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Virgin Media Thinks Net Neutrality Is “Bollocks”

Found this by way of the Something Awful forums, a post in the TorrentFreak blog gives an interesting view of Virgin Media’s plans. Basically, their aim is to throttle the bandwidth to services that don’t pay a premium to Virgin Media. In an interview with the Royal Television Society’s Television magazine, far from covering up [...]

Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2007

Time for a little bit of politics. April 2008 is a great year for sceptics in the UK. Now, does anyone know why? I’ll give you a hint – it’s in the post title. Up to this month, the UK had something called the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 which replaced the Witchcraft Act 1735. Laws [...]

WordPress 2.5

While having a quick look at my dashboard, I noticed that WordPress has now released version 2.5.  And they’ve made a load of changes to it under the hood.  These changes can all be found by going to the WordPress.org development blog. If you wish to install it, go to the download area and do [...]

Flat Earth News

Thanks to the Private Eye for running excerpts from this excellent book in the magazine. To step away from my main story, you should try to read at least one copy of the mag, it is the only real satirical magazine in the UK and the only publication which investigates and attacks all the parties [...]

2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards

Yep, it’s that time of year again, go now to the LQ.org Members Choice Awards Forum and cast your vote for the following: Desktop Distribution of the Year Window Manager of the Year Network Security Application of the Year Multimedia Utility of the Year Host Security Application of the Year Office Suite of the Year [...]

b2evolution

If you are a WordPress user, but are unhappy with WordPress, there are a few options you can choose for software to migrate to. Until recently, b2evolution had no WordPress import option – or, conversely, WordPress had no b2evolution export option. And then, me old mate Hari went code mad and wrote one! You can [...]