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Welcome to our Articles section, we try and update this section at least twice weekly, so check back regularly for the most up to date info. Our sections include Accessibility, Future of Computing, Internet Tools, Tea Break and Web Development. Jul 28 2008

Google Pagerank update July 2008

For those of you not yet aware or totally missed it again (like we did) as of July 27th 2008, Google is updating its toolbar PageRank.

Jul 20 2008

Freaky Carrot

Possibly the strangest shaped carrot ever - most will think this has been put together, but I can absolutely guarantee this is how it arrived in the bag… bizarre!

Jul 19 2008

Two security updates for Mozilla

Firefox 2.x reportedly updates automatically if the user has left update checking enabled. However, it’s reported that automatic updates are disabled in Firefox 3.0, so users must download and install the updated Firefox 3.0.1 manually.

Jul 09 2008

Petaflop achieved by PS3 based chip

The Roadrunner, the IBM supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, shattered all speed records recently. Comprised of AMD opteron and Sony/IBM Cell based processors (ala PS3) achieved performance of 1.026 petaflop/s—becoming the first supercomputer ever to reach this milestone.

Putting it in the Worlds Top 5 most powerful supercomputers

Although, as we understood it the Blue Gene P cracked the Petaflop barrier some time ago (Summer 2007), and greater expectations were deemed for the more powerful (on paper at least) roadrunner beasty.

Jul 06 2008

Google Street View for the UK

Google’s street view technology has been available for sometime in the US, but the nanny state could once again stop a useful technology hitting the web for the UK.

Jul 02 2008

World domination, the Bill Gates time line

bill-gates-timeline.jpg

Now that “Big Bill” has quit the M$ ranks, here’s a quick snapshot of his time from creation to complete world domination:

Jun 30 2008

Insufficient storage space Error 452 Linux Unix Fedora Core Outlook

This normally occurs due to ISP (Internet Service Provider) problems, but when you own your own server (locally or live) you haven’t got the luxury to complain and sit back, so here’s how to fix the problem on a Linux server.

The 452 error is normally associated to overloading the email queue; which usually likes to be at least 1.5x the size of:

message_size_limit

which can be specified in:

/etc/postfix/main.cf

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