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"Now that Microsoft has declared itself untouched by any GPLv3 terms, everyone is trying to figure out if they have a leg to stand on.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Oct 2005 19:32 UTC
The Microsoft exec in charge of Office has dismissed last week's tie-up between Sun and Google as allusion rather than substance . "That announcement didn't have anything," Chris Capossela, corporate vice president Information Worker Product Management Group of Microsoft told a crowd of reporters last week.
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Recent Original Stories
"There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we create software. Contrary to conventional wisdom, unreliability is not an essential characteristic of complex software programs. In this article, I will propose a silver bullet solution to the software reliability and productivity crisis.
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Recent Original Stories
"At APC we've been running the Beta 2 edition of Windows Home Server for the past two months and it's acquitted itself surprisingly well - no doubt a reflection on the time this 'server for the rest of us' spent in the Redmond skunkworks.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Sep 2005 12:20 UTC
Apple has updated its line of Mac Mini computers . The new models have slightly faster processors, with the cheapest Mini now featuring a 1.33Ghz G4 (previously a 1.24Ghz) and the expensive models receiving a speed bump from a 1.42Ghz G4 to a 1.5Ghz G4. The higher-end models also recieve dual-layer DVD burning and improved Bluetooh and Airport Extreme.
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Recent Original Stories
"Due to the recent media hype surrounding the new MacBooks and the lack of actual experimentation, I decided to take matters into my own hands. Since I work in the IT department of a factory that uses all Dell computers, I was able to borrow a brand new Dell Latitude D620 for a few hours.
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by (Staff) on Sun 7th Aug 2005 15:39 UTC in reply to " RE[2]: Re: thom_howerdal "
That is a pretty dubious answer, you might well install something in your browser - but it will still have very limited privileges with regard to the rest of your system.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Aug 2007 08:35 UTC, submitted by lomax
"Welcome to the home page of the finstall project , accepted for Google's Summer of Code 2007. This project aims to create a user-friendly graphical installer for FreeBSD & FreeBSD-derived systems.
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Recycling workshop set in Dickinson
CARRINGTON — The North Dakota Solid Waste and Recycling Association will host a free workshop dealing with recycling and disposal issues in Dickinson on Tuesday.
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Nashoba Nursing Service and Hospice needs office volunteers
SHIRLEY -- Nashoba Nursing Service and Hospice is looking for volunteers with computer skills to assist the hospice team by creating thank-you letters, assembling mailings and data entry.
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The questions
"On the Phoronix Forums we have been running a Q&A with the developers of the Nouveau project. For those out of the loop or new to Linux, the Nouveau project aims to provide an open-source 2D/3D graphics driver for NVIDIA hardware.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 21st Aug 2005 14:35 UTC
Microsoft has once again stirred up a hornets nest in the open-source community, this time approaching the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) to work with it on a joint, independent research project to do some facts-based analysis of Linux and Windows.
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Recent Original Stories
"In this article, I'll compare Ubuntu 7.04 with the upcoming release of PC-BSD 1.4 . Having used both operating systems extensively, PC-BSD is the one I recommend and the one I install in desktop environments. If you've used Ubuntu before, but haven't tried PC-BSD, give it a try.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Jul 2005 20:16 UTC
At a company-sponsored conference in Japan, Microsoft announced that it has finished development of Windows Automotive 5.0. The update is based on the latest version of Windows CE, the CE 5.0 release that came out in May.
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Analysts to Microsoft: 'Yahoo? Time to Move On'
Remember that feeling as a kid when you had a crush on someone but that person obviously preferred the company of someone else – two's company, three's a crowd?
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The Free Software Foundation is reviewing Novell's right to sell new versions of Linux
operating system software after the open-source community criticized Novell for teaming up with Microsoft. "The community of people wants to do anything they can to interfere with this deal and all deals like it.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 26th May 2007 22:16 UTC
After years of delivering faster and faster chips that can easily boost the performance of most desktop software, Intel says the free ride is over. Already, chipmakers like Intel and AMD are delivering processors that have multiple brains, or cores, rather than single brains that run ever faster.
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" PC-BSD
is not a Linux distribution, but rather it could be considered among the first major FreeBSD-based distributions to live outside of the official FreeBSD.
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US accuses China of sophisticated cybercrime
China has denied accusations by two US lawmakers that it hacked into congressional computers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Aug 2005 20:43 UTC
Here is a review of E17 . "On the whole, I am very happy with the new Enlightenment. On their homepage, the Enlightenment team states "We believe your desktop should not be an eyesore. It should be functional AND beautiful." They are doing well on both fronts." Screenshots included.
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VMware Plans Mac OS 10 Leopard Support
VMware will include support for Mac OS X Leopard Server in VMware Fusion's next beta. Users will be able to run as many copies of Mac OS X Server on their Apple Macintoshes as their RAM (random access memory) will support, or run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the Mac.
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Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued
Dude With An Afro writes "What could have been a great Google project is now history. For those who never used it, Google Browser Sync was a Firefox extension that synchronized your bookmarks, web history, browser sessions and passwords across multiple computers by temporarily saving them to Google's servers. According to the Google Browser Sync team: 'It was a tough call, but we decided to ...
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Sony PS3 outsells Xbox 360 again in May
The Sony PS3 outsold the Microsoft Xbox 360 in May in the United States according to new NPD video game sales numbers. In February the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 the first time. Sony sold 209,000 PS3 consoles and Microsoft sold 187,000 Xbox 360 consoles...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Aug 2005 22:00 UTC
Andy Martin of The Committee to Fight Microsoft on Tuesday announced his intentions to block Microsoft from releasing its Windows Vista operating system . Martin intends to ask Microsoft for an unconditional warranty that the operating system is free of bugs that could result in security vulnerabilities.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th Aug 2006 20:39 UTC
"In a fairly short time, Novell has transformed itself from a firm that had next to nothing to do with Linux into one of the Penguin's most visible and aggressive flag-bearers.
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