Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Rumours mount over Google’s internet plan

More News from Google this time it’s about Google working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet. I know this is only a rumour and hasn’t been confirmed yet, but I don’t like it one bit, I think Google need’s to start focusing more on it’s existing services and

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Cyber Security and Computer Forensics joint honours degree

About 30 minutes ago or so I was having a general chat with Krishna C Mandava, one the moderators from Google Community, and he was telling me about this new course called Computer Forensics might be a good idea for me to do, and I thought wait a minute I like Forensics and I like Computers, would Computer Forensics not

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WordPress 2.0.1 Released

I have just noticed that WordPress 2.0.1 was released 2 days ago, I’ll be installing it very soon, but for now here’s what WordPress.org has to say about this release. It’s been exactly one month since we released the well-received WordPress 2.0 release. In the past 4 weeks we’ve been listening closely to feedback, squashing bugs wherever we find them,

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Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams

After 145 years, Western Union has quietly stopped sending telegrams. On the company’s web site, if you click on “Telegrams” in the left-side navigation bar, you’re taken to a page that ends a technological era with about as little fanfare as possible: “Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience

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How real-time is the blogosphere?

I just came across this blog post after seeing Robert Scoble post a link to it. At 4:02PM (Eastern), Google poststheir Q4 earning results on the Business Wire. The big, big news (definitely the biggest news out of the valley for today) is that their numbers fell short of consensus estimates. At 5:11PM Reuters poststheir summary of this news item

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VTunnel is here to protect your anonymity online!

Feed up of trying to access a Blocked website from school or work, then try VTunnel now! What is VTunnel? VTunnel is what’s known as a CGI Proxy service, that is, I run a website based proxy on my server, and you connect to it to retrieve websites. This can be done to evade website blocking by schools, corporations, or governments,

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UK court to unmask ‘file-sharers’

Looks like the police are getting more into depths with software piracy! Ten internet service providers have been ordered to hand over the details of 150 UK customers accused of illegally sharing software. The High Court order follows a 12-month covert investigation by the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast). Among the internet providers are BT, NTL, Telewest and Tiscali. Over

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Can great software live in 130 kilobytes?

We need to see more programs like Utorrent, programs that are not ‘bloatware’. Ludvig can do it, why can’t you?  A few months ago, I pretty much thought having decent software weighing in at 1 megabyte (let alone 130 kilobytes!) was a pipe dream but that’s before I got my hands on a copy of µTorrent (a BitTorrent client).  When