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"There are several possible reasons why you might choose to use the command line interface as your desktop environment . For one thing, it uses less electricity, so you could maximize battery life on your laptop computer.
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"Oracle's offer of free support for Red Hat Linux was designed to inflict maximum pain on Red Hat. So it did. One day after the announcement, Red Hat shares lost 24 percent of their value. After watching his stock take a tumble, Red Hat's CEO Matthew Szulik is in a bind.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th May 2007 13:19 UTC
Months go, I reviewed Windows Vista, and concluded: "All in all, I am impressed by Windows Vista [...]. Windows Vista is better than XP, and definitely more than just an improved look as many say."
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Eight Port Of Seattle Employees Fired For Computer Use
Eight Port of Seattle employees were fired after an investigation found that 15 employees in all violated computer usage terms and anti-harassment policies, said Terri-Ann Betancourt of the Port of Seattle.
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"Red Flag Linux has turned out to be little more than a key bargaining chip in a high stakes game of commerce between the Chinese government and the world's largest software maker.
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AOL shutting 3 services to cut costs, focus on ads
(AP) -- AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet's earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on its advertising opportunities.
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Hackers access two computer servers containing database of Connecticut College
Two computer servers containing a database of Connecticut College, Wesleyan University and Trinity College library patrons were accessed by hackers, Connecticut College officials said Friday.
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'Torchwood' to return for third season
Torchwood, the supernatural drama set in Cardiff, Wales, will be back for a third season, BBC America announced at Comic-Con in San Diego.Captain Jack is coming back to BBC America and we can't wait! 'Torchwood' really represents the essence of the channel -- it's sexy, action-packed and a little bit subversive, the Web site Buddy TV quoted BBC Worldwide America Senior Vice President Richard De ...
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Blind Taste Test Shows XP Users Love Vista
Microsoft invited a bunch of XP users in to test "Mojave," a new version of its Windows operating system. They loved it. What they didn’t know was Mojave was Vista in disguise.
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FCC To Punish Comcast For Traffic Blocking
A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.
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The Three Biggest Mistakes a Nonprofit Can Make On Its Website
I finally gave up on finding any information online about nearby senior centers for my neighbor. There was next to no information online, and certainly no websites. I then looked...
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"It may be a brave opinion but I predict that Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista are going to be the two operating systems that will take over the largest chunk of the desktop OS market during the next couple of years.
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has contributed the software to the OpenJDK Community
Sun Microsystems has announced the release of an open-source version of its Java Development Kit for Java Platform Standard Edition. Sun as free software under the GNU GPLv2.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Mar 2006 01:00 UTC
Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.14 , the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. Foresight Linux 0.9.4 was first to incorporate GNOME 2.14 on their distribution, VMWare and Qemu images are already available in addition to their normal distribution.
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"Marking what could have been a summer-long hiatus in its 'Get the Facts' campaign, Microsoft is re-igniting the flames
on the argument over whether enterprises spend less to manage Windows systems than Linux systems.
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Recent Original Stories
"Ever tried this query in Google: "Linux-like environment for Windows" with inverted commas? If you have, it gives exactly 13700 results. Now try the same other way around. Google "Windows environment for Linux" but don't use the quotes from previous query. It yields approximately 1150 results.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 14th Mar 2006 23:59 UTC
"In twenty odd years of working with computers, I never owned an Apple computer. Frankly, until OSX, I was never interested. But the BSD underpinnings of OSX got my attention . The Mac finally got a "real" operating system.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 15th Sep 2006 08:03 UTC
For the 5th+ iPod generation Apple has just introduced downloadable games and so far they offer 9 games for $4.99 each. Looking back in the classic era of computer gaming we remember some real gems that would fit right into the "keep it simple stupid" philosophy of the iPod.
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First ships crawl down Mississippi after spill; AOL shutting 3 services to cut costs, focus on ads
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st May 2006 16:04 UTC
New Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's first 100 days at the helm are about to get interesting. First up: managing an internal debate over whether the company should open-source Java. According to sources inside Sun, an ongoing debate over whether to open-source Java is coming to a head with the JavaOne conference looming May 16.
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Davidson's career as spammer started in late 1990s
The "Spam King" peddled everything from penny stocks to generic Viagra, incurring the wrath of some of the country's largest Internet companies and eventually the attention of federal prosecutors.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Dec 2007 22:26 UTC
Ars has reviewed the new Santa Rosa-based MacBook , and concludes: "All in all, the new MacBook is shaping up to be a worthy replacement to my old PowerBook. In combination with Mac OS X 10.5, the most polished iteration of Apple's operating system, the MacBook is a joy to use.
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Eight blasts hit Indian IT city of Bangalore, 2 dead, 20 wounded
BANGALORE, India - Eight low-intensity bombs exploded across the Indian IT city of Bangalore on Friday, killing two and wounding at least 20, police said. The blasts happened within a span of 12 minutes.
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Recent Original Stories
"Free open source software is making slow in-roads into the world of big box retail. This article is the first of a series of two Mad Penguin articles which take a detailed look inside the world of retail as Tux is experiencing it . Today, in Section One Mad Penguin goes shopping to see what can be seen in four retail big box stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, complete with short videos ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Nov 2006 22:23 UTC
"Security is the lens through which I always view products like Windows Vista, and in that view it looks good. But there is a bigger picture with Vista for the industry: It's really, really different from previous versions.
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