Tags: internet
12/05/10
Apprantly a huge chunk of Germanys .DE sites went down today for about 1hr due to the people controlling them to screw up some I guess rather important files. Apprantly it also affected sites starting with "A" to "O" can't confirm that, not like its impo… more »
11/05/10
Apprantly we are running out of IP address, too many devices using them all up or something. I would assume by now all operating systems have support for Ipv6 which there hoping will solve the issue, and Ipv4 what we use now can live along side it. You c… more »
Small problem over at bog news central, some bug allowing you to force followers apprantly, I don't think this is the first time its happened either. These things tend to die out fast because everyone starts doing it. I think its fixed now. Funny how Fac… more »
19/03/10
A bit off from what we usually post, but since we do cover telecoms storys and this is pervy it fits in quite well. ex- BT man was taping the lines from the cab basically and running up bills talking to "ladies of the night"... reminds me of when we was… more »
15/03/10
04:14:48 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: bubble, capitilists, com, dot, idiots, internet, network Today its 25th bithday of when the first "dot-com" was registered, not much of defining moment in the history of all things but its better than using IP address to access sites I guess :p I do wonder how much it cost when these days hosts generally end u… more »
11/03/10
We seen it before and we seeing it again... a game streaming service (think YouTube) but this time streaming the bits and bytes needed for games to run. Some may remember the Phantom promised the same thing way back in what 2004/2005? but used a dedicate… more »
10/03/10
11:13:21 am by drf, Categories: News , Tags: bubble, capitilists, com, dot, idiots, internet, network Much happier times way back.. life was so much simpler, expect I guess if you were some kind of venture capitilist pig spending millions on companys that had only a web site... 10yrs ago today the so called dot com bubble burst, wiping out millions from… more »
08/03/10
Internet access a right? Well it should be, but after seeing countless goverment programs and wannabe ISPs giving it for free and falling on there ass its not very likly to succed, the tech. is there wireless, mobile,satellite,wimax could all be used qui… more »
21/02/10
Apprantly this domain name is wanted by alot of people, don't see how a Google (or other search engine) search for the word "sex" is bound to return a crap load of links, I don't think people get that the domain is just 1 part of getting traffic for a si… more »
16/02/10
New site of this scale so what you really expect? Not like Google to rush things out mind, at least they working on it.Crap screenshot robbed from BBC :"The firm has had to make a series of changes to the service after a ferocious backlash from use… more »
13/02/10
Not quite sure how this is going to work out. This case relates to 2 blokes who was publishing some racist stuff, on a server in California, they wanted in UK, they ran to US, got deported etc. etc. now this is the latest turn in the story. According to… more »
Google has closed 6 (so far) semi-legal music blogs that where hosted on its Blogger/BlogSpot services, the blog masters got notices after allready being up for years anyhow. Some of the blogs were apprantly sponsored by the record labels and used to pro… more »
12/02/10
BT have apparently chosen to finally open up the underground bits and bobs that there network uses, this allowing other ISP's/telecoms companys to install there very own lines, don't know how this will benefit BT has to be something in this for them. BT… more »
Google Vs Australia which is bigger? Aussie government want Google to censor content and run some kind of filtering system just like Google China, waste of time if you ask me. Aus. is apparently weeks away from passing a law making ISP's down under black… more »
11/02/10
Excessive instalation fee or what? Some couple up in some remote village (which allready has 500Kb broadband) told theres no more capacity and thats the bill for fitting new gear to allow them to have broadband... when the house next door has broadband :… more »
04/02/10
Only in a land down under, more crazy copyright antics. Movie studios try to sue ISP on basis its responsible for what its customers download... ruled there not. In that case am I responsible for what people download off my open wifi?Could not find a g… more »
03/02/10
More security issues over at Twitter, according to the article this may have been going on for years too, only being found out recently. Oddly its using torrents (torrent sites/forums etc.). More will be posted when I find it, be interesting to look at.… more »
02/02/10
Jeez everyones really having a go at old IE lately the German, French & now English people want it gone... I don't think the goverment is going to care, mind you they could hide behind it for something to do I guess...Hotlinked IE logo from BBC bec… more »
04/01/10
Internet access in UK will always be lagging far behind the rest of the planet and has done for many years why worry about this little blip on the radar... they wanna be gratefull they not on Virmin Media with the worlds worst known capping scheme that… more »
28/12/09
Simply, light, fast, easy and free. Its just nice when software does what its meant when its meant FileZilla is one of those apps. If your in need of a FTP Client then you could do alot worse than FileZilla. more »
