Andrew Taylor

Continuing on the theme of similarities, just noticed the both Yahoo! and Google have a product called “Buzz”. http://buzz.yahoo.com http://www.google.com/buzz Is there no creativity and originality left?!

Seemingly if you go to http://id.bbc.co.uk/ a new version of the BBC homepage is returned. Not sure this is intentional, but interesting to see the development nonetheless. The give-away being the “The new BBC homepage”  link on the right hand side! Old New

I needed to log all requests to our Bind DNS servers so that we could find out which servers and computers were still using them for DNS resolution before we decomissioned them. This named.conf config entry proved most useful. I’ve posted it here so that everytime I need to do this, I don’t start from scratch [...]

My day job currently includes the design, build and deployment of Active Directory services. As a user of VMWare ESX, most of our AD infrastructure is built as Virtual Machines. However, over the last week I’ve come across problems with this environment, or more specifically, VMWare Tools. Rather than repeat what’s already been posted – [...]

Facebook is rather cool. Feel free to add me… http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502514633

Anyone else noticed this? Last week, the BBC News added an AJAX section to dynamically load news and weather from your local area. Example screenshot below.

A worrying statistic. More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or viruses, report mail monitoring firms. Analysis of the contents of millions of e-mails has revealed that less than 4% is legitimate traffic. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5219554.stm

I’ve recently rediscovered the various applications – whether Win32 or Web Based – that Google provide. I’ve converted my personal email account to GMail to take advatage of the web based and POP3 interface, 2Gb storage, conversation feature – and above all, excellent spam filtering.

I came across something called YouOS on Digg today. YouOS is a web operating system that lets you run diverse applications within a web browser. Small applications like sticky notes or clocks. Large applications like word processing, mp3 players, and instant messaging. Even better, it’s very easy to tweak an existing application or write your [...]

Clive at osde.info alerted me to rPath and rBuilder today. rPath provides rBuilder and rPath Linux, the first platform for creating and maintaining software appliances.