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Ubuntu Linux boosted by 10,000 seat PC win German insurance giant LVM embraces open By John E Dunn | Techworld | Published: 11:36, 22 April 11 http://news.techworld.com/operating-systems/3276132/ubuntu-linux-boosted-by-10000-seat-pc-win/ Canonical has taken the wraps off a morale-boosting deal that ...

A Walled Wide Web for Nervous Autocrats http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704415104576065641376054226.html Russian government. Vladimir Putin signed a 20-page executive order requiring all public institutions in Russia to replace proprietary software, developed by companies like Microsof...

I bought the Nook for a few reasons. It has E-Ink, the battery lasts for a long time,Nook has a replaceable battery easily accessible by opening the back cover (unlike the Kindle). You can go from page one to page 500 with ease, You can change the font and make the characters larger for easier readi...

My Comment: What they are saying is that sick computers should not get on the internet. While that sounds good. Note that this proposal is from Microsoft with "health certificates" as an idea to "prove" the computer is "worthy" to use the internet". I see a back door proposal to ban computers from t...

This is a great step by step tutorial on how to set up a Debian Server. It is really detailed and the best tutorial I have seen yet. Dann and Pat, you should try to get the author (Kevin the Computer Guy) on your podcast. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Rant... PATA near impossible to find at stores Just a rant of not being able to find much in PATA at the brick and mortar stores. I went to Micro Center looking for a 500 GB or better HD PATA IDE hard drive and a DVD RW drive in IDE...They only had one PATA DVD RW drive and it cost more than a SATA....

I know this is an old thread...but it provided answers I was looking for...thanks.

( I got this after I posted a reply on another message here). This Connection is Untrusted You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.thelinuxlink.net, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure. Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to...

This happened nearly two years ago...

I have Verizon and a HTC phone, IF ... and I say IF Apple wins or gets a injunction against HTC....(which I hope they don't). Then what about those of us with these phones? Would this be a case of us being able to back out of our 2 year contracts with Verizon? (I just reupped with Verizon for anothe...

My questions are. How do we get around it? How would Linux figure in all of this? Would starting your own internet by having a private wireless hub, be one way around this? Would VPN be a answer? What would you do? _________________________________________________________________________________ htt...

I have actually seen comments that a $499 iPad will be a Kindle Killer (which sells for $259). Go figure.

greggh wrote:I see Feb 3 and if I scroll up I see Jan 13, but today Jan 27 is missing for me.

Wednesday, January 27
8:30pm
Just Us
When Wed, January 27, 8:30pm – 10:00pm


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An Affordable $199 Tablet for Everyone -- And It's Not From Apple Daniel Ionescu, PC World Jan 4, 2010 8:14 am http://www.pcworld.com/article/185764/A_199_Tablet_for_Everyone_And_Its_Not_From_Apple.html Just as the rumors of a pricey Apple tablet computer have reached a high-water mark, Freescale Se...

California’s OCIO defines, promotes open source software use January 12, 2010 @ Jeffery Smith http://civsourceonline.com/2010/01/12/californias-ocio-defines-promotes-open-source-software-use/ In 2004, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the California Performance Review, which included a section c...