It took longer than anyone expected but the Linux Foundation fix for Windows 8 PC’s UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot lockout of other operating systems has finally arrived.
February 9, 2013
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February 6, 2013
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We still need mail as well as e-mail
Mea culpa. I use e-mail for 90 percent of my communications, instant messaging (IM) for 9.0 percent, and voice for 0.9 percent. That only leaves 0.1 percent for old-fashioned paper mail. Still, I am, and I don’t think anyone else is, really ready for the US Postal Service (USPS) to halt Saturday delivery of first-class mail on August 1st..
he financial reasoning for this move is that by shrinking delivery from six days a week to five for first-class mail, this move would save the financially strapped U.S. Postal Service $2 billion a year. Packages, priority, and express mail would still get Saturday delivery. This money-saving approach is, of course, dead wrong.
February 5, 2013
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CDW to offer enterprise Chromebook support
With BYOD, you don’t need external corporate IT support, but it sure doesn’t hurt. Now, CDW, a multi-billion dollar technology sales and support company, will be offering both Chromebook sales and management to their business customers.
February 5, 2013
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Top Linux and open-source programs survey results
LinuxQuestions, a leading Linux fan and user support site, has just completed its annual members choice survey to see which Linux distributions and open-source programs are the most popular and the results may surprise you.
For starters, guess which Linux distribution is the most popular according to LinuxQuestions members? DistroWatch, the popular site that monitors all Linux distributions, shows Linux Mint as being the most popular of current distributions. But, that’s not the one most favored by LinuxQuestions’ folks.
Instead, Slackware is LinuxQuestions’ desktop distribution of the year with 20.59% of the vote. “Slackware!?” Many of you are probably asking. “What’s that?” Slackware is one of the oldest Linux distributions that’s still in production. It was perhaps the first truly popular Linux distribution and it started in 1993. Today, it’s not that well known… except in hard core Linux fan circles. In second and third place Mint and Ubuntu were duking it out.
February 4, 2013
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What is “Super Wi-Fi?”
According to The Washington Post, the US Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski “wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month.” Oh yes, and this will be “free.”
This new Wi-Fi “would be much more powerful than existing WiFi networks that have become common in households. They could penetrate thick concrete walls and travel over hills and around trees. If all goes as planned, free access to the Web would be available in just about every metropolitan area and in many rural areas.”
In a statement, Genachowski said “Freeing up unlicensed spectrum is a vibrantly free-market approach that offers low barriers to entry to innovators developing the technologies of the future and benefits consumers.”
That sounds like the best thing ever doesn’t it? It only leaves me with one little question: “What the heck is super Wi-Fi anyway!?”
February 4, 2013
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Microsoft needs to start worrying about Chromebooks
Here are four good reasons why Microsoft needs to worry about the rise of the Linux-powered, Chrome OS-enabled Chromebooks: Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung.
Some people think Chromebooks are going to “have just enough momentum to be a pain in Microsoft’s rear end.”. I think they need to look closer.
Many of Microsoft’s long-time PC partners—Asus, Lenovo, Samsung, and now HP are offering Chromebooks. Why are they doing this? Because people want an affordable computer that, unlike Windows 8 systems, doesn’t require them to relearn everything they ever knew about how to use a computer.