4th November 2000 Archive
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Server shipments up in Q3
Sun sees 72 per cent growth
Worldwide server and workstation sales saw healthy growth in the third quarter thanks to easing component shortages. The top three server vendors, Compaq, Dell and IBM, accounted for 58 per cent of the server market - which rose 16.5 per cent to top one million units, Dataquest says. Compaq grabbed 23.7 per cent of total sales …
Business 4 Nov 2000, 08:48
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M$ charges students who don't use its software
Licence to print other people's money
A US university has outraged its student rag by trying to charge $20 for Microsoft software access - even if students don't use it. University of Maryland officials have proposed everyone pay the semester fee - even those who don't own a computer, who already have their own MS, or simply prefer to use another kind of software …
Software 4 Nov 2000, 08:54
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Crusoe.com – page 2
by Matt Whyman
by Matt Whyman Guided by goat tracks, I trailed after the Frenchman on a perilous but revealing ascent. For as one elevation rose up behind the next, the horizon line receded to confirm that we were in fact just one island in a sprawling archipelago. And yet what really caused me to draw breath was the sight that greeted me at …
Register Full Coverage 4 Nov 2000, 11:58
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Crusoe.com – page 3
by Matt Whyman
by Matt Whyman Five days later, our web page had still to claw into double clicks. Despite registering with the leading search engines, even creating a new category for 'dot com destitutes', we simply could not attract sufficient attention to ourselves. At the same time, both Vendredi and myself were struck down by fever. A …
Register Full Coverage 4 Nov 2000, 11:59
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Crusoe.com – page 4
by Matt Whyman
by Matt Whyman I was right, as I prayed I would be. We were a hit. Our click count hit four, five and then six figures overnight. Quite a feat, for a site featuring only partial nudity, for Vendredi insisted his briefs stayed on when I took pictures of him, and then begged me to retain my boxers. Admittedly our web site didn't …
Register Full Coverage 4 Nov 2000, 12:00
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The Reg brings you exclusive taste of Brit Lit Net book
Short Story Crusoe.com by Matt Whyman
In a bid to raise our brows slightly The Reg has decided to bring a bit of literature into your life. The New English Library book of Internet Stories has just been published and it seemed a good idea to give you a taster. Next week we're running a competition to give away a few copies. Amongst the writers included in the …
Register Full Coverage 4 Nov 2000, 12:21
