The Journal
Computing
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If Intel’s Profits Have Dropped by 55%
Because of lower margins… Why have chip prices gone up? Or when they say lower margins do they just mean that PC sales have been down in the first quarter? I hope Intel CEO Paul Otellini is…
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Windows 7 Beta
The Australian Federal Government department that handles social security, Centelink, is testing the Windows 7 beta . That may not be exciting news for most people . It isn’t for me either, really. But the nature of…
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Education Tax Refund
I only heard of this today. Australian parents and caregivers can get back up to 50% of the cost of eligible education expenses for primary and secondary schooling. The link is worth following if you live…
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Couldn’t Some of the Internet Cash go to Emergency Medical Care?
Emergency medicine specialists say as many lives are lost in Australia each year because of inadequate ER resources (including staff), as are lost on our roads. Time to think about your priorities, boys and girls. Or…
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Government to Spend $43 Billion On Internet Infrastructure
National broadband gets the go ahead, but the government will do it itself. There are already some criticisms. No time to write in detail about this today, but a few questions spring to mind. If the Federal Government has…
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Banks Funding Virus Creation (or Forcing You To)
In an article on the Australian ABC website, Patrick Gray suggests that the major motivation for writing viruses is financial. This is certainly true with ‘key logger’ type infections, but I am not sure it is true…
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More News on Conficker
Also known as Downadup. As I noted earlier, so far the worm has not caused any damage, except for giving scareware makers another way of cheating people out of their money, and well meaning friends sending annoying email warnings.…
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Bagle Worm, or Beagle Worm, Whatever
Got back to find my home computer (on which I am running the beta of Windows 7, not that that has anything to do with it) is multiply infected with the bagle worm, and various other…
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Microsoft puts Bounty on Conficker Worm Creators
The Conficker Worm itself does not seem to do much harm. It’s just a competent piece of programming which is hard to detect, and which so far, seems not to be malicious. It sounds to me like…
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Scareware an Annoying Scam
My own Dad, an intelligent and computer savvy former medical scientist, fell for one of these scareware scams, and I frequently encounter them in business – usually after a complaint by a client that the anti-virus software I…
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Why PCs are Better Than Macs
As if it wasn’t obvious. This article is a year old, but still gives a good summary of why you be crazy to buy a Mac. Macs are fine for children and public servants, but in…
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The New Kindle 2 Looks Good
But this could be better. An app to enable you to read e-books on your smartphone. The positives are that if you have a smartphone you don’t need another device – saving space in your pocket…
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Windows 7 beta
I installed the Windows 7 beta on my home computer last night. It’s a fairly complex machine with four internal drives, a permanently connected external backup drive, Nvidia graphics card, headphones, two printers, ethernet and wireless…