Archive for February, 2009

28th February Comments

Official: Windows 7 has more than 2000 bugs

Posted on February 28th, 2009 at 8:04 am

 
Steven Sinofsky, the Senior Vice President for the Microsoft Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, in an attempt to quell a beta tester rebellion over a perceived lack of feedback concerning bug reporting has made an astonishing confession: Windows 7 has at least 2000 bugs.
Gads only 2000! Not that security or ease of use [...]

Posted in Billyware

28th February Comments

Seven Must-Have Firefox Security Add-Ons

Posted on February 28th, 2009 at 8:00 am

 
Mobile workers are especially vulnerable because they operate outside corporate security systems, and often return home to unload nasties into the company network. Paul Rubens finds seven excellent Firefox plugins to help protect the mobile worker.
Personally I use all but two of these little rascals and I might have to check into the others [...]

Posted in Networking, Security

26th February Comments

Marvell Offers Mini Plug Computer for Consumer, Network, Appliance Designs

Posted on February 26th, 2009 at 6:35 am

 
Marvell has created a new Plug Computing initiative to help developers build high-performance, always-on, always-connected and environmentally friendly little computer devices that plug into electrical wall sockets and act like embedded or appliance computers in the home. The little plug-in computers start with a gigahertz-class processor and are capable of acting like home media [...]

Posted in Linux, Networking

23rd February Comments

Simply Mepis 8 Released

Posted on February 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 am

Well after a wait the day has arrived and was it worth it over all the 64 bit version is faster than almost any distro I have tried and everything works right out of the box. What more can you ask for folks? If you have been wanting to give linux a shot now is [...]

Posted in Linux, Mepis

9th February Comments

SimplyMEPIS 8.0 RC3: Entering the “Waiting for Lenny” Phase

Posted on February 9th, 2009 at 2:23 pm

Morgantown, WV, Feb 9, 2009 — MEPIS has distributed ISO files for RC3 of SimplyMEPIS 8.0. The files for 32 and 64 bit processors are SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.96-rc3_32.iso and SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.96-rc3_64.iso.
For RC3, the kernel has been updated to upstream version, 2.6.27.15. Qemu 0.9.1+svn, libvirt 0.6., virt-manager 0.6.1, and virtinst 0.400.1 are available from the MEPIS pool to better [...]

Posted in Linux, Mepis

1st February Comments

OpenChange, KDE bring Exchange compatibility to Linux

Posted on February 1st, 2009 at 8:00 am

 
Recent developments in the OpenChange and KDE open source projects are set to bridge a “missing link” in messaging and groupware compatibility from Microsoft’s Exchange to open source clients. Many open source groupware suites lay claim to this holy grail of interoperability, but the software to synchronise address book, task and calendar information with Exchange [...]

Posted in Linux, Software