Previous DayRE:Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' Release Candidate
Blog Comment I have the UNR installed on my Lenovo S10e and, apart from some woes that I posted about earlier today, it runs very nicely on an atom 1.6 Netbook. But I'm still using Ext3, see below. What I...
Open source in government, and where to start
Blog There's a growing movement pushing for governments to use and produce more open source software. Incidents like the NHS's National Programme for IT and Becta's software procurement procedures have...
Apple to release MacPad - 9 inch touch device
Blog Apple have never bought into the idea that laptop can have anything but a 13 inch physical keyboard. But enter into the touch world and the possibility of a larger touch pad machine seems obvious...
Samsung has SSD with full encryption
Blog Using technology from Wave Systems, Samsung on Thursday launched a solid state disk (SSD) with a capacity of up to 256GB and full-disk encryption. Available in a 1.8in and 2.5in form factors the...
Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' Release Candidate
Blog The Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04 was made available yesterday, and I have now installed it on all four of the laptop/netbook systems here. As usual, it is just really good. Installation is...
Wikimedia Foundation turns down Phorm
Blog The Wikimedia Foundation has become the latest web giant to opt out of Phorm's user-tracking targeted-advertising system. After Amazon did the same earlier this week, Wikimedia took the plunge...
Apple applies for handset-related patents
News Two recent patent applications, which relate to motion and gesture user interfaces, could point to future enhancements for the iPhone
Ubuntu Netbook Remix woes
Blog For the first time since I bought my Lenovo S10e and Installed Win7 and Ubuntu I have been experiencing issues. However, today, in the new page for the Ubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate, I think the...
Symbian ported onto Atom motherboard
News The Symbian Foundation says it has managed to get the Symbian mobile-phone OS working on an x86-based Atom motherboard, used mainly in netbooks
Iomega taps EMC tech for rack-mount NAS
News The new Iomega StorCenter Pro storage drive, targeted at small businesses, uses technology developed by parent company and enterprise storage specialist EMC
Ten ways Linux can turn you green
Comment Making the switch to Linux can immediately transform the eco-friendliness of your IT environment, says Jack Wallen
Sony Ericsson to lay off 2,000 more workers
News The handset maker has announced its third consecutive quarter of worsening losses and revealed that its market share dropped by 25 percent quarter-on-quarter
Pirate Bay defendants found guilty
News The four Swedish men who run the Pirate Bay BitTorrent-related site have been given a year in prison plus huge fines, but plan to appeal
Google earnings upbeat despite downturn
News Google posts better-than-expected first-quarter profits, as it reaps the benefit of more searches and more clicks on search ads
Google introducing pay-per-view to YouTube
News The search giant has announced plans to sell YouTube videos with micropayments and subscription services
A top ten credit crunch development list, done in three
Blog No software development vendor worth their salt would let the credit crunch pass us by and miss the opportunity to pump out a few snappy PR messages woven around the opportunity to “reduce software...
Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate published
News The project has unveiled a final testing version for its latest version, code-named 'Jaunty Jackalope'
Jericho Forum offers cloud security tips
News The IT security group has put forward security advice aimed at helping companies that want to adopt cloud computing
Comments from Microsoft about Patch 12.1.7 for Office 2008 f...
Talkback Greetings and Salutations Some folks have mentioned that they have not been able to install the Office 12.1.8 update. I would like to remind folks of some of the caveats that apply to installing an...
RE:Linux Mint: Ubuntu plus stuff you probably want
Blog Comment HeliOS Solutions is an organization in Austin Texas that rufurbs donated computers, brings them as close to possible to today's tech standards and then gives them to disadvantaged kids. We have...
