The Hutton and Butler reports have already shown what a farce the notion of an independent report is in the political world. The Register gives an example from the commercial world.
What they told us:
An independent study for the London Borough of Newham by CapGemini found that migrating from Microsoft to open-source software would cost more in the than sticking with Microsoft.
What they didn't tell us:
The study was funded by Microsoft
The study was only supposed to look at the benefits of upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows XP and was not intended to compare MS with open-source.
The only data about open-source costs was provided by Microsoft and not checked by the supposedly independent CapGemini.
The Register story has more juicy detail.
Friday, September 10, 2004
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
The Spaceheads
Saw The Spaceheads at the Old Hall festival.
Amazing. Drums and trumpet and some electronics producing a stunning
sound.
Amazing. Drums and trumpet and some electronics producing a stunning
sound.
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Wireless Networking HOWTO or How stupid are Apple?
How do you attach a computer to a wireless network?
Its really very simple, all you have to do is buy a wireless card, install it and you are away.
Unless the computer is a Macintosh.
In this case, you have to make sure that you bought the right computer in the first place because you can only get wireless network cards for computers which Apple deems to be "Airport ready" or "Airport extreme ready". Despite the fact that Power Macs have PCI slots and USB ports, Apple don't produce a PCI wireless card or a wireless USB adapter. An Airport card seems to have a PCMCIA interface and an Airport extreme card has a Mini-PCI interface.
Another in a long line of mistakes by Apple which help to explain why the struggle as a computer company.
Its really very simple, all you have to do is buy a wireless card, install it and you are away.
Unless the computer is a Macintosh.
In this case, you have to make sure that you bought the right computer in the first place because you can only get wireless network cards for computers which Apple deems to be "Airport ready" or "Airport extreme ready". Despite the fact that Power Macs have PCI slots and USB ports, Apple don't produce a PCI wireless card or a wireless USB adapter. An Airport card seems to have a PCMCIA interface and an Airport extreme card has a Mini-PCI interface.
Another in a long line of mistakes by Apple which help to explain why the struggle as a computer company.
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
High Level Suicide
Headline in today's Sun "Skydiver in 9,000ft Suicide". Surely the actual suicide took place somewhat lower?
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