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 Top 10 Reasons I’ll Never Use Ubuntu
1.It’s too inexpensive. In fact, paying is only an option & I don’t feel compelled to pay for it. It’s just not as fun owning an operating system I don’t have to pay for.
2. It’s too pretty. The ability to apply any theme,
or build my own, ruins my sense of camaraderie with my fellow OS users.
Where’s the sense in complete personalization?
3. It’s too fun. Computers were never meant to be fun. When they become fun they become dangerous.
 Read more... Sunday, March 19, 2000 Written by phill 269 reads |
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Windows = Antivirus = Pollution?
I just read an article by the University of Calgary where the author claims (and I think he's correct) that IT is a huge pollutant. For example, we have hardware that becomes obsolete, we have to produce electricity to pump into our gadgets, etc.
Not long ago I read another article where it's calculated (or so they say) how much pollution is produced by each search on google.
Read more... Sunday, February 27, 2000 Written by phill 271 reads |
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Cisco Goes Deep for Linux and Open Source
Without much fanfare or self-congratulations, networking giant Cisco Systems has become one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and an active contributor to the broader open source community.
It's a message that Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) isn't boasting about yet, but was willing to discuss with InternetNews.com. Cisco is the world's largest networking vendor and a technology juggernaut that is seeing the value in using and contributing to open source.
For example, Cisco is one of the top contributors to Linux, according to a recent Linux Foundation study.
While Cisco uses and produces proprietary software and hardware, the firm is actively participating in open source development efforts on a number of fronts. Cisco's open source participation ramp up comes as it expands its product lines like the Nexus, which benefit from Cisco's Linux efforts.
Read more... Sunday, February 27, 2000 Written by phill 247 reads |
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ZaReason Building Linux hardware so you don't have to
ZaReason sells Linux boxes: desktop, server, netbook, and pretty much whatever you want, just ask.
Read more... Saturday, February 26, 2000 Written by phill 292 reads |
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Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux and other patent claims
Microsoft filed suit against TomTom today, alleging that the in-car navigation company's devices violate eight of its patents -- including three that relate to TomTom's implementation of the Linux kernel.
Read more... Saturday, February 26, 2000 Written by phill 268 reads |
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Vlasis Music
Amazing music by Vlasis. A well developed raw talent: Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Vlasis defies any one definition. Influenced by the music of Al Di Meola, Joe Santriani, Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues and Santana. At the age of 16, his first band Future Legend won a Twin Cities best of the band contest and his journey began. Proficient in piano, drums, electric and acoustic guitars, Vlasis is also a singer, gifted songwriter and recording artist.
Read more... Sunday, July 16, 2000 Written by phill 578 reads |
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Murphy's computers laws
Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
Any given program costs more and takes longer each time it is run.
If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
Any given program will expand to fill all the available memory.
The value of a program is inversely proportional to the weight of its output.
Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.
Read more... Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Written by phill 600 reads |
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Things that pisses me off.
Reporters, incompetent IT companies.
Read more... Monday, February 14, 2000 Written by phill 646 reads |
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Hockey hobos, the new NHL.
We have all seen them, the hobos, the drifters, people that have to beg, borrow and steel to survive.
Read more... Saturday, February 12, 2000 Written by phill 686 reads |
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Things that pisses me off.
Reporters, politicians, self proclaimed experts and IDIOTS.
But I will start everything with a Swedish website called IDG.se they are kind of a news tech place They write about everything that has to do with tech stuff. Now I love those places, fun reading, and you newer know, you might learn something use full to.
Read more... Sunday, February 06, 2000 Written by Admin 657 reads |
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Linux founder slams Leopard
Linux project founder Linus Torvalds has slammed Apple's OS X for being "in some ways worse than Windows".
Torvalds was discussing Mac OS X Leopard, casting a judgement call on the debate between Windows and Mac.
