How to lose $7.2bn with just a few Basic skills - Diary Entry

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

All this is Crazy!! Special report As I swept through Kent and Calais on a Eurostar last week, the financial markets again threw some entertainment my way in the shape of the SocGen debacle. My last Reg piece explained that the credit crunch was partly fuelled by VBA and that is what ...

Dell EMC - Cheap SME SAN Storage - Diary Entry

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

This is a nice bit of kit for a cheap VM solution. With RAID 10 support and upto 60TB of storage, starting at a nice price. I NEED ONE OF THESE! Combining simplicity and scalability, the Dell AX4-5 storage arrays deliver performance, expandability, and advanced data management features in ...

Gmail Exploit Aids Domain Hijack

Monday, December 31st, 2007

  Web designer David Airey has succeeded in recovering his domain after hackers exploited flaws in Gmail to trick his hosts into authorising a fraudulent transfer. Airey's woes began when he took his girlfriend for a month-long holiday to India on 21 November, ...

Nintendo takes Japan Xmas sales crown

Monday, December 31st, 2007

  Nintendo took the crown last week for pre-Christmas console sales in Japan, with sales of Wiis and DS Lites higher than all the others combined. The DS Lite topped the chart - again - with unit shipments totalling 279,551 consoles for the week to 23 December 2007, ...

Windows Live Writer - A Quick Test

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

  Quote of the Day: You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. --Liz Smith Live Writer Make Life so Easy.   Get it ...