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Moffat promises new Who monsters

Doctor Who chief scriptwriter Steven Moffat tells fans not to expect too many old characters when he takes over the show.

LinkScanner to quit scanning links

Updated After howls of protest from countless web masters, AVG has promised to quit spewing fake traffic across the internet.…


Via The Register on 7/7/08

A header to save the internet

Updated As the AVG LinkScanner continues to spew fake traffic across the internet, web masters say they've uncovered a reliable means of filtering these rogue hits from their log files.…


Via The Register on 2/7/08

This software helps you add a little more security to your desktop. It does so by detecting one of your bluetooth devices, most likely your mobile phone, and keeping track of its distance. If you move away from your computer and the distance is above a certain level (no measurement in meters is possible) for a given time, it automatically locks your desktop (or starts any other shell command you want). Once away your computer awaits its master back - if you are nearer than a given level for a set time your computer unlocks magically without any interaction (or starts any other shell command you want).

Comments: Steven Moffat to takeover in 2010. Excellent news, his stories have always been amongst the best in my opinion.
Russell T Davies is to step down as executive producer of the popular series, the BBC announces.

Comments: The bar stewards!
Doctor Who: One week break between episodes 7 and 8. As happened last year, Doctor Who will be taking a short break from our screen's after tomorrow's episode. This is to make room in the schedules for the BBC's coverage of the Eurovison Song Contest

Via BBC Doctor Who on 17/5/08

Whitesnake singer David Coverdale claims a Led Zeppelin world tour is "very likely".

1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10 leaving the solar system, and Hooters opening up shop in Florida. It's also the birthyear of a 25 year old BSD bug, squashed only a few days ago.

Via OSNews on 10/5/08

Linear internet television application Zattoo begins carrying BBC One, BBC Two and ITV.

Sky One begins work on a potential revival of sci-fi series Blake's 7.

Innocent folk taking photos are being stopped by police

Better availability second time round?

Updated Asus has formally launched the second generation of the diminutive Eee PC sub-notebook, the 900. It confirmed the specs announced when it first unveiled the little laptop, but it was decidedly coy when it came to the machine's CPU.…


Via The Register on 16/4/08

Retail display supplier duly obliges

A 19-year-old Saaarf London girl has been advised to use the Queen's English on the phone after her hunt for a cab to whisk her to Bristol airport ended less than satisfactorily.…


Via The Register on 11/4/08

The success of the BBC's iPlayer is putting the internet under severe strain and threatening to bring the network to a halt, internet service providers claimed yesterday.

A few minutes ago the BBC announced that it's done a deal with Nintendo to allow its Wii games console to stream iPlayer programing to TVs across the UK! A basic version of the player is available TODAY with a more polished version to follow.UPDATE Instructions for enabling the iPlayer on the Wii have now been published on the BBC site. It appears this involves paying £3.50 to add the Internet Channel, although the BBC hope to find a way around this in the future...

Via Automated Home on 9/4/08

A row breaks out about who should pay for the extra network costs incurred by the BBC's on-demand TV service.

Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales.

Spam continues to blight e-mail exactly 15 years after the term was first coined.

We will fight them in the craters...

In yet another set of survey results that surely tells us all we need to know about the state of our great nation, British youngsters innocently state that Sir Winston Churchill was the first man to walk on the moon, the Telegraph smirks.…


Via The Register on 22/3/08

LinITX have just added some interesting new touchscreen PCs to their site. Now available in sizes from 8.4 to 17.1 , these silent fanless, wall mountable systems are perfect for smart home applications. LinITX's Nick Shore commented By stocking an increased range of screen sizes, we can offer installers and end users a product for every location. Designed as fanless from the outset these enclosures provide a reliable silent system for those seeking a wallmounted touchscreen PC solution ...

Via Automated Home on 20/3/08