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- Linux is not Windows Lite
- Linux is not Windows LiteYou're right 'Linux is not Windows Lite', 'LINUX IS CRAP'Thanks Murph for putting it out even though you go about doing things in a twisted way, with no logic, facts, lack of any technical explaination.You do a fine job of representing *nix. I am not sure...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Linux, LINUX IS, Linux is not-Windows Lite, Unix
- Discussion threads 2007-05-09
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- What open source should tell the FCC
- What open source should tell the FCCyou are rightThe very wealthy in the US will not give up their power easily. Open and free internet is the enemy of the rich and powerful.The free flow if ideas is what they are trying to stop, here and in places like China.I...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, Federal government, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, open source, DSL, broadband, FCC, AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- Support.com: We'll kill your crapware for free
- Support.com: We'll kill your crapware for freeEeeewwwwww Jiffy Lube...?Not the sort of analogy I'd really be hoping for if I was with Support.com... Ya see, the local NBC's Los Angeles affiliate has been busy investigating them for some seriously shady practices over the past few years. It would seem that...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Support.com, crapware
- Discussion threads 2008-12-05
- Our second Linux laptop has a real keyboard
- Our second Linux laptop has a real keyboardXandros lite is OK ...For the average user the Xandros Lite OS is fine, but it does have some shortcomings:1) Asus for some reason has a ram limit compiled into the kernel of 1GB. The machine has a max limit of 2GB, but...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, laptop computer, ASUS, real keyboard, kernel, Linux laptop, Xandros, Intel Celeron, distro, keyboard, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- News to know: IE vs Chrome; Microsoft's TV pack; Oracle; Pandora CEO
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'? Larry Dignan: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux Ed Bott: TV...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft TV, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., TV, E-mail, Open Source, Tv & Home Theater, Online Communications, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC
- The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PCWhy such an expensive processor?Surely you can cut a couple of hundred dollars off the price and not lose too much performance by getting a lower spec processor.That way you could keep both hard drives (great for keeping the data separate from the...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), video, PC, game
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Sun/Google Android "fight" overblown
- Ever since Google kicked off the Open Handset Alliance and released the "gPhone" Android SDK for mobile devices, the blogosphere has been buzzing about a new conflict brewing between Sun and Google over the future of Java. But I'm here to tell you, it's all bunk. Wars,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Ten lessons the Xbox Team can teach the rest of Microsoft
- Ten lessons the Xbox Team can teach the rest of MicrosoftGawd I hope they don'tLook, the Xbox is fundementally different than work based computing. I know of no one that sets down to a Word document becuase it's "fun". Two very different things, two very different markets, two...
- Tags: Game players, team, dashboard, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-04
- iPod tops annual Amazon charts
- iPod tops annual Amazon chartsAnybody home?This article shows a remarkable lack of common sense in the last paragraph. It's stupid to compare DS Lite sales to sales of full-fledged consoles like the Wii and XBox360... and dumber still to refer to all three systems as "games." It also...
- Tags: Games, Digital music, Digital media, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, Amazon.com Inc., game, Steve Ballmer, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2006-12-28
- The Resurgence of Flash
- When Flash first started taking off in the late 1990s, it was the first time most people saw animation on the web. For a lot of people, Flash gave them a way to create web experiences that hadnt been possible before. It was exciting, it was pretty easy to jump...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Experience, Flash, Yahoo, Google, Apollo, Ajax
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Beware of broadband speed overkill
- Beware of broadband speed overkillmore speeddont forget games (PC, XBOX Live, etc)with dual cores and 64bits...some of us multitask download mp3, teamspeak, ventrilo, built in VOIP for games, multiple computers, etcall of it adds up, so I'd say give me more speedjust like ...why do u need 175 HP car???...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, Games, Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband, latency, bandwidth, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2006-05-17
- What if other things were open source?
- What if other things were open source?Give the points?Hey, the Lions beat Atlanta last year - in Atlanta! I'll just be glad if no one drops DEAD during the game seems to happen in Detroit sports.Open source methodology in the paper industry has given us "standard" and "legal" paper sizes,...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2005-11-23
- Using perl with RH and apache
- Using perl with RH and apacheUgh! Bad advice!1) He will also need to setup Apache to actually run CGI code in the appropriate directories.2) That code you presented, while it works dandy I used that code a dozen times myself, he should be using CGI.pm, it filters out a lot...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, Bad Advice, CGI module, Perl, CGI.pm, CGI, Web, PHP
- Discussion threads 2005-10-21
- SCO's mobile service to talk to the masses
- SCO's mobile service to talk to the massesSCO has resellers?SCO has resellers left? With their track record of suing partners and clients, why would anyone have anything to do with them?Dear God, SCO created something!!!This is the end of the world as we know it. I thought SCO was...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, mobile, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-09-19
- The wonderful land of Ogg
- The wonderful land of OggDoes WMP play ogg?I doubt it . . .I'm surprisedthat WMA was not brought in as a comparison. I can't say I'm a huge fan of it, but it does compress well and it does work with the WMP webbrowser plugin.Both OOG and WMA suffer from...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, WMP, OGG, WMA
- Discussion threads 2005-09-19
- OpenSUSE -the name says too much
- During the late nineteen eighties the word "open" became computing's equivalent to "lite" in food marketing. At one point there was (and still is, actually) an "open" VMS for which you could not, of course, get source code or full documentation. Now we have open Linux. As in huh? Isn't...
- Tags: Linux
- Blog posts 2005-09-07
- Comparing code bases
- Comparing code basesThe trouble isyour proposed comparison would do exactly what the legal standard rejects: compare functionality. Two implementations of the same specification would come up as similar.My favorite example is sort. I can write dozens of different implementations of gnu [b]sort[/b] with identical external behavior, yet they're...
- Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Insurance, PC industry, AT&T Corp., Ritchie, patent
- Discussion threads 2005-07-22
- Record industry group settles suit against iMesh P2P
- Record industry group settles suit against iMesh P2Psounds like...more, we'll sue till they run out of money syndrome here... how could iMesh be guilty, when Kazaa, the owner of the same network, was not?RIAA should wither on the vineI would love to see people get there music enmasse from P2P...
- Tags: Apple iPod, iMesh, P2P, radio, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2004-07-20
- U.S. wins appeal against alleged pirate
- U.S. wins appeal against alleged pirateAnd so it is perpetuatedthe American arrogance that the world has come to despise. Yeah I can see the right and the wrong of the whole thing. But the world will not focus on the fact that justice was served should he be convicted of...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, citizenship, software
- Discussion threads 2004-07-08
- Mozilla, Gnome mull united front against Longhorn
- Mozilla, Gnome mull united front against LonghornMozilla, Gnome needs to fix their software firstLike all OSS software, it is a montage of NON-functional code slapped together. Then after it fails to catch on they blame everyone else. Fix your own broken software first, then others might want to use it....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, OSS, Microsoft Longhorn, GNOME, Microsoft Corp., oss comunistity, Mozilla Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2004-04-28
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