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XP on OLPC: Microsoft's gambit to stay in the emerging market conversation

XP on OLPC: Microsoft's gambit to stay in the emerging market conversationAll this work on a deprecated OS?I thought Vista was the future? Active development to port XP, let's face it, a stable but very outdated OS onto the OLPC. At some point, MS will have to accept...

Tags: Operating systems, emerging market, Apple OS X, Windows/Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child project, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, software

Discussion threads 2007-12-06

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Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks (SSDs) and Linux

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks SSDs and LinuxOh, It's just Loverock at it again? Pay no attention Jason.ntGeek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks SSDs and LinuxHow sad is that? You need a tweaking guide just to get a disk drive to...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, solid state disk, disk, Linux, Geek Sheet

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more

I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...

Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-25

21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP

21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPMy takeI don't count security patches, but I regularly have to clean malware from our XP machines but have yet to find anything on our Vista systems.RE: 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPFile this in the "no...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Patches, Microsoft Windows Vista, secure, Microsoft Windows XP, VISTA IS

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP

Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...

Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched

Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...

Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Foxconn snubs Linux users

Foxconn snubs Linux usersWho needs Foxconn anyway.There are plenty of good MB makers that do support Linux.It's a good idea to look at hardware compatibility at the distro's website anyway. I use Asus. But I have had to update the BIOS on every Asus MB I've bought to get...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Foxconn, Linux, BIOS, ASUS, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Foxconn snubs Linux users

Several readers have sent me a link to a discussion in progress on the Ubuntu forums which outlines how hardware manufacturer Foxconn crippled Linux support on the G33M-S motherboard by breaking ACPI support. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Foxconn, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletI WANT ONE!!Dang, I'd buy it in a heart beat. I already have an iPod Touch love it and getting ready to buy an iPhone.RE: Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletMay sound very nice, but unfortunately, like all Apple things, it will probably...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Mystery Solved, iTablet

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missingI couldn't make this stuff up if I triedSeriously, I'm not that creative.[url=http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=48138&messageID=898138] Apple fan explains why Apple isn't responsible for PWN2OWN vulnerability [/url][i]A Perl exploit isn't an Apple bug, anymore than the Flash exploit on the Vista machine was a Microsoft...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Domain names, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, DNS, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Gateway stops selling PCs direct

Gateway stops selling PCs directHow does this save money?I mean won't part of the sale have to go to the outlet? While a direct sale Gateway gets it all? Also can we stop this name game thing. Gateway is not longer Gateway it's Acer. I remember...

Tags: Desktops, PC, Gateway Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available

The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3.  This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility".  The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

A Friday Active Directory puzzler

We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...

Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops

Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptopsjust thinknow instead of being stuck in a little puddle they can go out there and swim in the ocean of windows applications like the rest of us - a zillion kids just smiledlinuxhelp.net:~# apt-get install mozilla-firefoxReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following...

Tags: Operating systems, Vista-64, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., OLPC Laptop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops

Microsoft has internally released to manufacturing the version of Windows XP that it has tweaked to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarityBingo! ntnt"insanely profitable"Yes, IBM retained those parts of its business in which it was possible to obtain a huge markup and not worry as much about performance compared to alternatives.Microsoft already has part of that approach, as witness the markup on software. ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 08

Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Aug/Sep 089800 GTX?At $200 dollars, I think that the 9800 GTX is finally able to be considered for the mid-range level card. I was surprised by nVidia and their recent price drops, but after purchasing two of these cards, I have been pleased.Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware 2.0, SoundBlaster X-Fi, Linux, Lol, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Is there an open source jobs boom?

Is there an open source jobs boom?...can't be too bad.My phone is ringing off the hook because I left a profile out on the job boards and I'm not even looking. I haven't even touched the thing in MONTHS so I know I have floated to the bottom of the...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, What-If, tool, Microsoft Corp., development schedule, open source

Discussion threads 2008-07-25