An anonymous reader writes “Another straw in the wind: following last week’s news that the US Department of Transportation is putting a halt on upgrades to Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 7, today comes word that the Federal Aviation Administration may ditch Vista and Office in favor of Google’s new online business applications [...]
In this beginner introduction, Jethro Carr presents helpful tips for choosing the right Linux distro for your needs. He provides details regarding: purposes of different flavors, package management, stability, and personal experiences with numerous versions.
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A freshly installed copy of Firefox is a great software package, but what makes this open-source browser so special is the ability to customize it via extensions and themes to really make it yours. The problem is, there are so many available add-ins, it’s tough to know what’s worth installing and what’s just going to [...]
Consumers and network administrators often become complacent about security, trusting their anti-intrusion efforts to security product self-updates and older security technology. RSS reader software can heighten the potential for intrusion, warn some security experts. IT managers often fail to ensure that their networks are not at risk from the use of RSS feeds linked [...]
Repeated efforts at Nationwide Mutual Insurance to try Linux on the mainframe faced internal opposition, some of it from IT employees worried that a mainframe-based server consolidation would be a threat to their jobs. They “fought tooth and nail to keep it from happening,” said James Vincent, a mainframe systems engineering consultant at Nationwide. [...]
Linux users can choose from several big, bulky financial packages to manage their finances, but what about consultants and freelancers who just need to whip out a few basic invoices by the end of the month? For that niche, Simple Invoices, a Web-based, GPLed invoicing system, is a winner for folks with a bit of [...]
Now, unlike Windows, Linux and the rest of the Unix operating system family don’t have Daylight Savings Time innately. Instead, they use an entirely different way of telling time.
Most Linux systems have two clocks. The hardware clock, a.k.a. the “CMOS clock,” is present in most x86-based systems. The CMOS, a battery-backed time clock located on [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - An update to Apple Inc.’s iTunes music software still hasn’t resolved some of the compatibility problems with Microsoft Corp.’s new operating system.
The iTunes program is key to synching music on computers with iPod portable players, and the latest version, iTunes 7.1, comes a month after the iPod and Macintosh computer [...]
What do you want in a hard disk for your notebook? Small, fast, capacious and quiet are probably near the top of your list. And that’s what Fujitsu is offering with its new MHW2 BJ series.
These 2.5in SATA 3.0 drives run at 7200rpm and transfer data at up to 300 megabytes per second. When they [...]
If you don’t like to squint and you’re fed up with tangled cables, the Archos 704 may be the personal media player you’ve been waiting for.
The 7in, 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen is a much more eye-friendly choice than the smaller screens fitted to other devices such as Apple’s iPod, but you’re unlikely to have [...]
