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  • Mozilla have released the preview release of Firefox – this is the final beta release before it goes to 1.0. The Mac version download is light enough for dialup (8.4mb) while the Windows version is just 4.5mb! I have been…

  • Transitive Corp of California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run “transparently” on multiple hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes. Transitive said QuickTransit supports software written in any programming language, and that its modular architecture…

  • Onne Gorter, a masters student at the University of Twente has published the source code (under a GPL licence) of a databased file system along the lines of what Microsoft were trying to achieve with the recently postponed WinFS project.…

  • Louis de Branges, a French-born mathematician now at Purdue University in the US, is claiming a proof of the Riemann hypothesis. The Riemann hypothesis, if proved, would explain the apparently random pattern of prime numbers and consequently provide a way…

  • In a follow-up to my post on SQL Server migration options I decided to download and try out MS SQL Server Express Beta 2. The program downloaded no problem but the SQL Server 2005 Express error code 3417 came up…

  • I saw a notification on Verisign that they are going to speed up their VeriSign Naming and Directory Services. Verisign currently generates new versions of the .com /.net zones files twice per day – after this change the elapsed time…

  • Microsoft’s SQL Server is brutally expensive with the Standard Edition being $4999 per processor and then there is the requirement for Windows licence and CALs for the server it is sitting on. And those are US prices – it is…

  • Curious about IPv6? Wondering about the differences between IPv6 and IPv4? Interested to know what impact the advent of IPv6 will have on your networks? There’s an interesting explanation of IPv6 which has just been published and makes IPv6 understandable…

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