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- Penguin
- The logo for the Linux operating system, which was developed in Finland. See Penguinhead and Linux.The Linux MascotLinux users see penguin symbols often in their travels around the Linux...
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- Penguin 4X Quad Charge Station for Wii
- Of the trio of current-generation video game consoles, only the Nintendo Wii lacks a first-party recharging solution for its controllers. If you don't want to go through an endless stream of AA batteries, that means you'll be turning to one of the increasing number of third-party charging accessories becoming available....
- Tags: Engineering, Game players, Games, Nintendo Wii, Penguin, Quad Charge Station, Nyko Charging Base, battery
- Product reviews 2008-08-19
- Zemlin of Linux Foundation lets fly at Microsoft
- The reason for the merger which created the Linux Foundation was to give open source a big, unified platform from which to respond to threats. (Picture of penguins flying in the water is by Guillaume Daugard.)Given the reality of Microsoft's patent threat, it was only a matter of time before...
- Tags: General, GPL, Legal, Linux, Linux Desktop OS, Linux Server OS, Microsoft, Patents
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Photos: Linux penguin to race in the Indy 500
- At this year's Indianapolis 500, watch the blue No. 77 car. You might catch sight of a penguin racing at 250 mph.
- Tags: penguin, Linux, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-05-24
- Open source to go under the radar in 2007
- Open source to go under the radar in 2007Actually, Mac is much more problem free for non-geeks still, though thingslike the Portland project are making it much easier. Soon vendors will be able to create a single binary that will install and work on all Linux desktops. And, just as...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Aerospace & Defense, Desktops, linux world, penguin, Linux, open source, radar, desktop, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-11
- Sending the penguins out with a hot foot
- Sending the penguins out with a hot footIt's a good thing......Bill Gates and Microsoft are the only "evil" ones out there, eh? :)Carl RapsonArroganceWhy can't this ego maniac Ellison be content to port his wares to Linux and be happy with that. Granted Red Hat isa commercial company but they...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., rep, operating system, penguin, F/OSS, database, Linux, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- Ellison calls to the penguin
- Ellison calls to the penguinYea - Who Would Have Thunk - Unless You got an Oracle 10 g with Red HatAnyone with a free Oracle 10g developers disk also got Red Hat. I suppose this is big news in that those who had Microsoft blinders on now must take notice....
- Tags: penguin
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- Attention Linux users: You now have Oracle support
- Ellison and a group of penguins shake up the Linux worldFrom Oracle OpenWorld 2006: CEO Larry Ellison announced Wednesday that Oracle will now support Red Hat Linux at much lower rates than Red Hat offers right now. Is that frightened penguin scared of Ellison?
- Tags: penguin
- Videos 2006-10-25
- The clue train has no caboose
- The Internet clue train has no ending. It just keeps on chugging along. But there is always a new group milling around the platform ready to hop on when they "get it". There is nobody left below the age of 24, they were the...
- Tags: penguin
- Blog posts 2006-08-03
- WinFrotz (zip)
- WinFrotz is a textual game of interactive fiction. Your past is a jumble of dimly-lit mirrors, reflecting disassociated images: desolate parking lots; whispering distant trees; a sense of sorrow and suspended time; a night without end. All paths lead to the building the immense lightless monolith that curls before you...
- Tags: Verb, WinFrotz, Inhabitant, Penguin, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-03-02
- Amazon picks up an intelligent Penguin
- Amazon picks up an intelligent PenguinLike I said many times...You can't stop the adoption of Linux. Flame on!!Amazon picks up an intelligent PenguinLinux and efficiency in the same sentence? Talk about a good laugh. They must not have read the dictator's comments on linsux not being efficient.Off...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Picks, Penguin, LINUX IS
- Discussion threads 2005-03-31
- MandrakeSoft ordered to drop trademark
- MandrakeSoft ordered to drop trademarkWow...So, an OS and a comic strip are easily confused? Those French really aren't too bright, then, are they?This is getting really old and retardedCome on already! If I owned a company and someone sued me over sorry crap like this I would be doing...
- Tags: Linux, Branding, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Strategy, Mandrake, penguin, Xerox Corp., POLO, Mandriva
- Discussion threads 2004-02-20
- Software makers team on Asian Linux
- Software makers team on Asian LinuxThat's a large chunk of the global populationChina, Korea, and Japan together makeup what, about 1.3 billion people, if that many desktops change over to Asianux, I guess Microsoft wouldn't be so incontrol of the desktop. Between that and IBM jumping to linux...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Desktops, software, team, penguin, Linux, Asianux, desktop, Asian Linux, computer
- Discussion threads 2004-01-08
Additional Resources
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrumEasy Terrorism Target?As we rely more and more on the Net, who will defend these floating farms in a no jurisdiction, no taxes, etc, area?Any protection from pirates and terrorist?Firstly, I think this google 'solution' is cool. However as my...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Google Makes, Google Inc., data center
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Do it Yourself Mojave
- Yup. I'm now a Vista user. As I mentioned in a previous post, circumstances have recently required that I buy a new desktop PC. It's not that I wasn't happy with my old PC -- it was a generic ASUS M2N32 Athlon...
- Tags: desktop, microsoft windows xp, operating system, microsoft windows vista, ram, machine, rachel, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, microsoft windows, software, jason perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktop
- IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktopIbm should spend 1% of its revenueeach years to help , expend and monitor/sponsored open sourceUp to a certain point IBM OS/3 "pay back" linux or bsd flavor since we are into the "if/why not"...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, desktop, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Corp., Symphony, server
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- The Ultimate Geek Vending Machine
- Imagine my surprise when I spotted this vending machine on a recent trip to Minneapolis. Stationed in Concourse E of the Lindbergh terminal of Minneapolis-St. Paul International, this machine has been in operation at least since late 2007. Although this machine is missing the essentials such...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Machine, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Spam coming from free email providers increasing
- After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Biometric IDs for African penguins?
- University of Bristol researchers have developed a non-intrusive visual surveillance system for wildlife habitats. They've used their system to monitor the behavior of 20,000 African penguins on Robben Island in South Africa. By definition, conventional tagging techniques can only monitor animals which have been tagged. On the contrary, the 'Penguin...
- Tags: Chest, Monitor, Researcher, Camera, Species, African, Image-recognition System, Monitors & Displays, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-28
- More than 1 billion PCs now in use worldwide
- More than 1 billion PCs now in use worldwideYes. And that means over 950,000,000 of them......are running Windows. Have a nice day. :)...Try closer to 825,500,000... and you would be more accurate. ]:)But with replacements...... over a fairly brief period, the Windows pc's probably total 1.05 billion. Not...
- Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, UNIX, fantasy, PC, Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise
- Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertiseCompanies making money from open source.Well, there's Red Hat... and there's Red Hat and, oh yes, I remember, Red Hat.There are ways to save expenses with open source, but that's different from making money with open source. If a company...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
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