Posted by colman on 27th Feb, 2008 | 0 comments
From “The Open Sourcerer” blog (a good read by the way), is news of Microsoft’s warm and cuddly attitude to world...
Posted by colman on 27th Feb, 2008 | 0 comments
In a prior existence as an IT Manager, I implemented a Websense server on our network, primarily to monitor website usage and enforce our internet use policy. It was, and probably still is, a very good product offering a huge level of detail on who is accessing what on the network.
For a small business, however, Websense and it’s competing products just don’t make sense. Financially...
Posted by colman on 26th Feb, 2008 | 0 comments
Open source software is a bit of a buzzword (buzzphrase?) at the moment, and rightly so. Considering that the majority of the world’s websites run on open source software (servers running the suite of applications known collectively as LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and that the Firefox web browser continues to erode Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the browser of choice for...
Posted by colman on 22nd Feb, 2008 | 0 comments
Most people nowadays have a mobile phone (cellular if you’re the wrong side of the pond), and whilst many stump up the full whack for their handset and then stick a pay-as-you-go SIM in, a sizeable percentage (in the UK at least) have the cost of their handset heavily subsidised by opting for a 12 or 18 month contract. If you’re a reasonably heavy user, then contracts make sense,...
Posted by colman on 1st Feb, 2008 | 0 comments
Yesterday I received in the post some information from a company (who shall remain unnamed) in the public sector who had put out an Invitation To Tender (ITT) for a new, VoIP-enabled telephone system. The ITT itself contained very little information indeed about their requirements, as is often the case. However, it did mention the fact that it was a public sector company, and since value for...