Category: Open Source
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Ubuntu first impressions
Using Wubi, I installed Ubuntu onto my Vaio laptop over the weekend (Ubuntu is a Linux distro – an open source operating system). Apart from some nervousness on my part about losing any info from my Windows partition, the install was completely painless. The interface is really slick – it is obvious that lots of…
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Backup software for Vista?
I want to install a copy of Ubuntu on my laptop. However, when Vista was installed on it, a single partition was made of the hard drive so if I try to install Ubuntu now, it will overwrite the Vista partition (I assume, anyone knowing better, feel free to jump in!). I presume that what…
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Marcio Galli's talk in Cork
Fair dues to Damien Mulley and it@cork for putting on a great Firefox event last night. Marcio Galli is a Consulting Software Developer at Mozilla Foundation based in Brazil. He gave a fascinating talk entitled “Talk: Read, Write, and Recycle the Web with FireFox 3“. Watch the it@cork blog for a detailed review of the…
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Summer book recommendations II
Back at the end of June I posted about three books I had bought to read on my holidays. The three books were: David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur and Don Tapscott’s Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything In my naivety I brought another couple of books along as…
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Could Microsoft tackle piracy through Open Source?
Tom’s on holidays, I’ll be your host for today. My name’s Frank P, you might remember me from such blogs as “BifSniff.comâ€,†FestivalShirts.net/blog†and “Aonach.com/chatterâ€. Updated due to lateness of the hour when posting originally 😉 Well, despite being on holidays, Tom is not completely cut off from things technical – when I was talking…
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Sun's answer to the Microsoft litigation threat
Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that they are going to charge open source companies and users for patent infringement is largely being seen as an act of desperation a scare tactic to get enterprise open source users to pony up more money to Microsoft (or buy Microsoft software) in lieu of litigation and a great way to,…
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Microsoft: "You are going to have to pay us for NOT using our products too!"
Microsoft have an image problem. You know they have. They know they have. Almost every time you see a Microsoft employee get up to speak they invariably start by meekly, almost apologetically, admitting they are from Microsoft. Why do they have an image problem? It dates back to the browser wars of the 90s when…
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Akismet 2.0 is a life (and comment) saver
Akismet is the default anti-spam plugin which comes with WordPress and it has saved me from literally hundreds of thousnads of comment spam messages (124,200 last time I looked). A new version (Akismet 2.0) was released the same time as WordPress 2.1’s release so it’s release was kind of drowned out in the hoopla. To…