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MS Anti-Unix Site Powered By... Unix
News The site, dubbed "We have the way out," runs on Web servers powered by FreeBSD, an open-source version of Unix, along with the Unix-based Web server Apache, according to Netcraft, which tracks Web site information.
[April 2, 2002, 9:47]
Anti-Unix Site Drawing A Blank
News But as of early Wednesday, the "We have the way out" site displayed either an all-white screen or an "Error 403" authorisation message. The "We have the way out" campaign describes Unix as an expensive trap.
[April 3, 2002, 9:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To that end, they deployed a Web site, rather euthenistically entitled "We Have The Way Out", which goes into some detail of how Unix is a terrible idea, what with all those expensive experts, complicated configurations, and so on.
[April 5, 2002, 16:57]
The Instant Messaging Farce
News Yet here we have the twin titans of technology, painting each other as belligerent bullies as part of the instant messaging imbroglio that's dominated the headlines. Here we have America Online, whose cherubic chief executive has spent a fair...
[July 29, 1999, 10:17]
IDF - Final Day. Bring On The Robots!
Blog We have robots that follow an apple waved in front of them with the eager attention of a puppy tracking a sausage. We have power transmitted through the air. The principle has been used in just about every radio since the 1930s: you have two coils...
[August 21, 2008, 21:13]
AJAX: Ready To Take On The Old Guard?
News Over the years, desktop applications tied to a specific operating system have become entrenched as the main way to work on a computer. There are many more on the way, and we'll be increasingly amazed with what can be done," he noted.
[October 3, 2005, 16:55]
Kill The Administrators
Talkback IT Management: We're trying to recruit people who have already got a certificate for the exact versions of this mammoth laundry list of products, but there's nobody out there .and when we do find someone, they just seem to be worthless badge...
[June 30, 2008, 14:00]
Cabinet Office Pushes For Shared Services Adoption
News In the Cabinet Office building on Whitehall, the modern foyer soon gives way to older tiled corridors and offices looking out onto Admiralty Arch and Horse Guards Parade. During that time, I would hope we would have a lot more than the current 6...
[October 26, 2007, 13:09]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Now it gets printed on Saturday, sent out on Sunday (and don't ask how we persuaded the Post Office to do that) and will be on people's desks for Monday morning. All we'd have to do is make sure that the readers had a computer, and a word processor...
[May 16, 1998, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Now it gets printed on Saturday, sent out on Sunday (and don't ask how we persuaded the Post Office to do that) and will be on people's desks for Monday morning. All we'd have to do is make sure that the readers had a computer, and a word processor...
[May 16, 1998, 7:00]
Q&A: Software Warehouse's Steve Bennett
News The advantage we have is constant contact with the customer. We were selling Internet kits and had lots of success getting the kit out but we weren't making much margin on it. We have gone for the CompUSA model: it's much cheaper to convert store...
[September 16, 1996, 10:05]
Ubuntu 7.04 review
Reviews This way, you keep your current operating system and can boot into the new operating system while testing it out. One word of caution: remember the user name and password you enter into Wubi before installation — you'll need it once Ubuntu is...
[July 13, 2007, 11:39]
Networking Products For Your Business review
Reviews And if you simply need to hook up a few stationary systems in the same room, or you have easy access to overhead or sub-floor conduits, it’s still the way to go. Not long ago, if you wanted to connect a few PCs and a printer in a small office, you...
[January 5, 2004, 14:35]
Power To The People: ZDNet's Guide To Notebook Batteries review
Reviews To help you make smart decisions about the notebooks you buy and the way you use them, we demystify today's battery technologies and examine the fuel cell technology that might power your next notebook.
[April 14, 2004, 10:00]
Home Office Finalises ID Management Plans
News What they're saying is: we'll give you an easy way of dealing with the ways we've made life more difficult for you," said Guy Herbert, general secretary of No2ID. Quite what the ID Cards Unit does, nobody can work out," said Herbert "They don't...
[October 19, 2006, 15:35]
Microsoft Keeps Its Open Source Enemies Close
News The best way to learn stuff is to engage with people, and if they wanted to have an intelligent debate they needed to take some of the heat out," says Governor. If so, industry observers say those benefiting the most could be customers, who have...
[June 30, 2005, 17:00]
Gartner: Developers Must Be Responsible For Security
News The only way we can secure the whole mass is to secure each component by monitoring, managing data transfer, firewalling, and, in the end, we just have to watch our applications like a hawk. On a practical level, we assume in the security business...
[November 30, 2007, 11:43]
My Response To Richard Stallman
Talkback Experimentation is expensive because in young markets you get a whole bunch of competing players all of whom attempt to figure out the best way to meet consumers needs. If we assume, for the moment, that proprietary software damages freedom, why...
[January 11, 2004, 19:41]
DefCon: Hacking For Human Rights
News It's not ethical to own someone's Web site as a way of getting the message out. We didn't get the (commanders) put in prison, but we did get them taken out of positions of power," he said, referring to the results of posting statistics in public...
[July 17, 2001, 9:50]
Jane Wakefield: Waiting For The WAP Train
News If the e-minister had come back and said: "What we really need to do is get rid of BT's monopoly today and have really cheap off-peak access," the train the government wants to be on would be on time, fast and full of happy people.
[March 28, 2000, 12:16]
