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- 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?
- Friday Fun - OK, so who owns a Tux Droid?Very Cool!My Linux-using daughter would love it. She's just made the switch from PCLinuxOS to Debian herself and she's only 11. She even manually edited xorg.conf.with a little help from dad Definitely the future *nix guru of the family.Thinkgeek has it...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Tux Droid, Friday Fun, ThinkGeek
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Tuxnbill (exe)
- The Tux 'n BillTM screensaver features a configurable number of Linux Tux penguins suddenly investing your windows desktop. Some of them wear a construction helmet with a light torch on it; some others do not wear anything. However, all of them share the same goal: To get your windows desktop...
- Tags: Linux, Construction, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- Software downloads 2007-05-10
- Apple bursts out with 8-core 3 GHz Intel quad-core
- Apple bursts out with 8-core 3 GHz Intel quad-coreThe Pace of Change Must Be FasterOne only need see what is being used in Japan and Europe to realize that the US is the dumping ground for obsolete technology. They use their cell phones as scanners and credit cards in civilized...
- Tags: Linux, Workstations, Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, quad-core, PC, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., workstation
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Microsoft announces Xbox 360 Elite
- Microsoft announces Xbox 360 EliteHDMIMS better plan on offering an HDMI "add-on" for existing 360 owners.They were idiots not to include it in the first place. They better not make it worse by burning their early adopters. The hardware is there - just not the interface.Still may be a hard...
- Tags: Game players, Make IT, Nintendo Wii, Sony Corp., Linux User, Microsoft Xbox, cable, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Corp., Xbox-360 Elite, Linux, HDMI, hardware, xbox
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Optimus Maximus Keyboard (Optimus Maximus Keyboard)
- Optimus Maximus Keyboard Optimus Maximus KeyboardErgonomic Version?$1500 and its not even ergonomic?Worth the price?The bloody thing's not even ergonomic. I'm sorry, but a conventionally-laid out "unconventional" keyboard doesn't do it for me. Perhaps if it were able to use galvanic skin response to enhance the human-machine interface, and use an...
- Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, Optimus Maximus Keyboard, Optimus Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-16
- Samsung's Flash based iPhone killer
- I just caught this on Tux:Tops, but it looks like Samsung is coming out with an iPhone killer that runs Flash as the user interface. Akihabara News in Korea has the main info as well as some beautiful screenshots. The phone is the Samsung Ultra Smart F700 and it...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Mobile-Web, iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Amsterdam to evaluate open source
- Amsterdam to evaluate open sourcewise move:)PowerPoint is Open Office's Best FriendYears of trying to get budget for Microsoft Office met with surprise just at year end for those dealing with American Bar Association lawyers. Vista users have been trained to save their documents in PowerPoint format because Vista Word format...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, open source, Microsoft Windows Vista, OpenOffice, Microsoft PowerPoint, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
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