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- No such thing as a free Linux distro
- No such thing as a free Linux distroWe need a new audit.Oh, not on Linux, on Windows 7. How much Open Source code has found its way into Microsoft's programing mill?Ideology versus practical useI prefer a distro that works well on my hardware, over an ideologically pure free distro...
- Tags: UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Fsck, Linux, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux Distro, virus
- Discussion threads 2008-12-20
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- No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them
- And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...
- Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Will half-baked Ubuntu Linux netbooks ruin the OS for consumers?
- Will half-baked Ubuntu Linux netbooks ruin the OS for consumers?DELL ...has always fsck'd up ANY thing the have done with *NIX ..... Gawd, I remember that sucky UNIX stuff they did in the 1990's ..... what a WASTE of code ..NopeThis is Linux and always has been. Linux can be...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu, half-baked Ubuntu Linux, netbook, operating system, OEM, Ubuntu Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.
- Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.Yep, going green allrightIt's called moss growing over all the abandoned homes and industry as Colorado slips into economic depression.The question now becomes how much misery will Americans allow greens to foist upon us until we've finally had...
- Tags: serious greening, Microsoft Excel
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Mac OS 10.5.2 = Apple Vista?
- Mac OS 10.5.2 = Apple Vista?Wow!Jason who also publishes the Power Page blog is an avid Mac user. That Apple koolaid must stunt mental growth.i think you need to look again most of the blogers on zdnet arei think you need to look again most of the bloggers' on...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, osx, Mac OS 10.5.2, Apple Vista, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Something killed my MacBook Pro
- Something killed my MacBook Pro hard drive yesterday and I can't figure out what did it. The machine in question is a third generation MBP (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, a.k.a. Santa Rosa) originally shipping with OS X 10.4.9 Tiger, manufactured between May 2007 and October 2007. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Hard Drive, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, Firmware, FireWire, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- When Lintel beats Wintel
- When Lintel beats WintelI'm switching to Open Office...and have had no trouble accessing my documents created in MS Office. No cost of being different here.linux performance not always betteryou might have a point for servers, but for desktop usage Linux is not always more performant than Windows. so I don't...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- ZFS beta now on Mac OS X Leopard
- For all you bleeding-edge OS X warriors Noel Dellofano, part of the ZFS development team at Apple, has posted ZFS binaries and source code on Mac OS Forge. ZFS looks to be the first 21st century file system to make it to a high-volume desktop. I've...
- Tags: Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Treating Leopard's Finder not-fully-loading bug
- Treating Leopard's Finder not-fully-loading bugButtonsIf a computer is completely locked up, you can hold down the power button for about five seconds, and it will shut down. (You'll lose all unsaved data.)When you restart, you should hold down Command plus S keys to bring up single user mode (command line...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Treating Leopard, Finder, Apple Macintosh, OS-9, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- The missing demonstration project (1)
- The missing demonstration project (1)Where is everybody? you guys wanna talk weather, or what?Very strange here in Lethbridge: -19 Celsius here yesterday afternoon, went to plus 5.6 by about 9PM, back to minus 14.7 right now.A blowby chinook?Yes, I have seen it over and over. Do you want to oversee...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Unix, Debian, Sun Ray
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Obama outlines federal CTO position; Where's the power?
- Obama outlines federal CTO position; Where's the power?I'd bet Obama has it covered.Out of all the Presidential Candidates, Obama is by far the most intelligent among them. He doesn't strike me as the type to ask someone to do a job without making sure they have the tools necessary to...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Obama
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- New Apple support docs target Leopard
- Apple late last week and over the weekend dropped a bunch of documents into its support library. A number of the articles discuss recent problems reported with Leopard, including disappearing volumes during installation, Leopard-only packages and echos with A/V chats. Shortly following the recent release of Leopard,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Disk, Apple Inc., Leopard, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Leopard's installer: The case of the disappearing volumes
- Discussions boards are filling with reports of odd behavior with the Leopard Installer. I joined that experience yesterday with my first attempt at the upgrade. Since I have some important apps in my workflow that have yet to be declared fully Leopard compatible, I decided to...
- Tags: Disk, Apple Inc., Leopard, Installer DVD, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Apple says to Archive and Install Leopard
- Apple says to Archive and Install LeopardIs it Application Enhancer, or Tiger's RAID, or DivX? ...I guess the iPhone DOES have full OSX!Right down to the inability to run third party applications![i]The company blamed “third-party ‘enhancement’ software[/i]Hmm, I guess the Apple zealots were lying when they said that one of...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Unsanity, Apple Macintosh, APE 2.0.3, Mac OS X 10.5, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- Apple says to Archive and Install Leopard
- After reports of problem installations of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard over the weekend, Apple posted a technical note with a fix and advising customers to reinstall the software using the Archive and Install option. According to the document, some users found that after completing an...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Leopard, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- How Microsoft puts your data at risk
- How Microsoft puts your data at riskYawnTalk about troll FUD.As a computer user since the 60s, all that has happened is that both hardware and software have become more reliable. You manage to mention NTFS disparagingly even when it outperforms the other file system and with FAT32 is the...
- Tags: ZFS, file system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- How Microsoft puts your data at risk
- 56% of data loss due to system & hardware problems - OntrackData loss is painful and all too common. Why? Because your file system stinks. Microsoft's NTFS (used in XP & Vista) with its de facto monopoly is the worst offender. But Apple and Linux aren't any better. Everyone knows...
- Tags: NTFS, Disk, File System, Microsoft Corp., Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Misusing open source in a good cause
- Misusing open source in a good causeI missed it.I thought he was simply comparing the way open source currently shares code and ideas, once mainly the property of companies and research facilitiesusually funded by companies or the government, to an era where the sharing of genetic code and ideas will...
- Tags: Dyson, Open Source Developers, Freeman Dyson, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-07-01
- Qwerty2Azerty 1.0 (Mac)
- Qwerty2Azerty tell you what character you must type on your french keyboard if your system is running a virtual US keyboard. By exemple after a crashing if you want to launch the famous "fsck -y" command you must type "fsck )y".
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DoktorKleanor, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2007-05-16
- Stellar Phoenix HP UNIX - Data Recovery Software 1 (Windows)
- Stellar Phoenix HP Unix is data recovery software that allows you to recover lost data from the JFS VxFS file system of the HP-UNIX Operating System. Data loss in HP-UX is typically caused by corrupt Super Blocks, damaged Inode structures, corrupt LVM, errors in Cylinder groups, and damaged OLT (Object...
- Tags: Stellar Information Systems, Data Recovery, Phoenix Technologies, Microsoft Windows, Unix, Storage Management, Databases, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-01-08
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