Given the heavy proportion of males in the Linux world, we here at LinuxInsider have trouble resisting any topic that brings females back into the picture. Imagine our glee, then, when we spotted mention of a recent Newsweek article titled "Revenge of the Nerdette"! Indeed, some of us fairly fell off of our pink [...]
Tories move to crack down on download demons - Yahoo! Canada News
he Harper government has served notice that the halcyon days of free Internet music downloading may be numbered.
The Conservatives introduced legislation Thursday that would carry a $500 penalty for Internet song-snatching and downloading of other copyrighted material.
A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design. Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new "Places" feature lets users quickly access sites they [...]
I only do this for someone that has to work on a lot of Vista Systems poor gal. So here it is for her and any one else that might want to attempt to make Vista a usable OS.
Part 1: In nearly two decades of working with and writing about Windows, one lesson I’ve learned [...]
Okay you go into your store and open it up and lo and behold who would have thought that your first customer would be so darn cute.
Could you point me to the furniture area please.
Do these plants go with my color?
Another reason that small town living a major plus, you get these nice [...]
Here are a few of the pictures that LC sent me to keep me abreast of the garden and lawn situation, and I thought a few of you would like to see them also.
First is a view from the very back corner of the garden.
Garden and House
This second one is the View from [...]
If you can remember back a few weeks, Steve Ballmer went on record saying that Microsoft would consider extending the life of Windows XP if enough people asked for it. After all, many people don’t want to upgrade to Windows Vista because they are perfectly content with XP. The problem was there was no way [...]
Source: Acer bets big on Linux - Linux & Open Source - iTnews Australia
Acer has stated that it will be pushing Linux aggressively on its laptops and netbooks..
The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low cost ultra-portable netbook range out later this year, but senior staff have said that Acer will also push [...]
See them all: The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes
Torvalds: not one to mince his words…
1. “Software is like sex: it’s better when it’s free.”
2. “Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”
Loopholes that let you get Windows XP after June 30
Windows XP is dead … long live Windows XP. You may have heard that as of June 30, you’re no longer able to buy the operating system or obtain support for it. But that isn’t quite the case.
In fact, you’ll be able to buy XP on [...]