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  • And What About Windows XP Service Pack 3?(microsoft is advertising for linux again)

    04/07/2007 6:51:09 PM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 96 replies · 1,020+ views
    Windows IT Pro ^ | April 9th | Paul Thurrott
    If you were looking for any glimpse into the mind of Microsoft, this is it: The company has completely abandoned Windows XP, and it has absolutely no plans to ever ship an XP SP3. My guess is that Microsoft will do what it did with the final Windows 2000 Service Pack: Claim years later that it's no longer needed and just ship a final security patch roll-up. This is the worst kiss-off to any Microsoft product I've ever seen, and you'd think the company would show a little more respect to its best-selling OS of all time. But the reality...
  • Open Source, the only weapon against "planned obsolescence"

    03/28/2007 6:51:38 AM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 64 replies · 314+ views
    Volesoft ^ | March 28th | Fernando Cassia
    FIRMS WOULD LOVE to have you dump your computer every year, and your accesories, and your MP3 player, and your DVD, and your entire movie collection, and replace it with new ones. The software world is getting closer. I think that "Planned Obsolescence" is sadly here to stay; but there's hope, only one: open source. Microsoft has lately perfected the planned obsolescence game with its decision to make flagship products like Internet Explorer 7 not available for previous OS versions like Windows 2000. Cutting updates and no longer releasing patches for insecure products is not enough.
  • Novell Launches "Get a Mac" Spoof ads

    03/23/2007 5:46:43 AM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 44 replies · 668+ views
    Novell ^ | March 21st | Pete Mortensen
    Youtube links below. Novell's website is very slow
  • Torvalds Talks About GPLv3

    03/18/2007 7:52:24 PM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 64 replies · 546+ views
    Information Week ^ | March 17th | Charles Babcock
    That Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, prefers the current version of the General Public License, GPLv2, over the version in development, GPLv3, is no secret. But in a lengthy E-mail response to questions from InformationWeek, he offers a full explanation of what he thinks is superior about GPLv2. Torvalds says he regrets that the authors of GPLv3 have decided to take aim at political opponents. He has little patience for statements about the "evil and immoral" nature of proprietary code or the "TiVo-ization" of Linux (a reference to set-top box producer TiVo producing a device that runs...
  • Is Linux What Dell Needs?

    03/15/2007 1:20:27 PM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 14 replies · 241+ views
    Arghyle ^ | March 13th | Sal Cangeloso
    Despite years of success Dell has fallen on hard times. The company who practically reinvented the way people buy computers has been under-performing and investors are worried. The company has been losing market share and no longer has the edge it once had over competitors like HP and Gateway. There has been much talk about Dell taking steps to make up lost ground by selling computers that use Linux for their operating system. This is something many people are interested in but unfortunately not something that will turn around the company. As a Linux user (on a few but not...
  • Dell polls PC users on favorite Linux varieties

    03/13/2007 6:54:28 PM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 85 replies · 646+ views
    open.itworld.com ^ | March 13th | Ben Ames
    Dell Inc. began polling customers about their software preferences on Tuesday as part of an effort by the struggling PC vendor to meet a popular request for desktops and notebooks that run on Linux instead of Windows. Dell posted the survey on a company blog, asking PC users to choose between Linux flavors such as Fedora and Ubuntu, and to pick more general choices such as notebooks versus desktops, high-end models versus value models and telephone-based support versus community-based support.
  • Mac, Windows QuickTime Flaw Opens 'Month Of Apple Bugs'

    01/03/2007 11:04:31 AM PST · by newgeezer · 556 replies · 5,994+ views
    Information Week ^ | Jan 2, 2007 03:04 PM | Gregg Keizer
    The exploit could be used by attackers to compromise, hijack, or infect computers running either Windows or Mac OS X. The Month of Apple Bugs project kicked off Monday by posting a zero-day vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime media player. It also posted an exploit that could be used by attackers to compromise, hijack, or infect computers running either Windows or Mac OS X. The Month of Apple Bugs (MoAB), which will announce a new security vulnerability in Apple's operating system or other Mac OS X software each day in January, is a follow-on to November's "Month of Kernel Bugs"...
  • A FR Photo Album (vanity)

    01/02/2007 2:42:36 PM PST · by rzeznikj at stout · 743 replies · 15,047+ views
    (around teh internets) | 1/2/2007 | (various)
    With the dashing success of "Worst Album Art Ever," I'm proud to present: The Best of Teh Internets: A FR Photo Album... Feel free to share strange, or funny pictures (including, but not limited to anything found on FR, ZOT! graphics, o rly/ya rly, Photoshopped images, bad album covers, etc.)
  • Microsoft Linux!

    11/06/2006 8:04:56 AM PST · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 100 replies · 850+ views
    Forbes ^ | 11.02.06 | Daniel Lions
    Microsoft has announced a partnership with Novell and will help promote Linux. This is stunning. This is like Red Sox fans announcing they're going to root for the Yankees. Microsoft has spent ten years bashing the free-of-charge open-source Linux operating system and trying to kill it. Now Microsoft is making nice.
  • Does Clinton do Linux?

