October 15, 2009
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The good news is that Microsoft says it thinks it can get most of your data back. The bad news is how the problem happened in the first place. OK, here’s the good news about the Microsoft/Sidekick data loss fiasco: … Continue reading
October 13, 2009
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You can’t make stuff this bad up. Many T-Mobile Sidekick smartphone users lost all their contacts, calendar entries, photographs, you name it, when Sidekick’s back-end software provider Microsoft, Danger, went down. Danger turned out to be an all too apt … Continue reading
September 25, 2009
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HP has a love/hate relationship with Linux. The company supports several Linux distributions-Red Hat; Novell/SUSE; and community Linux Debian–on its servers, but finding it takes some digging. Still, that’s nothing compared to finding HP’s desktop Linux support. For example, several … Continue reading
July 20, 2009
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‘m really not sure why everyone is so surprised that Microsoft submitted the driver source code for four Microsoft Hyper-V drivers for inclusion in the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 license. You see, Microsoft and Novell have been working on … Continue reading
June 29, 2009
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I usually have to reboot my Linux systems about once every six months. Linux is as stable as a rock. Windows, while it’s gotten better, is another story entirely. While I no longer need to reboot Windows on a daily … Continue reading
June 18, 2009
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HP has long had a love/hate affair with Linux. On the one hand, HP has long supported Linux on servers. For example, they’re the one major server company that supports Debian. On the other hand, it took HP forever to … Continue reading