This month's Computers in Business (the IT supplement from the Sunday Business Post) has an interesting article by Barry McCall which covers the "marriage" of open and closed source solutions in the corporate environment. Some of his reflections are quite incisive: Some competing Linux distributors are blindly following a pure open source path while some proprietary vendors … [Read more...] about Open Source vs Proprietary Software – A middle ground?
Archives for January 2006
January Blues Getting You Down? – Cheer Yourself Up With Some Blacknight Gear
Just before Christmas Frank from BifSniff did a lovely graphic for us to use on some Blacknight merchandise. … [Read more...] about January Blues Getting You Down? – Cheer Yourself Up With Some Blacknight Gear
Libel Online
Hugh, or at least his company, may have been subject to libel by a publication this weekend. If you are unsure about what libel, slander or defamation are exactly then the short guide from Digital Rights Ireland may be helpful. … [Read more...] about Libel Online
Internet Explorer Users Beware
If you make up part of the 40% of readers viewing this blog in Internet Explorer you may have noticed a new addition to the top of this page (and all other pages on this blog) If you do not like this addition you can get rid of it very easily :) EDIT: Seems the javascript is doing odd things, so I've removed it for the moment … [Read more...] about Internet Explorer Users Beware
Risque Advertising – GoDaddy and the Super Bowl
Last year GoDaddy ran a "risque" advert during the Super Bowl. I put risque in inverted commas, as by European standards it would hardly have qualified as such. It may be mildly sexist, but it would hardly upset a European audience. … [Read more...] about Risque Advertising – GoDaddy and the Super Bowl