Linux

There are times when quite innocently, and through an abundance of caution, it is possible to really screw things up. It is always a problem with government, and one shown today by our neighbors to the north.
Canada has enacted legislation which bans any sort of activity which would deter the driver from full attention on [...]

Of all the features that Opera 10 offers, the Turbo mode is not one of the things I use. I have a 7 Mb/s connection, so i am usually satisfied with my connection speed.
Others are using dial-up however, or possibly worse, a slow cable or DSL connection that a greedy provider classifies as broadband, but [...]

Netbooks are the darling of the computer market right now. Definitely the fastest growing segment are those little, lightweight units, easily carried for hours by the girliest of men.
Seriously, the netbook is something that is going to reach down into levels of the population never thought of before, not only because of its diminutive size, [...]

While we are are buzzing about Windows 7 today, the good, the bad, the same old same old, there is another less funded, and less reported release, the Release Candidate of Ubuntu’s regular scheduled product, Ubuntu 9.10, or Karmic Koala.
I suppose it is a testament to quality that the Karmic Koala release was not sped [...]

As work continues on the Unite part of the Opera browser, so does the addressing of any small problems in the mail parts of browser and mail program.
Though I have not experienced any, there are obviously some there, as the list of bug fixes notes them, and notes in which version of the program they [...]

One of my longstanding problems with Microsoft has been that they seem to want to be all things to all people, instead of limiting themselves to possibly 3 things, and really excelling at them (dominate and excel are not synonymous, look it up).
When you have so many balls to juggle, each ball is not in [...]

The Debian Project has decided that with the next release, the FreeBSD kernel will be used as the basis for the distribution. This is great news for many reasons, not the least being the very mature structure of the Free BSD kernel, which has been proven under a variety of uses. Rock solid is the [...]

[Hint: It's not any version of Adobe Reader]  It’s almost getting to be as much a race to find the fastest PDF viewer as to find the fastest browser. While the time taken, from one browser to the next, to bring up a web page is smaller and smaller, some of the PDF viewers, and [...]

With no word of putting off the new version availability on September 1, it seems that releasing another candidate right now is odd. However, Opera Labs has done it, and shows that bugs are being removed faster than actual ones could say ‘Raid!’ in the popular commercials.
The build is 1750, and makes quite a few [...]

Those of use who follow this knew it could not be long. Opera 10 betas kept removing any little problems left in the initial shakedown of the product. Now, for those who can’t wait, or are having perhaps a last little bit of trouble with one of the betas, the Release Candidate is available, to [...]

Lately, the general furor and anticipation over the release to the masses of Windows 7 has had the Windows fanboys salivating, and delivering up stories of how OEMs who deliver Linux are going to stop because of high return rates. These high return rates are ostensibly because the users can’t get Linux to work as [...]

Have you been looking for a netbook that comes without the Windows tax? It seems that it is harder and harder, because, when they want to drive away competition, Microsoft can amazingly make copies of Windows XP so inexpensive that OEMs cannot help but give in. After all, you don’t think it was all your [...]

Linux developers have discovered a way to implement the FAT file system’s method of operation while possibly invalidating any claims to royalties from Microsoft.
Though it might be possible to develop a file system that would completely sidestep the problem, it must be remembered how many devices use some form of the FAT file system, as [...]

In a piece about the market share of Ubuntu outside the United States, Christopher Dawson writes about the innovation that is going on using Linux outside our borders. Since his pieces tend to highlight education, I sometimes discount what he says as being from a too narrow viewpoint, but after reflection, and some other digging, [...]

There definitely must be something in the water over at ZDNet, or else it’s national take Microsoft to task month, and I never got the memo.
In another astounding change of tune, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes assesses the XP Mode of Windows 7, and it gets an ‘F’. This is quite a change from the accolades that were [...]