Another reason to ditch Windows…
After a year and a half of fighting Vista on my Toshiba A135-S2276 I gave up. Quite simply I got sick of the problems, errors, lock ups, “security” pop-ups and general sluggishness. So to sort of future proof me, also since I figured it was easier, I bought a new hard [...]
FYI - Not everything Microsoft says is the truth…
Why don’t you click the link in the sidebar and get infected…
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Lorelle on WordPress noted that the celebrations had begun and pointed to [...] the first post and comment by Matt Mullenweg that led to WordPress in the very beginning of this famous blogging story.
Now I feel young. Wordpress has been around “maturing” for 4 years now, and I only started last year. Mind it’s now [...]
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In wandering around, it was nice to see a linux distro aimed at showing that the operating system isn’t toothless in the gamer area. And rather then having a bunch of opensource games that a lot of people won’t recognize. They included a number of top games that would be recognizable to [...]
“Write a complete beginner’s guide to free software”, they said. “It has to be something that your mother would want to get excited about”, they said. The problem is my mother neither knows nor cares what software is. The closest she gets to using a computer is when she uses the timer on her oven. [...]
preed’s blah-blah-blahg: The Anti-release
[...] We know everyone’s excited for the 2.0 release. We are too. But give us 24 hours, so we can make sure that your first experience with Firefox 2.0 is befitting of everyone’s hard work on this major release. [...]
Well it looks like the official release will be in less then 24 [...]
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ReactOS 0.3.0 Released!
This release holds a few records - it is the most long-awaited release of ReactOS, it is the release which was preceded by 3 Release Candidates instead of usual 2, and at last ReactOS release never had so much changes since the last one.
This release’s main feature is the networking ability - it’s [...]
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Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: Why Winternals Sued Best Buy
This post I’m taking a break from my standard technical postings to discuss a disturbing discovery regarding a large corporation’s unauthorized software usage. By now many of you have heard via Slashdot, arstechnica, Digg, or your local newspaper that Winternals Software, the company I co-founded with Bryce Cogswell [...]
Write Free Software, Pay $203,000 to Patent Holder
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Ben Jacobsen, a model railroad hobbyist, wrote a bunch of software to let you connect your computer to your model railroad and control trains with it. He chose to not only give the software away for free, but to make the source code available as well, [...]
NASA Studying the Reuse of Spacecraft Software
Engineers at NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) facility are examining the feasibility of reusing portions of old NASA spacecraft systems software for new missions. One of the goals of the effort is to determine whether using that old software would actually save the agency time and money.
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