Apple's Leopard Lasts '30 Seconds' In Hack Contest
News Apple's Leopard has been hacked within 30 seconds using a flaw in Safari, with rival operating systems Ubuntu and Windows Vista so far remaining impenetrable in the CanSecWest PWN to Own competition. Competitors in the hacking race were allowed to...
[March 28, 2008, 8:22]
Forrester: IT Managers Delaying Vista Rollout
News When it comes to Windows Vista, Microsoft's biggest competitor isn't Apple, Novell, Red Hat or Ubuntu [just to name a few] — it's Microsoft itself," Gray wrote. Businesses that had been thinking of a quick move to Windows Vista may be rethinking...
[August 16, 2007, 8:56]
Vista SP1 Installed, Working OK So Far
Blog I have also installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron), and Mandriva Spring 2008, so I have a three-way boot selection now. The installation of Vista SP1 completed normally on my Lifebook S6510, and it seems to be running normally for the time being.
[August 6, 2008, 11:12]
Maybe Vista Really Is Getting Better
Blog Performance is still not as good as Ubuntu or Mandriva on the same laptop, but even that still seems better than before. This laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook S6510) has the optional 1 GB of "TurboMemory", and I can guarantee you that the previous times I...
[August 8, 2008, 7:51]
Vista - Still Running And Stable After Six Weeks
Blog This blog entry is being written on Ubuntu, by the way.jw 21/9/2008 Six weeks ago, when I wrote Renewed Adventures with Vista, I wondered if Microsoft had finally managed to fix it sufficiently that I wouldn't be forced to give up on it after a...
[September 21, 2008, 8:18]
Vista Slow To Unfold
Leader If you're Mark Shuttleworth, an initial investment of $10m creates Ubuntu. If you're Microsoft, then you spend 100 times as much over the lifetime of XP just in marketing, and 600 times as much building Vista — followed by half a billion more kick...
[May 15, 2007, 18:19]
Vista SP1 - No Go For Me At The Moment
Blog Comment I plan to update my laptop Vista installation as soon as I get a chance, and then reassess it versus Ubuntu, which does almost everything I need on my Asus V1S laptop except three things: Recognise the built-in webcam, recognise the built-in 3G...
[March 20, 2008, 11:45]
Vista SP1 - No Go For Me At The Moment
Blog Comment Also, I may well now put good old XP on my Asus alongside Ubuntu. Check out my post on my travails with Vista to see why. David, I was thinking of a neat utility called MySQL Workbench which I find handy for designing and normalising databases.
[March 20, 2008, 21:04]
Good Reason Not To Use Vista
Talkback I tend to use Ubuntu a lot for development and like having a dual boot config on my machine. I used Vista for about 5 days before it drove me to distraction and I installed XP. This is just another good reason to ditch this load of rubbish.
[March 25, 2008, 19:36]
XP SP3 Problems
Talkback I have installed Ubuntu on my XP SP3 computer using Wubi (installs in the Windows partion without needing to partition the disk) and it runs very nicely. How quick and easy it is to install Linux compared to XP or Vista, and how quick it is to boot...
[May 13, 2008, 9:09]
