After Facebook, what?
The delicious riddle of Facebook’s future is part parlour game, part billion-dollar question. It might just be me, but I’m hearing more grumbling than raving about the site these days. For people who joined earlier in the year, the novelty has worn off. The rush of long-lost acquaintances clamouring for renewed “friendship” has [...]
Or maybe this should be titled what is really wrong with health care here in the states. As some of you know I have been getting ready for some surgery in the last few months and I am still sitting and waiting for that. Why you ask? Well it seems that the Doctors have to [...]
A Vista Service Pack is on the way — Microsoft says a beta of Service Pack 1 will be available “in a few weeks.” Many users, waiting for SP1’s arrival before taking the upgrade plunge, will wait even longer with the news that the pack will contain mostly bug fixes — and few new features.
Don’t [...]
How To Prank A Telemarketer
Warning: May cause acute cases of cachinnation in some viewers!
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So what does this have to do with Linux? Smarter people than I have already mentioned the possibility.
There could come a day when it will be against the law…at least in the United States to use, possess, advocate or distrubute any Linux Operating system.
Source: blog.lobby4linux
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By Nathan Willis on August 28, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)
My Series 1 TiVo is getting old, so I am planning an escape route based on MythTV, a free software system that turns an old computer into a personal video recorder. This week I tested three MythTV-specific Linux distributions: KnoppMyth, MythDora, and MythBuntu. I found MythDora [...]
If Linux is hardly affected by viruses, why do system administrators use anti-virus software on their Linux email servers? Because an anti-virus scanner on a mail server can serve as another level of defense for Microsoft Windows desktop users. Linux provides several server-based anti-virus applications, most of which can be configured to interact with a [...]
The open source model of developing software is making a significant impact, not only in the software development and broader high-tech community, but more generally within corporations, other types of businesses and organizations around the world, as Part 1 of this series describes. Whether it’s on servers, desktop computers or mobile devices, it’s increasingly [...]
Yahoo Inc. said on Sunday it was giving its e-mail users more ways to reach friends and online contacts by allowing them to trade messages with mobile phone users.
The new e-mail-to-phone connection is one of the features the Internet media giant plans to add as it makes available to the more than 250 million [...]
Taiwan’s Acer on Monday said it will buy Gateway for $710 million, creating the world’s No. 3 PC maker, as Acer doubles its presence in Gateway’s lucrative but highly competitive home market.
Acer said it would pay $1.90 per Gateway share, representing a premium of 57 percent over Gateway’s last closing price.
Source: ZDNet
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