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@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...
3 hours 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....
3 hours 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...
4 hours 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,...
5 hours ago by Moley on Windows 8 start-up speed forces USB boot workaround
I don't understand why there cannot be a slight pause during the boot process so the user can press a key. Many operating systems do this, even if...
6 hours ago by apexwm on Windows 8 start-up speed forces USB boot workaround You can now buy the Xi3 modular computer in the UK at http://www.ocdistribution.com . This can be bought with the Tand3m software, pricing and...
6 hours ago by Gavin Goodman on CES 2012: Xi3 microSERV3R
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...
10 hours 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!
10 hours 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...
10 hours 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.
12 hours ago by apexwm on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows What I wonder is why when companies are caught bang to rights in not providing contracted services, people bend over to smear the customers? Surely...
13 hours ago by dave heasman on Virgin throttles broadband for high-speed customers Strange statement from HP regarding Mike Lynch and not capable of scaling a company. Autonomy was a $7bn purchase which started as a small company...
13 hours ago by pjc158 on HP cuts 27,000 staff as Autonomy chief Lynch leaves Or - possibly, they will destroy business by ensuring people do not invest where there is no return. Another socialist idea, well beyond it's...
16 hours ago by lojolondon on Open Data Institute will act as biz incubator
Good stuff Jake, very interesting. Thanks. jw
17 hours ago by J.A. Watson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows "the cost of a second LCD screen is about the same as one day of an office worker's time, so this should soon be recouped in extra productivity."...
18 hours ago by openhgs on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptakeI also installed the KDE version; I also will probably try out razorqt since I really haven't had a chance to before. I'm looking forward to the...
1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Mageia 2 Released Acquiring when reinvention/cannibalization is too challenging for a large organization can be an excellent strategy- still, so many mergers stumble...
1 day ago by francisabigail on Ariba buy parks SAP on Oracle's cloud turf All of the feedback regarding using a touch monitor for a desktop PC is right on. Several months ago, we installed a "demo" multitouch all-in-one...
1 day ago by apexwm on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake anyone wanting to triple boot *their* own Mac
2 days ago by 191706 on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows Cont.. Biggest Bugbear: Win7's stop-animate-go approach to work, you develop a staggered (not in the above alchohol sense of the word) approach to...
2 days ago by SoapyTablet on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake
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