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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Nov 2007 19:49 UTC
Erstwhile bitter rivals Dell and Sun Microsystems are set to announce that Sun's Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems will be supported in all of Dell's servers . Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell and Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz plan to make the announcement during a joint appearance at the Oracle OpenWorld 2007 conference today.
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Linked by David Adams on Thu 3rd Jul 2008 19:12 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
Apple's OS market share increased by nearly 32% in the last year . Windows Vista and Linux also increased their shares by 8% and 18%, respectively, to end the month accounting for 16.14% and 0.88% of the online OS market.
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Court order on YouTube user data fans privacy fears
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.
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Apple's Lisa was one of the earliest computers to take advantage of the graphical user interface pioneered at Xerox PARC, and it was the first to feature a desktop file browser.
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The first beta of PC-BSD 1.4 has been released .
"After months of hard work, the PC-BSD team is pleased to make available the 1.4 BETA release. This version includes many exciting new features and software, such as 3D desktop support via Beryl, KDE 3.5.7, FreeBSD 6.2, Xorg 7.2, new GUI tools & utilities, and much more ." Get it from the download page .
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 19:29 UTC
Jeff Atwood explains why Vista uses so much memory. "You have to stop thinking of system memory as a resource and start thinking of it as a a cache . Just like the level 1 and level 2 cache on your CPU, system memory is yet another type of high-speed cache that sits between your computer and the disk drive.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 14th Jul 2005 20:57 UTC, submitted by Kelly
IBM has hammered the final nails into OS/2's coffin. It said that all sales of OS/2 will end on the 23rd of December this year, and support for the pre-emptive multitasking operating system will end on the 31st December 2006.
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YouTube must give Viacom video user logs in $1B copyright case as court rejects privacy claim
NEW YORK - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Aug 2005 12:45 UTC
Intel will unveil its next-generation processor architecture in just under two weeks' time, the chip giant said today . Due to ship in H2 2006, the architecture will result in "processors that are high-performance, energy-efficient and multi-core", the company said.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 25th Feb 2006 19:43 UTC
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, made some surprising remarks in an interview . Wozniak says that Apple should spin-off its iPod business to a separate division because it distracts Apple from its core business-- computers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 12:05 UTC, submitted by Magnum
"So how's that look-like-Windows thing working for the Linux community? Is the wave of desktop adoption far ahead of where it was in 2001 and 2002 when this started? And, if not, why don't we stop doing it?
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Linked by David Adams on Fri 4th Jul 2008 15:48 UTC, submitted by Merciades
The Firefox project was rewarded on Wednesday when Guinness World Records accepted that the 8,002,530 downloads of Firefox on 'Download Day' in June constituted a world record. Firefox is now officially in the record books for receiving the most downloads from a Web site with a 24-hour period.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Nov 2005 22:50 UTC
GNOME 2.12.2 has been released , as the second maintenance release in the 2.12 series. Download the tarballs of the platform , desktop and bindings .
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"With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons.
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At the core of Mobility Email is Mozilla Thunderbird, the wildly popular open source email client. The best thing about Mobility Email is that it's totally mobile. You can take it anywhere with you on an iPod Shuffle (or any other USB device).
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Microsoft to Offer Office, Security Suite Subscription For $70 a Year
Microsoft hopes to lure bargain hunters with new subscription model, perhaps hints at changing business plan...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Nov 2006 17:14 UTC, submitted by Weevle
"Microsoft finally launches the long-awaited Windows Vista today, promising better security and improved search and claiming it will be the fastest ever adopted operating system it has released.
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Just how many brains does a PC need?
As far as consumers were concerned, Intel made Pentium chips and AMD made Athlon chips. Yet that hasn't been the case for a while now, and in the last few years, the choices facing consumers when they go to buy a PC have mushroomed.
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It's not just Symantec that wants to call foul on Microsoft; McAfee got in on the action today with a full-page ad in the print edition of the Financial Times. The ad accuses Microsoft of engaging in dangerous practices that are creating 'inherent weaknesses' in Windows Vista.
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"Mozilla is having a nightmarish security week. The company released a security-fix version of its Thunderbird email client late yesterday after updating its Firefox browser , a Firefox Google toolbar extension , and its SeaMonkey web application suite - all within the last six days.
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PEM IT Services provide professional IT Services for Small Businesses, allowing them to "Make the most of today's technology". Just how safe is your company's information? What do you do if your system crashes? How long can you afford to be without your computers?
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Sep 2007 08:14 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Reader
"My verdict: Even in the relatively slick Ubuntu variation, Linux is still too rough around the edges for the vast majority of computer users ", says Mossberg . Among others, he complains about one of the things I did too when I was writing my stream of Ubuntu reviews back in Spring.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th Nov 2005 18:35 UTC
The Bush administration and its critics at a UN summit have inked a broad agreement on global Internet management that will preclude any dramatic showdown this week.
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In a discussion on Amiga forum site The Amigans, the Friedens twin brothers (developers of AmigaOS 4.0 exec kernel) revealed that the complete Amiga OS architecture will move ahead to a new design . The new AmigaOS (let's call it AmigaOS 4+1) will include some sort of virtual environment in which old (AmigaOS 4.0) applications will run as separate tasks, in their own address space.
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