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Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel
The Linux Kernel, who is developing it, how they are doing it, and why you should care.
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Google: We Want You To See When Your ISPs Do Tricks On You
Want to know if/when your ISP is shorting your broadband connection through network manipulation known as throttling? Google is working to give you what you need to determine those very things. So said the company’s senior policy director Richard Whitt earlier this week at a discussion at Santa Clara University. As quoted by Cade Metz of [...]
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Why IM Interoperability May Just be a Dream
Interoperability between instant messaging (IM) clients is something a lot of users have wished for. More specifically, we wish it was standard and provided right out of the box instead of having to turn to third parties such as Adium, Digsby, Trillian, or Pidgin. Yet there seems to be a problem with the concept of interoperability for the companies of the more popular IM clients. Yahoo ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th May 2006 18:56 UTC
"eWEEK Labs' evaluation of Microsoft's Office 2007 Beta 2 unearthed compelling features and tools , and reminded us why enterprises continue to rely on the productivity suite. During tests of the second beta of Office 2007, we were impressed with the suite's collaboration features.
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GNOME 2.20 has been released . "The improvements in GNOME 2.20 include: Improved support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power management and incredibly accurate laptop battery monitoring.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 10:26 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Linux, the free operating system, has gone from an intriguing experiment to a mainstream technology in corporate data centers, helped by the backing of major technology companies like IBM, Intel, and HP, which sponsored industry consortiums to promote its adoption.
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Mon 29th Aug 2005 10:12 UTC, submitted by Nate Behlendorff
In this short interview , Ubuntu Linux founder and space tourist Mark Shuttleworth discusses the intended users of Ubuntu, why he chose to base it on Debian, and what the future holds for Linux on the desktop. Ubuntu is growing rapidly - and Shuttleworth is the man at the controls.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Nov 2006 21:56 UTC
Some interesting bits of his blog entry in which De Icaza replies to emails he has received concerning the Novell-Microsoft deal : "I do not know of any patents which Mono infringes. (...)
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Smart schools vs sick schools
Now we hear that many schools do not have water and electricity supply, let alone computers to make the schools and students smart. I think our children deserve better than empty promises by the ministry in charge of human intelligence and social reproduction.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Feb 2007 21:46 UTC
"For years, the lightweight Xfce has been a popular desktop environment for Linux distributions running on older hardware, thanks to its lower demand on resources as compared to KDE and GNOME; it's an ideal desktop for machines with less than 256MB of memory.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 9th Dec 2006 22:53 UTC
Apple yesterday seeded a new version of Leopard (build 9A326) to internal Apple employees. Apple continues to gloss over the interface, refining it even more and there is an overly presence of black gloss.
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Laptop stolen from children's bookstore
A West Side children's bookstore will receive a new laptop Monday, about two months after the store's only laptop was stolen. On April 13, thieves made off with a Toshiba laptop belonging to GEM'S GEMS Books For Kids, 5024 Doniphan.
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by deathshadow (3.12) on Wed 13th Sep 2006 04:59 UTC
When you have to scroll down past two screens of advertising to actually FIND the text of the article at 1024x768, that's BAD web design.
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Linked by Anton Klotz on Mon 19th Feb 2007 17:52 UTC
After MacOSX and Linux start to become viable alternatives to Windows on the desktop, more and more applications are developed to be cross- platform; all potential users can run them on their platform of choice.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Mar 2007 22:27 UTC
"Although the .NET vs. Java war is basically over for control of the Windows desktop, where .NET is sure to become the managed language of choice for new Windows desktop applications, there is a new battle brewing.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jan 2006 18:33 UTC
Microsoft will omit anti-virus protection in Vista, the next version of Windows, which it plans to ship late this year. As with previous versions of Windows dating back to Windows 2000 at least, Redmond is promoting Vista as a landmark improvement in Windows security.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Oct 2006 09:12 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Like most companies, my employer has a stash of old, 'obsolete' PCs and laptops that won't run the latest versions of Windows worth a darn. Naturally, this represents a great source of systems for testing the latest Linux distributions.
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After his departure from Apple, Steve Jobs created NeXT Computer, a company which has had a large impact on the design of operating systems today.
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Google is in Process of Developing ISP Throttling Detector Tool for Consumers
In an effort to identify traffic discrimination by American ISPs, Google is prepping a suite of network analysis tools for everyday broadband users. "We're trying to develop tools, software tools...that allow people to detect what's happening with their broadband connections, so they can let [ISPs] know that they're not happy with what they're getting -- that they think certain services are ...
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The antitrust regulator in South Korea will begin a crucial hearing on Tuesday (Monday evening US time) to determine whether Microsoft violated the country's fair trade rules by bundling its instant messenger and Media Player programs into its Windows XP platform.
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The founder of the Ubuntu-project talks in an interview about the integration of proprietary drivers, the One Laptop per Child project, and 'great applications' from Microsoft.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Apr 2007 11:19 UTC
"It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work" said Bill Gates in 1999 (pdf).
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Louisville Police Officers Punished for Accessing Internet Porn
Two dozen Louisville police officers have been reprimanded or disciplined after an investigation into inappropriate use of department computers.
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A recent blog post on ZDNet contends that Firefox is not as secure as promised by counting exploits. Joseph Huang contends that severity and the number of unpatched vulnerabilites matters, not just the number of exploits discovered.
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Microsoft has suggested that companies who can't find programmers skilled in .Net should consider retraining their Java experts. Mark Quirk, Microsoft UK's head of technology for development and platforms, admitted on Monday that there aren't enough developers in the market who can help companies migrate to .Net.
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