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College gives up on email - corporates...
A snippet from the website of the Chronicle of Higher Education (an American trade mag for tertiary teaching staff) says that Boston College is to stop giving its new students email... More
IBM beats up on HP, Sun, etc
The struggle for market leadership between IBM and HP burst out in the open on Thursday with IBM claiming that since 2004 it has replaced some 5,000 HP systems along with Sun Microsystems... More
Good news for British high-tech startu...
I am indebted as usual to the scion of Uk semiconductor scribbling, David Manners of Electronics Weekly. He reports that amid the doom and gloom in the markets, investment in new British... More
Microsoft Futures Special Report
Ozzie: Success of Azure comes down to trust
News In an interview, Ray Ozzie says businesses will be taking a risk by placing core operations in Microsoft's datacentre, but that the software giant has more to lose if things go bad
News Microsoft PDC: What to expect
News Microsoft unveils 'Azure' cloud OS
Featured Talkback
Why do so many (virtually all) software packages think that they are so important that they have to be started automatically every time the computer boots? What is the largest number of "speed access", "update check", "camera download" and whatever other background programs you have ever seen running? Of those, how many did you really need?
By: J.A. Watson
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Annoying software: a rogues' gallery
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Can you imagine what would have happened if the great philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists and writers had patented their ideas so that nobody else could use them without paying. We today wouldn't be able to have a conversation without violating somebodies intellectual property. The arguement of the free software community is that software should be treated in the same manner, copyrightable but not patentable.
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Microsoft exec talks patent politics
OS Scratch Load Times
I reload the operating systems on my laptops quite frequently. On the Linux side, it is because I am trying various distributions, while on the Windows side it is more often because... More
Wireless Networking - Linksys WRT350N...
Ok, this is driving me crazy. Why does this not work? I have a Linksys WRT350N Wireless-N router, and a laptop with an Intel 4965AGN Wireless Network Interface. When I am running... More
Software Jihad part 2
I guess the point of my previous post (read rant if you want) was that Microsoft makes a lot of noise of "protecting" their IP but in reality they are only paying lip-service to it... More
