Neowin has some details on codename Morro, now called Microsoft Security Essentials - rumoured to go into a public beta form soon. You can clearly see how this was built upon the excellent anti-spyware software Windows Defender that Microsoft included with Windows Vista (and made a free download for Windows XP), you can see it even more clearly in earlier builds. Hopefully this will be everything the PC ecosystem needs it to be....
The stupidity of some people is often hard to grasp, especially when you've got those good old wacky astrologers/shamans/priestess of something or other like Satya Harvey (real name Ann) - I ain't gonna link to it because I'm not increasing the ad revenue, but you can search for her and probably find what I'm talking about, or go through the link below to a related article which links to it....
Doesn't look terribly good for the Party of European Socialists. We should have made gains. Why? Because the socialists have failed to promote a socialist agenda. It's time for something a bit more radical - broad nationalisation - without compensation, about bringing entire sectors of the economy under workers' control - and about freeing the press from capital.
Oh dear, this old fairy tale again. It is the tale of the British people, whose courage during the Blitz forced Hitler to call off the invasion of England Britain (thanks, we know the US has long tried to destroy our union, pack it in). Hitler never intended to invade Britain, nor did he want a war with Britain. Britain turned down many offers of peace from 1939 till 1941. Heck even as late as 1943 when Churchill was asked by a reporter while going to meet Roosevelt in Quebec if they had considered offering peace terms with Germany he replied "...
For some strange reason this nonsense made it onto the BBC News website. It may not be immediately obvious to everyone, but one family are convinced they can see the face of Jesus on the lid of a jar of Marmite. Claire Allen, 36, said she was the first to notice the image on the underside of the lid as she was putting the yeast spread on her son's toast. Her husband Gareth, 37, said he could not believe his eyes when he saw it....
It looks like the National Health Service might soon be willing to provide acupuncture for suffers of back pain, thanks to guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. What is acupuncture? Essentially its the notion that disease or other problems are caused by your qi (read: magical body energies) being out of whack. This out-of-whackness can be corrected by inserting needles into specific meridians (read: magic qi pathways) to reflow the qi energies....
Tom Gromak wrote up a post detailing his experiences with Windows 7. However, almost everything he mentions positive of it, is present in Windows Vista, which he seems to dismiss out of hand. Windows 7 is everything Vista was not: Sleek, stylish and speedy. Sleek and stylish? It looks pretty much the same as Windows Vista. If it wasn't for the new less-efficient taskbar it would be almost indistinguishable. Speed is hotly debated....
Congratulations Timothy Peake on being Britain's first ESA astronaut. But several media outlets as per usual have got things slightly wrong, so let's gets the correction out there. The Daily Telegraph for example says "Meet the first astronaut to fly to space under the British flag". Errr not quite. I know what they're trying to distinguish between, the several British-born astronauts who have all been US citizens, and an actual British citizen, but it seems they're forgetting Helen Sharman, who is a British citizen, and flew under the British flag....
I've been complaining about this for ages, crappy HSDPA coverage in the centre of town from O2 - annoyingly just going a couple of hundred metres west or east would sort it out, so just a tiny strip of the town was missing out, GPRS was the best we could get - ouch. Well last night at around 3:00 I checked my phone and bam a solid HSDPA signal. But this morning it had gone back to GPRS, but later in the afternoon HSDPA was back with all its speedy goodness....
Following on from my previous post on the subject of my new server, its been running fine for a week. Here's the thing sat next to the old server. Much smaller, and much more likely to survive the journey to Guildford - I've actually decided to use screws to hold this one together, not cellotape and blu-tac. Although I'm sure I'll be swearing at it when I need to swap out some disks....