http://thewatertower.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from thewatertower.org.uk en-GB thewatertower.org.uk http://thewatertower.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 thewatertower.org.uk 2010-03-10T17:43+00:00 United Kingdom http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000170/take_control_of_your_email_to_tackle_spam_and_phishing.html If you've had an email address more than five minutes, you'll have received a phishing attempt. An email claiming to be from the tax man or a bank will try to persuade you to log into a bogus website or launch a virus payload sent via an attachment. For example, 2010-02-12T12:17+00:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000169/cheques_to_check_out.html Reports are abound today that the Payments Council will vote tomorrow, 16/dec to phase out cheques. 2009-12-15T23:42+00:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000168/free_software.html A treasure trove of simple free utilities, such as cd burning and wave editing. 2009-09-06T20:36+01:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000167/random_sites_fail_to_load_time_out.html ADSL router got reset back to factory settings by the power tripping. After getting all the basic things reconfigured, everything looked ok. 2009-08-31T08:13+01:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000166/number_lock_on_windows_xp.html Setting the number lock on or off by default required a few hacks. 2009-08-29T13:45+01:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000165/uk_contribution_to_eu_to_increase_60_to_64bn.html According to http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk, total local and central government spending in 2009 is £638bn, putting this higher EU figure at broadly 1%. 2009-08-24T23:49+01:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000164/some_insight_into_the_madoff_hustle.html Some insight into how Madoff managed to keep his scam going for a decade or more, courtesy of This World, BBC Two, 29/Jun/09. Narrated by Robert Vaughn of recent 'The Hustle' fame, the scam had a couple of interesting threads in there. 2009-07-03T09:59+01:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000163/green_your_home.html The Guardian is tracking a bunch of people installing solar power and so on. 2009-07-02T18:01+01:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000162/blogger_api__more_intelligent_use_of_rss.html Blogger offers the ability to customise the RSS feed it generates on each site. 2009-04-26T13:59+01:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000161/the_wonderful_thing_about_release_notes.html Is that they answer questions you'd never got round to finding answers to. 2009-04-23T23:08+01:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000160/crontab_the_first_five_fields_combine_to_restrict_the_schedule_except_for_when_they_dont.html If you complete both the 'day of month' and 'day of week' fields, cron is likely to behave exactly the way you expect it not to. 2009-03-16T19:33+00:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000159/changing_the_outlook_2007_colour_scheme.html After ten minutes digging around in Outlook 2007 to find out how to get rid of the pastel blue colour scheme, Google did the business and found out for me. 2009-02-08T10:08+00:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000158/microsofts_free_file_sync_toy_for_windows.html If you want to regularly back up files, or synchronise two computers etc., and are running windows, Synctoy is pretty good. 2009-01-25T17:12+00:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000157/peer_to_peer_lending.html I discovered Zopa today (http://uk.zopa.com) - a British company which is providing a peer to peer lending platform. Individuals use it to lend money to other individuals. 2009-01-25T10:59+00:00 http://thewatertower.org.uk/news/000156/if_possible_i_buy_british.html With the Pound sliding and British jobs being lost, I'm focusing a little harder on where things are made. And its not as hard as you'd think to buy affordable British made stuff. 2008-12-27T11:55+00:00