Shropshire rural broadband campaign to be wound up?
In the middle of last week, the Shropshire Star reported that the Shropshire and Marches Campaign for Better Broadband in Rural Areas, which has been campaigning for the last 3 years for better...
View ArticleA world without Linux – episode 2
For people who cannot read a map, the Linux operating system is invaluable since it runs many of the popular makes of GPS navigation aids available to the general public. A World Without Linux is a...
View ArticleQuantum cryptography technology wins top prize in New Enterprise Competition
New quantum technology to ensure data is secure has won the University of Bristol’s equivalent to Dragon’s Den and a share of over £35,000 in prize money, the University reports. KETS, a company formed...
View ArticleLibreOffice 5.1 – first bug hunting session announced
Writing on The Document Foundation blog, Italo Vignoli has announced that a bug hunting session will take place from 30th October to 1st November for LibreOffice 5.1, the next planned major release of...
View ArticleSmart pavement for superfast wifi
The good burghers of the Buckinghamshire market town of Chesham have good reason to rejoice, not just for living in the beautiful Chiltern Hills, but because they have the first smart pavement (highway...
View ArticleUK government to switch to open source office suite
A new deal announced today between the Crown Commercial Service and open source consultants Collabora will provide public sector organisations with savings on GovOffice, an open source office suite...
View ArticleBristol academics announce breakthroughs for fundamental computer science...
Earlier this week academics from the University of Bristol presented new breakthroughs on two fundamental problems in computer science. These results were presented at the 56th annual IEEE symposium on...
View ArticleNTP updated to counter attacks
It’s that time of year again when summer daylight saving time has just ended in Europe and the developers of the NTP time synchronisation service are responding to a series of new attacks with an...
View ArticleGUADEC 2016 will be in Karlsruhe
GUADEC – the GNOME User and Developer European Conference – 2016 will be held in Karlsruhe in Germany, the GNOME Foundation has announced. GUADEC brings together hundreds of users and developers every...
View ArticleWikipedia wins prestigious Spanish prize
Wikipedia, the free, collaborative encyclopaedia has been awarded Spain’s Princess of the Asturias Prize for international co-operation. The award was presented by the Spanish king and queen, the...
View ArticleA world without Linux – episode 3: no social connections
Although you may not realise it, Linux is the world’s largest collaborative project in the history of computing. It runs most of the world’s technology infrastructure and is supported by more...
View ArticleBristol Data Dome launches next week
The Bristol Data Dome, which is housed inside At-Bristol‘s Planetarium, will be launched on Wednesday 18th November as part of the Festival of the Future City, the University of Bristol announces....
View ArticleWorld Technology Award finalists include 2 Bristol dons
The University of Bristol reports today that two of its staff have been named as finalists for the World Technology Award by the World Technology Network (WTN). The WTN is a global community comprising...
View ArticleDutch MP: “Open source can liberate local authorities being held to ransom”
Open source software is a good option for local authorities who are dissatisfied with the price and quality of their software, says Dutch Labour MP Astrid Oosenbrug. This former sysadmin believes open...
View ArticleOrly airport brought to standstill by Windows 3.1 software crash
Last Saturday, Orly airport‘s air traffic was severely disrupted, leaving thousands of passengers stranded on the ground, Le Monde Informatique reports. The cause: a computer failure of the weather...
View ArticleJurassic connectivity for new Jurassic Coast museum
According to the project leaders, a new museum being built as a showcase for Dorset’s Jurassic Coast – a World Heritage site – and its abundant fossil record of Earth’s ancient past will be lumbered...
View ArticleCity of Bern wants to be rid of dependency on Microsoft
The city council has made a budget allocation of CHF. 8.8 mn. for new computers. The city wants to get rid of its fixation on Microsoft.
View ArticleMoggy brings down Trusty Tahr
Linux distribution bug reports are not a place one expects to find stuff to make one smile: they’re normally places where the faults and failings of software are described in normally boring detail....
View ArticleWifi from wee
Bristol boffins have developed a pair of socks embedded with miniaturised microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and fuelled with urine pumped by the wearer’s footsteps that have powered a wireless transmitter to...
View ArticleMozilla to fund open source projects
The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organisation that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project (the purveyors of the Firefox web browser. Ed.), is supporting a series of...
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