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Archive for February, 2009

Official: Windows 7 has more than 2000 bugs

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

 
Steven Sinofsky, the Senior Vice President for the Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, in an attempt to quell a beta tester rebellion over a perceived lack of feedback concerning bug reporting has made an astonishing confession: Windows 7 has at least 2000 bugs.
Gads only 2000! Not that security or ease of use [...]

Seven Must-Have Firefox Security Add-Ons

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

 
Mobile workers are especially vulnerable because they operate outside corporate security systems, and often return home to unload nasties into the company network. Paul Rubens finds seven excellent Firefox plugins to help protect the mobile worker.
Personally I use all but two of these little rascals and I might have to check into the others [...]

Marvell Offers Mini Plug Computer for Consumer, Network, Appliance Designs

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

 
Marvell has created a new Plug Computing initiative to help developers build high-performance, always-on, always-connected and environmentally friendly little computer devices that plug into electrical wall sockets and act like embedded or appliance computers in the home. The little plug-in computers start with a gigahertz-class processor and are capable of acting like home media [...]

Simply Mepis 8 Released

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Well after a wait the day has arrived and was it worth it over all the 64 bit version is faster than almost any distro I have tried and everything works right out of the box. What more can you ask for folks? If you have been wanting to give linux a shot now is [...]

SimplyMEPIS 8.0 RC3: Entering the “Waiting for Lenny” Phase

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Morgantown, WV, Feb 9, 2009 — MEPIS has distributed ISO files for RC3 of SimplyMEPIS 8.0. The files for 32 and 64 bit processors are SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.96-rc3_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.96-rc3_64.iso.
For RC3, the kernel has been updated to upstream version, 2.6.27.15. Qemu 0.9.1+svn, libvirt 0.6., virt-manager 0.6.1, and virtinst 0.400.1 are available from the MEPIS pool to better [...]

OpenChange, KDE bring Exchange compatibility to Linux

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

 
Recent developments in the OpenChange and KDE open source projects are set to bridge a “missing link” in messaging and groupware compatibility from Microsoft’s Exchange to open source clients. Many open source groupware suites lay claim to this holy grail of interoperability, but the software to synchronise address book, task and calendar information with Exchange [...]

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