<http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/18/dell-gives-linux-laptops-another-chance/> Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project...
Today's XKCD gem: <https://xkcd.com/936/> Something interesting -- passphrase selection: <http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html> and in case you're not...
This couldn't wait until tomorrow when I was going to post something else; interesting article and note she's a techie which "might" mean a turnaround for...
http://dottech.org/tech-news/73932/bye-bye-thunderbird/ Any other news about this for both Linux and Windows users? Joan in Reno [Non-text portions of this...
Kind of on-topic given that symlinks are an everyday thing in Linux... I just discovered that NTFS also supports symlinks as of Vista. Much more satisfactory...
I'm not sure when or how this happened--I don't think I'm the one who created the server. At any rate, we have a little Ubuntu 10.04 VM server, no GUI. Doing...
496 (FOUR HUNDRED, NINETY-SIX PATCHES) on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Even Microsoft only supplies 4-10 each month as I recall seeing on each of my 9 Windows...
Whyinell does it seem like every self-alleged "superstar" has to write their own file compression scam^H^H^H^Hscheme and foist it onto the Internet? The GNU...
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my system and I like it so far. Took a getting used to (like the 20 mins of trying to find out how to shutdown the system...
Interesting table here: <http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp> My copy'n'pasted extractions are best viewed with a fixed-width font. The portion...
There are 3, perhaps 4, articles I posted Saturday 30-JUNE-2012 using Yahoo's web interface. If they should somehow resurface after cycling through the twisty...
Situation: a widely used information and resource web site for users of astronomy equipment maker Meade's equipment has been sited in the UK for about 8 years....
That wasn't the first and won't be the last. 1960's technology used today as "The Cloud" is absurd. I've collected a bunch of interesting thoughts about the...
One Usenet linux-related group was recently going apesh!t with 200+ postings a day of lies, misinformation, FUD, insults, vulgarities, etc. That group (the...
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/6/21/china-nvidia-loses-face-and-a-10-million-pc-order-over-linux-drivers-and-nres.aspx So it seems (its hard finding...
This is so incredible I wanted to share it with the group; my guess is the robots are very likely running Linux so I made a judgment call that it's partially...
Linux-based newspaper website with an autostarting video bug One of the first websites I visit each day is the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle,...
Somehow I came across this thorough benchmark of languages: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ What surprised me the most was really where Java and PERL...
A posting I made last night (Monday) via Yahoo's website at 9:54pm PDT just appeared this morning (Tuesday) at 8:33am. Several of my other postings yesterday...
I needed to run some tests on a number of platforms to document a bug at a newspaper site with whose webmaster I've been in contact via email. I'll post...
Heh, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jUboon5gI> Really quite shocking! Full video here <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA> -- Best regards, Ed...
I still have a few minutes before I have to leave -- am monitoring the traffic via the web (neat stuff here in California) -- and visited the WIRED pages and...
A correspondent in the UK emailed me this URL for posting here: <http://www.linux-books.us/suse_0002.php> For some unknown reason the book's PDF is ZIP'd and...
Math fun: the Collatz Conjecture as a bash script I found this at: <http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?p=761&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1> Background info:...
I am getting ready to migrate my web/mail server at work from CentOS 5.x to CentOS 6.x and I was wondering if any of our gurus here had any words of wisdom for...
USAF/DoD Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) Live CD 1.3.5 released I Just received email from the ATSPI Technology Branch that LPS 1.3.5 has been released;...
The trend is quite obvious and seen again in the Alpha Ubuntu 12.10 technical notes at: <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Alpha1> "...
Both Opera and Chrome are fast browsers, and each claims is own security record for web browsing. What are people's experiences and insights with how well each...
