Category: Technology
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When saying sorry won’t be enough
Ars Technica reports that Microsoft’s anti-piracy service, Windows Genuine Advantage, suffered a global outage on Friday: Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication. Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista…
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Skype outage and restoring confidence
Even if you aren’t a user of Skype, the internet telephone service, you probably won’t have missed seeing or hearing about the total service outage during Thursday and Friday last week. Service came back up over the weekend and today…
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Understanding OpenID is not easy
Last year, I signed up to get an OpenID. I didn’t fully understand what it could do but I did believe that it would become more important, not to mention useful, to have a means by which you could identify…
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Not a good day for relying on technology
From my Twitter stream this morning: 09:31 Amazing what a good night’s sleep can do. Feeling pretty refreshed this morning. So, good morning all! 09:32 Uh-oh, DreamHost’s problems continue. All my sites down. Email not working. 09:58 Skype still not…
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Useful but user unfriendly
One of the things I really like about DreamHost, the US company which hosts my sites including this blog, is the frequent and clear communication on what’s happening with their service. They have a status blog, but what I find…