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- Droid Assault demo (exe)
- The robots in Omni-Corp's factory warehouses have accidentally been activated and are running amok! All of the factory workers have been slain. You must enter the warehouses and using a transfer beam take control of a crazy droid. Then you can use its weapons to destroy the other droids. You...
- Tags: Warehouse, Puppy Games, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- Open Source Commandments II: Passover Penguins
- In my previous piece discussing the first four Open Source Commandments I talked a bit about the traditions of Passover, where Jewish families gather together to eat a festive meal and discuss our liberation from slavery in Egypt during the reign of the Pharaoh (while the one in the...
- Tags: Console, OSS, Open Source, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Tux Paint (exe)
- Tux Paint is a free drawing program for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that is designed for young children (kids 3 and up). It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program. It provides a...
- Tags: Child, Tool, New Breed Software, Tux Paint, Rubber Stamp Collection, Productivity, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-03-05
- How hard is it to violate the GPL?
- I screwed up yesterday. (Picture from Boycott Novell.) After re-reading my piece, your comments, and the terms of both GPL licenses carefully, it's clear to me I underestimated how easy it is for enterprises to violate its terms. But it's not impossible. Far from...
- Tags: GPL, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Friday Fun - OK, so who owns a Tux Droid?
- Is you're Linux experience complete without a $145 Tux Droid? The other day my daughter was aimlessly browsing through a catalog when she came across the Tux Droid. Neither of us had seen one before and we came to the conclusion that it was some sort of foam...
- Tags: Firing, Wi-Fi, Web Site, Architecture, Linux, Web Site Development, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Web Technology, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?
- Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?Very disturbing but legitimate topicI think we're far from "marriage" with robots since robots with true AI and not intelligence imitation are far from reality. All too often is a clever algorithm mislabeled as "AI". Having robots...
- Tags: Robots, robot, blow-up doll, doll
- Discussion threads 2008-01-02
- Photos: Cracking open R2-D2
- Hasbro's replica droid was pretty fun to play with, so TechRepublic decided to dissect him. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Hasbro Inc., Replica, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-12-21
- Five questions: Oracle's BEA buyout
- Five questions: Oracle's BEA buyoutBEA and OracleCome on, this is such an obvious situation. Ichan is trying to leverage a proxy war between Larry E and Alfred C. The real winners will NOT be the customer base at least not in the near future and the only ones that will...
- Tags: Ichan, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- Ballmer: Microsoft will dunk on Google...eventually
- Ballmer: Microsoft will dunk on Google...eventuallyAnd, he says this as they fall to a distant 4th behind an unknown Chinesecompany. Seems that if they can't bundle it with the OS, they can't compete for some reason??? Imagine that!! Of course they ARE trying to bundle, but it has not been...
- Tags: Channel management, Team management, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Google Inc., pinata, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
- The sysadmin job: what's changed in ten years
- The sysadmin job: what's changed in ten yearsP550 slow? Say it ain't so!Everything about IBM just sux. Their hardware is overhyped and underdelivering. Their software won't work unless you TOTALLY BUY IN to their "message" - i.e. Don't just BUY Tivoli - hire an entire team of experts to struggle...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, job, SCO Group Inc., Unix, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- Tux Quote: Stock Quote Finder (gg)
- Finds stock quotes and displays them with Tux te penguin. Just enter a ticker symbol and see that stock's latest trading price and change. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Stock, Investment, Finance
- Software downloads 2007-09-11
- MSN Messenger vulnerable to 'highly critical' webcam flaw
- MSN Messenger vulnerable to 'highly critical' webcam flawWhat about those who don't have XP yet?It's all very well saying we have to upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 8.1, but what about people who still use pre XP windows? 8.1 doesn't work on Win2000.Hmm... This is pretty obvious...Before I accept...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Patches, Operating systems, MSN, MSN Messenger, Webcam, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- Zagstar (exe)
- Ever wanted to be able to surf more faster, listen to music and find things more easier and have access to many sources and one touch clicks to information right on a menu and be able to do more then the average internet surfer, such as access sites and areas...
- Tags: Internet, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2007-08-17
- Announcing ZDNet's 15th and 16th Deputy Product Testers of the Week
- Fridays are turning out to be one of our favorite days of the week here at ZDNet. Not only because TGIF, but also because it's the day we get to deputize ZDNet's next Product Tester of the Week. In addition to getting some enjoyment out of giving away free...
- Tags: Mobile, Product Giveaways, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Reader: iPhone store experience "cool" but Activation S-L-O-W
- Reader: iPhone store experience "cool" but Activation S-L-O-W3 hours? I'm at 13!Still not activated!Now at 13 hours, tooYep, I'm still waiting, too. Apparently, my old customer information from being a Cingular customer years ago broke AT&T's credit verification process. Note that I'm not porting a number, but...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., activation, phone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-30
- Microsoft to simplify downgrades from Vista to XP
- Microsoft to simplify downgrades from Vista to XPDevice compatibility is high and getting higher dailyBSYeah, there's hardware running in half-assed mode, but running at full feature-full performance isn't even close to being there yet.Those with 8800GTX cards, for one example, know what I mean.Well this is a first Microsoft releasing...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, VISTA PERCEPTION IS REALITY TOUR, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- GPV V3 and hardware modification
- GPV V3 and hardware modificationGreat but...This provision of v3 sounds great but reading other analysis this morning I find that v3 is now compatible with the Apache license but that it WON"T be compatible GPL v2. This is a monumental mistake which will force many forks of many projects which...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, hardware, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- GPV V3 and hardware modification
- The Free Software Foundation has released its "last call" draft of GPL V3, along with a personal plea from Richard Stallman for folks to upgrade from V2. (This gadget-loving Tux was found at Computer Shopper.)Most discussion of the new release will focus on Novell, which won clearance for its Microsoft...
- Tags: wireless, telecom, Strategy, Software Licensing, mobile, mass market, Legal, Hardware, GPL, Government, FOSS
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- (Photos: Linux penguin to race in the Indy 500)
- (Photos: Linux penguin to race in the Indy 500)Good for them!I still think that the root cause of Linux's failure to take more marketshare is that no one outside of the geek community knows about it. Making it easily available through companies like Dell is only 1 step, you also...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Tux, Sour Grapes, photograph, Linux, Indy 500, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
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