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- What should open source do in a car?
- Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...
- Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Parents would rather talk drugs than math/science with their kids
- Well, DUH!It's always easier to talk about something that you have experience with.RE: Parents would rather talk drugs than math/science with their kidsIt would also help talking with the children about those subjects even if the parents really don't know about it! Maybe they could learn with the kids and...
- Tags: Online Resource
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Judge overturns $388m patent verdict against Microsoft
- Horrible PrecedentA judge over turning what a jury has already ruled, is setting a very bad precedent. This basically means if a judge doesn't like the a way a case came out, he can simply change it. Which means, whats the point of a jury?As for their reasoning, a software...
- Tags: patent verdict, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- Harvard study leads liberal pushback
- And passing this would be the "first shot" of the next civil war..Passing rubbish like this is whats going to ultimately make this country fall. The federal government, under the 10th Ammendment, has no business telling their citizens that they [b]must[/b] have health insurance. That is a state right and...
- Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, commy, insurance, Harvard, hospital
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Hey, Amazon! Are you stupid?
- Edtech, or Googletech?Chris, is it possible for you to write an article where you are not excessively gushing about Google? We get the point already. For you, the sun rises and sets with Google. Google is master of the universe. Google can do no harm.As a...
- Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-13
- Will new Skype owners deal differently with open source?
- Don?t forget Skype for SIP ;)Skype for SIP also offers interoperability with other communications systems - there's more about how it works on our website:http://www.skype.com/go/sipRE: Will new Skype owners deal differently with open source?An equally important question is, will Skype deal differently with their users? Will they stop treating...
- Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, VOIP, MagicJack, open source, Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Apple's Snow Leopard Completely Blows It Virtually
- RE: Apple's Snow Leopard Completely Blows It VirtuallyI think there is a lack of understanding of Apple's goals here. Mac OS can run perfectly fine on commodity hardware from Dell, etc. they just purposely prevent it from doing so. (Check out all the "Hackintosh" OS X boot-loaders if...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Mac business, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, hardware, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
- Discussion threads 2009-08-30
- Source code for Skype eavesdropping trojan in the wild
- Social Engineering?According the the Symantic press releasehttp://www.prwire.com.au/pr/14463/symantec-threat-bulletin-trojan-peskyspy-recording-skype-voip-conversation"The Trojan is detected by Symantec as Trojan.Peskyspy and can be downloaded to a computer by way of tricking the user with an E-mail scam or other social engineering tactic....The Trojan is targeting Windows API hooks, a technique used to alter the planned behavior...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., trojan horse, Source Code Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Mozilla pushes out .Net incompatible Firefox 3.5
- RE: Mozilla pushes out .Net incompatible Firefox 3.5Obviously this only affects Windows users, who have the totally cost-free option of creating a virtual machine running Ubuntu and using Firefox 3.5 with no need to worry about .Net.RE: Mozilla pushes out .Net incompatible Firefox 3.5So instead of running a browser that...
- Tags: .NET, Web browsers, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft .NET, Mozilla Firefox, incompatible Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.5, Mozilla Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo?
- VMware said Monday that it will pay $420 million for privately held SpringSource in a bid to become a bigger player in cloud computing application management and the open source community. VMware, a virtualization leader that is angling to become a cloud infrastructure OS giant, said that...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Open Source, VMware Inc., SpringSource, Spring Framework, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Microsoft to release "out-of-band" patches this Tuesday
- Microsoft to release "out-of-band" patches this TuesdayI say kudos to Microsoftfor making the unpopular but correct decision to protect their users at the cost of convenience. I wish they did it more often, not just when they know for sure it would be catastrophic if they didn't.It will be interesting...
- Tags: Patches, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Windows Folk, Microsoft Corp., security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Protected Mode, user right, Linux, patch management
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Is Windows 7 E just a gimmick?
- Is Windows 7 E just a gimmick?How is this Microsoft's fault?They removed IE just like Opera was crying about. If OEM's will install it anyway, then how is this Microsoft's fault?Again, the solution to this is not to complain. It's Microsoft's OS, they should be allowed to include what they...
- Tags: gimmick, IS Windows, Is Windows 7, Is Windows 7 E, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, OEM, Opera Software ASA, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
- Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses?
- Reading the commentary from the likes of TechCrunch, Mashable, The Guardian and even our own esteemed Sam Diaz on the pre-launch (you've got another YEAR to wait) you'd think the Google ChromeOS was the closest thing to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Get a grip people. First up MG...
- Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Register, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Manchester City Council pays $2.4m in Conficker clean up costs
- Manchester City Council pays $2.4m in Conficker clean up costsMessage has been deletedMessage has been deletedAnd let us not forget the costs of people refraining from performingnecessary tasks because of fear. And the costs the USB drive ban.Incalculable costs really.The care they put into the systemis the output they'd get,...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Servers, Conficker, FAA, server, Apple Inc., operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Data and software both want to be shared
- Data and software both want to be sharedOnly if it is I who decides what to shareas I would imagine there is data that you posess that you has no desire to let me or the world see, as it would finacially devestate you, or something similar.I would not like...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Music Piracy, software, OpenSource, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- Can Moblin wean universities from Microsoft?
- Can Moblin wean universities from Microsoft?Nonsense is AndroidIf we have Debian or Ubuntu, why the hell we need another MS-like company: Intel who is definitely a monopoly to push Linux? Wrong direction, very wrong direction.Moblin might be a dangerous strategy for IntelMoblin might be a dangerous strategy for Intel. ...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Moblin, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- Transforming customer relationships with social media
- * Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by John Yaggie Social media technologies have the potential to disrupt the traditional ways companies build and manage relationships with their customers. Customer relationships built on trust and loyalty are central to a company's reputation and...
- Tags: Customer, Jennifer Leggio, John Yaggie, Relationship, Social Media, Social Media Technology
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Open source shrugs at EU liability plans
- Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI've said it beforeFOSS companies should not worry.Having liabilities for the free speach makes no sense and would violate the constitution.Only propietary companies need to worry about it.RE: Open source shrugs at EU liability plansI agree with Dana; the current "exemption" by many software...
- Tags: OSS Developer, liability plan, open source, precaution, OSS, F/OSS
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Apple Patch Day: 67 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities
- Apple Patch Day: 67 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilitiesHow about being a real journalistand giving us a count of patches in third-party open source components as opposed to actual OS X patches.One of the big complaints against Apple is that they are slow to update open source patches. So instead...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Apple Mac OS, OSX, Apple Inc., vulnerability, patch management, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
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