Recent reports indicate UK smartcard-based road toll schemes may get a boost from road tax revenues. Anti-pollution road toll schemes have high hopes of attracting some of the money. Smartcards are used to debit road users' accounts as they pass...
Some companies panic when they receive a hoax virus warning and assume the worst - making the situation much worse," he said. A typical hoax can generate large amounts of email which eats up corporate bandwidth and disk space.
HP ditched the standard backup CDs in favour of installing Windows XP recovery files on a partition on the hard drive, prompting scores of users to complain. Customers complained that the move could jeopardise recovery following damage to the hard...
The problem with Fedora Core 2 apparently had to do with changes made to a computer's description of the physical layout of its hard disk, data called the partition table, Gafton said. In other cases, the problem stemmed differences in how Windows...
As far as I can see, the back-up packages produced by industry assume ideal conditions where all hardware is operational, a big fat LAN is available, and an infinity of disk space is to hand. In reality this is seldom the case when you have an...
Police could gain greater access to data from road traffic cameras under government plans. A Home Office spokeswoman said in a statement: "We will develop proposals to be discussed across government to ensure that bulk ANPR data sharing with the...