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Test Center review: Office killers pack some heat
07/17/2008 
There are few pieces of software that users touch more often than office productivity suites. The market monster is, of course, Microsoft Office, with ... 
Jailed SF Sysadmin Holds Parts of City Net Hostage
07/17/2008
Officials have arrested a city of San Francisco IT network administrator for locking up a multimillion-dollar city computer system, according to sever ...
Why Microsoft Resorts to Dirty Tricks with Virtualisation
07/17/2008
VMWare mustnâ??t be taken on a similar type of ride under EMCâ??s reign. EMC, just like Citrix, is one of Microsoftâ??s top partners an ...
Nifty tools for your Asus Eee PC
07/17/2008
It didn't take the enterprising community of Asus Eee PC users long to come up with some great tweaking tools for this Linux-based ultra-low-cost lapt ...
Linux 2.6.26 Kernel Benchmarks
07/17/2008
Over the weekend the Linux 2.6.26 kernel was released. This quarterly update to the Linux kernel introduced Kernel-based Virtual Machine improvements, ...
All Signs Point to Virtualization
07/17/2008
Virtualization has evolved from a development tool running on the desktop to an essential component of IT infrastructure strategy. Companies use virtu ...
This week at LWN: Notes on the Viacom ruling
07/17/2008
Google's purchase of YouTube always seemed questionable to some observers: it looked as if Google were buying itself a whole new source of copyright l ...
Mail server benchmarking with Postal
07/17/2008
The Postal project includes three programs aimed at benchmarking mail server performance. The main program, postal, sends email messages to a specifie ...
Jumping Into the Software Application Lifecycle Cockpit
07/17/2008
In an effort to shine more light on the traditional"dark art" of software development, Borland Software on Monday announced Borland Management Solutio ...
Installing Dansguardian With Multi-Group Filtering& Squid With NTLM Auth (Debian Etch)
07/17/2008
This how-to describes how to install and configure Dansguardian with multi-group filtering, Squid with NTLM auth, ipmasq, and dnsmasq to provide a ful ...
Will hypervisors make Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems obsolete?
07/17/2008
Computing is on the verge of a major paradigm shift with the modern rise in prominence of virtualisation. Fuelled by big corporates interested in the ...
Tutorial: Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows, Part III
07/17/2008
In the first installment of this tutorial series we configured Ubuntu to share with Windows and set your Computer Name and Workgroup values. In Part I ...
Arch Linux for the DIY Linux user
07/17/2008
There's no dearth of Linux distributions for desktop users or even for running high availability servers. But if you are a do-it-yourself computer use ...
What is the procedure to resize an LVM2 logical volume and the ext2 or ext3 filesystem?
07/17/2008
It is recommended that a resizing procedure be tested before performing it on a filesystem that contains critical data. It is also strongly recommende ...
What Linus Torvalds thinks about BSD
07/17/2008
Linus Torvalds - the creator of Linus and its current maintainer - is by all account a brilliant human being. He can also be incredibly crass and rude ...
Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop
07/17/2008
Miguel de Icaza has criticized plans for the next GNU Gnome cross-platform environment that risks damaging the Linux desktop ISV ecosystem by focusing ...
The Easy Way To Convert Binary To Decimal
07/17/2008
Response to some criticism of the past two posts, mostly regurgitated from my interactions on other sites, and a little line of code. ...
Writer tells Penguinistas to chill on closed source
07/17/2008
A Datamation editorial by Matt Hartley argues that Linux purists should quit complaining about closed-source code and get on with their lives. Boycott ...
Debunking the Linux Virus Myth
07/17/2008
Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have"W ...
OpenDomain.org owner: Selfless FOSS helper or domain squatter?
07/17/2008
OpenDomain.org is an organization that offers to provide free use of certain domain names to worthwhile open source projects. Ric Johnson, the leader ...
KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
07/17/2008
The reasons for the user revolt against KDE 4, which we reported on yesterday, are still being sorted out. They appear to be a complex mixture that in ...
Judge Kimball Rules at Last!
07/17/2008
Judge Kimball rules in SCO v. Novell! Here it is [PDF] at last! I haven't read it yet myself, just quickly skimmed it enough to see that SCO owes Nove ...
4.1 Release Candidate Out For Testing
07/17/2008
Today, we are passing the last milestone on the way to KDE 4.1, a release that will be suitable for a larger audience than 4.0 has been. While it is n ...
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