Who would be the best people to deploy, support and manage a Windows 7 based global network? Well Microsoft obviously can’t manage their own products because they’ve just contracted Ifosys to manage theirs – Infosys lands deal to manage Microsoft’s internal IT services.
Infosys will provide Microsoft with IT help desk, desk-side services, and infrastructure and [...]

In late November last year Optus rang up saying that my contract was just about up and asked if I was going to renew my contract. The phone caller offered a new Nokia 6710 Navigator as part of the 2-year contract. After telling them that there was still 3 months to they offered to waive [...]

AGIMO’s policy and planning division general manager Graham Fry told a Senate Estimates Committee hearing that scoping the potential for a platform change could cost more than it saves.
“Agencies are obliged to consider value for money on each occasion they apply a software,” he said.
“That means considering value for money between the alternatives of open [...]

What a fortnight! I started back at TAFE last Monday and tried to continue the set up of PCs and new Mac Pros ready for teaching this year. I set up a Windows 7 64-bit box and found that the DET* Adobe CS4 installer didn’t install Photoshop. When you install Adobe CS4 on a PC [...]

It has been an interesting 7 days for the computer “geeks” and early adopters. Windows 7 was released with much fanfare and hype over the built-in security. Canonical released the latest Ubuntu 9.10 on 29 October with a range of upgrades. Of course this has meant a couple of busy days as I copy all [...]

The Catapult Festival is in Bathurst this week and some of my students are working as volunteers shooting video and still photographs. I have been making sure they are enjoying the opportunity to practice the skills they are learning without any pressure to capture “perfect” images. Because of the nature of the Catapult Festival, with [...]

Software Freedom Day was a great success. I was assisted at the Computer Fair by my eldest daughter and her boyfriend and we managed to give away nearly 100 OpenEducationDisc DVDs and 50 Ubuntu 9.04 CDs. We had a PC running Windows 7 Professional and all of the software on the SFD2009 OpenEducationDisc so people [...]

We’re nearly to Software Freedom Day 2009! I will be down at the Computer Fair on Saturday, 19 September, giving away Ubuntu 9.04 CDs and a special OpenEducationDisc DVD. There are some extra goodies on the DVD I’ll have a Windows 7 Professional PC running the software from the DVD, so you can [...]

A recent presentation at Blackhat USA 2009 detailed a new “bootkit” that could be used to infect all versions of  Microsoft Windows from Windows XP to the soon to be released Windows 7, including Server 2003 and Server 2008. It does this by infecting the Master Boot Record (MBR) and is then even able to [...]

One of the problems with the rapid advances in open source software is keeping up with the latest releases. The most popular open source software is Mozilla Firefox, the cross platform web browser. I use Firefox on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X because of the speed, security, flexibility and wide range of add-ons.
Ubuntu 9.04, [...]