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31st October Comments

OpenOffice 3: Useful, Compatible - and Pretty

Posted on October 31st, 2008 at 4:43 am

 
The final version of OpenOffice.org 3, the open source competitor to Microsoft Office, came out two weeks ago and looks better than ever. I’ve been using its predecessors for years and, broadly speaking, OO3 is the most useful, widely compatible software ever. You can run it on anything: Macs, PCs, Linux, Unix workstations. It [...]

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24th October Comments

Microsoft posts emergency defense for new attack

Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 5:33 am

A remote-code exploit that could spread rapidly like the 2003 MSBlaster worm is putting all versions of Windows at risk.
I recommend that you immediately install a patch that Microsoft has just issued to protect your system from a vulnerability in the Server service.
MS08-067 (958644)
Rare out-of-cycle patch emphasizes the risk
With little warning, Microsoft released yesterday an [...]

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23rd October Comments

Zombie PCs: ‘Time to infection is less than five minutes’

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 am

A fascinating — and horrifying — new article in The New York Times offers the lowdown on “zombie computers,” the half-a-million-or-so machines that are converted, assembled into systems called “botnets” and forced to do a shadowy figure’s bidding, namely in the form of automated programs that send the majority of e-mail spam, illegally seek financial [...]

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23rd October Comments

Avoided Costs and Competitive Benefits: Estimating the Value of Linux

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 am

 
Today, the Linux Foundation is releasing a report that shows just how valuable FOSS can be. The authors find that recreating Fedora 9.1 (the free distribution upon which Red Hat’s current Linux release is based) using traditional proprietary methods would cost $10.8 billion. They also find that the cost of creating the Linux kernel alone [...]

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22nd October Comments

WFTL Bytes!

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 am

Okay it is not a new swear word, it happens to be a podcast that as the author says is a “occasiodaily” item. Have you wanted a good podcast to keep up with a honest approach to the world of Linux? Well the author of this podcast is Marcel Gagné, a writer with a number [...]

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21st October Comments

MEPIS jumps on 2.6.27

Posted on October 21st, 2008 at 6:28 am

 
Only ten days after the release of Linux 2.6.27, the SimplyMEPIS project has decided to work the new kernel into its next release. The project today used the kernel in both 32- and 64-bit versions of the third beta release of SimplyMEPIS 8.
And this after all the "experts" said that Mepis was dead. Like [...]

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15th October Comments

Review of final OpenOffice 3: Why buy Microsoft Office?

Posted on October 15th, 2008 at 6:15 am

 
The final version of OpenOffice 3 is out today, and if you’re looking to save yourself plenty of money, download it instead of buying Microsoft Office — you could save yourself hundreds of dollars, and not lose out on many features. I put the Windows version through its paces, and am about to download the [...]

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15th October Comments

OpenOffice 3 Debuts to Server-Crashing Demand

Posted on October 15th, 2008 at 6:12 am

 
The third full OpenOffice suite is out in the wild and attracting plenty of attention. OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released Monday — and already, demand has been high enough to overwhelm the download servers and cause them to crash. The software suite, designed as an open source alternative to Microsoft Office, offers everything from word [...]

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13th October Comments

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on October 13th, 2008 at 7:50 am

No I am not bombed it is Thanksgiving for our northern neighbors. Columbus Day for us but hey They are trying to get the Holidays correct. LOL Have a good day and don’t eat to darn much folks.

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13th October Comments

The extremely simple guide to installing Ubuntu using Wubi

Posted on October 13th, 2008 at 6:20 am

 
The extremely simple guide to installing Ubuntu using Wubi. Many people are put off using Ubuntu because of installation issues. Not that installation is difficult, of course, but for the true non-technical user, it’s equivalent to scaling Mount Everest. This guide is for them. It’s a step-by-step guide to installing Ubuntu for complete and utter [...]

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