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Dreaded spyware search toolbars were seen on this new computer from the very first day (before I could put any firewalls up). It was most probably because of a mis-typed “google.com” which can result in landing somewhere like “googke.com” and this is where this rubbish is waiting for you… This one is at top (click [...]

It’s not clear whether the amount of plagiarism is increasing or just whether the detection of it is getting more sophisticated, but it certainly a large problem when high profile academics are being caught out doing it US war on plagiarism takes first UK scalp. The scandalous thing here is the only punishment for these [...]

This is a very interesting development from MIT. It’s a project to provide $100 laptop computers to school children in developing countries as an attempt to close the digital divide. (Update: the CNN.com link of Apr 4, 2005 is no longer available.) Some thoughts: There will be huge pressure from the Micro$ofts and Dells of [...]

Take my advice – don’t bother with Service Pack 2 for WinXP, unless you are very brave. I just wasted 2 days of my life trying to get my computer to boot after installing SP2. The brief, but gory details… Okay, so I didn’t update all the drivers first – but I am left wondering [...]