March 10 EMI’s Outrageous Lawsuit Against Developer Takes Its Toll Tech Crunch Last month I wrote about a lawsuit filed by major record label EMI against Seeqpod, the questionably-legal free streaming music site. The suit isn’t Seeqpod’s first (Warner sued them last year), but it is notable fo...

I promised a friend new to the iPhone that I'd post a list of the applications I'd used, tried, found useful, or found useless. That was a long time ago. The list keeps getting longer and it is really hard to keep up with the list of applications (mostly free) that I've downloaded and deleted. Wins:...

Have you got the Windows Vista Magazine March 2009 issue? Below is what you are getting: Issue 28 - March 2009 Issue 28 of Windows Vista: The Official Magazine is now available at your newsagents. Inside you will find tips and guides to help get the most out of Windows Vista and your PC! Find out ho...

As funny as these stories are for reading, any hard data is absolutely lacking. Are there similar stories which actually cite sources? OTOH the fact that even cheap main stream devices like USB sticks and WLAN routers routinely have “compatible with Linux�, often even giving a kernel version, pr...

There are many criticisms that one can make of the applications offered by the free software community, but lack of choice is generally not one of them. Our community thrives on competition while our licensing makes it hard to keep secrets from competitors. A recent episode in the Puppet community s...

The recent problem of the Portuguese translation of GCompris shows how important a good translation is, especially as far as free software are concerned. I have not been able to find any news in English relating this story, and think it is essential to spread it so that people better appreciate the ...

Posted by kdawson (75% noise) View Skip David Gerard writes “The Microsoft Certified Partner model is: an MCP buys contracts from Microsoft and sells them to businesses as a three-year timed contract, payable in annual installments. Iceland’s economy has collapsed, so 1500 businesses hav...

Posted by kdawson (92% noise) View Skip supermehra writes “How do you move 300 desktops, locked down with Windows ADS Group Policies (GPO), over to Ubuntu desktop? We have tried Centrify, Likewise, Gnome Gconf, and the like. Of course, we evaluated SuSe Desktop Enterprise and RedHat Desktop. S...

I usually don’t do a huge amount of reading about Linux. That is, not concerning its development. I am usually concerned with solving problems, with the specific distribution I am working with, at the time. Since the weekend, I have been reading a few articles about Jaunty Jackelope, the upcom...

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