Results tagged “Linux”

The requirement for a new brochure last week got me tackling one of those periodic (and in my case instantly forgettable) gotchas - how to do I import EPS images into Inkscape? I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for years but...

It's been a day that the industry has waited for for some time: Windows 7 launch day. It seems that it wasn't long ago that commentators were asking whether Vista would be Microsoft's last operating system - we all know how...

No-one derives pleasure from seeing someone lose a job but there must have been a few smiles around the software community when it was reported that SCO president and CEO  Darl McBride had got the boot from SCO.The news came...

Google hasn't gone anywhere much with its Chrome browser, so why does it fancy a crack at taking on Windows in 2010? Have they gone mad and are their pockets deep enough? The obvious answer is that it is doing...

Netbooks are cheapish, fairly basic in features, portable and keep going for hours if you are careful to buy one with a 6-cell battery. But are they secure? It's a valid question. Do low-cost computers have the power to run...

The Apple Mini has some serious competition at last, and it has turned out to be the Asian company Asustek, once derided as a mere ‘box-shifter’, that has revitalised the concept. It’s the forthcoming Eee Box, the desktop version...

That’s the problem with Microsoft. Google’s search nous has conquered the world because users chose it. Microsoft needs something as dusty as an alliance with HP to anchor itself to the rock of third place, behind even Yahoo. The...

The news that Microsoft has decided to open up its APIs has caused a seismic shock. In fact, the about-turn in Microsoft's attitude to open source probably won't be replicated until Ian Paisley resigns to become papal nuncio and...

The law of unintended consequences is up there with Murphy’s as the smuggest of its kind, but there’s no denying its talent for stripping bare our assumptions about technology. A report in The Guardian on the OLPC (one laptop...

It has consumed enough money to make a Wall Street banker blush, but Steve Ballmer reckons that Microsoft’s biggest sin with Vista is this: it hasn’t spent enough telling us about it. Nobody knows how much Vista cost, but...

It’s the year that Windows Vista got the cold shoulder from customers, and Microsoft almost had to raise a finger to explain how such a thing could have happened. As the annus horribilis goes, this is not too bad:...

What journalists write isn’t supposed to be news. And it isn’t news. But Jim Louderback’s defection from the hopeless cause of championing Vista is at least evidence that sanity can sometimes prevail in human affairs. Louderback - the departing...

You don't have to be a Linux fanatic to give three cheers to Birmingham Council. Three cheers because the council's decision to proceed with a trial of open-source software- even though an independent report said it was the cheaper...

eBay has shut an auction set up to sell information on a security hole in Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet to the highest bidder. The bidding is said by third-party sources to have run to $53 from 19 different bidders at...

The musings of Linux advocate Alan Cox have been widely reported this week, thanks to an interview with book publisher, O' Reilly. It doesn’t quite live up to the promise of its title, The Next 50 Years of Computer...

The recent story that the University of Coventry is dumping Novell for Microsoftwould not have raised any eyebrows: such has been the way of the world for many years. But our sister publication, Network World, had an interesting follow-up...