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I've got a COOL-ER reader and an iPad, the E Ink reader is excellent for reading text such as a novel but it's not great when it strays away from that i.e. figures, tables, illustrations are of poor quality. It's also easy to break, I accidentally leant on it and broke the front glass, fortunately it's insured. Probably the most impressive thing is that you can read it in direct sunlight. The iPad is excellent if you're reading inside but due to its glossy screen it's crap in sunlight, not very often it's sunny round here though these days! The big plus is that the iPad is capable of recreating the original layout much, much better than an E Ink device. I'd expect the Kindle to be better than my device but images still aren't going to match the iPad. There's a Kindle app for the iPad so you can get much of the same content as you can for the Kindle device (no newspapers and magazines though).

I'd be interested in talk in to you about it, send me a PM if you're happy to

I went with the 16GB as well, no where near filled it as I don't keep my music on it

Your upload speed on your connection isn't going to be high enough to satisfy that amount of traffic per month comfortably.

How much traffic do these sites get? ADSL has very limited upload and isn't a good choice for hosting business websites on....

I've got one and love it, it's a joy to use and gets used everyday both at home and work (typing this on it). As with everything they may not be for everybody however I make a hell of a lot of use of it. Go and try one at the Apple Store and see what you think.

They're spot on for web browsing to be honest, unless you need Flash which isn't a problem for me. Top bit of kit and a pleasure to use, not suitable for all but who cares. Go an try one in the Apple shop and see what you think.

Feel free, I've not written any Python for a while but I can probably help...

I'm actually quite impressed with the iPad, it's pretty much exactly as I expected it to be, a big iPhone/iPod Touch. If it can get a bash shell and SSH client on it then it would also be extremely useful for my job, without it then only moderately useful..... I'll be keeping an eye on it either way. Having a light, easy to use, quick tablet for meetings where I can take notes, update my calendar, use our web based management tools and manage to-do items in Things is very attractive... I find laptops/notebooks etc. a pain in the arse in meetings.

Welcome to the Internet! Port scanning is going on all the time, they're just scanning a range of IP addresses for open ports, as long as your firewall behaves then there's no reason to be bothered. Your firewall alerted you to it which means it blocked it.... if it didn't alert you to it that's the time to be worried...

Fair point Andy

Google blackra1n and blacksn0w, it's easy to jailbreak and unlock a 3GS. Jailbreaking allows you to run non Apple authorised applications on the phone which in turn lets you install software that will unlock it to any carrier.

200mW can be dangerous, just make sure you don't look at it or any reflection...

They've had enough goes at making a decent product, it's about time they achieved something. Still not a fan though.

The other features display when the mouse is moved, it's not time related, explanation here - http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21461

PhotoRec is a great free tool: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Just so you're aware, it is command line based so it's not point and click.

There's 2 separate projects here, Digital Region and H2O's Fibrezone. Digital Region is the installation of VDSL services to all properties in South Yorkshire (http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/) and is expected to be complete by 2012 although service should be available in some areas long before. Work is ongoing, Thales are currently digging up parts of town for it. The idea with H2O's Fibrezone is that they put in a dark fibre ring and then service providers can connect to this and get their customers connected to it to provide service over, it's not a plan to cable up any particular homes/businesses as such so may make no difference to yourself. Have to see how it plays out and what service providers get involved.

I use Thunderbird and Firefox - makes life easy as I use both OS X and Linux.

Just watch out for the annoying WiFi/YouTube bug that you may hit once you've used blacksn0w, if you find WiFi dropping out after unlocking then search Google for 'blacksn0w wifi' for the fix. Bear in mind blacksn0w is only for 3G and 3GS.

Lots of programs are built using .NET so you probably do need it. If you remove it you risk breaking something you already have installed.

You can tell it's an old article...... Vista's missing from it

What lever are you currently at? I'd suggest getting a good book on TCP/IP, get comfortable with the protocol suite as a whole and then go in to more detail on specifics such as switching and routing. Some useful reads are: TCP/IP: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sams-Teach-Yourself-TCP-Hours/dp/0672325659 - good book for understanding the TCP/IP model. TCP/IP http://www.tcpipguide.com/ - comprehensive website, covers lots of protocols and it's free. Switching: http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-new-Switch-Book-Switching-Technology/dp/0470287152/ - written by a switch engineer, seriously good book, will teach you more about switches than you probably need to know. Generic IP routing: http://www.amazon.co.uk/IP-Routing-Ravi-Malhotra/dp/0596002750 - would be much better if they'd proof read the examples better, a lot are wrong and will confuse people new to routing. Does cover a lot though. OSPF: http://www.amazon.co.uk/OSPF-Anatomy-Internet-Routing-Protocol/dp/0201634724 - written by the author of the OSPF specification, gives a good history on how it came about etc. MPLS: http://www.amazon.co.uk/MPLS-Fundamentals-Luc-Ghein/dp/1587051974 - written by a Cisco support engineer that specialises in MPLS. BGP: http://www.amazon.co.uk/BGP-Building-Reliable-Networks-Protocol/dp/0596002548 - well regarded as the best BGP book around. How the Internet works: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/peering-and-transit.ars - I've not read this, just found it on Google but looks like a decent quick explanation of Autonomous Systems, transit and peering. If there's anything else you need/want to know give me a yell.

I've got a Mac Mini running Leopard under the TV, quality bit of kit.

PM your details, I'll get it looked at. If you're getting significantly below your package speed then there's probably something wrong and we'll need to take a look for you.

Use the SOGo version of Opengroupware, the original is hideous. SOGo is really good, we run it with Lightning and the Integrator plugin for Thunderbird as our company groupware platform. As you've found - there is a plugin for Outlook however it doesn't have much functionality. http://www.scalableogo.org