Join us for a dazzling evening of music and lights at the Vines Fireworks Spectacular at Lingfield Park Racecourse on Thursday 5 November.

The sky above will be alight with a fantastic firework and laser display all set to music from Walt Disney.  Plus, children can enjoy a funfair throughout.

This event is sure to provide a wonderful evening out for all the family. 

Gates open: 6.00pm
Bonfire lit: 7.30pm
Display starts: 8.00pm

For ticket prices, bookings and more information please visit 
http://www.lingfield-racecourse.co.uk/event-diary/1688/fireworks-spectacular.html

We look forward to seeing you there.

Drivers with contactless bank cards will soon be able to use them to pay for their parking.

From next year, parking meters in the West End will accept contactless payments from motorists with wave and pay functionality built into their debit or credit cards.

Want to know how Ubuntu 9.10 will look once installed? silicon.com sister site ZDNet Australia takes you through the install.

Once booting from the CD is complete, this is the installation screen that welcomes you. Note the release notes link at the bottom.

Secreatary of state for business, innovation and skills Peter Mandelson has reiterated the government’s ‘three strikes and you’re out’ plan to cut off illegal file-sharers’ internet access.

Speaking at a cabinet creative industries conference yesterday, the business minister said proposals made back in August will feature in the Digital Economy Bill expected before Parliament in November.

Compiled at the IoD, Pall Mall, London, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi connection.

For more than a year now I have been in a state of mild bewilderment while watching and listening to the economic commentators. The truth is: I find it difficult to afford them much credibility as I have been here many times before.

It’s no surprise that for some companies green initiatives are dropping down the list of IT priorities. In a recent silicon.com survey, more than a quarter of respondents admitted green IT was off the agenda because of the recession.

But many organisations have found the key is to align green goals with broader cost-cutting initiatives - which are definitely in vogue with CIOs and CFOs. In some cases government policies are already giving businesses a shove in the right direction. For example, in July 2008, the UK government informed 10,000 businesses that they could be affected by the Carbon Reduction Commitment - a climate change and energy-saving scheme that will take effect in 2010.

This time it was the MacBook’s drive that failed. Thanks to automated Time Machine backup, recovery was easy, although far from fast.

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The new Apple TV 3.0 software features a redesigned main menu that makes navigating your favorite content simpler and faster, and makes enjoying the largest selection of on-demand HD movie rentals and purchases, HD TV shows, music and podcasts from the iTunes Store even better on your TV. You can now enjoy iTunes Extras and iTunes LP in stunning fullscreen with your Apple TV, as well as listen to Genius Mixes and Internet radio through your home theater system.