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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary
5 hours ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everythingseriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...
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Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...
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19 hours ago by Leslie Satenstein via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora LinuxMuch as I abhor Microsoft's licensing practices, this is almost certainly down to purchasing IT equipment via 3rd party consultants - you get the...
20 hours ago by Andy Bolstridge via Facebook on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...
2 days ago by Jack Schofield on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake @Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....
2 days ago by Jack Schofield on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT You guys have no idea what is going on at Autonomy. Autonomy could have been a much more profitable organization. The sales operations at Autonomy...
2 days ago by craigsc on HP cuts 27,000 staff as Autonomy chief Lynch leaves
How does this impact on dual or multi booting? Seems to me to more or less prohibit this, from Windows 8 anyway. Will Grub 2 recognise Windows 8,...
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I agree: Mike Lynch can clearly build a business and manage strategy. I suspect the exit of Mike is more likely the end of a planned handover...
2 days ago by Phil at Cloud4 on HP cuts 27,000 staff as Autonomy chief Lynch leaves This is unbeleivable government wastage with only one winner... Microsoft 1 - Tax payer Nil!
2 days ago by Phil at Cloud4 on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT So what do you do when you can't boot into windows? Why can't I just hold Shift while I power up instead of having to boot into windows and click a...
2 days ago by Mispam on Windows 8 start-up speed forces USB boot workaround I've also seen that Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox, which would also be a nice solution. I've never tried it though.
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