business
how to backup and reinstall firefox update scanner
I am a huge fan of the firefox update scanner as previously blogged, in that it saves me a lot of time (and hurts when its not there!
West Midlands IT showcase - an opportunity to promote and experience open source software
In an different life to my work at Mercian Labels, I am a non executive director of Business Link West Midlands, who are running the West Midlands IT Expo on March 31 in Birmingham.
Our most painful experience of migrating to Open Source - trixbox softphone clients using Hudlite arent good enough
As previoulsy blogged, we completed our migration in full to open source over Xmas, and have been running everyting possible on open source for 5 weeks now. Without doubt the biggest problem, and source of legitimate continual complaints from our staff, our customers, and anyone who used the system, was our trixbox phone instalation. Negative symptoms included:
a new consultancy supporting open source in the Midlands - Outserve Ltd
This morning I met Philip Oakley from Outserve Ltd, a new midlands based consultancy working from Wolverhampton Science park solely dedicated to supporting businesses with open source software. There are so few of these companies out there that actually know and understand FOSS, that I hope that Philip gets his new business offf the ground and helps other companies do what we have done here at Mercian Labels.
Good luck to them, they seem keen and switched on to the real needs of businesses working with open source.
What happened to Open Advantage and the National Open Centre?
Can anyone tell me what happened to the National Open Centre, and Open Advantage as well while I’m at it? I thought the former took over the latter role when funding ceased, but the former’s website is down now. Is any publically funded body in the UK solely promoting open source any more?
Major milestone, our MIS migration has completed!
I am about 6 days late in posting this, but I am exceptionally proud to say that we completed the major piece of work in our migration on Wednesday last week when we went live with our new php/postregsql MIS system. I am very pleased with it, as FINALLY we are not dependent on MS to run our core business management information system.
Top give you some idea of this achievement for us…
ouch. credit card PIN numbers hacked in the USA from microsoft windows servers.
I keep up to date by using the BBC website for news, but very occasionally they miss somethig that I think is pretty interesting, like this story from The Times and others.
Apparantly the “encrypted” link between banks and cash machines, that is based on Microsoft windows platforms has been hacked, PIN numbers stolen, cloned cards made and money then withdrawn from ATMs.
Scary. So much for secure CHIP and PIN. Fortunately this was in the USA, and has been hushed up as far as I can see, but I’ll be watching my bank statements even more closely in future!
