Archive for February, 2009
Posted in February 27th, 2009
Hi All, As I rock along here with my Linux set-up I thought that I would pass along another Linux cool application. streamtuner dials me into the whole world of radio. What ever happened to those other M$ applications. Or pay for play applications? I’ve got the ability to record to .mp3 the streams that [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2009
Hi All, As you all know I run Linux, and all that open source goodness. For a long time Microsoft has never delivered anything related to life outside of Redmond, Washington. Sure they still produce a product – like Vi$ta – that was dead upon arrival. M$ 7.0 is supposed to arrive in 2010. We [...]
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Posted in February 26th, 2009
Hi All, If you have ever considered doing a hosted Blog or Web Site here are a few tips from the nice folks @ LinuxLinks.com. The CMS part might seem a bit Geeky, but from here you can add products, actually sell things with eCommerce, etc. It is all good clean fun, and a great [...]
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Posted in February 25th, 2009
Hi All, This from Chris Wiegman… From Vista to Linux (It was a lot easier than I thought) Like many I had been looking for a way to get my office computer off of Windows for some time. I had played around with various Linux distros and even Mac for about 5 years, but I [...]
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Posted in February 24th, 2009
Android may give Linux a boost on netbooks, but according to Dell, its Inspiron Mini 9s with Ubuntu have already seen a steady sales stream coupled with low return rates. While MSI told us a few months back that Wind netbooks running SuSE Linux saw 4x higher return rates than that of XP machines, Dell [...]
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Posted in February 24th, 2009
Hi All! If you thought that China and India are big think about Brazil. Brazil is probably about 60% of the entire Latin / South American market place. I gotta learn my Portuguese! And visit those beaches. LOL! Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:08 PM/EST Userful, ThinNetworks Install 356,800 Virtual Desktops Soon we may see this [...]
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Posted in February 24th, 2009
Hi All, What a Microsoft joke. Elevate America initiative provides technology skills tools at no cost and low cost. REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 22, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced a new initiative, Elevate America, which will provide up to 2 million people over the next three years with the technology training needed to succeed [...]
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Posted in February 24th, 2009
The EE Times reported earlier this week that the Dell E4200 and E4300 laptops are running both Linux and Windows on the same machine. Why both you ask? The Linux OS provides a quick boot for checking email and other “light” computing duties while the Windows side allows “heavier duty” computing like running Microsoft Office [...]
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Posted in February 24th, 2009
Hi All, Here is another good example of all that Linux goodness… Linux is quickly gaining popularity, but there are still many users afraid to convert as they are not familiar with the applications. Today our Linux guru Blair Mathis is back to introduce fifty of the most popular applications on this OS ANIMATION SOFTWARE [...]
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Posted in February 23rd, 2009
By Esteban Israel HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux computer operating system this week in the latest front of the communist island’s battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony. The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana computer conference on “technological sovereignty” and is central to the [...]
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Posted in February 23rd, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:08 PM/EST Userful, ThinNetworks Install 356,800 Virtual Desktops Soon we may see this as an entry in the book of Guinness World Records: The world’s largest single desktop virtualization and Linux deployment now belongs to Canada’s Userful and Brazil’s ThinNetworks, which hooked up to install a whopping 356,800 green workstations in [...]
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Posted in February 23rd, 2009
Talk about adding insult to injury. Apparently Microsoft has inadvertently overpaid severance to some of its recently laid off employees, and is now asking for some of the money back. It’s unclear how many of the 1,400 employees laid off last month were affected, but we’ve confirmed that it wasn’t a single isolated incident (we’ve [...]
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Posted in February 23rd, 2009
Hi All! I’ve got YouTube + Twitter friends using Linux around the world. Football, or organized sport is not my thing. But, as a writer people send me cool links. I’d missed the Super Bowl Game. And, always looked forward gto the commercials. This from Rami Taibah’s Blog. You can find the ads here.
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Posted in February 23rd, 2009
Hi All! Every year LinuxQuestions.org runs their readership poll of what they think are the best Linux applications. The range is very broad, and I’ve followed this since about 2002. And, often found some really cool Linux Tools! Stop by and visit with your Linux questions. 2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners The polls are [...]
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