone going to come in from the cold? How much of our lives do we spend continually giving the same information to the same companies time and again down the telephone? Only for those companies to spend even more time typing the same information into their systems.
When are phones going to be [...]

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Great find by Larry O’Brien, a game to play whilst you’re urinating. I wonder if it is multi-player?
I just can’t imagine springing out of bed on a morning to go program a urinal game. They must have had industrial quantities of water around for the developers to drink!

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Jim Forbes wrote an interesting piece Microsoft Wake Up–Apple is gaining Intellectual Capital and Market over on his blog.
I have to disagree with most of it though. I don’t see Apple gaining momentum outside of a few new media folks, who’ve always held an exaggerated sense of their own importance.
From the home point of view: [...]

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FYI there is an interesting interview with Chris Sanders, author of “Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to solve real-world network problems”.
If you are new to packet analysis, you can do a lot worse than read the book.
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Hope you like the new theme! We were bored with the bog standard Wordpress theme so we thought we’d custom build our own.
The theme, and the blog for that matter, are intended to be a bit folksy and characterful whilst at the same time giving a nice I.T. feel to the place. Please let [...]

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Good news! The online shop now is able to handle non-UK based European VAT registered companies to buy without VAT being added to the bill.
You must, of course, have a VAT number from the country to which the goods are being shipped. And yes, we do check them to make sure they are kosher, so [...]

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There does seem to be a lot of heat in whether or not the new wave open source systems management players are going to take on the Big 4 (IBM, CA, BMC & HP). You can get more info here and here. The 451 Group report is here.
If the new wave do end up undercutting [...]

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Mark Hinkle over at Zenoss mentioned Ohloh, a new open source software directory. Good find Mark!
In Ohloh’s own words:
Ohloh is a new kind of software directory, combining community driven content with a unique source code crawler that monitors up-to-date development activity.
It’s an old skool software directory with a bit of Web 2.0 magic thrown in [...]

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Tech magazines are becoming a rare breed. Even more rare for them to be in print. I’m sure you read a good number, but I thought it would be good to share my list. Hopefully, you’ll share your list.

Data Centre Management
Network Computing
IT Week
Communications News
Computer Weekly

For IT VARs and resellers, I’d recommend CRN.
If you [...]

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