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  1. Review - Google Video Uploader for Windows

    1.0 (Apr 14, 2005)

    link to the Homepage don't won't work bet MIA have closed them down already :(

    Love the idea but not try it till Google link works

  2. Comment - MySQL Patches Security Flaws

    1.0 (May 5, 2006 - 10:11 AM)

    I know I don't have to change apache again just a pain after having it nicly set up to be upgrading sql already.

  3. Comment - MySQL Patches Security Flaws

    1.0 (May 4, 2006 - 3:23 PM)

    Doh just got Apache 2.2.2 all set up with mod_Ssl, php and mysql now this :(

    Well done to MySQL for fixing it tho

  4. Comment - Opera Beefs Up 'Mini' Phone Browser

    1.0 (May 3, 2006 - 1:05 PM)

    Love the mobile commerce added to it, hopefully now I can check my bank account on the move

  5. Comment - Gates Pokes Fun at $100 Laptop

    1.0 (Mar 16, 2006 - 8:49 PM)

    Noone else think as I do why gates hates this Idea?

    People get a $100 PC with a HDD, what is there to stop them taking a Windows CD that they 'got' from there friends and installing XP/2000/ or even 98 on it (don't know the specs as I'm from the UK)

    Bill don't care that the PC is cheap why should he bar the XBox MS normally stays outta the hardware side of PC's.

    PS, If we in the UK had a $100 PC (about £140) with linix I would buy one now and just change the OS to FreeBSD.

    Good luck to the company doing this and start this in the UK soon I beg of you

  6. Comment - UK Court Orders File Swappers to Pay

    1.0 (Jan 27, 2006 - 9:05 PM)

    "We have long said that unauthorized file sharing is damaging the music industry...."
    They forgot to add...
    Also this is a good thing as many artists out there are 1st been heard of via a CD a friend did for a friend.

    I live in the UK and like rock music, The only real way to listen to real rock music here is if you have sky or another cable digi TV. The radio stations are mostly POP or hiphop and TV music is dead even Top of the Pop's in now demoted to sundays on BBC2.

    I have listened to maybe 1000 differnt and good rock acts via MP3's (most from friends in the US) to illegal to download the music most of the time if I liked the album I went to the shop and picked up a copy. One sale that without 'illegael' MP3's they wouldn't have had.

    So P2P is BAD yes for the people that make pop music and have people make money off them (ie, people selling bootlegs at car-boot sales) but also sometimes a bit of sharing between friends is GOOD for the music business as a whole a lot of people hear music they never would have before.

    It's just like sharing a tape with a mate to see wot he/she thinks, but the problem in the digital age is that everything is trackable.

    at least with tapes you knew that there wa not a mircochip in them to send info back to the RIAA or BPI or some other company.

    Just my 2c or 1.60(ish) pennice anyways.