Posts by Blane Bramble

Ethernet — a networking protocol name for the ages

Token ring vs Ethernet

Back when I worked for a trading bank, we could remote boot and access all our data over a 16Mb Token Ring network, whereas the side of the bank using 100Mb ethernet had serious problems just accessing data and people often had to work on files locally.

Intel Core i7 'Nehalem' processor and X58 chipset

"as you rarely come across software that makes proper use of four cores"

Those of us who deploy servers would heartily disagree, particularly in the non-artificially restricted Linux world

US gov now says Eye-o-Sauron™ border masts are crap

@toby powell-blyth

Presumably it's no good at detecting Hobbits then either...

MP warns against Microsoft monopoly in e-gov services

Open source not secure?

"Some open source projects cannot meet our needs for quality or security, and we are not prepared to compromise on those,"

Which is why, of course, sites favour IE over other browsers. Or it might be complete incompetence on the part of the web developers in understanding the whole idea behind HTML.

Another ISP throttles bandwidth

Fairly tpical of Pipex

Seems fairly typical of expected events since Pipex took them over.

Satnav driver's car totalled by train

Yup, all satnavs fault

Mine is just as bad - doesn't tell me to stop at traffic lights, which side of the road to drive on, when to change gear, anything like that!