About: Giles Smith

Giles Smith / RoonI am a Software Engineer for Text Internet Marketing; the Research & Development arm of UKFast.net Ltd

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Posts by Giles Smith:

Survey: Programmers shunning Vista for Mac OS and Linux

17 Jun 2008 in IT & Tech

“Developers,” a VP at Electronic Arts once told me, explaining why there were so many me-too Windows applications, “will walk through the desert in their socks to get to an installed base.”
True enough. But it doesn’t quite explain the results of a survey issued last week by Evans Data Corp. The headline was that most [...]

The Only Solution

16 Jun 2008 in Mistfits

BitTorrent Users Refuse To Pay Copyright Fines

16 Jun 2008 in IT & Tech

During the last couple of years, hundreds of people have received letters from lawyers demanding compensation for the alleged uploading of copyright works. Their demands state that if you don’t pay up, you will be taken to court and dealt with severely. However, when people refuse to pay - nothing happens.
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It’s thought that around 40% [...]

Mozilla going for Firefox 3.0 Guinness World Record!

05 Jun 2008 in IT & Tech

Mozilla aims to make Firefox 3 a record breaker. It wants the release of the next version of its flagship open source browser to be accompanied by a record for the most software downloads in a single 24-hour period.
Download Day - as Mozilla dubs it - will begin the minute Firefox 3 is generally available [...]

The Bupa Great Manchester Run

23 May 2008 in Mistfits

Well I did the run, only doing it in a pretty poor 54 minutes. The main problem was there just wasn’t enough room for anyone at the beginning, it was far too crowded! So I had to run the second half in around 20 minutes or I would have taken longer than an hour!
Anyway [...]