Jason Slater Weblog

If, like me, you have put off upgrading to Windows Vista and have remained with XP then you may be interested in Service Pack 3 for Windows XP which is due for release soon having achieved Release Candidate status within Microsoft.
Release Candidate is part of the software lifecycle and usually indicates that, barring any [...]

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IT Pro are reporting in their News section that “Microsoft launches Windows Server 2008” - apparently it will ship in 8 different versions!
Microsoft have a list of 11 reasons why we should consider upgrading our servers to the new 2008 platform at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/why-upgrade.aspx. These reasons include, amongst others, Hyper-V, Server Core, IIS 7.0 and a new [...]

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Something that really doesn’t work, at least from what I’ve seen, is design that is created “by committee”. People sit down and try and hammer out what something should look like and invariably will disagree because let’s face it we all have our own ideas about how to go about things. I used to use [...]

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It has happened to me. I recently wrote about my problems with Web Hosting with Globat and I mentioned a post by Rajesh Setty called From Globat with Love - Automatic upgrade which described how Globat is apparently “upgrading” hosting accounts automatically and including one off charges unless you specifically opt-out. If you get as many [...]

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The Google Public Policy Blog (http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/) recently posed the question: Are IP addresses personal?
This is an interesting question and one which I’ve heard before and I’m pretty sure will crop up again. It is the sort of question that is always likely to generate a lot of debate. In my opinion the area is a [...]

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