Almost ten years ago I was on a roadtrip to Moses Lake, Wa to attend the wedding of my computer guru. On the first morning of a week long trip I awoke in a South Dakota motel room to a the picture of a tower in flames. As I watched a second plane hit the [...]
Well it’s been an eventful few weeks here in the Linux blogosphere, what with all the various scandals that have erupted recently over Digg and Ubuntu’s off-and-on romance with Dell, to name just two. Then there was Debian’s birthday on Monday! Happy 17th, Debian! By far the hottest topic in recent days, however, was [...]
Linux’ share of the desktop market grew to 1.13 percent, says Net Applications, making Linux the only OS to gain in May. Meanwhile, Linux server revenue share grew to 16.8 percent, says IDC, and Linux is now running on 91 percent of the 500 fastest supercomputers. Linux has soared in recent years in the [...]
It seems fair to say that the relationship between programmer and platform is in many ways like a romantic one, characterized by mutual respect and a balanced exchange of give and take on both sides. Just as so many of us love and respect Linux, for instance, so it surely loves us back with [...]
Turn on an Android OS phone, and that little yellow robot pops up all over the touchscreen like R2D2 on bionic steroids. A mini-chorus line of them shows up first, then just one robot decides to play hide and seek with you; there he is peeking out from the left side of the screen. [...]
A currently ongoing ransomware campaign is using a novel approach to extort money from end users whose PCs have been locked down. By pretending to be the fake ICPP Foundation (icpp-online.com), the ransomware locks down the user’s desktop issuing a “Copyright violation: copyrighted content detected” message, which lists torrent files found on the infected [...]
Apple’s newly launched iPad may be taking up the majority of consumer mindshare in the tablet category following its launch earlier this month, but Google is furtively working on a device of its own that will be powered exclusively by Android. That’s according to reports of comments made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at [...]
I still have my copy of the 1975 issue of Popular Electronics with the Altair on the cover. H. Edward Roberts died this week at age 68. If you don’t know the story of how Roberts helped launch the personal computing revolution, let us fill you in.[...]Even with $250,000 in debt and a collapsing [...]
Okay it has happened I am joining the 21st century if you want to read my tweets, and they are not many I plan to tweet more on my up and coming roadtrip,but if you really want to know here is the addy My twitter feed so there ya go folks.
SourceForge Inc. has announced that it has officially changed its name to Geeknet. According to Scott L. Kauffman, President and CEO “Renaming the company Geeknet is the latest step in our rapid transformation.” The company believes that the new name will be a more accurate articulation of its business. Kauffman said “With Geeknet as [...]