February 10, 2013
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Thanks to Microsoft’s Windows 8 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot there was no easy way to boot Linux, or any other operating system, on Windows 8 PCs. Now, there are two ways, the recently released Linux Foundation (LF) UEFI secure boot system and Matthew Garrett’s shim system to boot Linux on these PCs. Soon, there will be only one unified way.
Linux developers working on uniting Windows 8 Secure Boot fixes. More >
February 10, 2013
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It’s been more than four months since Apple introduced iOS 6, but for many iPhone and iPad users Wi-Fi problems are still lingering on and new network problems have appeared with the 6.1 upgrade.
After iOS 6 first arrived, an immediate Wi-Fi problem appeared and was quickly fixed. We’d hoped that would be the end of iDevices not being able to connect with Wi-Fi access points (AP)s. Our hopes were in vain.
Apple iPhone and iPad iOS 6 network problems linger on. More >
February 9, 2013
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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 6, 2013
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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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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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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.