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Australia to have fastest internet - by 2100
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2009-04-06 19:26:57
Once again, Australians are being promised a broadband network that will provide speeds that are 100 times faster than what they have at present.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Networks
2009-04-06 19:26:57
Once again, Australians are being promised a broadband network that will provide speeds that are 100 times faster than what they have at present.
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Mono fits in neatly with the Microsoft vision
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-04-05 19:42:18
There's good news for the huge queue of developers waiting, impatiently, to write .NET applications and run them on the Linux platform. Or those who have written applications in .NET for Windows and can't wait to move them to Linux.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-04-05 19:42:18
There's good news for the huge queue of developers waiting, impatiently, to write .NET applications and run them on the Linux platform. Or those who have written applications in .NET for Windows and can't wait to move them to Linux.
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How IBM builds up its store of Linux knowledge
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-04-05 19:28:24
Ask anyone in the IT industry if they could have predicted years ago that a company like IBM would come to be known as one of the biggest users of Linux, and it's doubtful if there would be a single answer in the positive.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-04-05 19:28:24
Ask anyone in the IT industry if they could have predicted years ago that a company like IBM would come to be known as one of the biggest users of Linux, and it's doubtful if there would be a single answer in the positive.
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If Microsoft bought Novell, it wouldn't come as a surprise
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-04-02 19:51:16
The idea that Microsoft would buy Novell isn't exactly that far-fetched. Events on April 1 have proved this.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-04-02 19:51:16
The idea that Microsoft would buy Novell isn't exactly that far-fetched. Events on April 1 have proved this.
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Australia introduces licences for internet users
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-31 09:14:34
Internet users in Australia will have to take out licences from the next financial year else they will not be allowed to use the web, official sources told iTWire today.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-31 09:14:34
Internet users in Australia will have to take out licences from the next financial year else they will not be allowed to use the web, official sources told iTWire today.
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Repeat after me: Conficker is a Windows virus
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-31 09:02:42
Over the past three days, I've heard several general news broadcasts touch on the topic of the Conficker worm, no doubt because it has been widely reported that April 1 will see some real action from this payload of really creative code.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-31 09:02:42
Over the past three days, I've heard several general news broadcasts touch on the topic of the Conficker worm, no doubt because it has been widely reported that April 1 will see some real action from this payload of really creative code.
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Redmond backs off, settles TomTom patent suit
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-31 04:23:24
Microsoft appears to have backed off from a wider confrontation with the free and open source software community by settling the alleged patent infringement case that it filed against GPS device maker TomTom last month.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-31 04:23:24
Microsoft appears to have backed off from a wider confrontation with the free and open source software community by settling the alleged patent infringement case that it filed against GPS device maker TomTom last month.
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SUSE 11 vs Windows 7: no contest
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-29 20:33:43
SUSE Linux 11 has been out less than 10 days but already there are comparisons of the distribution to Windows - all of which are being accepted as compliments.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-29 20:33:43
SUSE Linux 11 has been out less than 10 days but already there are comparisons of the distribution to Windows - all of which are being accepted as compliments.
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Linux on the desktop:oh, not that debate again!
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-25 17:35:58
What does one make of a statement from the chief of the biggest commercial Linux company to the effect that Linux cannot be a success on the desktop?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-25 17:35:58
What does one make of a statement from the chief of the biggest commercial Linux company to the effect that Linux cannot be a success on the desktop?
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SUSE can't live with Linux, it can live with XP
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-25 04:31:42
Novell's latest SUSE release, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, appears to be unable to boot from DVD on a PC on which another Linux distribution is installed. If you have Windows XP installed, the same DVD boots as it should.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-25 04:31:42
Novell's latest SUSE release, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, appears to be unable to boot from DVD on a PC on which another Linux distribution is installed. If you have Windows XP installed, the same DVD boots as it should.
