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Second Mac Clone Maker Set To Sell, With a Twist
CWmike writes "Another company is preparing to sell Intel-based computers that can run Apple's Mac OS X. But unlike Psystar, a Florida clone maker that's been sued by Apple, Open Tech won't pre-install the operating system on its machines. Open Tech's Home (equipped with an Intel dual-core Pentium processor, 3GB of memory, an nVidia GeForce 8600 CT video card and a 500GB hard drive) and XT ...
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posted by Xeta Prime on Thu 29th Jan 2004 07:13 UTC
Before I add 'my' two cents worth upon the current heap of Xandros reviews, let me introduce myself... rather my Linux self. I am a noobie. Perhaps not such a newbie as a newbie could be since I have been playing with and learning Linux since 'Corel Linux' (1999-2000?).
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Sep 2006 21:38 UTC
Two US software firms are asking the European Commission to take action against Microsoft's new Vista operating system , the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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Mötley Crüe live global concert
Mötley Crüe will perform in a live global concert on Friday, August 1, 2008, from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The groundbreaking event will be available live online, free of charge, compliments of DeepRockDrive.com and Mötley Crüe - anyone with broadband Internet access.
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by NotParker (-2) on Fri 24th Nov 2006 23:44 UTC
I hope the openSUSE developers get a good price for their souls. Canonical Ltd owns the Ubuntu trademark. "Canonical Ltd. is a private company founded (and funded) by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth for the promotion of free software projects.
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Jimi Hendrix immortalised in game
Jimi Hendrix is set to be immortalised in a computer game. The legendary guitar player will be revived in the latest edition of 'Guitar Hero’ which is due to be released in the autumn.
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Over the past couple of decades Microsoft have, through fair means or foul taken over the vast majority of the desktop computer business. This business however is no longer subject to the stellar growth rates of the past and Microsoft now need to find a new way to keep their profits up.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 8th Jan 2006 04:53 UTC
Microsoft plans to market several versions of Vista but will distribute all of the OS bits with every product shipped so users can easily unlock and step up to more full-featured versions using electronic keys, sources said.
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E-Lead's Noahpad UMPC gets trunk lid unboxing
Filed under: Laptops We've been seeing in the wild shots of E-Lead's Noahpad for months on end , but on some fateful trunk lid likely to be halfway across the planet, this undeniably peculiar UMPC has finally arrived to an end user. Oddly enough, said user couldn't even wait to get the thing inside, and as you can clearly above, this unboxing took place entirely on the trunk of ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 28th Apr 2007 00:53 UTC, submitted by applesource
Microsoft Australia has defended the company's User Account Control (UAC) system as being "misunderstood" and said it should be the type of technology that all operating systems aspire towards.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th May 2007 09:55 UTC
Microsoft executive Ty Carlson spoke about the future of Windows recently during a panel discussion at the Future in Review 2007 conference held in San Diego, California.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Nov 2006 14:58 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Microsoft will make a surprise announcement at the Nov. 1 launch of Windows CE 6.0, according to the Web's rumor-mill. In what would be its most substantial nod to the open-source movement, Microsoft is rumored to be opening up CE 6.0's entire kernel as 'shared source'.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 27th Jun 2006 00:24 UTC
Microsoft now allows people to try out the next Office--without the hassle of installing beta software or replacing their current version. It runs through an IE window and it requires a Citrix ActiveX plugin in order to give you access to the actual machine that runs Office on the backend.
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State won't appeal sex offender ruling
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Attorney General Steve Carter said he would not appeal a federal court ruling overturning part of a new state law that would have allowed the computers of sex offenders to be searched long after their sentences had been served.
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Recent Original Stories
Sure but look at the icons, they are more inline with GNOME and a replacement for current GNOME icon set. Well yes, but the point is that they're pretending it's a cross-desktop effort.
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Recent Original Stories
Red Hat announced a new client product, Red Hat Global Desktop , at its annual Red Hat Summit tradeshow in San Diego.
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Hawaiian Airlines issues warning of fraudulent email
HONOLULU (KHNL) - Hawaiian Airlines issued a public warning Friday about a fraudulent email being circulated. The email is labeled "your plane ticket" and appears as a notice of a new Hawaiian Airline ticketing service.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Apr 2006 16:21 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Be nice to your computers and examine some general guidelines for tuning server performance . A computer is like an employee who does tasks for you - it's a good idea to keep from overburdening them. One way to keep this from happening is to carefully tune the processes that run on it.
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Shout-Outs to Mom and God? See Online
Liner notes and artist credits may be another casualty of the Internet age.
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BentUser reviews what is famous for being Microsoft's worst product of all time - and finds out just exactly what is so terrible about it.
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Pentagon hacker faces 60 years in US prison
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon fears that the Americans plan to haul him before a military tribunal as a 'terrorist'
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Microsoft Funds Its Rival Apache Open-Source Web Server Software
Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software's biggest supporters.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Dec 2006 19:54 UTC, submitted by John Mills
"Mid November, Steve Ballmer said 'Linux uses our intellectual property' and Microsoft wanted to 'get the appropriate economic return for our shareholders from our innovation.' Many people didn't understand what he really meant, among them the LXer editors.
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Florida universities strive to meet demands of online student surge
Half of Florida's 294,000 university students in 2007 took at least one class online, an increase of more than 300 percent during the past decade, and a number that is likely to grow higher as gas prices soar.
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Comparison of Windows XP and Linux/Sugar On the OLPC XO
griffjon writes "OLPCNews has a comparison of Windows XP to the Sugar/Linux OS on the One Laptop Per Child XO-1, based on the Microsoft Unlimited Potential video, touching on video recording, power usage, boot times, and mesh networking. An interesting, if saddening, read." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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