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Monday, 23 November 2009 06:17
Does Linus Torvalds deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for Linux?
By David M Williams
When you think of world peace, besides the obvious response by Miss Universe contestants, worthy Laureates come to mind such as Kofi Annan, Medecins Sans…
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Monday, 16 November 2009 08:20
High school student makes own Google Wave client, Ruby on Sails
By David M Williams
A New Jersey high school student took seriously Google’s open protocol of their new Wave product and has begun developing one of the first non-Google…
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Can the US Government see open source as a viable platform driving its web sites? Yes it can!
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 10:11
Domain name auction house admits internal bidding corruption
By David M Williams
Domain name broker SnapNames.com has always had its measure of detractors complaining the company permitted dubious practices. One grievance is now proven true with SnapNames…
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If you’re a gadget junkie like me your house is probably similarly littered with devices that did a job once, and could still do so…
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The team behind Eeebuntu, an ASUS Eee netbook-optimised version of Ubuntu Linux, has announced that compatibility issues with Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala – has…
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 19:36
Sequoia Voting System database laid bare but no secrets found
By David M Williams
Liberal US shock-blog Daily Kos gained legal access to the database used by electronic voting machines produced by Sequoia Voting Systems. The Daily Kos sensationally…
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The popular Ubuntu Linux distribution has received criticism from an unexpected corner and its ASUS Eee netbook users are likely to be left with an…
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 17:15
Convert any computer to a virtual machine with Linux and Clonezilla
By David M Williams
Last week Microsoft released Disk2VHD, a utility produced by its Sysinternals acquisition to convert a physical Windows hard disk into a Virtual PC disk image.…
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 19:16
London Stock Exchange gets the facts and dumps Windows for Linux
By David M Williams
Microsoft’s marketing arm excitedly churned out a case study in 2005 when the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rolled out a C# stock exchange ticker system…
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