Andrew Taylor

A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to go for a day out of the office to the headoffice of Initial Style. Style is part of the Rentokil Initial group and provides conference venues and facilities. They’re currently in the process of being sold off as part of the restructuring of the group. [...]

At my day job with Rentokil I’ve been exposed to a lot of open source operating systems and software, since that is what a lot of our servers are based on. I’m rapidly becoming a fan and have put on my site some info about various applications I’ve been working with in my projects. http://www.andrewtaylor.me.uk/gnu/

Decided that I’d rather have my blog hosted on my site rather than MSN Spaces. You never know when they might decide it’s a premium service and start charging or other random things.

This was an interesting read: http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051024/NEWS03/510240319/1007

It’s been a rather stressful few days at work. Our department has been implementing a trial of Microsoft Exchange server for the top execs of the company so they can use Outlook when roaming the world for email, calendaring, contacts etc, as well the use of Blackberry’s when an Internet connection isn’t available.

You know Microsoft keep getting sued and lawsuits thrown at them? Well, now their getting their own back, and they’re not picking a small target either. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/07/ec_gets_sued/

BT have released an application to warn you if your PC attempts to dial a premium rate or international number. Hundreds of people have been caught out by malware which changes the Internet connection settings on your computer to dial their own premium rate number, charged at up to £1.50 a minute instead of your normal [...]

<sales pitch> Fancy having you@yourname.co.uk as an email address (like my andrew@andrewtaylor.me.uk)? Now you can for around a tenner.

Just a few quick links to show that Firefox isn’t as “oh so amazing, bug free, secure and wonderful” as everyone reckons:

Occassionally, Dell go mad. They went mad sometime last week – Monday I think it was. They were selling servers for £99. The spec wasn’t top of the range, 2.53Ghz Celeron, 256Mb RAM and 80Gb HDD (like this) but for £99 who’s complaing? It would do nicely as a desktop PC!