“New figures suggest that 92.3 percent of all email sent globally during the first three months of 2008 was spam. The data from Sophos also indicated that 23,300 new spam-related web pages were created every day during the period, or one about every three seconds. For the first time Turkey’s contribution to the global spam [...]
Here is a review of KDE 4 I found that you folks might want to peruse, Baldy “After three weeks of using KDE 4 on my laptop, I continue to find new features and changes. I am aware of the dictionary of special names that make up the back end of the new KDE–Oxygen, Plasma, [...]
Apple may have a hard time shutting down the new maverick Mac-clonemaker Psystar, say legal experts. Psystar, a Miami-based IT services company, started advertising the $400 OpenComputer this week. It’s a generic PC that comes with Leopard, Apple’s latest operating system, pre-installed. And while Psystar may be violating Apple’s end user license agreement, or EULA, [...]
It is time to wake up and smell the elephant in the room. Vista is struggling to achieve escape velocity. Microsoft finds itself the butt an international joke, but does not seem able to get a grip. The issue of choice of platform is once more up for grabs. Of course there is an alternative; [...]
Okay maybe that is a tad harsh but today it is 26.7 C here in Canada and it is 12 C back at the old homestead. Now unless I am mistaken there is something really really wrong with that concept, but at least I am sitting in the warm area for once. But still not [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft Corp.’s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world’s largest software maker. But you’d never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system. Unless it’s someone running Windows XP, a version [...]
“Are you currently running Windows and Linux in a dual-boot setup? You’re going to have major headaches with Vista SP1, Microsoft has admitted. “If you’re dualbooting Windows Vista Enterprise or Ultimate alongside a Linux distro, and have installed the Linux bootloader into the MBR, then you’re guaranteed to run into problems when installing Vista Service [...]
If you’re looking for a GNOME desktop for the popular PCLinuxOS (PCLOS), then newly released PCLinuxOS Gnome might be for you. PCLinuxOS Gnome is a community-developed Linux distribution built on the official PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2008 distribution, which is a minimized system containing the bare-bones necessities for a running system, a skeletal window manager, and a [...]
It’s hard to believe that some of the most profitable software companies in the world–Oracle, Microsoft and SAP–are sitting on a licensing model that is untenable in the long run and will increasingly irk customers. But there may be a revolution in the cards that could tip the balance of power, argues Gartner. In a [...]
Watching the evolution of open source tools for video editing and manipulation over the last 10 years has been less than a thrilling experience. But are things about to change for the better in the near future? Can even the people most disenchanted with the current state of affairs feel tempted to regain a spark [...]