I keynote, write, and podcast about Sustainability, CleanTech and Supply Chain

  • Downloading Fedora CD 1 (of 4 CDs) failed from the Red Hat Fedora download site so now I am downloading it from Heanet (a local mirror) – this is extremely annoying because not only is it a huge waste of…

  • Right, Having installed Red Hat 9.0 successfully, I decided to install Firefox while Suse Linux 9.1 was still downloading. I downloaded Firefox and installed it as Root – it installed fine but didn’t create any shortcuts. Then I logged in…

  • Today I was doing my good deed for the lifetime – a friend told me he needed a PC and as I had an old one gathering dust at home, I told him I’d let him have it – so…

  • Google have announced that they have bought Picasa Inc. Picasa is a company that makes software for organizing and managing digital photos and that runs a peer-to-peer network for sharing digital photos. Picasa’s technology was integrated into Google’s Blogger service…

  • In an interesting article this morning in News.com I read that Microsoft are to announe that their Live Communications Server (Microsoft’s enterprise IM server) will connect with AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and its own MSN Messenger. However, the three…

  • There is an interesting article on the BBC News website dated July 12th which indicates that Internet Explorer is losing ground to its competitors (i.e. Mozilla and Firefox) due to the recent widely publicised IE exploits. Security professionals are strongly…

  • Overnight Microsoft released its July security bulletin. This security bulletin contains 2 Critical updates, 4 Important updates and a Moderate update on Microsoft’s scale of update importance.

  • Hi and welcome to my site – My name is Tom Raftery and I work in the field of Information Technology. This is my first post on this blog but there will be many more on topics of interest to…

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