One of the most irritating things about the PC market is how difficult it is to buy laptops which do not have Windows pre-installed. When Ndiyo needed a machine to act as a mobile server for demos, we had to buy a Windows-crippled Vaio and then install Ubuntu on it. So despite wanting […]

This is what we like to hear:
A Sheffield man has won a refund from Dell for not installing Microsoft’s Windows XP on a laptop he bought from the PC giant.
Freelance programmer Dave Mitchell ordered a Dell laptop on 21 October, and the machine was delivered a few days later.
As Mr Mitchell was planning to run […]

Lifehacker has a nice article called Geek to live: Essential tools for the placeless office:
Us Lifehacker editors have never been in the same room at once, yet we work together every weekday from 5 different cities across 2 time zones. If your team is distributed across vast distances like we are, you need to set […]

The forums have become a spammer’s dream of late, and we are finding ourselves spending an awful lot of time deleting robot members, and those that get through cause quite a bit of trouble.
So, we’re disabling them as of tonight. I’m not expecting howls of compaint, but if anyone has any ideas on what we […]