While extracting a vmware machine image downloaded from the web – I was greeted by an error message that would be pretty impressive if true. The error during unzipping – “There is not enough space on the local disk . You need an additional 734 PB to copy these files.” Okay 734 Petabytes ? Thats 751616 […]
Yes – Rim – the maker of the Blackberry smartphone is in a tight spot. After a series of technical outages and a period of lacklustre product announcements they really do need the new release of their smartphones (V10) to be really fantastic as far as attracting the punters back. Its a lot way since […]
This is a Just enough OS appliance based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Get it from here. It is built from scratch and is only 55MB in size but is still fully compatible with Ubuntu updates because no files have been removed from packages themselves. It is therefor a completely different way to build an OS […]
The latest concern is the announcement of a new critical security flaw in Java SE 5 build 1.5.0_22-b03, Java SE 6 build 1.6.0_35-b10, and the latest Java SE 7 build 1.7.0_07-b10. This error is caused by a discrepancy with how the Java virtual machine handles defined data types (a type-safety error) and in doing so […]
The main problems that will be faced by organisations thinking about moving to Windows 8 when it is released are training, training and training. Oh yeah – and more expensive touchscreen technology. This isn’t an unusual situation – it tends to happen each time a new o/s gets released and is normally part of an […]
This week was a low point for Sophos – the antivirus company. With remote email notification for all Sophos clients – the moment the first email arrived I knew we were in for trouble. Having alerted my colleagues and have notified Sophos support – we watched the drama unfold. The Problem? An update that caused […]
After the hype of the iphone 5 – its back to getting the compatible devices you already have up to the latest version. I have come to dread these moments as I know that at least one client will hit a roadbump while doing this. I even tried to head some of it off by […]
News is seeping out (if thats a good description) of a problem with the ios 6.0.2 update. Seems that the battery life is being hit by a bug in the wireless aspect of the operating system. From some of the reports it seems quite agressive and may actually reduce your battery life between charges. Given […]
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