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Why it's better to buy Apple rather than Microsoft
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-24 17:40:19
You have to hand it to Steve Ballmer. The man is never short of inaccurate statistics or words to take a dig at the two rivals which Microsoft has been confronting in recent times - Apple and Linux.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-24 17:40:19
You have to hand it to Steve Ballmer. The man is never short of inaccurate statistics or words to take a dig at the two rivals which Microsoft has been confronting in recent times - Apple and Linux.
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When politics does not get in the way of FOSS
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-22 17:57:28
Politicians have no incentive to adopt free and open source software - not until someone writes a FOSS application that will ensure that they win the next election. But when geeks are part of a party and the party's policies are furthered by adopting FOSS, then it is a slightly different story.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-22 17:57:28
Politicians have no incentive to adopt free and open source software - not until someone writes a FOSS application that will ensure that they win the next election. But when geeks are part of a party and the party's policies are furthered by adopting FOSS, then it is a slightly different story.
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TomTom hits back, sues Microsoft
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-20 19:18:16
Portable GPS car navigation systems maker TomTom has hit back at Microsoft, filing a suit in which it alleges that the Redmond-based company's Streets and Trips software has violated four of its patents.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-20 19:18:16
Portable GPS car navigation systems maker TomTom has hit back at Microsoft, filing a suit in which it alleges that the Redmond-based company's Streets and Trips software has violated four of its patents.
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Why IDC-Novell survey is a dud
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-17 04:21:25
Close on the heels of a disastous first quarter, during which it did not sign any large Linux deals, Novell has hired IDC to carry out a survey that has, predictably, come up with some results that have been well spun when being presented to the media to cast the company's prospects in a favourable light.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-17 04:21:25
Close on the heels of a disastous first quarter, during which it did not sign any large Linux deals, Novell has hired IDC to carry out a survey that has, predictably, come up with some results that have been well spun when being presented to the media to cast the company's prospects in a favourable light.
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Selling open source to the powers-that-be
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-15 19:30:39
The idea of thinking up a hypothetical situation and then asking a group of qualified panellists to visualise how each would react to it is nothing new.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-15 19:30:39
The idea of thinking up a hypothetical situation and then asking a group of qualified panellists to visualise how each would react to it is nothing new.
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Craven BBC avoids naming botnet hosts
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-13 19:24:48
The BBC has pulled off a stunt of some magnitude in purchasing a botnet made up of 20,000-odd computers and using them to demonstrate the power such a group has to send spam or launch a distributed denial of service attack.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-13 19:24:48
The BBC has pulled off a stunt of some magnitude in purchasing a botnet made up of 20,000-odd computers and using them to demonstrate the power such a group has to send spam or launch a distributed denial of service attack.
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Two in race for Debian project leader
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-11 19:26:02
It's that time of the year again - the Debian GNU/Linux project is in election mode with the process for electing a leader for 2009-10 having begun.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-11 19:26:02
It's that time of the year again - the Debian GNU/Linux project is in election mode with the process for electing a leader for 2009-10 having begun.
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Why Microsoft has chosen to go after Linux now
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-09 19:43:44
A couple of months back, at Australia's national Linux conference, a young Microsoft employee sat down with me and discussed ways in which Microsoft has contributed to open source.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-09 19:43:44
A couple of months back, at Australia's national Linux conference, a young Microsoft employee sat down with me and discussed ways in which Microsoft has contributed to open source.
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Governments and open source: never the twain shall meet
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-02 17:46:27
It's interesting to see the reaction from various corners of the FOSS community when any government announces a policy that is seen as friendly to open source and one which could, possibly, help to spread its use.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-02 17:46:27
It's interesting to see the reaction from various corners of the FOSS community when any government announces a policy that is seen as friendly to open source and one which could, possibly, help to spread its use.
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Vista voted tech world's biggest fiasco
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-03-02 05:11:48
Windows Vista lovers have had pie thrown in their faces with the revelation that the operating system which took Microsoft five years to roll out has been voted the technology world's worst fiasco.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-03-02 05:11:48
Windows Vista lovers have had pie thrown in their faces with the revelation that the operating system which took Microsoft five years to roll out has been voted the technology world's worst fiasco.
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