Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
This week I was asked why felt that it was expensive to use proprietary software. While the following line of thought will not be new to anybody who is involved in the open source community I felt that perhaps it might be useful for others to read.
I think 'cost' for a ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
The January Super Mondays event was bigger and better than ever before. Our fourth event had almost 60 attendees and while we over ran a little on time, the crowd was well entertained with four excellent presentations.
A full write up can be found here:
http://www.supermondays.org/2009/01/a-packed-night-from-flash-to-openpandora/
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
We finally launched our Liverpool network last week, this is after three months planning and many late nights adapting our administration system.
Emailcloud is our email filtering service. The service is run over a cloud of servers initially on the AWS network. In October we opened our own network in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
I am really heppy to be working with a great team to help organise the upcoming CloudCamp event in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 24th March 2009.
the North-West event is following on from the great success of the first two London CloudCamps, and various other CloudCamps around the globe. I am really ...
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
The MD5 checksum algorithm should create a unique signature for every file...but it has a flaw. This flaw was theorized in 2004 by a team of Chinese developers who proved that you can create two different files that had the same MD5 hash. In 2007, another team showed how this ...
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