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Life without walls.

Life without walls is the title of microsoft's new advertising campaign. It is yet another example of microsoft taking someone else's idea and trying to claim it as their own.

The BENQ netbook and EeeBuntu


LXer Feature: 04-Mar-2009

The BENQ net book and EeeBuntu. One of the interesting things about KDE4 is the fact that it has caused me to look at Linux Distributions, other than Mandriva, which I've use almost exclusively since I started using Linux in 2000.

MS Tuesday heads-up: Critical IE, Exchange flaws

Microsoft plans to ship four security bulletins next Tuesday with patches for a range of serious security vulnerabilities affecting millions of Windows users.

Nothing to do with Linux, except that if these were Linux vulnerabilities, they would already be released.

Plea to Educators: Don't Force a Format Down Students' Throats

There's a story making its rounds across the 'net about a woman who missed several online classes, and failed her semester, and she claims this happened because she bought a Dell laptop with Ubuntu on it - instead of Windows. She didn't know what Ubuntu was, and was surprised to see that her Windows software, such as Microsoft Office, didn't work. While this isolated case sounds a bit ridiculous, there is still a bigger problem here.

[This talks about the real problem, which of course was not the girl, not Ubuntu, or even Dell.. It's the entrenched view of the ISPs and the Educators, the, so called, facilitators of technology and learning. - Tracy]

Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 2

The second alpha for Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (2009.1) is now available. There is information about the new release in various places:

Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 1 released

The first pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring is now available. This alpha concentrates on updating to the major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2 Beta 2, GNOME 2.25.2, Xfce 4.6 Beta 2, X.org server 1.5, and kernel 2.6.28 rc8. It is also the first distribution to introduce the major new Tcl/Tk release, 8.6. The alpha is available only in the DVD Free edition with a traditional installer and no proprietary applications; future pre-releases will add the live CD One edition with proprietary drivers. Please help test this first pre-release and report bugs to Mandriva.

Rehire Adam Williamson

  • Rehire AdamWilliamson Petition; By Marcello Anni (Posted by tracyanne on Dec 14, 2008 10:23 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Mandriva; Story Type: News Story
Please sign this petition to help Adam Williamson get his job at Mandriva back, and to give me a reason to go back on my words that I will stop using and recommending Mandriva products.

What Are The Issues With Open Source Linux?

The main difference between Linux and Windows is that Linux is open source and windows are closed source. So? Well, that means that only Microsoft is authorized to change any part of the code of the Windows operating system. While in Linux, anyone can change it. The other problem is that the Linux Operating System doesn't receive the same level of support as Windows does. That means that updates and security packages are released with each new version of the Operating System (OS), but not as periodic updates as in the case of Windows XP's Windows Update.

[Saying that this article is 'slanted' and full of 'inaccuracies' as I will call them, would be an understatement of galactic proportions. - Scott]

RIAA to engage with the silver surfers: Operation Short Vision Memory Loss

  • The Inquirer; By Charlie Demerjian (Posted by tracyanne on Dec 5, 2008 3:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
It has become clear that the RIAA is losing ground in the file sharing wars. They tried to play nice (actually, no they didn't), tried to offer a superior product (actually, for years they offered no product), and tried to appeal to people's decency (actually, they called everyone thieves from day one). To fend off users legal rights, they have tried to employ a variety of technological methods which seem to have stymied those without permanent markers for the better part of 20 minutes. All is not well in lawsuit central, the California edition, not the Utah one.

New Computer Prize Draws Linux Fans To Raffle

To date this year, we have built and placed 315 Linux computers with kids that normally would not have been able to afford a computer for their school work. Add this effort to our Linux Labs and you have a well-rounded effort that benefits everyone. Our HeliOS Project has inspired others to do the same thing in other communities and we're proud to help them any way we can. So, what are the goodies for this year's drawing? Let's take a look.

Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base

  • ZDNet; By Adam O'Donnell (Posted by tracyanne on Dec 2, 2008 12:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Earlier this month we saw the military ban the use of USB drives and other removable media. Apparently the virus outbreak that lead to this measure affected 75% of all systems at the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan....... This is really quite frightening.

Membership without obligations

  • MagnaTune; By John Buckman (Posted by tracyanne on Nov 23, 2008 7:35 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
In a previous blog entry, I wrote about how you can now choose how much you want to pay for an all-you-can-eat Magnatune membership. These memberships let you listen and download everything on Magnatune, without any limits. From today on, you are no longer required to commit to a 3 month minimum: you can have as short a membership as one month.

Windows Administrator's Guide to Open Source Software Book

Obviously FOSS is having a significant impact, as more and more often we're seeing these sorts of articles. This came to me in a news feed I get from Tech Republic.

I'd Laugh if the following wasn't so damned sad

  • ZDNet; By Ryan Naraine, Dancho Danchev & Adam O'Donnell (Posted by tracyanne on Nov 20, 2008 8:06 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Known as Kardphisher and “in the wild” since April, 2007, last week the malware author of this trojan horse mimicking the Windows XP activation interface while collecting the credit card details the end user has submitted, has made significant changes to visual interface and usability of the trojan, consequently improving its authenticity. Guess what happens when a gullible end user falls victim into this social engineering attack?

I'm So Annoyed I Could Spit

LXer Feature: 10-Nov-2008

Over the last week I've changed Internet service providers from Dodo to Pacific Internet and activated 2 domains I had registered with a web hosting company called Crazy Domains a Perth Western Australia based company.

Hey, Dad…Can I have Linux back?

  • ZDNet; By Christopher DawsonChristopher Dawson (Posted by tracyanne on Oct 24, 2008 11:52 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
My oldest son, creator of flame wars, finally discovered that you can only surf to the nether regions of the Internet so many times before even Vista business succumbs to malware. His computer an unusable mass of pop-ups, spewing traffic over our network actually asked me tonight to reinstall Linux for him.

Zombie PCs: ‘Time to infection is less than five minutes’

More Windows Mayhem. They could just replace the virus riddled piece of puss with Linux, but no, they continue to fiddle while their OS burns.

No Opt-Out for the Great Firewall of Australia

  • csamuel.org; By Chris Samuel (Posted by tracyanne on Oct 22, 2008 6:04 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
So it appears there will be no way to escape from being blocked from seeing sites that are false positives due to buggy & broken filters or incorrectly classified, etc..

Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don’t.

  • ZDNet; By Ryan Naraine (Posted by tracyanne on Oct 22, 2008 1:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake (malicious) Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built extra logic into phishing sites to detect taunts and subject those computer users to drive-by malware exploits.

K12 Open Minds Conference

The K-12 Open Minds Conference is the first of its kind - an International event specifically for K-12 educators designed to make OPEN SOURCE software and OPEN SYSTEMS more available and easier to use. Last year's conference was a huge success and paved the way for an even more exciting conference this year!

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