There have been more than a few promises of 'flying cars' bounding around over the last few years, what with Moller's Skycar and the odd Google Earth illusion. But none have seemed quite so sleek and practical as the Transition. Billed as more of a 'roadable aircraft' than a flying car, it has wings which […]
After a year of operation, the DC++ filesharing hub running within the virtual walls of the University of Nottingham's internal residential network has been scared into closure by the owners of said network.
A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, has revealed that the number of the beast is not 666 after all.
I've been following with great interest a series of articles centred around what has become one of the most ubiquitous features of modern OS design: the shutdown dialog.
I love it when El Reg finds amusing items on Google Earth, like the levitating hyperspace aircraft carrier, the 50m-long German insect, flying cars in Aus or the now-famous naked rooftop sunbather (and the other one). Now we have a plausible explanation for the lack of visible improvement in the UK's public transport infrastructure: The […]
Whilst Microsoft fights to make Vista as cross-compatible with other stuff as it has to in order to avoid various lawsuits, inter-department communication apparently failed when it came to ensuring that the brand new media player would work with the brand new operating system.
El Reg reports an exciting new concept in evolutionary biology: the magnetic crystalline nose shard.
The University of Warwick (whose IT department is not dissimilar to our own at Nottingham) has suffered a major blow to its email system, The Register reports. A power outage temporarily downed its Novell GroupWise email system, permanently killing one of their boxes and affecting around 3,000 academic staff and critical services accounts.
Ever since I installed Windows Live Messenger a month or so ago I've been unable to add contacts or be added as a contact by others. For a while I was modest enough to assume people had just lied about adding me, but then some more serious requirements for adding people came up and I realised that there was a problem.
You'd think that a human-built spaceship capable of blasting into orbit, staying into orbit, docking with a space station then coming home and landing in one piece (well, sometimes) would also be capable of telling the time properly. But no, apparently not. NASA wants to make sure they're not late launching Discovery next December because it can't handle flying over New Year.
