Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment:
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The latest sordid twist in SCO’s ongoing legal assault against Linux was revealed today with a report that SCO has subpoenaed Groklaw blogger Pamela Jones. An outspoken critic of SCO, Jones has written countless blog entries with legal analysis of SCO’s lawsuits against various Linux users and vendors. Groklaw, the blog created by Jones, is widely
Speaking in Sydney on Thursday, the CEO of Novell Ron Hovsepian said the company will aggressively fight Windows on the desktop. From the interview (video clips included) he said: “We’re going to attack [Microsoft] vigorously and go after their footprint as much as we can”.
OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Expos
In an ironic twist for a consumer advocacy blog, Consumerist.com is caught using Flickr photos without giving proper attribution, links or following the licenses or terms of use for the images. “…this policy would be more trouble than it’s worth. If people want credit, they can ask for it.”
If this doesn’t sit well with you, we’re advising users who don’t absolutely need IPv6 (that’s most of you!) to disable the IPv6 gateway functionality by selecting one of the other IPv6 modes.
What led to Microsoft’s decision to make DirectX 10 exclusive to Windows Vista? I’ll give you a hint: it wasn’t completely based on marketing.
1: Yes, the imaging drum/image transfer assembly will stop the printer from working if you go over the page count. 2: Support for home computing products is done via flow chart. 3: HP considers countries like Canada to be not worth the time or effort to market to.
Asian countries have started switching from proprietary software such as Microsoft’s to open source software, it was reported Tuesday at the eighth annual Asia Open Source Software Symposium in Denpasar, Indonesia. IT practitioners from Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and ASEAN member coun
Pretty eye-opening. Common misconceptions about the game industry are debunked. Every video game consumer should read this!
The Ubuntu technical board has decided to forgo the inclusion of a compositing window manager and proprietary video drivers in the default installation of the upcoming Ubuntu release. Instead, the technical board plans to incorporate new system configuration components that will allow users to trivially install, enable, and configure compositing su
0.05mm x 0.05mm RFID chips. The new chips are 64 times smaller than the previous record holder, the 0.4mm x 0.4mm mu-chips, and nine times smaller than Hitachi’s last year prototype, and yet still make room for a 128-bit ROM that can store a unique 38-digit ID number
