Archive for August, 2007

I’m jumping ship – VMware Fusion

I just installed VMware fusion on my Macbook; Parallels they crept up behind you. Don’t get me wrong I love parallels and its incarnations, but VMware has a smaller feature set and its fast. I have been running Fedora 7 through VMware, with it emulating to cores thats right you can virtulise stuff on multiple [...]

BTs Top Ten Causes For Slowness

I have been experiencing some heavy packet shaping by my usually pretty good ISP BT, when I emailed them to ask what was with the excessive packet shaping I got this reply. If there is an EMI then the connection may drop or you may experience slow browsing. Please make sure that the modem is [...]

Trixbox Pro Released

Today marks the release of Trixbox Pro, a more business orientated version of my favorite VOIP system asterisk. Fonality are doing some clever stuff with Pro and its great that I can use it without paying mega money (in fact not a penny) It looks exactly what I have been looking for, Asterisk based, but [...]

BBC Clogging the Tubes

Senior executives, including BT Retail’s Ian Livingston, The Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone and Tiscali UK’s chief Mary Turner have held informal talks amid growing anger over the BBC’s hitching a ‘free ride’ with its new iPlayer system for downloading TV programmes over the web. Link Oh no the ISPs don’t like there bandwidth being [...]