July 23, 2008
by sjvn01
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KACE, a systems management appliance company, announced that their recent survey of IT administrators showed that 60 percent of them have no plans to deploy Vista. That’s almost 10% more turning their backs on Vista then in KACE’s last survey … Continue reading
July 23, 2008
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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, wants desktop Linux to "shoot beyond the Mac." Can it? Shuttleworth was speaking to the open-source faithful at OSCon in Portland, Ore., but I’m sure even they had their doubts. The Linux desktop … Continue reading
July 14, 2008
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No, I’m not talking about the iPhone. My problem was when my wife and I decided it was time to retire her slowly dying IBM ThinkPad X40 and bring in a fresh new MacBook Pro in its place. Well, that … Continue reading
June 8, 2008
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Macs have been on sale in Apple stores for years now. They also show up in reseller stores from time to time. What they haven’t done, until recently, is show up in conventional box stores. That’s why I was pleasantly … Continue reading
May 14, 2008
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When I recently explained one of the many reasons why I prefer desktop Linux to Windows, even over my favorite desktop Windows, XP SP3, I got a lot of people telling me I was full of hooey because I barely … Continue reading
April 30, 2008
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I see that a group calling itself the Association of Corporate Travel Executives is warning its members to limit the amount of proprietary business information they carry on laptops and the like because they’re afraid that government agents can seize … Continue reading