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Linked by Adam S on Mon 3rd Apr 2006 14:55 UTC
In my house today, all of the computers are Macs. This is a long way away from three and a half year ago, when I said that Jaguar could not replace my PC . We're chugging along happily running Tiger, just as productive as before, and enjoying every bit of eye candy.
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leaked on the Mandriva forums , and Duval later confirmed it on his own webpage . He says:
Gael Duval, creator of Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux), has been fired from the company. The information "Since the information has leaked, I will post a message in the next few days on this website about why this is the end of the Mandriva story for me, and what's next."
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Flat-rate plans may leave carriers gasping for bandwidth
A report points out the implications of unlimited calling plans: when they're combined with handsets that can make use of the Internet, cellular providers need to invest in their infrastructure to meet demand. Read More...
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Malta improves EIU global e-readiness ranking
The Economist Intelligence Unit and the IBM Institute of Business Value have ranked Malta as the 23rd most e-ready country worldwide, improving one position from last year’s ranking.
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Feb 2003 19:02 UTC
My CTX AMD K6-300/128 MB RAM/3 GB drive laptop is obviously at the end of its life. I was in the "shopping" process for a laptop for 2 months now, and I considered a number of PC laptops, including the Compaq Presario 1525US. At the end, I decided to get the new 12" Powerbook , came in last week, and I am since then using it as my primary machine.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Oct 2006 20:59 UTC
"Apple computers have long been prized for being relatively virus-free. But as more people use Apple products, experts say the company is increasingly becoming a target for cyber pranksters and criminals writing viruses and other forms of malware.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Jan 2006 21:39 UTC
Apple Computer's announcement of new Macs based on processors from Intel raises an interesting question: Since both the Mac and Windows operating systems now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn't it be easy to run both on the same computer ? That simple question deserves a simple answer.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Jul 2006 15:39 UTC, submitted by nedvis
"Millions of Windows users run the OS with an administrator account because Microsoft's never made it easy to do anything different. In fact, you have to work a lot harder to run with fewer rights. Microsoft will push Vista as the solution to the ever-increasing number and ingenuity of attacks.
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Mainsoft Ports ASP.Net AJAX to Linux
Mainsoft has announced tooling that enables developers to use Microsoft's ASP.Net AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) on Linux.
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24% of Canadians see bad side to Facebook: poll
It's emerged as one of the most popular ways to connect with friends, family and long-lost acquaintances, but nearly one-quarter of Canadians believe Facebook has played a more negative than positive role in society, a new poll suggests.
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Time Warner Cable: Ready, Set, Stop
In the next two weeks, Time Warner Cable could well be on the path to becoming a fully independent cable operator, free of Time Warner Inc. and able to chart its own course in a world where hundreds of channels are delivered over telephone lines and via satellite, and Internet distributors provide a seemingly limitless array of entertainment and communications.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 15th Aug 2006 23:21 UTC
RealNetworks will release open-source software this year that will let Linux computers play Windows Media files legally.
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Microsoft Memos Reveal 'Vista Capable' Concerns
An internal analyst warned of problems running Vista on low-cost laptops long before its release.
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Linked by Adam S on Sat 28th Jan 2006 13:25 UTC
Digg users just " dugg " an item from Silicon Valley Sleuth to the top of their queue. The article asks boldly, " is Windows Vista really vapourware?
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Adobe merges business units
Adobe Systems says it is putting under one roof businesses selling software for computers, phones and consumer electronics to make them run on a single technology platform.
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The future is free, so revisit the past
An online tool called the Wayback Machine allows you to view websites as they were back in the day. Debbie Smith gives it a try.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Apr 2006 13:59 UTC
"Despite the head start that KDE enjoyed, the large number of KDE users and developers, and Linus Torvalds personally endorsing KDE, GNOME has won the desktop environment battle.
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"Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI Board today approved the Microsoft Public License and the Microsoft Reciprocal License . The decision to approve was informed by the overwhelming (though not unanimous) consensus from the open source community that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of the Open Source definition, and should therefore be approved."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jun 2007 20:45 UTC
The European Union's second highest court is expected to rule on Sept. 17 whether the European Commission was right in 2004 to find that Microsoft violated antitrust laws, sources familiar with the matter said.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 28th Aug 2006 18:38 UTC
eWeek's review of the latest Vista build is pretty positive : "On Aug. 25, Microsoft released to testers Vista Build 5536, the latest in a long line of sneak peeks at Microsoft's forthcoming desktop operating system. eWEEK Labs' tests of Build 5536 show that the operating system is gaining speed and losing quirks as its release nears."
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Foreign Students Get Longer U.S. Stay
Microsoft, other tech firms applaud Homeland Security's extension of student visas.
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Google Starts Controversial Form Crawling Program
Googlebot received an update that permits it to complete certain forms, and learn more about the site hosting them. read more
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Matthias Scheler, on behalf of the NetBSD Release engineering team, announced that the release process for NetBSD 3.0 has officially begun. The first release candidate is available for download here . It is expected to have RC2 available on the FTP server in about a week, which hopefully will be the final release candidate.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Nov 2006 20:02 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"It's been a good week for Microsoft's documentation efforts as the company achieved important milestones with regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Sep 2006 21:12 UTC
Alan Cox, the famous Linux kernel hacker, saw his Thinkpad explode . His wife writes on her weblog: "Alan was on the other side of the room from the laptop. I was elsewhere. He yelled out, I ambled towards the room in my own good time, and then I heard 'Fire! Real fire!
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