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Blog Comment Ah, typical. I'm away for a day, and that's the day I get /,ed and the talkbacks run wild. OK, taking things in order: Andreas - "I cant' get sleep and hibernation to work properly, which turns...
RE:Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Interesting discussion about the Windows software issue. A lot of enterprise sw is going over to a Java platform these days, which makes it platform-independent. The world does seem to be moving in...
Red Hat voices concerns over Microsoft patent model
News The company is concerned that, following the EU antitrust ruling, Microsoft's patent model is still not compatible with open-source licensing
Businesses failing to secure IP telephony
News At the RSA Conference, Cisco said the number of businesses deploying IP telephony networks is increasing, but few are thinking about securing them
RSA: Cryptography for bookworms
Blog It hasn't been the busiest tech exhibition of the year by a long way, but one stand which has provoked a bit of interest at the RSA Security conference is the bookstand. Publisher Wiley has...
Qualcomm goes global with Gobi
News The embedded Gobi chipset could allow a notebook PC user to pick up a cellular data signal anywhere in the world
RE:Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Vista is horrible. I recently bought a beautiful new Dell laptop - the XPS M1330 with all the bells and whistles - running Vista (XP was not offered as an option). I had to travel to China with...
RE:Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Not that I want to rag on Vista too much, but check this out! Swapping a video card? Updating a device driver? You might hit trouble...
Microsoft: Security threats still evolving
News At the RSA Conference, Microsoft has warned that hackers are finding new targets for malware and internal comms are key to companies' security
Google: Businesses can benefit from video sharing
News Web 2.0 technology such as video and social networking has the potential to be incredibly valuable in the business world, according to the search giant
Highlights of the RSA Conference Europe 2007
Roundup The two-day event in London's docklands featured speakers including Bruce Schneier, Microsoft's Ed Gibson and famous ex-fraudster Frank Abagnale
Microsoft and Turbolinux forge compatibility pact
News The open-source distributor and Microsoft aim 'to reduce the cost and complexity of running mixed Windows and Linux IT environments'
Widget wedgie
Blog It's all too easy to mock some of the brand names and terminology in this industry, so - feeling lazy - I thought I'd do just that. And today's silliest conference name (still not as bad as...
RE:Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment The thing I love the most about Linux distributions is the fact that pretty much all the software is free and open, and lots of it was written by people in their spare time who just needed to get...
Home-grown headaches
Blog Just at the time when we are hearing more and more about self managing software systems, automation for lifecycle management, autonomic self-healing computing and pre-packaged tools and components...
Vistification - a temporary drive to Linux?
Blog Rupert's just said again what I've been hearing in various places: Vista's awkwardness is going to drive people to Linux. That's something I heard when Specavers moved to Linux. They'd been...
Who should pay for security?
Talkback Going back to first principles, if you told a child about the cost of security wouldn't that child say that as Microsoft provides the entry points for the bad boys, they should bear the cost of...
Estonia's CTO speaks out on cyberattacks
News At the RSA Conference, the director of IT for the Estonian government has revealed more details about the cyberattacks suffered by his country earlier this year
RE:Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I used to work in a corporation where I was initially given a Windows 2000 PC. And I was supposed to maintain an application which was "windows-based." I discovered quickly it was mostly made of...
O2 updates mobile email for enterprises
News A tie-in with Motorola Good Technology Group will focus on corporate management of certain Windows Mobile handsets
Home-grown tech may hinder financial institutions
News A survey of IT managers and senior leaders in the retail banking, investment banking and insurance sectors claims downtime is caused by reliance on such applications
UK sets the pace as outsourcing deals soar
News The value and number of IT outsourcing contracts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa shot up during the second quarter of 2007
Huge increase in demand for helpdesk staff
News IT project managers are also highly sought after, according to a recent report that found a marked increase in demand compared to the same period last year
Oracle warns BEA: Decide by Sunday
News The takeover bid of $17 per share is now set to expire within days, unless the middleware company agrees to give shareholders a vote
RE:Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I used to work for one of the large Linux companies, have used Linux since '94 (at least, don't remember in detail), even worked on Linux kernel code (looong time ago, network(NAT)/firewall code)....
RE:Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Strangely, no one has pointed out that there is one important UI area where Vista is far and away more advanced and capable than either XP, Linux, or even Mac OS: the tablet PC platform. Vista is...
RE:60 GHz networking, the story so far
Blog Comment Greetings from the world of “wackier” wireless technologies! Thanks for your post. It’s always good to see some attention paid to the emerging world of 60 GHz. A couple of things to clarify with...
RE:Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Wow you are correct! I swear MS Exchange Server wasn't working up until recently. Admittedly, I'm still running 7.04, i don't think the Exchange server worked until i updated (i guess i should keep...