Read more... Sunday, February 06, 2000 Written by Admin 657 reads |
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MIT researchers fight gridlock with Linux
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researchers are testing a Linux-based automotive telematics system intended to reduce traffic congestion. CarTel is a distributed, GPS-enabled mobile sensor network that uses WiFi "opportunistically" to exploit brief windows of coverage to update a central traffic analysis program.
Read more... Tuesday, February 05, 2008 Written by Admin 707 reads |
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Software patent case defendant seeks support of FOSS community
Barracuda Networks is actively seeking the support of the free and open source software (FOSS) community in its battle against a patent suit brought against it by Trend Micro. The suit revolves around Barracuda's distribution of Clam Antivirus (ClamAV), the well-known FOSS security software, with its firewall and Web filter hardware appliances.
Read more... Saturday, February 05, 2000 Written by Admin 639 reads |
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FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping
The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
Read more... Saturday, February 05, 2000 Written by Admin 670 reads |
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Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform
The Hill Times this week includes an astonishingly misleading and factually incorrect article on Canadian copyright written by Microsoft. The most egregious error comes in the following paragraph which attempts to demonstrate why Microsoft thinks reform is needed:
Read more... Saturday, February 05, 2000 Written by Admin 619 reads |
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Microsoft's Open-Source Plan: WAMP Instead of LAMP
My long-time friend and colleague Mary Jo Foley recently talked with Sam Ramji, Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy at the company's Open Source Software Lab. The subject of their conversation was: "Exactly what it is Microsoft is trying to do with open-source software anyway?"
Read more... Tuesday, February 05, 2008 Written by Admin 629 reads |
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How Linux Users Should React in a Windows World
Many Linux users find themselves working in Windows-based environments. More often that not, this is not something that can be avoided, and to be honest, I cannot actually say for certain that it should be. Despite the resistance from some Linux users to remain familiar with other operating systems, there is a certain level of importance in making sure that Windows does remain something that you are familiar with. And I say this for a number of reasons. Today, I will examine the advantages on all fronts as to being fluent with more than one OS.
Read more... Sunday, January 30, 2000 Written by phill 613 reads |
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Vista is Most Secure OS: I Can’t Stop Laughing…
Microsoft has released a self-analysis of Vista that proclaims among other things that Vista has less found vulnerabilities than any other OS in their first year. Written by a member of their Trustworthy Computing group, this report exhibits more spin than the teacup ride at Disney Land.
Read more... Sunday, January 30, 2000 Written by phill 617 reads |
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Microsoft programmer
A woman had been married three times and was still a virgin. Somebody asked her how that could be possible.
Read more... Sunday, January 30, 2000 Written by Admin 631 reads |
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TOP TEN MICROSOFT NON-MONOPOLISTIC SLOGANS
10) Competition is good. 90% market share is better.
9) We're disappointed that the US government failed to reach a reasonable settlement with Microsoft. We thought that our press release last year about Microsoft buying the US government took care of these little details.
Read more... Sunday, January 30, 2000 Written by Admin 742 reads |
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The world according to Linus
Computerworld catches up with the man behind Linux, Linus Torvalds, at Linux.conf.au
Read more... Sunday, January 30, 2000 Written by phill 649 reads |
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We're Huge in Finland!' Firefox Hits New High as IE7 Lags
Mozilla Firefox continued its slow but steady march against the worldwide dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer in 2007. Though the open-source web browser continues to sit firmly in second place behind IE, where it's been for years, usage of Firefox is still on the rise. The browser is even threatening to tip the scales in some European countries -- most likely thanks to the rapid internationalization efforts made possible by the open-source development model.
Read more... Sunday, January 30, 2000 Written by phill 611 reads |
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What I Learned using Linux over the last 10 years
I started using Linux as my primary desktop and operating system in 1998. After brief flirtations with FVWM 95 and Enlightenment, I settle on Gnome (with it’s various WMs over the years ) and Redhat/Fedora (until switching to Ubuntu last fall ).
Read more... Sunday, January 30, 2000 Written by phill 650 reads |
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The Un-X Crew
