January 5, 2010
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We don’t for certain that VMware, the giant proprietary virtualization company, is buying Zimbra, the open-source e-mail server company from Yahoo, but that’s the news from the rumor-mill. But, it’s not just any rumor, Kara Swisher, a columnist at the … Continue reading
January 4, 2010
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p>I’m a long-time Firefox fan, but I’ve also grown fond of Google’s Chrome browser. In fact, I’ve pretty much switched to Chrome as my browser of choice on my Windows PCs. I’ve stuck with Firefox on Linux, but now that … Continue reading
December 30, 2009
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I don’t care how often I see it; I still can’t get used to people typing on tables. Bad enough that people are always mumbling to themselves-cut cells C3-C7, paste to D3-D7-but the constant drumming of fingers is just annoying. … 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 16, 2009
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At first glance, there’s little to differentiate between the latest releases of the top Linux distributions: Red Hat’s Fedora 12, Novell’s openSUSE 11.2 and Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10. They each use the latest releases of open-source applications and are based on … Continue reading
December 14, 2009
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Almost everyone uses Linux thanks to its growing popularity in consumer electronics in everything from TVs to DVR (digital video recorders) to DVD recorders to you name it. Some companies, however, think that they can use Linux and open-source software … Continue reading