    09/29/2006 8:45:47 AM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 499 replies · 3,180+ views
    Guardian ^ | September 28 2006 | Bobbie Johnson
    When Bill Clinton made his speech to the Labour Party conference, he bamboozled a few by finishing with the word "Ubuntu".
  • Sex on a Plane: Only $299

    09/12/2006 7:59:56 AM PDT · by Millee · 67 replies · 1,029+ views
    ABC News ^ | 9/12/06 | JESSICA GOLDEN
    If you've ever fantasized about joining the infamous mile high club, fantasy could become reality much faster than you think. An Atlanta-based company called Mile High Atlanta now offers couples the opportunity to travel into the skies for a romantic getaway — complete with a custom-fit bed, brand new sheets and a complimentary bottle of Champagne. The founder, corporate pilot Bob Smith, says he and his business partner conceived the idea five years ago as a way to make some extra money on weekends. He has piloted more than 75 flights, with couples from all parts of the country paying...
  • Penis-pump driver crashes into bus

    09/12/2006 8:52:57 AM PDT · by Fractal Trader · 64 replies · 874+ views
    The Register ^ | 12 September 2006 | Lester Haines
    A Slovak driver who ignored a give way sign and crashed into a bus was subsequently extracted from his car unconscious, half naked, and "with a vacuum pump on his penis", Channel 4 reports. The unnamed 42-year-old was driving his old Citroen in the Slovak town of Levice when the accident occurred. Police officer Peter Polak told Reuters: "It's very likely he had auto-sex while driving: it is a matter of investigation. After the accident he was found lying in the seat, his pants were off and it [the pump] was placed on his penis." Unsurprisingly, Polak added: "I've never...
  • Open source project adds "no military use" clause to the GPL

    08/14/2006 7:13:01 PM PDT · by nycoem · 194 replies · 2,661+ views
    newsforge ^ | Monday August 14, 2006 | Tina Gasperson
    Legal Open source project adds "no military use" clause to the GPL Monday August 14, 2006 (04:01 PM GMT) By: Tina Gasperson Printer-friendly Email story GPU is a Gnutella client that creates ad-hoc supercomputers by allowing individual PCs on the network to share CPU resources with each other. That's intriguing enough, but the really interesting thing about GPU is the license its developers have given it. They call it a "no military use" modified version of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Tiziano Mengotti and Rene Tegel are the lead developers on the GPU project. Mengotti is the driving force...
  • FREEREPUBLIC IS RUN BY SECERT FANATIC MUSLIMS ZOT!

    08/16/2006 10:54:15 PM PDT · by iknowthetruh · 237 replies · 4,612+ views
    ME
    FREEREPUBLIC IS RUN BY SECRET MUSLIMS, THEY INTEND TO RUN THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT INTO THE GROUND, JIMROB IS A CERTIFIED SECRET MUSLIM FANATIC, HE SHILLS FOR BUSH (IN THE POCKET OF SAUDIS) I AHTE FREE REPUBLIC, GO TO HELL!
  • What is a "ping" list and how does one get on it?

    08/11/2006 9:16:40 PM PDT · by silentknight · 95 replies · 2,010+ views
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  • Desktop Linux breakthrough: Lenovo preloads SUSE on ThinkPad

    08/04/2006 8:27:36 PM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 278 replies · 1,806+ views
    Desktop Linux ^ | Aug. 04, 2006 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    On August 4th, we found out that Lenovo Group, the company that has taken over IBM's Personal Computing Division, had made a deal with Novell Inc. to preload SLED 10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) on its ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation. For the first time, a major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) has committed to preloading a Linux desktop.
  • resexcellence.com(mac users) continue the trend of mac-to-linux conversions

    07/25/2006 4:24:30 PM PDT · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 41 replies · 460+ views
    Resexcellence ^ | July 24, 2006 | Bryan O'Bryan
    The great experiment I was going to write up a big thing to post here. I was going to be all crazy eloquent and whatnot… then Chris wrote this as a draft of what he’d like to say. And his words cut to the point incredibly nicely. So here is what Chris has to say (and he speaks for both of us): You have ruined this for us.
  • Top 10 pick-up lines? Don't get too excited. (just trying to help us singles)

    07/11/2006 12:35:15 PM PDT · by Paddlefish · 158 replies · 5,299+ views
    Reuters ^ | 7/11/06
    Was your father a thief? Because he stole the stars from the sky and put them in your eyes. Equipped with that pick-up line, you can be certain to score in the universal language of love. So say the authors of a new top 10 list of pick-up lines which have been translated from English into Czech, French, Italian, Spanish and German by the publishers Chambers. Taking inspiration from its new range of pocket-sized phrasebooks, Chambers compiled its own list of the definitive top 10 pick-up lines. The UK publisher picked the lines from the assorted phrase books and compiled...
  • IRA murdered mother 'not an informer'

    07/07/2006 3:56:37 PM PDT · by Irish_Thatcherite · 33 replies · 715+ views
    Ireland OnLIne ^ | 07/07/2006 | Not stated
    IRA murdered mother 'not an informer' 07/07/2006 - 12:34:40 A mother of 10 who was abducted and shot dead by the IRA nearly 34 years ago was officially cleared today of allegations that she was an informer. Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan said her investigators had found no evidence Jean McConville passed information to the security services. The IRA claimed Mrs McConville, who was seized as she went to the aid of a fatally wounded British soldier outside her front door in December 1972, worked for the intelligence’s agencies. Public pressure forced them into making an apology for the...
  • Sun to sink in the west?

    07/06/2006 8:21:34 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 64 replies · 1,537+ views
    ComputerWorld ^ | 06 July 2006 | Manek Dubash
    Sun Microsystems is in deep trouble. So say a number of analysts, most recently Brian Richardson from Meta Group who says the company has got it all wrong, with its hardware seen as proprietary and expensive. Richardson said that it was hard to see any upside for Sun -- and he's not alone. Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milunovich wrote last month to CEO Scott McNealy and the board: "The company has gone from being pure in vision and predictable in financial performance to an underachieving, bloated, unfocused reflection of its former self." Sun has lost money consistently ever since...