News and general opinion, often privacy, security or computer related, but could be about anything really, including religion, politics, the environment, business or audio books. "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence/stupidity/neglect." -- Hanlon's Razor
Today my laptop copy of Hunter Killer went completely crazy and ran out of memory. I found a bug in the program and fixed it. Please upgrade to version 1.00.0010 (i.e. build 10) to avoid this problem. I have also limited the program to a maximum of 500 subdirectories, although I haven't been able to test this limit.
I listen to a number of news-related podcasts. One of the most interesting is Newsweek on Air, a radio show produced by Newsweek magazine. It's a bit more detailed than the CBS Weekend Roundup, and covers more world news. Even so, both are very US-focused, which is sad.
The BBC World Service doesn't have that parochial bias that the American news has. BBC Newshour is one of the best news programmes on the planet. You can listen to the streaming version for free, or you can get the podcast version from www.audible.com, and I think it is well worth the US$9.06 per month or US$48.97 per year. Since I'm an Audible member, it cost me only 4 credits for a year's subscription. Well worth it: you get 5 issues per week, 1 hour long. I download mine when I wake up in the morning, and can listen on my way to work. There is also the BBC Radio Newspod among a whole host of BBC podcasts.There are a number of other podcasts available from PRI in the US, as well as from the Apple iTunes store. If you have a more scientific bent, then the Discovery Channel Podcasts are an absolute must.
According to Dave Crothall, newly-appointed hosting manager at DataPro “the expansion has become necessary with the restructuring of our current hosting offerings but more importantly because of the growing demand we have for premium hosting services.”Commenting further, Crothall said: "Hosting is a major focus at DataPro. Although not currently the situation, we expect and are gearing ourselves for the commoditisation of bandwidth. With commoditisation, we foresee that hosting solutions will be sold on key deliverables such as service, reliability and value-added offerings rather than the price of bandwidth.”"Our objective is to offer the cheapest bandwidth costs possible. In this light we have upgraded and refocused our entire hosting operation to prepare for critical mass and to enable us to offer a slew of exciting new products and services at very competitive prices. We are not going to base our model on bandwidth."He stressed that the company will be introducing a range of exciting and new hosting-focused product and service options "over the next 12 months".
Dave has an uphill battle on his hands. His initial "announcement" to his customers scared the bejeebers out of me, and his response convinced me to move my hosting from DataPro to Hetzner. I think he has realised that some mistakes were made, and I wish him luck. The corporate culture at DataPro is going to have to improve if they want to attract good customers. My experiences with them have been dismal. By comparison, I have had only one bad experience with Hetzner, and everything else has gone like clockwork. I can administer much of the web site myself, which I prefer.
