Tag Archives: Computing

“Hello Dave, You Look Nice Today” – One step closer to HAL 9000

Today, the machines became a little smarter, as a computer named Elbot managed to achieve a 25% success rate when convincing a human being that they were talking to another human. via Gizmodo & The Telegraph  Should the law of exponential growth hold, it isn’t going to long until we can create programs that can ace the turing test. [...]

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 [...]

Safari 3 Check, Leopard Check

I always pick the best days to go to the Cinema after exams. I got in and the World of Apple has turned to jelly (at least mine anyway). Leopard = Yes! There is anything really revolutionary, but it doesn’t need a fancy new pair of Interface trousers, Finder looks fantastic, stacks (I have already being using [...]