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| Url: | http://www.practical-tech.com |
| Author(s): | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | Linux, technology, operating systems |
| Description: | Technology journalist, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, on entertainment technology, in addition to his usual beats of operating systems, open-source and networking. |
| Ratings |  (1 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 38 Followers |
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The technology and the terrorist
| On this past Christmas Day, a holiday nightmare was averted when a passenger and good luck kept a terrorist from blowing apart Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it prepared to land in Detroit. While...more |
2009-12-28
A decade of Linux
| More than ten-years ago, I helped Linux’s adoption a little bit along by proving out that Linux and Samba actually worked faster than the then dominant Windows NT operating system. Today, as ...more |
2009-12-28
What to make of Microsoft’s Office patent flop
| It seems that Microsoft knew all along that they were going to get like a drum by i4i (http://www.i4i.com/) when the Canadian company won its XML patent lawsuit. Of course, that isn’t what Mi...more |
2009-12-23
Ignore Microsoft, check everything
| OK. I get it. Everyone wants to have the fastest possible computer. But, when Microsoft published a list of what files you shouldn’t bother to check for viruses, since looking in on them can ...more |
2009-12-23
Linux or Windows: Most hardware support plans are worthless
| Recently, a user who had replaced Windows on his netbook with Ubuntu Linux discovered that, as far as Best Buy was concerned, he had voided his warranty. For all practical purposes, he had.In The C...more |
2009-12-22
All Google, all the time, everywhere
| We all use Google. Well, maybe not Bill Gates, but that’s about it. Now, Google is hoping to become an even bigger part of our everyday lives.The key to this is Google’s three new sea...more |
2009-12-22
Windows 7 and IPv6: Useful at Last?
| IPv6 has been “the next generation of TCP/IP protocols” for so long that you can be forgiven for thinking that it will never be useful. However, with Windows 7, Microsoft has finally given network ...more |
2009-12-22
Dell introduces best Ubuntu netbook ever?
| Dell has long been desktop Linux’s best friend in the big-time computer vendors, and it’s proving it again with the introduction of the latest version of its Mini 10 netbook with Ubuntu...more |
2009-12-21
Where does Ubuntu go from here?
| Most people were caught by surprise yesterday when Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company that backs-up Ubuntu stepped down as the Linux company’s CEO. But after I thought about it ...more |
2009-12-18
Open Source doesn’t automatically mean safety
| Yesterday, Mozilla fixed ten security bugs in Firefox. If you haven’t upgraded Firefox to 3.5.6 yet, you can do so now. I’ll wait for you. Done? Good. You’re better off than a fri...more |
2009-12-18
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