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- BOOT CAMP 557 Installing XP on Netbook PCs, part 3Today
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We're now into the final stages of creating a slimmed-down version of Windows XP to replace the 'toytown' Linux supplied with some low-cost Netbook PCs. We're using nLite, a freeware 'pre-installation' tool and last week we made a start by ticking all of the Windows components we want to remove from our custom installation disc, see also this week's Top Tip. This week we'll continue from where we left off, finish the configuration and burn the disc.
Click the Next button and nL...
- Israeli-Hamas conflict sparks debate over Demotix and citizen-journalismToday
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I think everyone would agree that powerful journalism provokes debate and discussion, and some of the most powerful journalism in the world right now is coming from freelance and citizen journalists.
If you haven't yet read the article on Demotix over at TechCrunch, and the passionate discussion which followed, then check it out here.
- CES 2009: the Brits are comingToday
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If it's a bloodbath, I can't see many bodies. Contrary to one of my blogs yesterday, Vegas is busy. So busy, in fact, that my colleague Rupert Neate took hours to find a spare hotel room.
The Consumer Electronics Show is certainly scaled back on recent years, but the number of exhibitors is down just 8 per cent on last year with 2,700 companies showing up. As Gary Shapiro, the chief executive of the Consumer Electronics association told me, "8pc down is the new 8pc up". His neologi...
- CES 2009: Will Ballmer give away Windows 7 for free?Yesterday
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Steve Ballmer is due to speak at the Consumer Electronics Show in less than 24 hours and the buzz is building.
He will definitely unveil Windows 7, that's for sure. A replacement for the much derided Windows Vista was long overdue. Anything less than a fully fledged, simple, virus-free operating system and Ballmer will be booed off the stage.
But the key question is whether he will give it away for free. It would be the biggest PR coup of the year. "Yes, we knew you d...
- Apple Macworld: Phil-ing the shoes of a giantYesterday
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So there we have it, Apple's last ever appearance at Macworld in San Francisco.
In the end, it turned out to be a largely underwhelming keynote presentation, albeit one delivered with aplomb by Phil Schiller.
Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, had the unenviable task of filling in for Steve Jobs, absent from the show because of