August 26, 2009
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The FSF (Free Software Foundation) has never liked proprietary software, but for most of its history, it’s focused on singing the praises of free software, and, with some distaste, its near-twin, open-source software. Not anymore. These days, the FSF is … Continue reading
August 25, 2009
by sjvn01
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A friend of mine suggested that I should include as boilerplate in my security stories, a line like: “Of course, if you were running desktop Linux or using a Mac, you wouldn’t have this problem.” She’s got a point. Windows … Continue reading
August 25, 2009
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The conventional wisdom is that Macs are expensive. Microsoft ads make a big deal about how much more computer you can get for the money. Nonsense. Actually, you can get a perfectly good Mac for cheap: the Mac mini, which … Continue reading
August 25, 2009
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Today’s Internet report is Green in the European Union, Yellow in North America but still Red in the Pan-Pacific countries and Israel. In the U.S., Facebook and Twitter are still under siege from the Windows-based Katrina Storm botnet. Google, however, … Continue reading
August 24, 2009
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Oh the irony. Today, August 24th, a Federal Appeals Court ruled that while the walking dead SCO still owes Novell big bucks for selling Unix to Sun and Microsoft, the District Court overstepped its grounds in ruling that SCO had … Continue reading
August 21, 2009
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Usually, the major Linux desktop distributors offer both the major Linux desktop interfaces-KDE and GNOME. Some, like Canonical divide it into two separate distributions, Ubuntu for GNOME and Kubuntu for KDE, but they seldom offer a default choice. OpenSUSE. however, … Continue reading