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23.5.03

Why we need stupid networks
Guardian Online
Schofield column


All aboard the ARKive, a site for endangered species.
Web watch

The Fizzer virus, driving Windows using MouseKeys, and other problems
Ask Jack

Thursday, May 15, 2003

The Silver Surfer of the Year Award heralds a new push to get the over 50s online.
Guardian Online

9.5.03

Social software -- is it the next big thing, or something we've had for decades? It was certainly the hot topic at the recent O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference, highlighted by a terrific keynote from Clay Shirky.
Guardian Online

When computer companies collide: it's a year since Hewlett-Packard took over Compaq to create a computer giant. Computer industry mergers are usually a bad idea, but this one seems to be going better than most.
Guardian Online
Schofield column


Art after Levi's. DNA revisited -- the Linux Pauling story. Where did that band name come from? May weeks: time to celebrate National Breastfeeding Awareness Week and National Vegetarian Week, among others. Six of the best: Revision sites.
Web watch

Why doesn't a "40GB" drive hold 40GB of data? How much space is Windows taking up? And how much is a second-hand PC worth?
Ask Jack

Thursday, May 1, 2003

Drive to put in a good word -- Brewster Kahle thinks big. In a world where most people can't back up their own hard drive, he started keeping an archive of the internet, and created the Wayback Machine. His latest project is even bigger: to provide universal access to all human knowledge. Putting about a million books (soon!) in the back of a van is just the start.
Guardian Online

Molecular machines -- Eric Drexler, who coined the term nanotechnology, spoke at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference in Santa Clara, California, last week.
Guardian Online
Schofield column


You can copy a Web site to CD, but is it legal to send it to a school in Kenya? Blocking those Messenger service pop-up ads in Windows XP. Getting files off the desktop. Software to synchronise a PC with an external hard drive for back-up purposes.
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