Computer Corner

Real-world Computer and Internet Access issues are addressed here.

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High Performance Computing: A History

31 Dec 2009

Here's a recommendation from Amazon: As someone who has purchased or rated High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers ...

Google's Spooky Robots

Web Programming 31 Oct 2009

Google has enhanced their robots.txt file, in a hope of getting more treats and fewer tricks. Let's see if the kids do as they're told! Judging ...

Memcached and PHP

Web Programming 22 Oct 2009

There are plenty of resources out there on getting PHP and memcache to work together, and a basic installation and configuration should pose ...

UStream Disconnects with Facebook

02 Oct 2009

UStream is getting into a bit of a muddle with its facebook connect integration. They have a flash chat app which sits above everything else ...

Twitter Doing Debug?

24 Sep 2009

Am I seeing things? Or missing something? There's what looks like debug output sat at the top of the timeline right now. Hasn't anyone in ...

AVG Free Antivirus

22 Aug 2009

Here is the link to Grisoft's Free Antivirus software: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.5 (link updated 20 August 2009). The software does ...

Video Sitemaps For Google Search

Web Programming 10 Aug 2009

Read about creating Google video sitemaps

Rory Cellan-Jones Outfoxed By Twitter

30 Jul 2009

BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has, in his own words, been 'caught out by 02 new tweeting service'. He received a text message ...

Polar Opposite Tweets

06 Jul 2009

Two people, both of whom I enjoy following, tweeted rather different things first thing this morning. It made me smile... James Bowthorpe ( ...

Internet of Things, All A-Tweeting

24 Jun 2009

Superbly geeky news item on BBC1 last night, with @ruskin147 interviewing @andysc in his auto-tweeting home. @andysc = Andy Stanford-Clark ...

Every Bing You Wanted To Know?

03 Jun 2009

Microsoft has released its new search engine into the wild, and is pumping some serious TV advertising dollars into the brand. Most of the ...

Fresh Start for Swinny.net @MediaTemple

Web Programming 31 May 2009

Swinny.net has been hosted on MyServerWorld.com (previously part of HostEurope, now Pipex) for many years, since 2001 in fact. Performance and ...

Alert! Domain Renewal Group on the Prowl

Web Programming 20 May 2009

Be on your guard! The Domain Renewal Group sends renewal letters to domain holders, when domains are nearing their renewal date. The letters ...

What is Wolfram Alpha?

19 May 2009

In the hyped-up days of Twitter and Facebook, we are all looking for 'the next big thing'. If that next big thing is being described as a Google ...

OAuth so Awful!

Web Programming 24 Apr 2009

In the space of a fortnight, Twitter has suffered two nasty vulnerabilites that allow unauthorised account access. First it was a user's ability ...

Swinny.net Looks a Little Different

Web Programming 23 Apr 2009

This web site has been revamped - but only from the front end. I have tidied up the header and made the colour scheme more neutral. I have ...

Countdown to a Special Timestamp

09 Feb 2009

Have you noticed that we're perilously close to a very special timestamp: 1234567890! This will actually happen on:
Friday 13 February ...

For Nerds Everywhere: The Loser Quiz!

04 Feb 2009

52/100: my Loser Quix score; not exactly a crowning achievement, but at least I was honest. Honest, I was :)

Windows 7 Needs Its Tyres Kicking

17 Jan 2009

Microsoft has released its new Operating System, Windows 7, and you can now download it free of charge to try it out. You don't get technical ...

Energy Efficiency in TV Broadcasting

12 Jan 2009

Internet-delivered TV vs broadcast TV: how does the electricity consumption add up? Following on from the recent rather dubious claims that ...

Google's Energy Consumption Analysed

11 Jan 2009

The Times reports on a study by a Harvard physicist: Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches. The researcher claims that two Google ...

123-Reg Whois Privacy

11 Jan 2009

Be warned, if you purchase Whois Privacy (or domain privacy) from 123-Reg: they do not enable privacy automatically, so you need to go into the ...