January 8, 2010
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or all the hype about the rumored Apple Tablet, the ‘will they or won’t they’ about Microsoft’s Courier tablet, and a host of real tablet-announcements such as Lenovo’s IdeaPad U1 and the Dell’s still unnamed slate, everyone seems to have … Continue reading
December 28, 2009
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More than ten-years ago, I helped Linux’s adoption a little bit along by proving out that Linux and Samba actually worked faster than the then dominant Windows NT operating system. Today, as we bid the ‘noughts’ adieu, everyone uses Linux … Continue reading
December 23, 2009
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It seems that Microsoft knew all along that they were going to get hit like a drum by i4i when the Canadian company won its XML patent lawsuit. Of course, that isn’t what Microsoft said when the judge ordered Microsoft … Continue reading
December 23, 2009
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OK. I get it. Everyone wants to have the fastest possible computer. But, when Microsoft published a list of what files you shouldn’t bother to check for viruses, since looking in on them can really slow a PC down, they … Continue reading
December 13, 2009
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The EC (European Commission), the European Union’s top competition authority, isn’t crazy about Oracle buying Sun. You might have thought it was just open-source advocates objecting to the deal out of the fear that Oracle, the world’s biggest proprietary DBMS … Continue reading
December 3, 2009
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Up on the Internet servers pause and then out jumps relatively good old Microsoft and down through your Internet chimney they’ll be delivering lots of Windows and Office patches to good little Windows users-those who have legal copies of Windows. … Continue reading