Like anyone who has been in IT for a reasonable length of time I've worked with technologies that have lapsed, been superseded, died off or…
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…
Why Governments must make voting systems open source
By David M Williams
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…
Microsoft claims no GPL violation in Linux submission after all
By David M Williams
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…
Microsoft wins patent for Lotus Notes emoticon idea
By David M Williams
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…
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…
Software engineering is dead, long live engineering of software
By David M Williams
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…
Linux, Mac users - your copy of Windows may be tax deductible
By David M Williams
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…
Australian Linux users finally have tax return satisfaction
By David M Williams
As much as Linux users might desire to live in a world without Windows plans can be thwarted by a necessary piece of Windows-only software.…
Readers of the Linux section on popular Web 2.0 social networking site Reddit discovered a Twitter bot was tweeting stories listed on the site without…
