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by David M Williams
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Monday, 07 September 2009 |
One great tool power users in the Windows world have long enjoyed is Microsoft’s unsupported TweakUI. A range of similar Tweak utilities have followed for successive versions of Windows. Ubuntu Linux users have their own little-known tool called Ubuntu Tweak to help achieve the same degree of modification.
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by David M Williams
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Monday, 07 September 2009 |
When rootkits are mentioned the things which come to mind are generally hackers, Trojans, even Sony BMG. Now you can add open source software to the list with the release of the first open source rootkit framework called Stoned.
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by David M Williams
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Monday, 24 August 2009 |
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What do you do when Windows will not boot and cannot repair itself from the installation CD? You fire up a Linux Live CD!
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by David M Williams
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Friday, 21 August 2009 |
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Like anyone who has been in IT for a reasonable length of time I've worked with technologies that have lapsed, been superseded, died off or just simply gone out of vogue. Yet there are some my heart yearns to see again.
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by David M Williams
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 |
Windows 7 is here, and unlike Windows Vista, it will probably run on your diminutive netbook PC. However, there is an alternative. Here is why you ought to give Linux a shot.
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by David M Williams
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Friday, 14 August 2009 |
Premier Election Solutions, formerly known as Diebold, patched a security weakness in its electronic vote tabulation software this week. Nice, but how many flaws are required before governments mandate open source solutions?
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by David M Williams
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 |
Seattle software giant, Microsoft, has asserted despite press saying otherwise last week's 22,000 line submission to the Linux kernel was not motivated by any perceived GPL violation. Yet, do the facts bare out? Does the argument really stand to scrutiny?
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by David M Williams
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
This week just past Microsoft was successfully granted a patent for "emotiflags" despite this idea being present in Lotus Notes years prior. Microsoft is even denying current Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s involvement.
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by David M Williams
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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 |
Even the most ardent open source advocate may find they have Microsoft code on their Linux box in the near future following a surprise kernel submission on Monday. No, it’s not April 1st.
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by David M Williams
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Monday, 20 July 2009 |
Tom DeMarco is co-author of one of the most timeless and seminal works on creating software, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Yet, this month DeMarco suggested to the IEEE Computer Society that maybe software engineering has had its day.
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by David M Williams
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 |
That’s right; the Australian Tax Office’s e-tax software is a Windows-only product. If you run it within a virtualised Microsoft Windows on your Linux or Mac computer you may be eligible to tack the Windows tax onto your tax return!
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